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| Re: So glad I just left for Verizon My guess is that you wouldn't have that choice -- Verizon would swallow up Sprint in response.
The real question to me is whether they try to do so as a tactic to get the ATT/TMO deal scotched. This would be similar to Coca Cola buying Dr Pepper in response to Pepsi buying 7-Up in the mid 1980's. The FTC killed both deals as anti-competitive. This is similar, with a helluva lot more importance on the US economy than sugar-water. The question is whether the FTC still has a spine. | |
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Lodi, NJ | Re: So glad I just left for Verizon said by LostInWoods:The question is whether the FTC still has a spine.
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The real question to me is whether they try to do so as a tactic to get the ATT/TMO deal scotched. This would be similar to Coca Cola buying Dr Pepper in response to Pepsi buying 7-Up in the mid 1980's. The FTC killed both deals as anti-competitive. This is similar, with a helluva lot more importance on the US economy than sugar-water. The question is whether the FTC still has a spine.
Verizon said they don't want Sprint.
Also, you should look up how much AT&T has paid (bribed) the government in the last 10 years.
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Verizon may have a good product in limited areas with FiOS, and nationwide with wireless service.
But just look at how they have basically hung out many customers in rural and even suburban areas to dry. If Verizon truly cared they would not sell off rural markets to losers like Fairpoint and Frontier, and make them agree to ridiculous conditions like not allowing them to expand their fiber optic service areas.
It's all about the money. But the FiOS fanboys got theirs so all hail Verizon. | |
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Billings, MT | Re: So glad I just left for Verizon said by fifty nine:It's all about the money. But the FiOS fanboys got theirs so all hail Verizon. If I could get FiOS here, I'd jump right over.
..but this is Montana, so I highly doubt we'll ever see it. | |
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Billings, MT | Re: So glad I just left for Verizon said by fifty nine:No FiOS for you! You'll take capped LTE and enjoy it! ..if we even see LTE here.. Maybe in 3-5 years (which is typical).
For now, I'll enjoy my unlimited smartphone 3G goodness. No extra fees here and no bill-in-a-box. | |
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Punch up T-Mobile's coverage map for rural America and compare it against Verizon. It's not even close. In my area of Upstate NY T-Mobile is useless the minute you leave the city or wander more than two miles off the interstate.
I realize you are talking about the wireline side of Verizon as opposed to the wireless side but I've never been able to figure out why T-Mobile is immune to this criticism while Verizon is ripped for it. At least with regards to wireless service Verizon makes an effort to reach rural customers. | |
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kudos:7 | Re: So glad I just left for Verizon said by Crookshanks:I realize you are talking about the wireline side of Verizon as opposed to the wireless side but I've never been able to figure out why T-Mobile is immune to this criticism while Verizon is ripped for it. At least with regards to wireless service Verizon makes an effort to reach rural customers. Because T-Mobile has never billed themselves as being a rural cellphone provider or having as large of a rural footprint as AT&T or Verizon have. T-Mobile has always been a predominantly highway and major city provider since it was VoiceStream.
T-Mobile also hasn't built up an area only to offload it to an inferior sucker alternate carrier who struggles to provide even standard services at a competitive price. Well, at least until they sold out to AT&T. | |
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said by cdru:T-Mobile also hasn't built up an area only to offload it to an inferior sucker alternate carrier who struggles to provide even standard services at a competitive price.
Well, two things I'd say to that:
1) Verizon didn't "build up" any rural areas, they inherited most of them from GTE.
2) I don't know anything about Fairpoint but why does everybody here beat on Frontier as some sort of "inferior" carrier? I've lived in and around Frontier's footprint for most of my life and they've made considerable investments in my area to bring DSL to rural areas. I've seen Frontier deploying remote terminals all over the place around these parts. I've yet to see Verizon do the same. Verizon doesn't even bother deploying RTs to reach the suburban areas that are out of range, never mind the rural ones. There are whole neighborhoods in Binghamton that can't get DSL. I can't say the same thing for any of the areas served by Frontier around these parts. | |
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kudos:7 | Re: So glad I just left for Verizon said by Crookshanks:So they get a pass on investing in rural America while Verizon gets ripped for allegedly failing to do the same? They don't get a complete pass, but T-Mobile is a fraction of the size of Verizon. It's not unreasonable to expect major cities to get service first, smaller cities, major towns, smaller towns, then rural. T-mobile has a large amount to grow even in major towns, let alone smaller towns and then rural. Verizon in comparison already has a much larger footprint and while metropolitan areas may get updated towers or upgrades, to continue growing their footprint Verizon is much closer to spreading out in more rural areas.
said by Crookshanks:1) Verizon didn't "build up" any rural areas, they inherited most of them from GTE. So most of Verizon's current rural coverage is just from GTE? So they haven't replaced, upgraded, or added additional towers throughout their coverage area? It's just been pretty stagnant for the previous 11 years?
2) I don't know anything about Fairpoint but why does everybody here beat on Frontier as some sort of "inferior" carrier?
Frontier recently, after telling regulators that they weren't going to cut services, that they could provide the same level of service that Verizon had, and that they were committed to remaining competitive jacked up cable rates 46% and install fees to $500 for FiOS customers. They also want to transition people from FiOS TV to DirecTV. Frontier also usually ranks at the bottom of the Good/Bad/Ugly list based on reviews here at DSLReports. They also, until relatively recently, had a 5GB cap in their AUP.
If lying to regulators, not providing basic required services, poor customer support, raising rates and fees by an obscene amount, and generally poor reviews don't qualify for inferior carrier status, I'm not quite sure what does.
I've seen Frontier deploying remote terminals all over the place around these parts. I've yet to see Verizon do the same. Verizon doesn't even bother deploying RTs to reach the suburban areas that are out of range, never mind the rural ones. There are whole neighborhoods in Binghamton that can't get DSL. I can't say the same thing for any of the areas served by Frontier around these parts.
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kudos:8 | AT&T-Mobile AT&T will destroy what T-Mobile has worked so hard to create, the most robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network!
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| | | said by Gbcue:AT&T will destroy what T-Mobile has worked so hard to create, the most robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network!
But look on the bright side, now T-Mobile customers will have real 4G instead of fake 4G! | |
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Billings, MT | Re: AT&T-Mobile said by fifty nine:But look on the bright side, now T-Mobile customers will have real 4G instead of fake 4G! ..I'm sure at&t will prevent that from happening. It's better (and cheaper) to pretend you have 4G than actually having it. | |
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"at&t's new InfiniG technology.. Infinity times better than your current xG service! Guaranteed to exceed your caps in under a minute of usage, and check out our overage fees per BIT!" | |
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kudos:2 | As long as you are in a major city, sure TMo may have the most 'robust' nationwide network. | |
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AT&T offered up a few other arguments for the deal, claiming consumers will see lower prices and better city coverage
If AT&T keeps all the T-Mobile towers in major cities as well as their own, then AT&T coverage will improve markedly in the major cities.
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»www.marketwatch.com/story/att-pr···id=yhoof
This BS comes under the headline ....get ready for it......are your feet up?.........."AT&T promises better service from merger"
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Billings, MT | Re: The Moffit update: said by S_engineer:This BS comes under the headline ....get ready for it......are your feet up?.........."AT&T promises better service from merger" Wow.. I can smell that BS from here. Didn't they say the same when they bought the rest of Alltel divestitures around the country? | |
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Kalispell, MT | Re: The Moffit update: And I really believe that's what we're going to get. I can't use my new phone (a Samsung Captivate) until April 12 so I'm not sure yet. But:
1. They gave me a Samsung Captivate for free to replace an old Blackberry Tour (I could have also picked the Blackberry Torch, HTC Aria, BlackBerry Curve, Palm Pre Plus, or any Windows Phone 7).
2. I get to keep my Alltel plan.
3. They're going all-HSPA and massively expanding backhaul. People in areas already converted are reporting speeds approximately 4-5 times what Alltel's were.
4. They're planning to "jump on a moving train" so to speak and rapidly expand Alltel's coverage (which is already much better than Verizon's here)
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Billings, MT | Re: can we call it AT&T&T ? said by VerizonCynic:lol. We also need a new "death star" logo Just convert the "death star" into the Borg cube and they'd be all set for this decade.
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: can we call it AT&T&T ? Just drop the ampersands...
ATTT-Mobile | |
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Chesterfield, MO | Of course this rolls off the tongue easier...
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Glen Head, NY | Hope It Fails As long as I have had a cell phone I have been a T-Mobile customer because of the price and value they offered. Just as I avoid the gigantic banks because of their myriad collection of fees and lousy interest rates, I avoid AT&T and VZW because they are the most expensive providers of what should be a commodity service.
What AT&T is really looking forward to is 35 million new people to gouge with higher fees and lousier plans. I don't for one minute believe they will continue to offer the kinds of value plans that T-Mobile offers even though they claim the merger will save $40 billion. Save for who? If anything, the customers will get even higher charges.
I have a 500 minute a month plan with unlimited nights and weekends for $29.99/month without a contract. Am I stupid enough to think AT&T will let me keep THAT plan as long as I choose to be a customer? Fat chance! They will probably tell me I need an unwanted smartphone (have an iPod Touch 4 that I am happy with) with 300 minutes a month, text package and data plan for $89.99. I recall the problems the old AT&T Blue customers went through after Cingular took over the old AT&T and I don't think us T-Mobile customers will fare any better.
I am all for competition and I hope the FTC sees this for what it is. If anything, I could accept a buyout if it was something along the lines of Rogers/Fido in Canada. A wholely owned subsidiary that was free to set its own rates and plans. They could share the network but would each retain their own customers.
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| Re: Hope It Fails - covering my eye. said by n2jtx:I have a 500 minute a month plan with unlimited nights and weekends for $29.99/month without a contract. Am I stupid enough to think AT&T will let me keep THAT plan as long as I choose to be a customer? Fat chance! They will probably tell me I need an unwanted smartphone (have an iPod Touch 4 that I am happy with) with 300 minutes a month, text package and data plan for $89.99. Yes, 500! Me too ... the non-contract part was a welcome path to purchase a non-advertised Nokia phone which meets all my needs and works with well with T-mobile. I probably could have predicted something like this would happen, though. It almost always follows a product purchase that I can really afford and am totally satisfied with ... like a few obsolete artifacts floating around my Warehouse 13 basement!  | |
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| Re: Hope It Fails said by n2jtx:I am all for competition and I hope the FTC sees this for what it is. If anything, I could accept a buyout if it was something along the lines of Rogers/Fido in Canada. A wholely owned subsidiary that was free to set its own rates and plans. They could share the network but would each retain their own customers.
That's not the way it is... Fido is just a brand of Rogers.... nothing like the Fido before they got bought out
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: If my plan changes Verizon will now have to buy Sprint. Perhaps US Cellular? I know they aren't exactly nationwide but they topped the ratings in the Midwest and have the long standing free incoming calls policy...
I used to have them several years ago until I wanted an iPhone. | |
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038xx | Re: If my plan changes said by rradina:Verizon will now have to buy Sprint. Perhaps US Cellular? USCell is my provider and I get exactly what I want: nationwide voice for $40, great rural coverage here in northern New England (they own nearly all the towers in central & western Maine and northern NH), no silly misleading fees, and THEY ANSWER THEIR PHONE (!) The CS staff does weird things like say "hello" and the beginning of the call and "goodbye" at the end and apparently feel disinclined to auto-spew canned marketing paragraphs. Surreal in an disorientingly human sort of way. Most customers seem to adjust though. I appreciate not losing a year off my lifespan by calling a TelCo.
So, if USCell merges with Verizon then VZ's customer service, billing and price plans will become similarly stellar. That's how mergers usually work: the best of both companies floats to the top in choreographed synergy. | |
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: If my plan changes said by jap:said by rradina:Verizon will now have to buy Sprint. Perhaps US Cellular? So, if USCell merges with Verizon then VZ's customer service, billing and price plans will become similarly stellar. That's how mergers usually work: the best of both companies floats to the top in choreographed synergy. I don't mean to sound like a jerk but there's really no other way to say this.... are you SERIOUS?
If Verizon was interested in US Cellular, they wouldn't "merge" with them. They would buy them. Typically whichever fish swallows is the organization that wins, even if the swallowed organization is better-managed.
Folks are very fearful of T-Mobile "merging" with AT&T and having the "magic" that only AT&T knows, infect their company. They fear it will lead to the end of what they perceive as value and quality in the service they receive from T-Mobile. AT&T's strategy has been exclusive devices locked in to overpriced plans, no 3G service outside major population centers and crappy "five bar" service.
Service here used to be decent but over the past few years it's degraded with ever-increasing smart device traffic. There are areas where with five bars, if you can start a call it takes 15 to 20 seconds (or more) for it to start ringing. And don't even think about data. When I leave work I try to check the traffic on the iPhone built-in map. I have two routes home. If clear, one is ~15 minutes and the other is ~25 minutes. The decision point is about five minutes from my office when I get on the interstate. I often cannot get the map to update before I have to make the decision. I leave anywhere from 2pm to 7pm but often around 4pm. It doesn't matter when I leave, if I don't get updated traffic on my corporate WiFi network before I leave the building, I just don't get it despite a five bar 3G signal.
I have repeatedly used the AT&T iPhone app to report problems but it's been this way for well over a year.
To be fair, there are also areas where 3-bar service is fantastic. Calls go through immediately and data speed can top 6Mbps down and 1.5+mbps up using Ookla's speed test app.
After years of "3G coverage" map fights with Verizon it's incredible that they have NOT spread high speed to rural areas. Despite being embarrassed by Verizon's map, not much has changed. They have added some smaller population centers here and there but there's no holistic upgrade of all their towers to handle 3G. I think their lock on the Apple devices has kept them going. I hope most iPhone users leave for Verizon. Perhaps AT&T's network will get better with less load! I'd leave but I'm stuck because AT&T is our corporate wireless partner.
Of course if they are allowed to swallow T-Mobile, AT&T promises 4G coverage everywhere. Who can trust statements like this and what enforceable penalty will be engaged if they don't do it? Will the FCC vote to censure AT&T the way Congress air spanks its members when they misbehave? | |
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038xx | Re: If my plan changes Ohhh ouch. My second paragraph is pure sarcasm. I switched from sincere singing of praise for aspects of USCellular to an absurdist posit of how VZ swallowing USC would fundamentally alter VZ and make them angels. Of course it wouldn't: USC would be swallowed whole. | |
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It won't matter.
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Mobile, AL | Sprint Sprint needs to go ahead and buy up Cellular South and a couple of other regional carriers. It's the only way they can survive. If they had decent coverage here I'd be porting right now.
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| | Just Sayin' »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Bell
"In 1934, the government set AT&T up as a regulated monopoly under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, in the Communications Act of 1934."
The difference now is that they are an unregulated monopoly, with the Dept. of Justice in their back pocket.
Instead of the DOJ smashing the Ma Bell monopoly as in 1984, you have them blessing each merger.
Facism, as defined by Mussolini, is the combining of State and Corporate power.
Just sayin'.
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(MarketWatch) — AT&T Inc.’s surprise $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile USA stunned the telecom sector Monday, giving a lift to several telecom companies, but sending Sprint Nextel Corp. shares into the red as the No. 3 U.S wireless carrier was seen as the big loser from the deal.
AT&T shares edged up 2% to $28.52 after the No. 2 wireless carrier in the U.S. said it would acquire T-Mobile, the nation’s No. 4 mobile-phone company, for $25 billion in cash and the remaining $14 billion in AT&T stock. Deutsche Telekom AG the parent company of T-Mobile, saw its U.S.-traded shares climb as much as 14% following the deal’s announcement. | |
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| Its going happen no matter how many signatures you get Its going to happen no matter how many signatures you get. Just look at centurylink and qwest? look at comcast and NBC? look at verizon wireless and alltel wireless? only 2 big players I see in wireless is going to be ATT and Verizon.
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Pleasant Hill, CA | Did they really say "lower prices"??? Really?
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The merger will go through cause AT&T owns enough Congressmen and key people in the regulatory agencies. There will be "conditions" that are supposed to protect consumers but the conditions will be so weak or ignored as to be worthless.
It will definitely mean higher prices and more fees.
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| Re: Lower prices? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA said by old_wiz_60:Anytime you hear a wireless provider or cable provider or internet provider talk about "lower prices" you know you are hearing lies.
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| said by old_wiz_60:Coming from AT&T it is the funniest thing I've heard in weeks.
The merger will go through cause AT&T owns enough Congressmen and key people in the regulatory agencies. There will be "conditions" that are supposed to protect consumers but the conditions will be so weak or ignored as to be worthless.
It will definitely mean higher prices and more fees.
Anytime you hear a wireless provider or cable provider or internet provider talk about "lower prices" you know you are hearing lies.
ATT recently swallowed Centennial Wireless. The service and coverage has gone to crap just at the same time they "got all the towers switched to AT&T 3G" imagine that! 
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New Orleans, LA | It amazes me how anyone could think that this merger would mean lower prices & better coverage
I mean, I have seen several on other forums state that and I wonder what world they are living on.
This high price of acquiring T-Mobile will shortly lead to a heavy increase in fees while AT&T claims better service yet I doubt anyone sees even the slightest bit of an increase in coverage | |
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Hialeah, FL | My oh My at&t and T-Mobile... I left at&t because of customer service. T-Mobile is #1 in that department. Grant it at&t has the better smart phones by far, T-Mobile was always there for me when I needed to make a late payment. at&t would cut your line until you were able to pay.
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