Sad day AT&T buys TMobile

[brentidge]

i have t-mobile but really stupid atand t i love my t-mobile the way it is

[Tickle Me Emo]

Meh. I don't really care. T-Mobile is kind of a running joke in my area. No one uses it, and the unlucky few that do trash it constantly.

I lol'd at all the anti-Apple/AT&T people, as was said Verizon carries the iPhone now, and AT&T has been carrying Android phones for a long time. Maybe try reading a news article now and then, you might learn something. I'm sure AT&T spent 39 billion dollars because Apple told them to, and not because they want to knock out a competing carrier, or expand their coverage.

On the topic of Verizon, they have terrible customer service, their service is crappy (in my area of course), and their 3G is slower (both on average nationally, and in my area). I don't love AT&T, but it sure beats Verizon in my experience.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

what was the name of the other company at&t ate up a few years back?

I am completely aware that the have both android and iphones but they dont advertise nearly as much as they do for the iphone. You cant honestly tell me apple didnt have any sort of influence when it came to limiting phone providers down to two major company's.

[devour]

for the guy who said he doesnt care, you will when at&t starts forcing you to have a different data plan for different uses, as well as run off of a pooled data plan with "rollover" megabytes = no unlimited data plans. good luck

[elpolloloco]

what was the name of the other company at&t ate up a few years back?

You talkin Cingular? They was a weird switch. Cingular became AT&T. Then it was cingular again and then back to at&t one more time.

I like AT&T. Their service does't seem any less or worse than others. I had Tmobile before and AT&T is a little better here. I'm a blackberry guy, not an apple guy and I'm good to go. Rollover minutes are awesome too.

[devour]

your "rollover" minutes expire.

[elpolloloco]

After a year. Not really a problem. If I have that many rollover minutes left after a year then it's probably time to downgrade my plan

[toma]

meh i've had voicestream before it was t-mobile...lost connection a lot (houston, that's where they started (voicestream), and i have an ATT phone and a Verizon phone, voice is so much better on my verizon phone, plus i get 4 mb down and 1.5 mb up on my android(verizon) vs my 1 mb down and 1 mb up on my iphone(ATT).

[taz1stP]

at&t had a partnership with them b/c if you work for at&t you would get 50% off your phone plan so its nothing new that they finished buying them out.

[dice]

My AT&T mobile service is great, but its a overpriced. In fact, the pricing is a sham (then again, aren't they all?)

But I will say this - don't ever get AT&T DSL. I can't speak for U-Verse, but the DSL service is absolutely terrible.