AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile

[lupi]

I love how the Tmobile release said to still buy the new phones they offer while I listened to a radio report this morning that was talking about some q&a session from at&t where they said tmo users with 3g phones would need to get a new unit. As someone that went tmo after verizon bought out my first provider with a very brief nextel stop in between, this news not sounding very good to me.

 

[alent1234]

by the time your contract ends there will be lots of free or very low cost android phones available

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Every time I have called AT&T it has been someone in the states. I know they have a call center in Austin.

They pay a company called Synchronos to do customer support, and one of area's they work is in eastern Pennsylvania, but I know 2 or 3 other locations are in India with one or two others elsewhere in the US. This was a couple of years ago though don't know how many centers they have now.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i've been very happy with t-mobile. i'll be switching in 1 1/2 years when my current contract is up, but porting my number.

 

[SamQuint]

I wonder if ATT will kill UMA calling? Also I have the Tmobile at home service. $10 a month for unlimited nationwide VOIP calling. I bet ATT will kill that off as quickly as possible.

I think I am not going to like the merger at all.

Well at least we will have time. Not like this will be done overnight.

It looks like they will also kill off the T-Mobile 3G so if you want 3G or 4G service with the new company you will most likely have to get a new ATT phone and service plan. Total suckage

 

[s44]

It looks like they will also kill off the T-Mobile 3G so if you want 3G or 4G service with the new company you will most likely have to get a new ATT phone and service plan. Total suckage

Actually, it looks like every new Tmo phone (like the LG G2x) is going to have 5 3g bands. Makes sense, if this has been in the works for a while.

 

[SamQuint]

Actually, it looks like every new Tmo phone (like the LG G2x) is going to have 5 3g bands. Makes sense, if this has been in the works for a while.

Really hope so, somehow I still think they will find a way to force you into a new contract.

 

[SunnyD]

I wonder if ATT will kill UMA calling? Also I have the Tmobile at home service. $10 a month for unlimited nationwide VOIP calling. I bet ATT will kill that off as quickly as possible.

Probably not. They'll just charge you an extra $35/month to use your own bandwidth.

 

[gorcorps]

Wow, I'm on T-mobile FlexPay, which I was told recently at a Kiosk, that they were dropping flexpay, so that if I went with a different plan, I wouldn't be able to get it back.
They didn't tell me that AT&T was swollowing up T-mobile whole.
I wonder if AT&T will kill T-mobiles' cheap pre-paid plans?

I doubt they knew. My friend works for T-mobile, and when I posted this story she was quite shocked by it. I'm not sure exactly her role there, but it's a bit higher than a CS rep.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I doubt they knew. My friend works for T-mobile, and when I posted this story she was quite shocked by it. I'm not sure exactly her role there, but it's a bit higher than a CS rep.

Yeah I'm thinking people should never assume a kiosk worker will know about future corporate strategy/planning...

 

[Fox5]

Hope my even more plus plan lasts into ATT. I shouldn't need to renegotiate my contract since I bring my own phone, I'm thinking a $70 plan with unlimited data will be pretty good a few years from now.

 

[Munky]

Let's see how many different ways ATT can screw my current T-mobile plan.

 

[lupi]

Hope my even more plus plan lasts into ATT. I shouldn't need to renegotiate my contract since I bring my own phone, I'm thinking a $70 plan with unlimited data will be pretty good a few years from now.

tell me about it, i pay about 90 after discount for 2 mobile lines and a home voip line all with unlimited everything.

 

[abaez]

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2599466/fcc-report-att-proposal-t-mobile-highlights

The Verge just did a summary of the FCC's report on the buyout. Basically they shit all over AT&T.