AT&T To Buy T-Mobile for 39 Billion

[dscottjr81]

AT&T to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion | BGR

Wonder if people that have unlimited data with T-Mobile will be grandfathered?

[Cowboy]

Guessing not

[dscottjr81]

Guessing not

Gonna have to agree. That sucks big time and this is how t-mo customers feel at this moment if this happens and they arent grandfathered.

[bootleg]

what i'd like to know is if this means t-mobile will get the iphone...in which case i'd stay with t-mobile rather than switching to verizon when iphone 5 comes out

[Cowboy]

Att is buying out which means you are now an att customer. SO yes you will be able to get the lovely iphone

[blkcadi]

It may take up to perhaps a year for this all to happen is what I was reading on another blog. But for me, this is great news if it all transpires. Yippee

[Cowboy]

It says the eta is last quater of 2011

[bootleg]

well i was gonna wait for iphone 5 anyway. now i guess i'll just wait and see when the iphone will come to us t-moble users

[Cowboy]

You do understand you wont technically be a tmobile user you will be an att user?

[blkcadi]

I sure hope we are Grand Fathered in with our current rate plan, that would be nice for me. But no matter, this still is great news for me, very cool.

[Cowboy]

Yes it is sorta kills some reasons for an software unlock

[blkcadi]

For me, I'll believe it when it happens. Just hope it does. No more chasing and unlock every time a firmware update happens is a dream come true for me.

[area51crypto]

what i'd like to know is if this means t-mobile will get the iphone...in which case i'd stay with t-mobile rather than switching to verizon when iphone 5 comes out

I would guess so.

Does anybody remember when Cingular and AT&T merged and it became Cingular and then it become AT&T.

So with past practice I would say that T-Mobile will become AT&T and knowing AT&T past practice all I can say it sorry T-Mobile users. JMO

[dscottjr81]

what i'd like to know is if this means t-mobile will get the iphone...in which case i'd stay with t-mobile rather than switching to verizon when iphone 5 comes out

As Westerman said you will no longer be t-mo customer and the plus is you will be on a better network. The more concerning thing is losing your UNLIMTED data because of a merge. If that does happen it is a huge blow.

[reddawg]

For me, I'll believe it when it happens. Just hope it does. No more chasing and unlock every time a firmware update happens is a dream come true for me.

I'm sorry but I don't share your enthusiasm. I think most T-Mobile customers will find this merger with AT&T disturbing. Most of us went with T-Mobile not because they had the best coverage, but because we didn't want to pay the exorbitant monthly fees for talk, text and data that AT&T and Verizon charge.

[blkcadi]

^guess we'll just have to wait and see what the bottom line will be for existing T-Mo customers.

[Gr0undBreak1ng]

I think it is a waste of money, because of consumer field. They aren't developing for the consumer. All they want is to be big, million $alaries, corporate mumbo-jumbo, although it should improve coverage AT&T already bought a billion dollar chunk of 3G coverage and speed last year as part of their "Expansion" plan. They are wasting money when they should be developing software fixes, and consumer products all they're doing is money, expanison corporate mumbo-jumbo. They aren't even building new towers for coverage in rural areas. In my point of view AT&T has just wasted 39 billion dollars.