Sad day AT&T buys TMobile

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this pisses me off....I'm worried now because at&t has a monopoly on gsm...if they change shit I'm going to Verizon

Too late AT&T already plans to fuck with Tmobile customers in the future

AT&T-Mobile?

ZoomThe BIG news that hit over the weekend is that AT&T is ponying up the cash to buy T-Mobile, which if approved, would make it so that the U.S. only has a single national GSM carrier.

The consolidation of the network and spectrum would mean that customers from both sides will eventually have a more complete and higher-quality network, but restructuring will also essentially change the 3G band for T-Mobile's existing customers.

Right now, T-Mobile uses the 1700 MHz AWS band for its 3G signals. With AT&T's proposed acquisition, it will repurpose that part of the spectrum for LTE. This means that those using T-Mobile 3G phones, even unlocked ones such as the Nexus One and Nexus S, will be unable to access the high-speed data network.

AT&T said that it has plans to help T-Mobile customers replace phones when the switchover happens, but that will be still several years out.

"There's nothing for them to worry about ... it will be done over time, in a way that's good for customers and good for AT&T," said Ralph de la Vega, AT&T's head of wireless and consumer services, to the AP.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/at-t-t-m...ews-10544.html

Biggest issue i have it AT&T has data caps and data rates are stupid..... and with one less major company to compete with its easier to raise prices on products and services since competition will drop down Specially since there about eh only GSM phones now. Secondly with competitiveness comes new technology...... look at the highly competitive tech market and video games they push limits to get customers to buy.

So anytime a company is bought out its usually not a good thing for the consumer