AT&T buying T-Mobile?

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t140568 · #1 Post by **t140568** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:05 pm

http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/m ... es-tmobile

Since my wife and I were planning to leave T-Mobile and go to At&T due to lack of coverage where we're moving, this is almost good news for us. I really didn't want to leave T-mo and seems now I won't have to... just not quite like I imagined.

I can see a lot of pros and cons. What are your feelings?

#2 Post by **ZaZ** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:15 pm

As a tmobile customer, I don't foresee liking this. Tmobile has the best prepaid plans, which I'm on, with no daily access charges. I guess if they don't change anything I won't care.

#3 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:48 pm

Wow! Interesting!

I currently use both. Have the family on T-Mobile, but I am on AT&T.

sarbin · #4 Post by **sarbin** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:47 pm

hmmm...

i've got a tmo account for my personal service. includes a great unlimited blackberry data plan, grandfathered in for years. if att doesn't change anything, it'll be fine. otherwise, i'll be looking elsewhere.

ThinkRob · #5 Post by **ThinkRob** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:10 pm

It's absolutely horrible news for anyone who values their privacy or the due process of law [with regards to wiretapping].

ajkula66 · #6 Post by **ajkula66** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:41 pm

ThinkRob wrote:

It's absolutely horrible news for anyone who values their privacy or the due process of law [with regards to wiretapping].

I'm not saying you're wrong, but what exactly makes you say this?

ThinkRob · #7 Post by **ThinkRob** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:26 pm

ajkula66 wrote: I'm not saying you're wrong, but what exactly makes you say this?

AT&T has a history of surrendering full access to customer communications to the NSA (a fact to which former employees have testified.) [1][2] The NSA's surveillance operated without warrants [3], and the scope of their access was not limited to specific customers.

Agreeing to and assisting in such a program does not strike me as the action of a company that cares much for the privacy of its customers or the rule of law.

[1] http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... 6/04/70619
[2] http://cryptome.org/klein-decl.htm
[3] Tash Hepting, et al. v. AT&T Corp. U.S. District Court (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California)

ajkula66 · #8 Post by **ajkula66** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:42 pm

ThinkRob wrote:

AT&T has a history of surrendering full access to customer communications to the NSA

I don't doubt that for one split second...

That being said, I'm not sure that any of their Baby Bell siblings would fare much better in this respect...

In the interest of full disclosure: I am employed by a company which is a competitor to AT&T in the U.S. marketplace.

ThinkRob · #9 Post by **ThinkRob** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:56 pm

ajkula66 wrote: I don't doubt that for one split second...

That being said, I'm not sure that any of their Baby Bell siblings would fare much better in this respect...

What siblings? The events I was referring to took place well after almost all of them had coalesced back into AT&T.

And no, the remaining off-shoots didn't fare better. But T-Mobile did.

elray · #10 Post by **elray** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:43 pm

ThinkRob wrote:It's absolutely horrible news for anyone who values their privacy or the due process of law [with regards to wiretapping].

Only horrible news for TMobile customers. (Your truly).
But not on privacy grounds.

AT&T has no exclusive on collaborative mischief with DHS.

ajkula66 · #11 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:16 pm

I always found it pretty interesting that the wireless aspect of the communications industry in the U.S. went anti-divestiture route quite some time ago and that no one was saying much of anything about it...

Sprint is pretty much the only major carrier that still holds its own, but given the price of its stock and the service quality (or shall we say lack thereof) I'd be betting that their days are numbered...

Of course, there will always be some small companies with a minute market share (Metro PCS comes to mind) but soon enough it will be AT&T Wireless vs. Verizon Wireless and the wireless offsprings of the two largest Baby Bells will be robbing us blind...

ThinkRob · #12 Post by **ThinkRob** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:51 am

elray wrote: AT&T has no exclusive on collaborative mischief with DHS.

Indeed. I'd say they're probably the worst offenders, but they're certainly not the only ones.

Sprint is pretty much the only major carrier that still holds its own, but given the price of its stock and the service quality (or shall we say lack thereof) I'd be betting that their days are numbered...

I don't know much about stock analysis, so I can't comment there, but honestly I think their service is actually quite good. They're cheaper than the other carriers and they seem to have excellent coverage and network performance in the areas that I've used them.

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