Besides the fact that allowing AT&T and T-Mobile to create one uber carrier that will hold an extremely disproportionate amount of the cellular market, a new report by the Wall Street Journal casts even more doubt on how many people the merger will actually help. Currently there are roughly 9,200 AT&T and T-Mobile stores across the U.S. with ~41% of all AT&T stores having a T-Mobile store within 1 mile. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where...
On March 20, AT&T announced it had acquired T-Mobile USA for nearly $40 billion. This made it the premier player in the U.S. wireless market, with its new total of almost 130 million subscribers significantly surpassing Verizon’s 102 million subscriber total. AT&T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson claimed the deal would improve network quality and spread LTE capability to more people than ever than ever before. However, the results of the merger may not be...
Hearing rumors of a potential Nokia purchase by software giant, Microsoft, is both surprising and expected. Several weeks back when the two companies made a joint announcement detailing future Nokia devices transition to Windows Phone 7, the writing was (for us) on the wall. How long would the two companies exist as separate entities with so much heavy collaboration? If infamous mobile leaker, Eldar Murtazin, is correct in his latest blog post, we didn’t have to...
Fans of government transparency entranced with the ongoing AT&T/T-Mobile merger will likely need to pop a Xanax after hearing news that the FCC is barring the public disclosure of documents concerning said merger. We adopt [these] procedures to provide more limited access to certain especially competitively sensitive information that may be filed in this proceeding, which, if released to competitors or those with whom the Submitting Party does business, would allow...
The highly publicized takeover of T-Mobile USA by AT&T has officially begun, as today, AT&T submitted the legal paperwork formally requesting ownership of any and all T-Mobile wireless spectrum and licenses. The $39 billion deal (that several government and regulatory agencies must still approve) will create a gigantic 100+ million strong wireless carrier in the US, easily dwarfing the second closest carrier, Verizon, and completely overshadowing Sprint, the soon...
