AT&T Withdraws Its T-Mobile Application from FCC

[Marcus Yam]

AT&T's hit a $4 billion failure, but it's not giving up.

AT&T Withdraws Its T-Mobile Application from FCC : Read more

 

[un4given01]

This is win for T-Mobile customers such as myself! Hopefully they'll not get the wireless assets, and leave T-Mobile alone.

AT&T is full of fail. Had an account with them back in the day, and they haven't changed except to get worse since then.

 

[DroKing]

AT&T is exactly what Activison is like in gaming industry ^_^

 

[acadia11]

The bottom line in no form what so ever should this acquisition be allowed to happen.

 

[jgalecio]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL THE TMO CUSTOMERS AND EVRYONE ELSE!!!

 

[Thunderfox]

...so they will try to buy everything but the name this time. Enough mergers already, just compete honestly, and actually pay some attention to your own network instead of trying to steal someone else's.

Kudos to the FCC for doing something right, hopefully they continue.

 

[josh jones]

These government agencies usually don't act in the best interest of the public when corporations ask for favors. deduction leads to uncertainties with potential voters now and maybe catastrophic negative affects of corporate favoritism

 

[ik242]

as a former T-Mobile user, i have no nice word about them, but i did have good experience with ATT.

 

[shqtth]

Why would a company gamble with 4 billion ? Sucks to be them.

 

[sykozis]

[citation][nom]ik242[/nom]as a former T-Mobile user, i have no nice word about them, but i did have good experience with ATT.[/citation]
I have no nice words in regards to T-Mobile either....
[citation][nom]josh jones[/nom]These government agencies usually don't act in the best interest of the public when corporations ask for favors. deduction leads to uncertainties with potential voters now and maybe catastrophic negative affects of corporate favoritism[/citation]
This merger is not and never has been in anyone's best interest except AT&T and Deutche Telekom.... Consumers will facing LESS competition, which is proven to result in higher prices. T-Mobile and AT&T employees will be facing loss of jobs due to excessive staff....which will result in HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT..... And, at the end of the day, AT&T will still have one of the worst networks in the Cellular industry....

 

[legacy7955]

With greedy CEO Randell Stephenson AT&T has gone from merely the "big phone company" to the worse infrastructure , poorest customer service, most incompetent telecommunications company in the entire world. Except that is when they are tapping into your personal communications of course.

Eat it Randell.

Just another greedy, uncaring, customer be damned, CEO.

 

[captaincharisma]

congrats t mobile customers now you won't be forced onto AT&T horrible cell network

 

[AndrewMD]

What just happened was a tax deduction which ATT can claim and less money going back to the government. Actually a very smart move on ATT's part and then they will continue to devalue T-M's network assets and eventually, T-M will pull out completely or be forced to be purchased by ATT... There are no other suitors for T-M at this time.

 

[Objectivist]

This is an absolute abomination. The fact that 2 companies were attempting to do something they felt was in their best interest best interest, and the government come swooshing in swinging their clubs and guns and puts a stop to it is not a win for anyone. It is an assault on freedom, and any assault on freedom is an assault on everyone. Right now we have 4 major wireless carriers. Why is that ok in the eyes of the government, but having only 3 would "harm customers". No one has a right to cell phone service. Therefore, even if the merger would lead to higher prices (which I don't believe it would) there is no reason the government should step in and see to it that prices don't rise. The government's only proper role is to protect rights, and cell phone service is not a right.

 

[msgun98]

@Objectivist: If you believe that consolidating service providers (aka DECREASING competition) won't eventually lead to raised prices, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

 

[msgun98]

@Objectivist: If you believe that consolidating service providers (aka DECREASING competition) won't eventually lead to raised prices, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

 

[buzznut]

So we get to keep Carly Folkes for now, NICE!!

 

[hoofhearted]

Now if only the FTC could force Verizon and Sprint to get rid of CDMA and become GSM.

 

[Marco925]

No more AT&Tmobile?

 

[AndrewMD]

@hoofhearted - CDMA is a better technology, this is why LTE is the marriage of GSM and CDMA technology (loose comparison). However, the industry should move to VOIP type technology to free up bandwidth.