Looks like Tmobile will have to pull the commercials with the cute chick in the red/white dress:

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

Wow! Aside from the interesting change in advertising strategy T-Mobile will have to undergo ("Um, all that crap we talked about AT&T, well we were just playing around!"), I think it is bad for us little consumers. If we're left with AT&T and VZ then they'll really have us by the nuts. Sprint will be an outsider and while they offer the best prices, they'll get run over by the two giants.

Technically speaking, how will things go down? T-Mobile boasts the largest 4G network against AT&T's slow and crappy service. How will the two networks integrate in terms of coverage and speed?

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IMO - AT&T just bought themselves a 4G network and 45MM customers and won't have to upgrade their own crap network. It was a no brainer. AT&T bridges the 2 networks and turns off their legacy network. Done.

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Wonder how it effects the coverage map as compared to VZ. My guess is, not much.

Looking at T-Mobile and AT&T coverage maps, it's tough to say what they'll do with the networks beyond bridging them. They'll have to figure out the best way to optimize the 2 so that they don't have to maintain 2 parallel networks.

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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.

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

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. What the hell are they thinking? Anyway, I figured Sprint's days were numbered.

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