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Originally Posted by mywidebody02 (Post 813090)

looks like the monopoly is almost done. I thought they broke up MA Bell so consumers would have competitive rates and choices? So much for that idea.

Ma Bell was a wireline entity - no real comparison to the wireless industry today.

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Originally Posted by UCrewX5 (Post 813094)

Ma Bell was a wireline entity - no real comparison to the wireless industry today.

i realize that but those same wireless carriers are the wireline carriers and they broke up the wireline for competitive market. If we are going to only have a choice of 2 wireless carriers then you can see prices go up as they have already done with the data plans by eliminating the unlimited.

This is going to be very interesting by summer. As I have mentioned before, my Sprint contract will be expiring in June. No telling what options I will have then, both greater and fewer.

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5 (Post 813073)

Damn...she is good, although not as good as CZJ. ;)

Would it change your mind about how good she is if I told you she is Canadian? :D

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Originally Posted by UCrewX5 (Post 813092)

Actually what AT&T has bought is valuable spectrum and the 45MM customers. T-Mobile uses the exact same 3G technology as AT&T (GSM), although in some cases at slightly different frequencies. And both have gone to the same approach of implementing HSPA+ as a graceful (and speedy) path to LTE. But the bottom line is the integration of these two wireless networks is going to be a piece of cake.

What T-Mobile customers gets out of this is a path to LTE, which they didn't have before now.

I look for Verizon to take a shot at acquiring Sprint as a response to this move by AT&T. Both Verizon and Sprint use CDMA with EVDO for their existing 3G networks, although Verizon is going with LTE for its 4G network while Sprint has placed its bets (a losing one, in my opinion) on WiMax.

Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out, and whether the FCC and DOJ will allow AT&T (or Verizon) to acquire one of the other top 4 national wireless carriers.

It definitely seems like a great strategy for AT&T since it will be so easy to bridge networks like you guys stated. The extra coverage and customers are going to well for AT&T.

Interesting prediction about VZ acquiring Sprint. That might just happen. Sprint has been running on fumes (and their awesome "Anytime Any Mobile" plan feature) for some time now and to me, really ate crap when they hyped up the announcement of their idiotic Kyocera dual screen thing. :rolleyes: What the hell are they thinking? Anyway, I figured Sprint's days were numbered.

Hey now, if Verizon buys Sprint I'll be able to swap over MUCH easier/cheaper... just like when I switched from Nextel to Sprint a few years back after that buyout.

What's next? Google buys AT&T and Verizon? (one step closer to them changing their name to skynet) :rofl:

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Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata (Post 813112)

Would it change your mind about how good she is if I told you she is Canadian? :D

Canadian is even better. :)

Lets not forget Verizon's ties with Vodafone - world's biggest wireless provider. Vodafone has significant interest in VZ.

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5 (Post 813127)

Canadian is even better. :)

Here you go! If I'd known you prefer Canadians I would've told you I'm from Canada sooner. ;)

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5 (Post 813128)

Lets not forget Verizon's ties with Vodafone - world's biggest wireless provider. Vodafone has significant interest in VZ.

I was in London a few weeks ago and Vodafone had a major outage that affected almost all of London from central all the way out to Heathrow.

A few thieves drove a van into a Vodafone un-manned cell switching facility, and when I say into, I mean through the front door. And they stole all of the switching gear. Service was all screwed up for about 36 hours.

My only question about all of this is how does it benefit the customer? Did anyone see any information from AT&T as to how this is going to improve customer experience? That is to say; better coverage, better customer service, lower cost, anything?