Solve : AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA?

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Answer» AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion (AP) Quote AP - AT&T Inc. said Sunday it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion that would make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S. sources: AP, CNN, CBS, NY Times http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-03-20-att-deal_N.htmI can't say this is good news; it could be a negative event for consumers. From the article: "Consumer advocates, though, urged federal antitrust officials to block the deal. They warn that AT&T and Verizon could create a wireless duopoly, resulting in higher prices and fewer choices for customers." Quote List of Major Cell Phone Companies in the US * AT&T * T-MOBILE * VERIZON WIRELESS * SPRINT Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_a_listing_of_all_cell_phone_companies#ixzz1HHIx4I00 Just returned from an extended stay in the U.S. and i was amused to see the tv adds still running depicting T-Mobile touting their service over A.T.&T. This takeover had been declared (but not yet APPROVED) before i ever got there.truenorthThe AT&t takeover of T-Mobile is not a done deal by any means and I think T-Mobile is operating on the assumption that the deal will be blocked on anti-trust grounds. Either that or they know they are going to lose their jobs anyway if the merger goes through.I think it should be blocked, but I can't remember the last time the FCC blocked a telecomm merger...And to think that there was a time when AT&T was deemed too big and ordered to breakup. Can we be HEADED that way again? truenorthI am not going to say "History repeats itself." Oops, I just did. The sale will go thru... Quote from: patio on April 24, 2011, 08:18:38 PM The sale will go thru... It probably will. When AT&T was broken up if you wanted a telephone in North America you almost always had to deal with an AT&T company. There were other smaller phone companies like General and Continental, and a hundred very little ma and pa companies serving small towns, but all them combined were a fraction of AT&T's size. Almost all long distance traffic was carried over AT&T long lines, even to companies like General. Now in most major markets you have a choice of at least two land line companies, generally with a cable company being the second, and all kinds of cell phone companies. The conditions that caused the AT&T break up are very different now.After I posted this I got to thinking about the statement about telephone service in North America, and I should have qualified that a bit. Mexico has always required that any telecommunications company, telephone, TV or cable be 100% Mexican owned, so AT&T never had any ownership interest in phone service in Mexico.Recent article says it is good for some rural areas in USA Quote AT&T to buy T-Mobile Could mean rural broadband access for Mississippi By JB Clark News Reporter Published: Friday, June 17, 2011 11:09 AM CDT The latest talk in telecommunications centers around the purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T, a merger that could mean STATEWIDE mobile broadband access for Mississippians. The purchase of T-Mobile USA is a result of a looming spectrum crunch in which mobile broadband USE in America exceeds the capacity of mobile broadband providers' networks. The spectrum is the range of airwave frequencies that enable everything from broadcast television to cell phones and mobile broadband. Since the introduction of the smart phone, AT&T's mobile data use grew by 8,000 percent and it is expected to be eight times higher by 2015. * "What if traffic on I-55 went up 8,000 percent?" Mayo Flynt, AT&T Mississippi president, asked. "How would the transportation department deal with that. That's what we're trying to do right now." The Federal Communications Commission expects that crunch to happen by 2013. AT&T has a plan to provide 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) to 80 percent of Mississippi and with the increased amount of spectrum provided by the T-Mobile merger, the company is now planning to provide the mobile broadband access to 97 percent of the state. Source...http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2011/06/17/news/doc4dfa6affcf6cd416618494.txt

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AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion (AP)
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AP - AT&T Inc. said Sunday it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion that would make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S.

sources:
AP, CNN, CBS, NY Times
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-03-20-att-deal_N.htmI can't say this is good news; it could be a negative event for consumers. From the article:

"Consumer advocates, though, urged federal antitrust officials to block the deal. They warn that AT&T and Verizon could create a wireless duopoly, resulting in higher prices and fewer choices for customers." Quote

List of Major Cell Phone Companies in the US

* AT&T
* T-MOBILE
* VERIZON WIRELESS
* SPRINT

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_a_listing_of_all_cell_phone_companies#ixzz1HHIx4I00

Just returned from an extended stay in the U.S. and i was amused to see the tv adds still running depicting T-Mobile touting their service over A.T.&T. This takeover had been declared (but not yet APPROVED) before i ever got there.truenorthThe AT&t takeover of T-Mobile is not a done deal by any means and I think T-Mobile is operating on the assumption that the deal will be blocked on anti-trust grounds. Either that or they know they are going to lose their jobs anyway if the merger goes through.I think it should be blocked, but I can't remember the last time the FCC blocked a telecomm merger...And to think that there was a time when AT&T was deemed too big and ordered to breakup. Can we be HEADED that way again? truenorthI am not going to say "History repeats itself."
Oops, I just did. The sale will go thru... Quote from: patio on April 24, 2011, 08:18:38 PM

The sale will go thru...

It probably will.

When AT&T was broken up if you wanted a telephone in North America you almost always had to deal with an AT&T company. There were other smaller phone companies like General and Continental, and a hundred very little ma and pa companies serving small towns, but all them combined were a fraction of AT&T's size. Almost all long distance traffic was carried over AT&T long lines, even to companies like General.

Now in most major markets you have a choice of at least two land line companies, generally with a cable company being the second, and all kinds of cell phone companies. The conditions that caused the AT&T break up are very different now.After I posted this I got to thinking about the statement about telephone service in North America, and I should have qualified that a bit. Mexico has always required that any telecommunications company, telephone, TV or cable be 100% Mexican owned, so AT&T never had any ownership interest in phone service in Mexico.Recent article says it is good for some rural areas in USA
Quote

AT&T to buy T-Mobile

Could mean rural broadband access for Mississippi
By JB Clark
News Reporter
Published: Friday, June 17, 2011 11:09 AM CDT
The latest talk in telecommunications centers around the purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T, a merger that could mean STATEWIDE mobile broadband access for Mississippians.

The purchase of T-Mobile USA is a result of a looming spectrum crunch in which mobile broadband USE in America exceeds the capacity of mobile broadband providers' networks.

The spectrum is the range of airwave frequencies that enable everything from broadcast television to cell phones and mobile broadband.

Since the introduction of the smart phone, AT&T's mobile data use grew by 8,000 percent and it is expected to be eight times higher by 2015.

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"What if traffic on I-55 went up 8,000 percent?" Mayo Flynt, AT&T Mississippi president, asked. "How would the transportation department deal with that. That's what we're trying to do right now."

The Federal Communications Commission expects that crunch to happen by 2013.

AT&T has a plan to provide 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) to 80 percent of Mississippi and with the increased amount of spectrum provided by the T-Mobile merger, the company is now planning to provide the mobile broadband access to 97 percent of the state.

Source...http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2011/06/17/news/doc4dfa6affcf6cd416618494.txt

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