Another Reason Why The AT&T Purchase of T-Mobile Should Not Be Approved
If you live in Los Angeles and have suffered with AT&T service, and yesterday was the pinnacle of failure, some calling it epic fail. So AT&T thinks that the Justice Dept will approve its acquisition of T-Mobile US, but I contest the whole thing.
AT&T is obviously doing it to keep the #2 #3 #4 players from encroaching on their business, will in time if AT&T continues to make missteps, it will suffer the ultimate fate and become #2 or #3 or less. That would not be a bad thing, I would guess that Verizon would love to get approval to purchase Sprint, but chances are that will not happen.
So AT&T buys Cingular, SBC and all the bell companies and we suffer from long drawn out acquisition periods of years, and poor service and horrible customer service.
Now AT&T is pitching the T-Mobile deal as a “great thing” for customers… well I would say that from multiple perspectives this is a VERY BAD THING. You don’t want to have T-Mobile becoming part of AT&T.
Imagine, AT&T and T-Mobile together and there are service outages, imagine they decide to raise prices, you have fewer choices,
We need all the players, and NEW players in the wireless space. Wouldn’t it be great to see a company like Apple or Google buying spectrum and developing devices that do not rely on AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint.
Having broadband cable service at home is good, but it is only part of the solution.