[mrsidewayzz]

i walked around a few malls in the Hampton Roads area and noticed all the T-Mobile stands are now AT&T stands... is AT&T buying out T-Mobile?? would that be good for us T-Mobile users, since our rate plans are alot better than AT&T's rate plans?

[bruinsrme]

Interesting but found something that t mobile will merge with sprint.

T-Mobile USA to merge with Sprint Nextel? - FierceWireless

[soulthoughts]

Originally Posted by mrsidewayzz

i walked around a few malls in the Hampton Roads area and noticed all the T-Mobile stands are now AT&T stands... is AT&T buying out T-Mobile?? would that be good for us T-Mobile users, since our rate plans are alot better than AT&T's rate plans?

Please tell me this isn't true. I left AT&T for TMo and I'll never go back. TMo has way better customer service than AT&T, YMMV. Years ago I got screwed on a AT&T phone bill. It took 3 months to get it straightened out.

[ALL DAY]

No, I don't believe AT&T would be allowed to acquire T-Mobile due to the fact that it would essentially make a monopoly out of the GSM phone market.

Yes, there are other GSM carriers out there, however I can't imagine the two most powerful carriers being allowed to combine. Same reason Google couldn't buy Yahoo.

I also don't believe T-Mobile and Sprint would ever merge, however I'm not sure on this.

[soulthoughts]

Originally Posted by ALL DAY

No, I don't believe AT&T would be allowed to acquire T-Mobile due to the fact that it would essentially make a monopoly out of the GSM phone market.

Yes, there are other GSM carriers out there, however I can't imagine the two most powerful carriers being allowed to combine. Same reason Google couldn't buy Yahoo.

I also don't believe T-Mobile and Sprint would ever merge, however I'm not sure on this.

I'm not too sure on that, especially when Sirius and XM can merge.

[redcard]

Oh man. The ignorance in this thread is pretty funny!

If T-Mobile and AT+T were going to merge, it would be in the news well before AT+T took over some stands.
T-Mobile had a contract with the malls that probably expiring, so AT+T stepped in and PWND T-Mobile.

Point 2. Don't judge customer service of multinational companies on your 1 negative experience. All network providers have crappy customer service

Point 3. Sirius and XM were both small companies in an expanding market. Putting them in the same light as multinational behemoths is hardly correct. Sirius had 900 employees. AT+T has 300,000!

[sziklassy]

I doubt it. TMO is huge in Europe and even though they are somewhat lacking in the states I don;t think they would give up that easily.

[sebgonz]

Originally Posted by redcard

Oh man. The ignorance in this thread is pretty funny!

If T-Mobile and AT+T were going to merge, it would be in the news well before AT+T took over some stands.
T-Mobile had a contract with the malls that probably expiring, so AT+T stepped in and PWND T-Mobile.

Point 2. Don't judge customer service of multinational companies on your 1 negative experience. All network providers have crappy customer service

Point 3. Sirius and XM were both small companies in an expanding market. Putting them in the same light as multinational behemoths is hardly correct. Sirius had 900 employees. AT+T has 300,000!

The ignorance in your post is pretty funny too. I mean, other than Sirius and XM, tell me what other satellite radio companies you know. The reason for their merger wasn't because of an expanding market. It was because they were two companies struggling to compete against each other and they decided that the only real way that they could gain a profit was to gain monopoly pricing power, just as the cable TV industry did. That's why those companies decided to merge: they needed less direct competition and more revenue.

[imbuggin]

orange (t-mobile) is one of the largest providers in europe. This thread is worthless, it would never happen.

The sizes of merging companies have nothing to do it they will be allowed to merge. This is another dumb statement. The deciding factors are market share, and others ability to compete so that a new company would not be in a position to manipulate pricing to the end users or customers.

[redcard]

Originally Posted by sebgonz

The ignorance in your post is pretty funny too. I mean, other than Sirius and XM, tell me what other satellite radio companies you know. The reason for their merger wasn't because of an expanding market. It was because they were two companies struggling to compete against each other and they decided that the only real way that they could gain a profit was to gain monopoly pricing power, just as the cable TV industry did. That's why those companies decided to merge: they needed less direct competition and more revenue.

Hardly a monopoly when there's competition from broadcast radio, from internet radio, from digital radio, from digital media players.

Originally Posted by imbuggin

orange (t-mobile) is one of the largest providers in europe. This thread is worthless, it would never happen.

The sizes of merging companies have nothing to do it they will be allowed to merge. This is another dumb statement. The deciding factors are market share, and others ability to compete so that a new company would not be in a position to manipulate pricing to the end users or customers.

I think you missed the point. The poster said that if Sirius / XM can do it, they there's no reason why AT+T / T-Mobile can't do it. If the situation was reversed, then it might be a valid view.

Oh yeah, and Orange and T-Mobile have not yet merged

[dale1v]

Originally Posted by imbuggin

orange (t-mobile) is one of the largest providers in europe. This thread is worthless, it would never happen.

The sizes of merging companies have nothing to do it they will be allowed to merge. This is another dumb statement. The deciding factors are market share, and others ability to compete so that a new company would not be in a position to manipulate pricing to the end users or customers.

That can be argued. At the same time, companies get bigger by using their profit from the sales (aka market share) they have to expand. So, unless it's a widely diversified company where they have market share in many different markets to keep them healthy, you can still expect a large company to have a large market share to go with it, can't you?

But yeah, no chance of AT&T taking T-Mobile.

[Imahottguy]

Originally Posted by redcard

Hardly a monopoly when there's competition from broadcast radio, from internet radio, from digital radio, from digital media players.

But none of your examples are Satellite Radio. It's like you are comparing cable and the dish; they are not the same.