This is great news and means that T- Mobile will now be usable once you get off the interstate
--- On Mon, 3/21/11, Trevor Holyoak <[email protected]> wrote: From: Trevor Holyoak <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [T-Mobile-US] Re: AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA To: [email protected] Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 12:08 PM On 3/21/2011 10:59 AM, Patrick A. Timlin wrote: >> AT&T seems to be counting on picking up T-Mobiles >> customers, but from what I'm seeing, a lot of us >> don't plan to go along with it. > I wouldn't expect anything to change any times soon. Already this deal is > getting talk because it may raise anti-competitive concerns. The combined > company would be the number one carrier in the USA and between AT&T-T-Mo and > Verizon, those two carriers would account for about 75% of all cell phone > users (according to an article in today's Boston Globe). So you can expect > prolonged hearings on this before it is allowed to go through. > > I suspect that even if it goes through, we won't actually start to see > changes until mid to late next year (read: Summer of 2012 or later). So no > reason to panic or immediately shop for another carrier. I'm not panicking, just angry. :) I can't shop around until my 4 month old 2 year contract on my newest phone expires, anyway. By then I'll know for sure what's going on. But I'm certainly not going to be starting any new contracts on my other T-Mobile lines in the meantime. - Trevor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ - - T-Mobile-US on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/T-Mobile-US _ _ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
