Comments on: Match Made in Heaven? AT&T Sells T-Mo Deal http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/match-made-in-heaven-att-sells-t-mo-buy/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: webvex http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/match-made-in-heaven-att-sells-t-mo-buy/#comment-610707 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:25:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=319860#comment-610707 All the whiners seem to conveniently forget that T-Mobile was going nowhere and not providing any real competition. AT&T will put T-Mobile’s resources to better use than they ever would have by themselves.

]]> By: KenG http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/match-made-in-heaven-att-sells-t-mo-buy/#comment-610704 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:17:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=319860#comment-610704 So how does acquiring T-Mobile create more spectrum? It doesn’t, the spectrum is there, available to t-mobile and its subscribers. The deal would only increase the spectrum available to ATT, and it wouldn’t necessarily help their subscribers, as they would now have all of T-mo’s customers.

ATT wants to force all of T-mobile’s 3G customers to give up their phones. I like my phones, I don’t want any of the phones that ATT sells. ATT does not give me the option of buying my own equipment, they force me to buy a phone that is subsidized by their high monthly rates. This bundling was outlawed for landline phones in the 1980s, and should be stopped now, but this merger would be a step in the opposite direction.

My family has three phones that use T-Mo’s 3G/4G network, and together they cost about $1800. they would all be obsoleted once ATT gets to convert T-Mobile’s spectrum to their LTE network. How is that good for me?

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