Comments on: In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses

By: RichieT

RichieT — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:54:44 +0000

There’s no way it’s going to get approved. Verizon has all ready said that if this gets approved, they’ll buy Sprint.

By: AT&Shit

AT&Shit — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:39:08 +0000

I love T-mobile and I can use nearly any phone American or not with their SIM card. AT&T does not allow that and why, ’cause they are greedy bastards. T-mobile is cheap, easy and effective. I have a hacked iPhone and it works perfectly on this network. Fuck AT&T and I hope they get bombed.

By: T mobile user

T mobile user — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:08:01 +0000

One plus I can say about T Mobile is the customer service is unlike anyother I have seen. Meanig the quality is great. However that is where it stops. The phone service is poor. Calls are constantly droped, texting is a pain with constant failed attempts to send and to get good 3G it seems like I need to be out side away from buildings with a clear sky this is with using the mytoutch slide Wich also seems to have problems with certaint wifi signals. Now with the problems I do have it could be the phone or it could be service I don’t know but I can say this. The problems I have now are nothing compared to what is to come. I have first hand seen AT&T screw up what they get their hands on. Years ago they took over a company called cell one. Cell One was what I believe to be the best there ever was for allaround customer and phone service but with in less than a year I was standing under the power lines praying for a signal and getting no where with an answere from AT&T I have gone through their complet destruction once already I don’t want to go through that mess again. Yes I agree when it comes to this merger everyone loses.

By: t-mobile usr

t-mobile usr — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:27:52 +0000

att’s plan is to take t-mobile and use their system to update their own and disban t-mobile and eliminate competition. they run on the same 700mhz wavelength but t-mobile was a threat to att and as such are eliminating the threat.

when 700 mhz went on the market, att bought 90% and t-mobile bought 10%. att was still trying to update their system, t-mobile already had an updated system that could handle better service.

By: KevinB

KevinB — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:07:51 +0000

@VOR116: You are an idiot. The merger has not even happened yet and you are blaming ATT for poor service at T-Mobile. Dumb-axx.
There are no new plans with “underhanded falsifications” because there has been no merger yet. This just proves your telling falsehoods and making it up as you go along. Get off of this blog if you are going to tell outright lies!

By: Diesel 'N Dust

Diesel 'N Dust — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:56:14 +0000

Amen.

By: VOR116

VOR116 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:48:23 +0000

I was able to extend my current unlimited plan before the hammer fell, but I have also been informed of some of the underhanded falsifications that aren’t even disclosed in the fine print of some of the new and improved, post-merger calling plans; and the undisclosed restrictions are downright shameful.

The first tangible that I’ve experienced firsthand is the complete absence of customer service. There was a time that it took no longer than ten minutes to get a friendly, knowledgeable T-Mobile Support Representative on the phone… the approximate wait time is now three-and-a-half hours for an incompetent idiot, that will most likely put you back on hold, and eventually terminate the call.

I am the last one to discourage capitalism, but history teaches us that happy customers are the most effective method of expanding one’s market share.

Shame on AT&T.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:51:22 +0000

i hate freaking att they suck,i was wonderining how they stayed in buisness now i will have to dump tmobile

By: Robert W

Robert W — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:42:44 +0000

Sprint is complaining about this merger, but Sprint screwed up when they bought Nextel back in 2005. If Sprint hadn’t gotten involved with Nextel they would have been able to buy Alltel which would have made a lot more sense.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:42:22 +0000

I second the AT&T bad customer service. We, my two brothers, mother, and myself, had Cingular before being forced to have AT&T. I still remember going with my mom years ago to price cell phone plans (I’m her tech expert). AT&T was much higher and the plans were awful, so she went with Cingular. We didn’t have many problems with the service (I had a not helpful guy at one of the stores when I had trouble with a phone), and then AT&T took over. Service is not as good and far too overpriced, support is pathetic, and phones are not great. I think AT&T pushes the iPhones too much. I don’t buy overpriced Apple products and the other options (at least at my last upgrade in October 2010) were just not that good. I decided on a Palm Pre, and here we are at the beginning of June 2011, my Pre is about 7 months old and it’s not functioning properly. The buttons stick and it’s slow at times, but it was the only phone I liked and did what I wanted for a reasonable price. I am very picky when it comes to a cell phone because I am paying for it and will have to use it for at least a year and a half. I need a touch screen and have to have a full QWERTY keyboard, not a touch screen keyboard. Next upgrade I’ll likely be considering an Android or Windows 7 phone now that HP seems to have ruined Palm. I would be considering a carrier change too, but Verizon is just too expensive and both Verizon and Sprint have bad reception in my area.

If only we could have a cell phone company who cared about the customers and what they realistically want.