I wonder how they're going to harmonize all those 1700MHz-based (AWS band?) 3G phones that T-Mobile currently carries.
AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion
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#12Ugh. This might finally get me to leave T-mobile. I left ATT after a horrible experience and vowed to never go back. I am not happy.
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#13This is complete bullshit, and would give AT&T an effective monopoly on GSM based wireless communications in a number of key markets. I say we collectively work to lobby against this deal, as it will be bad for all of us who are based in the US and looking to do ANYTHING in mobile. Imagine if Apple had tried to get their iPhone AppStore arrangement in a single-GSM carrier world? It's 2011, folks. We can't let oppress…
Imagine if Apple had tried to get their iPhone AppStore arrangement in a single-GSM
carrier world?
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#14Oh crap. There goes my unlimited tethering.
I'm really going to miss T-Mobile policy's like unlimited tethering and cheaper plans with no contract. This is a real shame. Maybe its time to get a contract to be grandfarthered in? A T-Mobile contract on the larger AT&T network may not be so bad.
Edit: I forgot to mention the no fee for tethering or hotspot. I use that enough for it to be very helpful but not to pay an additional fee.
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#15That's right, Americans: take it and like it. Voting with your wallet may not be as foolproof a plan as previously asserted.
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#16Awesome. Now the US will have an even more competitive wireless market, (seriously: which is exactly what is necessary). I'm sure the wireless plans will only get better.
edit: /sarcasm, obviously.
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#17From Friday's HN post "Confessions of an Apple Store Employee": "We usually have to tell them that if they unlock their iPhone, it won't work. That it's going to be like a $700 paperweight, and that the antenna will fry itself on T-Mobile. Of course, that's not true, but that's what we tell them." Wonder how quickly their tune on that last part will change..
The whole thing will change - because what GSM provider in the US are they going to worry about people unlocking and switching to?
The release says this will "enhance [AT&T's] network capacity". That means T-Mobile isn't likely to exist as a separate thing that's just owned by AT&T. It's pretty certain to be rolled directly into AT&T. It's Cingular 2.0.
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#18What does this mean to the T-mobile 4G ads with the cute girl from T-mobile and the Young guy (iPhone) with the AT&T network on his back? Awkward....
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#19This is complete bullshit, and would give AT&T an effective monopoly on GSM based wireless communications in a number of key markets. I say we collectively work to lobby against this deal, as it will be bad for all of us who are based in the US and looking to do ANYTHING in mobile. Imagine if Apple had tried to get their iPhone AppStore arrangement in a single-GSM carrier world? It's 2011, folks. We can't let oppress…
Why do we care what the market share is for specific transmission technologies? The overall wireless market is extremely competitive.
Re: AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion
#20This is complete bullshit, and would give AT&T an effective monopoly on GSM based wireless communications in a number of key markets. I say we collectively work to lobby against this deal, as it will be bad for all of us who are based in the US and looking to do ANYTHING in mobile. Imagine if Apple had tried to get their iPhone AppStore arrangement in a single-GSM carrier world? It's 2011, folks. We can't let oppress…
Why does it matter that they're the only GSM provider? Why aren't other technologies competition?