Tmobile has been useful "off the interstate" for long time. In fact I could get service in the wilds of Maine, 75 miles away form interstate.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:34 PM, wrkh99 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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] > > > [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/
