Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger

Re:Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger by kwantam on Saturday August 13, 2011 @09:47AM (#2880944)

    > By buying TMO, they would get an instantaneous 
    > coverage increase and instantaneous capability 
    > increase.

Not really. Most of the coverage AT&T is lacking and proposed to build out to expand from 8x% to 9x% coverage is in rural areas where T-Mobile's network is even weaker than AT&T's. In other words, there are very few places where T-Mobile has coverage and AT&T doesn't already; most of the new coverage they'd get in this deal is redundant.

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Re:Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger by fpgeek on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:21AM (#2881102)

Beyond that, we're primarily talking about LTE coverage. That would require significant additional investment even if you added T-Mobile's (GSM/UMTS/HSPA+) infrastructure to the mix.

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