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Started by ducatiz, March 20, 2011, 02:33:51 PM

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ducatiz

March 20, 2011, 02:33:51 PM
AT&T Mobile is buying T*mobile.

Granted, AT&T (Cingular) is not the same company it was 10+ years ago, but I will be shopping for a new provider.  Shame there aren't any other decent GSM providers near me.  :-/

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Statler

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March 20, 2011, 02:48:10 PM
amazing what a difference 40 miles makes.  I've been with att since the cingular days and have been happy the entire time.  Lucky coverage in my area I guess.  4 of us on the family plan.
It's still buy a flounder a drink month

ducatiz

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March 20, 2011, 02:50:48 PM
Quote from: Statler on March 20, 2011, 02:48:10 PM
amazing what a difference 40 miles makes.  I've been with att since the cingular days and have been happy the entire time.  Lucky coverage in my area I guess.  4 of us on the family plan.

I was never with Cingular, I was with AT&T before they were bought by Cingular....that's why I said it's a different company.

That being said, I'm more pissed with Tmobile lately than anythign else and ... well.. my contract expired... awwww
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derby

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March 20, 2011, 03:01:14 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on March 20, 2011, 02:33:51 PM

Shame there aren't any other decent GSM providers near me.  :-/


just wait for everybody to roll out their LTE network and then pick a company.
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ducatiz

#4
March 20, 2011, 03:04:19 PM
Quote from: derby on March 20, 2011, 03:01:14 PM
just wait for everybody to roll out their LTE network and then pick a company.

yeah, i guess.  i'm kind of married to gsm though as i travel a lot overseas.  i don't know enough about LTE/advanced -- is that separate from the GSM standard??
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

pennyrobber

#5
March 20, 2011, 06:41:06 PM
Glad I have Sprint.
Men face reality and women don't. That's why men need to drink. -George Christopher

Veloce-Fino

#6
March 20, 2011, 06:56:46 PM
UMAD T*mobile!?!?!

I've had Cingular/ATT for over 10 years now. Never had an issue and very very rarely do not have service. They are a great company. In fact when I tried to switch to Verizon, they could not get close to my current price so I stayed with ATT.
Is this thing on?

RAT900

#7
March 20, 2011, 09:46:49 PM
39 Billion though?

guess its all about spectrum and more/denser cell grid
This is an insult to the Pez community

il d00d

#8
March 21, 2011, 09:43:08 AM
Slightly on-topic.  Over the weekend I ported my ATT number over to Google Voice, formally severing ties with the carrier and my personal phone.  This is a recent feature (link), up until a couple months ago, you had to pick a new number for your Google Voice number.   I love that I was able to do this, because for $20 (LNP charge) I get to park my number forever and direct all personal calls to my work phone (with my employer's blessing) or any other phone of my choosing.  Otherwise, it is nice not to to feel tethered to a cell plan to keep my number.

ducatiz

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March 21, 2011, 09:56:08 AM
Quote from: il d00d on March 21, 2011, 09:43:08 AM
Slightly on-topic.  Over the weekend I ported my ATT number over to Google Voice, formally severing ties with the carrier and my personal phone.  This is a recent feature (link), up until a couple months ago, you had to pick a new number for your Google Voice number.   I love that I was able to do this, because for $20 (LNP charge) I get to park my number forever and direct all personal calls to my work phone (with my employer's blessing) or any other phone of my choosing.  Otherwise, it is nice not to to feel tethered to a cell plan to keep my number.

any monthly charge?
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

il d00d

#10
March 21, 2011, 10:02:04 AM
No monthly charge.

ducatiz

#11
March 21, 2011, 10:03:10 AM
I like that.

However, it really doesn't solve a problem for me.  My problem is that AT&T scares me a little and I don't like becoming a "customer by acquisition."

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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

RAT900

#12
March 21, 2011, 11:16:50 AM
I wouldn't want to try to be an employee by acquisition...

If I was working for T-Mobile I would be updating my resume right about 5 hours ago

ATT (really SBC) wants the assets and spectrums....

they will dump responsibility for the infrastructure on top of their existing over-extended Network Operations staff

Sack the T-mobile sales and work forces and offset some of the 39 billion expenditure

This is an insult to the Pez community

ducatiz

#13
March 21, 2011, 12:01:48 PM
Quote from: RAT900 on March 21, 2011, 11:16:50 AM
I wouldn't want to try to be an employee by acquisition...

If I was working for T-Mobile I would be updating my resume right about 5 hours ago

ATT (really SBC) wants the assets and spectrums....

they will dump responsibility for the infrastructure on top of their existing over-extended Network Operations staff

Sack the T-mobile sales and work forces and offset some of the 39 billion expenditure

It's not a flat-out acquisition.  Deutsche Telekom is getting a share of AT&T and a seat on their board among other things, on top of the 39B. I don't see the T*mobile structure going away.  More likely, AT&T is going to dump its crappy support and weave its spectrum into T*mobile's.
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

elyse

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March 21, 2011, 12:20:37 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on March 21, 2011, 12:01:48 PM
AT&T is going to dump its crappy support

i SERIOUSLY doubt at&t will ever dump it's crappy support..

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/21/3492173/att-t-mobile-3g-phones-will-need.html#

i would say with 99% certainty, the tmobile users will be paying atleast a portion of the cost for the new phones...
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