AT&T to acquire T-Mobile in $39 Billion deal

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

So no more T-Mobile, guys:
Article here:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214822/AT_T_s_takeover_of_T_Mobile_creates_largest_U.S._c arrier?taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/03/11x0320n81aatt.jpg

[battousai_ryuu]

I agree with the analyst who believes that fewer companies in competition will only lead to higher prices. As a current at&t customer I only stand to gain better reception, not that T-moblie was known for their reception lol

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

This is great for those on AT&T. Not only will they gain a frack-ton of towers and from that lots of 2G bandwidth for making calls that don't drop. They (AT&T) will use T-mo's AWS band for their LTE rollout giving them a huge advantage over Verizon and making congress happy with that whole idea bout having rural areas covered by highspeed.

For T-mo customers.... this sucks. Won't take long for AT&T to raise our rates. When i was on AT&T I was paying almost $180 a month. For BETTER service (e.g. unlimited international SMS for two lines at $20 vs. AT&T's 100 international SMS for $10 a line) i pay only $120. I also get 1500 minutes instead of 800 or whatever it was before.

Going to be a sad day.

AT&T customer here. =3