Sad day AT&T buys TMobile

[Tickle Me Emo]

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.

What? I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Of course Apple chose AT&T and Verizon because they're the two major wireless companies (read: huge customer base), as you said...

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.

I really hope you're right. Rollover data? I'd love it. I use roughly half of a 200MB plan right now, so I'd be rolling over the megabytes real quick. I couldn't care less about "unlimited" plans that are actually 5GB plans. At least they're not lying now. Plus I don't download several gigabyte torrents on my iPhone. I don't know, maybe you do.

My previous job was at a distributor in the wireless industry, so I made it a point to be familiar with wireless technology and infrastructure on both consumer and business ends. I do understand the potential implications of the way data distribution is changing, and I am being 100% honest when I say I really don't care, nor do I foresee myself caring. It works just fine for me. Your situation may be different, but that's not my situation. I'm far more concerned with the potential of ending up with data limitations on my home ISP, but that's another thread.

In any case, this purchase has to go through a lot of hurdles to be approved, with everyone crying about monopolies because they don't understand the term, the little guys complaining that the big guys are too big, politicians trying to look important, and bunches of regulatory red tape.

[Steamer]

NOTHING will change for at LEAST 1 year.

I see Verizon and Sprint taking a piece of that spectrum cake.

Less asset for AT&T to sell.

AT&T will have no problem merging. Won't be the first time nor the last.

[uuntiltheendd]

ive never even seen a tmobile in my area or have met someone who uses tmobile. ive had at&t for my mobile for years and its been great. ive been through two blackberrys and im on my second iphone. i have comcast home phone service so idk anything about at&ts land line service.

[elpolloloco]

I really hope you're right. Rollover data? I'd love it

I think pigs will fly before this happens in the next few years. It's easy to count your minutes per month, but AT&T is terrible about your data rates. From what I've noticed on the iPhone, sometimes a 100MB podcast download will show up the next day, sometimes it will show up 2 damn weeks later. AT&T probably can get something going that will give a better idea of when data was actually used, but as far as billing goes, they're fucking clueless. Some months you can be charged for shit that happened a month ago. Some months it will be reported. Roll over data would be pointless really if they can't seem to get this issue resolved.

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On a somewhat related topic: I have a sprint broadband 4G card. It's bad-ass in case anyone is contemplating getting a broadband service. The d/lspeed varies a LOT. Most of the time I can't seem to get it above 2-3MB/sec but that's not bad. Other times I get up to 8MB/sec. Either way the u/l bandwidth is always something insane for me like 8MB/sec

I haven't tried gaming with it on 4G yet. But I'm contemplating a new laptop soon

[StarsMine]

wait wait wait 8MB A SEC! you sure? thats fucking fast

[elpolloloco]

wait wait wait 8MB A SEC! you sure? thats fucking fast

yea man 4g is badass

[ZERO]

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[StarsMine]

yea man 4g is badass

once againg 8MB is fuckign fast, its faster then my land line. i think you ment 8Mb. a capitalized letter means a WHOLE wourld of diffrence

[Joker]

once againg 8MB is fuckign fast, its faster then my land line. i think you ment 8Mb. a capitalized letter means a WHOLE wourld of diffrence

Yes 8MB is fucking fast as shit, That's faster than my land line. I would have to agree with you stars I think he ment 8Mb