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Uploaded by on Nov 28, 2011

http://www.lockergnome.com/mobile/2011/11/25/atts-t-mobile-buyout-a-washout/

Late Thanksgiving night, AT&T announced withdrawal of its T-Mobile takeover applications to the FCC. Does this mean that the deal's completely fallen through, or is this just another move in the sinister corporate strategy playbook? Eddie Ringle ponders the possibilities...

You can watch the entire TLDR episode here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrTfksaZLg

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  • FINALLY somebody who doesn't fanboy over one device and bash everything else :)

  • Finally I can agree with Chris. Less competition means anti-freemarket oligopoly and this is a serious infrastructure that warrants government interference, as ugly as that could get.

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  • nerd!!

  • @dfr343 Yes. Though because of carrier greed, not only can you not get a data-only plan for a phone, but even if you could, caps would make this infeasable.

    But, Verizon is on the track to switching their voice network to use LTE. As far as I know, it won't be THE way for a very, VERY long time, but they're working on it. For now... there's Skype, Google Talk, and Google+.

  • No competition = crappy services and price raises at anytime

  • The best example I can think of to support the theory that competition is healthy is the space race between the Russians and Americans.

  • oh and Sprint is beger than T-Mobile

  • Sprint is reliant on Verizon for roaming not AT&T Sprint and  Verizon CMDA AT&T GSM

    AT&T buying T-Mobiel does not mean T-Mobile will get an iPhone because T-Mobiel use 1700 and AT&T use 850 and 1900

  • Great video ;)

  • The positive of not merging: Competition and choice.

    The positive of merging: maybe better coverage......

  • what wrong with sprint

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