Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be blocked

Re:Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be blocked by suprgeek on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:22PM (#2350380)

The author captures this point perfectly: AT&T and T-Mobile merger will create a "GSM Monopoly" in the American market. This will be bad news for any customer who has to use GSM handsets as Europe, Asia, etc have GSM. So if you ever have to travel internationally you are better off with GSM phones. AT&T must not be allowed to Monopolize this key market.

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Re:Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be blocked by derobert on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:30PM (#2350412)

Everyone is moving to LTE, so this really doesn't sound like a huge deal, at least in the medium-to-long term. You will be able to get LTE from AT&T/T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon, at least.

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Re:Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be blocked by metageek on Monday March 21, 2011 @02:25PM (#2350974)

It's a reasonable point, but we don't yet know whether there will be LTE phones that work on both AT&T and Verizon, let alone when roaming abroad.

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Re:Why AT&T’s deal for T-Mobile must be blocked by wallabe on Monday March 21, 2011 @02:20PM (#2350946)

I don't think most consumers care about the technology they're using. They care about quality (does the phone work) and price. Discussions of GSM vs CDMA seem to obfuscate the main issue, which is that less competition will make the same service more expensive and quality worse. It wasn't until Verizon got the iphone that ATT started to care at all about quality, because they had the monopoly

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