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[brotkasten]

This is certainly a surprise. I thought Sprint wanted to acquire T-Mobile USA.

I don't know much about Sprint, but why would they buy a GSM carrier? Are they dropping CDMA anytime soon?

What happens to her?

I hope she just gets a new dress.

 

[Equus Bellator Apex]

^^^^^

What happens to her?

 

[abunai]

I don't know much about the mobile networks in America but doesn't this raise some alarm bells about a monopoly? Or is there no-one looking out for that in the US?

 

[Blackhead]

Yeah, the only thing that gives me comfort is that they've honored the iPhone unlimited plans for so long. Maybe I should switch soon for that reason. Sprint and VZW are just too expensive and I HATE VZW.

? So long? It's not even been a year yet and they are trying real hard to kick people off it with the tethering bait&switch. This is the same company that showed off unlimited plans for the iPad then cancelled it while the device was still supply-constrained.

^^^^^

What happens to her?

Sex tape with her and the iPhone guy, duh!

 

[gimmmick]

Looks like someone is out of a job today.

 

[Gary Whitta]

^^^^^

What happens to her?

She'll still be around but you won't be able to hear her as well and the commercials will often cut out halfway through.

 

[giga]

So I guess the next step is for Verizon to pick up Sprint... Then we can have just two carriers.

I don't see Sprint surviving. They're going to get fucked harder than Sasha Gray with the iPhone and the best Android handsets on the two biggest carriers now.

 

[Stat Flow]

Holy shit

:lol at people that left AT&T to go to T-Mobile.

 

[Pastry]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo there goes everything...AT&T is going to turn my service into shit. PURE SHIT.

I know right, it's not like you're getting access to new towers or anything.

 

[DrFunk]

wow

at least they'll be a de-facto NAM 3G band. Makes things a lot easier

 

[Seda]

Ugh. Just switched from at&t to tmobile late last year.

That sucks

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

Hey where's that graph that showed all the Baby Bells being split up only for them to merge again.

Sprint, you're going to have a new customer soon.

 

[Celsior]

When my parents kick me off my plan, guess I am going to sprint.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

Son of a bitch! I switched to t-mobile specifically to escape from those assholes!

So GAF, verizon or sprint?

Even before this announcement I was considering switching to Sprint from T-mobile because of the HTC EVO 3D. Now it's 100%, check this out:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/19/htc-evo-3d-evo-view-4g-specs-revealed-ahead-of-sprints-ctia-an/

 

[Phantast2k]

Less competition = bad for you guys + I always liked seeing familiar brands across the US

 

[Community Forum]

She'll still be around but you won't be able to hear her as well and the commercials will often cut out halfway through.

OMG LOL!

 

[Jamesfrom818]

^^^^^

What happens to her?

=(

Poor girl

 

[Futureman]

THIS IS BIG FOR ANDROID NEXUS LINE!

~120 million potential Nexus users as opposed to what before, like 15 million?

 

[Firestorm]

She'll still be around but you won't be able to hear her as well and the commercials will often cut out halfway through.

So she's going to sell the iPhone now? ;D

 

[Vanillalite]

I don't know much about the mobile networks in America but doesn't this raise some alarm bells about a monopoly? Or is there no-one looking out for that in the US?

Companies just get a posturing shake down in front of some regulatory agency and they create this hype that ooooo we might not pass you. Then they okay the mergers and buyouts just like everyone knew they were gonna do from the beginning. Just look at the Comcast buyout.

 

[numble]

 

[SolsticeZero]

She'll still be around but you won't be able to hear her as well and the commercials will often cut out halfway through.

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[Malleymal]

Am I the only person that has no problem with AT&T ?? I have the same bill every month, they just gave me free mobile to mobile calling so now I only
Lose minutes when I call landlines. All for like 90 bucks and unlimited everything else... What am I missing?

 

[SoulPlaya]

I don't know much about the mobile networks in America but doesn't this raise some alarm bells about a monopoly? Or is there no-one looking out for that in the US?

LOL, AT&T was broken up in the 1980s, because they were too big of a monopoly. They've spent the last decade building up the "new" AT&T into another monopoly. The US government bends over for corporations, and will do NOTHING to stop this.

 

[gimmmick]

39 Billion dollars for t mobile... and I thought sprint got ripped off when they purchased nextel.

 

[DrFunk]

what's hilarious about this is how Verizon themselves were born from this clusterfuck

 

[Jamesfrom818]

THIS IS BIG FOR ANDROID NEXUS LINE!

~120 million potential Nexus users as opposed to what before, like 15 million?

Aside from the N1 which had very little sales for AT&T, all Android phones have been locked down tight to prevent non-Market .apks from getting installed. I don't think AT&T will allow future revisions of the most open Android phone.

 

[Wads]

She'll still be around but you won't be able to hear her as well and the commercials will often cut out halfway through.

 

[wenis]

I know right, it's not like you're getting access to new towers or anything.

I don't honestly need it. I get absolute sterling service in San Francisco (even in the underground train service) haven't had a dropped call or un-usable service (only in the basement of my school) in the 3 years I've lived here. T-Mobile kicks ass out here in SF.

 

[DMeisterJ]

Aside from the N1 which had very little sales for AT&T, all Android phones have been locked down tight to prevent non-Market .apks from getting installed. I don't think AT&T will allow future revisions of the most open Android phone.

I wonder what this will mean for the future of the Nexus line since T-Mo was the only company that sells stock Google phones, subsidized (I think).

 

[negreenfield]

Fuuuuck!!

I've ben with tmobile in atlanta since they were powertel, so more than 15 years. Verizon or Sprint?

 

[clav]

I don't know much about Sprint, but why would they buy a GSM carrier? Are they dropping CDMA anytime soon?

Sprint wanted to merge the third and fourth largest USA carriers together (Sprint and T-Mobile) to catch up to the competition.

As for the cell phone tech (GSM and CDMA), I don't know what they planned to do with that. My guess was to keep the two together.

The talks did happen twice apparently.

 

[Lebron]

Shit fucking sucks. Fuck Fuck FUck

 

[SimleuqiR]

Aside from the N1 which had very little sales for AT&T, all Android phones have been locked down tight to prevent non-Market .apks from getting installed. I don't think AT&T will allow future revisions of the most open Android phone.

This is bad! Bad!
Less competition is bad. Fuck AT&T!

 

[xtop]

i hope this means nexus phone's will get some epic sales on att now. but in reality, nexus will probably go away, or go to sprint

 

[Firestorm]

So is AT&T + Verizon seriously 80% of the market in the US? That's worse than Canada...

 

[SoulPlaya]

Google must save us somehow. Do something Google!

 

[Celsior]

Don't worry we still have boost moblie and metropcs!

 

[DMeisterJ]

Don't worry we still have boost moblie and metropcs!

And Cricket!

 

[Firestorm]

Google must save us somehow. Do something Google!

You mean the company which advocated AGAINST net neutrality for mobile internet? Yeah, good luck with that.

 

[Pastry]

I don't honestly need it. I get absolute sterling service in San Francisco (even in the underground train service) haven't had a dropped call or un-usable service (only in the basement of my school) in the 3 years I've lived here. T-Mobile kicks ass out here in SF.

So then your reason for complaining about how your service will magically go to shit despite more towers was? Trolling?

 

[giga]

i hope this means nexus phone's will get some epic sales on att now. but in reality, nexus will probably go away, or go to sprint

Lol. This is AT&T son.

 

[Mudkips]

As much as I loathe AT&T with the force of a supernova, this might actually convince me to stick with them if it really means their royally fucked coverage and service might actually improve. It's not like there's a lot of choice out there anyway.

It won't improve until your phone can physically operate on both networks AND has the firmware support to do so.

 

[Seda]

And Cricket!

U.S Cellular?

 

[Frank "Trashman" Reynolds]

Sprint and VZW are just too expensive and I HATE VZW.

Whaaaaaaaaa? Sprint is hella cheap and everything is unlimited besides calls to land lines. Most of my calls end up being to other cell phones anyway, which is unlimited. I've been with every carrier at one point or another and Sprint is easily the cheapest so far for what you get.

 

[BertramCooper]

This is bad news.

And I don't expect the FTC to stop it, either.

 

[Iron_Scimitar]

Naw Verizon

If you prefer tiered data plans.

 

[mike23]

I like how they mention that consumers' costs have dropped 50%(!) from 1999 to 2009. Wtf is that shit. I guarantee that costs have dropped by 1000s% for the providers since then. If there was legitimate competition, prices would be way lower.

 

[Windu]

You have got to be kidding me. boothisman.gif

 

[Zee-Row]

Don't worry we still have boost moblie and metropcs!

Maybe its because i live in Florida but Metro is great, $40 unlimited calls and texting. I hate cell phone games and apps so it benefits me a lot.