OT: Ding dong. The merger deal is dead (ATT and TMobile)

[Coronita]

Thank god…

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-gives-39-billion-bid-014608349.html

Wow. TMobile just got 4 billion to make themselves stronger….Stupid ATT…

[sdrealtor]

Sure wish someone would leave $39 billion under the tree for me this year.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=sdrealtor]Sure wish someone would leave $39 billion under the tree for me this year.[/quote]

sdr: Open a bank, completely fuck it off by losing all of your client’s money and then call the gubment for a bailout. Problem solved and Merry Christmas bonuses, all at the same time!

[briansd1]

AT&T should have waited for a Republican administration which would view large mergers more favorably. But in the tech world a few years is an eternity.

[desmond]

AT&T was offering $39 Bil for T-Mobile, since the deal fell through AT&T had to pay $4 Bil to T-Mobile for the purchase failure. I guess my cell rates for AT&T are going to go up for this screw up.

[Coronita]

[quote=desmond]AT&T was offering $39 Bil for T-Mobile, since the deal fell through AT&T had to pay $4 Bil to T-Mobile for the purchase failure. I guess my cell rates for AT&T are going to go up for this screw up.[/quote]

It just means you’ll get shittier service, more dropped calls, slower data rates…

Sprint and Verizon still are the bomb and Tmobile ain’t bad at all.

Maybe we can see a sprint and tmobile tieup.

[briansd1]

I have to say that AT&T has been really good to me ever since about Y2K. I get 23% discount.

I don’t really see the benefit of paying more for Verizon which is always subtantially more, unless you get good a corporate discount.

Sprint is a better deal, IMO.

I like that the iPhone 4S on Verizon and Sprint now can take sim cards and can be unlocked for foreign sims.

Actually Simple Mobile (T-Mobile MVNO) and Smart Talk (AT&T MVNO) have great rates if you have your own device.

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