Comments on: AT&T set to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/ An intense Android news community bringing you the latest in phones, rooting, apps, and reviews. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kmyers621 http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-251126 Kmyers621 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:39:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-251126 no cingular bought AT&T wireless from the old AT&T. AT&T non wireless was then bought by SBC and took the name at&t. cingular was a jointly owned company of at&t(SBC) and Bell South. When at&t (SBC) bought bell south then changed cingular to at&t mobility.

]]> By: LMAO http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-251003 LMAO Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:43:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-251003 Haha T-Mobile sucks. It just got gobbled by At&t. Maybe two losers together will make a bigger loser. hahahhahaha

]]> By: Droidzzz http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250872 Droidzzz Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:49:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250872 No I like what ToddJY said. I don’t care what it’s called, if it’s significantly faster than what I already have then you can call it 3.25G, dial-upG, farfeneugenG, etc. Sounds like you’re just arguing a dumb technicality.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250851 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250851 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250852 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250852 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250853 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250853 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250854 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250854 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250855 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250855 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250856 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250856 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250857 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250857 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250858 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250858 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: Me http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250859 Me Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250859 You are not quite correct. Cingular purchased AT&T’s wireless devision. They switching back to the AT&T name for branding.

]]> By: jimmyslick http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250840 jimmyslick Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250840 Photoshop, anyone?

]]> By: Tim242 http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250811 Tim242 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250811 Nope. Cingular bought Att, then changed the name from Cingular to Att a year later. I worked there during the transition in 2004.

]]> By: Bullet Tooth Tony http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/20/att-set-to-buy-t-mobile-usa-for-39-billion/comment-page-1/#comment-250801 Bullet Tooth Tony Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:43:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=28824#comment-250801 More competition is a bad thing in this realm. Spectrum is limited… and in order to have adequate coverage to function nationally, the players need spectrum. Unless of course you foresee a future where more spectrum magically appears out of thin air… since it is… air… waves… then it simply isn’t possible.

The USA, Canada and Mexico are 99.9999% covered coast to coast in copper wires for landline phones for 1 reason, and 1 reason only… AT&T had a monopoly. There’s a reason why all these companies use the Bell logo. And there’s a reason why local phone service prices skyrocketed when AT&T was broken up. They were broken up to bring long distance rates down, and now long distance is free almost everywhere, and you’re left holding the bag for a higher local service. That’s a great trade-off… right?

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