AT&T Customers Sue to Block T-Mobile Aquisition

Of course they are confident, when you have lobbyists doing dirty work for you and paying government officials millions of dollars to do what you want, you don't have to worry if you will get what you want.
In this country, money will buy ANYTHING!!

At&t is not cheap at all and sucks as it is. This would bad for t-mobile users to say the least but let's not go there. From a legal perspective this does seem like the most valid argument to throw at a judge. At&t seems to have a convenient excuse for all of their shortcomings to fend off the lawsuits in regards to service isuues.
In regards to my comment, what justifies the need for 4G in the most rural of areas anyways? For all practical purposes they have at least 2G right? And those that need more bandwidth surely use wi-fi or wired networks already. At&t has a history of absolute failures in regards to everything they say they will do and this whole merger reeks of bs to simply eliminate competition.

what a bunch of idiots lawyers! i would not hire them if it' free!
this merger will force att customers to pay higher prices?
att can raise their prices anytime with or without the tmobile merger!

As a T-Mobile customer, I hope you are successful. A merger would be catastrophic for both of us. No competition= sky high prices.

If ATT acquires Tmobile. They will be able to control prices a lot better than without Tmobile. Why? ATT and Verizon already own most of the network backhaul and core fiber wirelines in America. They rent and charge fees for other mobile networks to use their backhaul and interconnecting them. Sprint and others(MetroPCS, etc) will be the only ones left behind without a core network and they will have to raise their prices if ATT/Verizon agree to raise their fees. That is a lot of leverage. ATT/Verizon already dislike Sprint for having cheaper plans. Ironically, most Verizon customers swear by God that Verizon is the cheapest deal. LOL.

But more importantly, none of these carriers are even a blip on either AT&T or Verizon's radar. And what I mean by that, is that their capacity as a company to offer significant challenges to AT&T or Verizon's customer base is a pipe dream. Do you know why most of these companies are up and running? Because they're willing to take on the customers that AT&T and Verizon are unwilling to accept with out paying a heft up front deposit.

Bottom line: This merger, if successful, will be VERY bad for the consumers. All the fanboys (on both sides) might try to tell you this will bring about good things, clearly have no idea how the corporate world works.

This will KILL competition in price point, phone selection, and network services / capab...
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