AT&T to purchase T-Mobile for 39 Billion USDollars
American Network AT&T is to Purchase T-Mobile for $39 Billion.
This creates a GSM Behemoth for the US. What does that mean for Nokia handsets which were destined for T-Mobile? The acquisition will take at least a year to finalize so the Astound/Nuron 2 (+ whatever) should still be coming out. Hopefully this might make things easier for Nokia having to deal with just the one network instead of two. Either that or it could make it more difficult. More iPhone customers definitely.
T-Mobile International is NOT part of T-Mobile USA so things should be staying pretty much the same. In UK, T-Mobile is merged with Orange.
Who’s this good news for?
Here’s some links for your reading.
- Breaking up of a monopoly and recreation of a monopoly:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20110321,0,1097806.column
- Effect on Windows Phone?
http://windowsphonesecrets.com/2011/03/21/att-to-purchase-t-mobile-for-59-billion
- AT&T -Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T
- T-Mobile – Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile
- AT&T – T-Mo Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/20/atandt-agrees-to-buy-t-mobile-from-deutsche-telekom/
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Damn.. that’s BIG news… Most speculations were that T Mo would merge with some other carrier, but I guess the Death Star would have none of that and just the sucker up!
Bad news for customers for sure.
This news isn’t good for T-Mobile USA customers (I am one, with 5 lines and years of tenure) but oh well, after Feb 11th, anything is possible.
As long as I can keep my $5.99 unlimited internet on 4 of my lines!!
Not a good news because T-Mobile is much cheaper and T-Mobile has better attitude towards Nokia phones.
my poor N900 is going to suffer…wtfucketh
The will only be one carrier for GSM phones – everyone else in the us uses CDMA which are locked with no SIM.
basically, ths will mean that unless nokia starts putting CDMA capabilities in it’s smartphones (or there some sort of waveband/system reunification via LTE, and nokia supports that), that peoplen who want nokia phones will have to buy AT&T who, despite their huge subsciber base, have poor customer service, and high prices.
Many T-Mobile subscribers in the US are with T-Mobile because they hate/dislike/had previous bad experince with AT&T (my wife is in this and vows never to give AT&T a pennny again).
So today is the day when T-Mobile customers in the USA start looking at Sprint (reasonable rates compared with Verizon).
Over all this is bad news for Nokia. T-Mobile has been better for them than AT&T it has seemed in recent times, and ultimaltely, this means in the US there will be only on carrier you can use your nokia phone with, and those who don’t want to be with that carrier (unfortunately me included), won’t buy nokia phones if this deal goes through.
This may effect sales of the 4 noia devices due to be announce by T-Mobile CITA, including the C7/Astound.
I’d like to think that it would be good news for Nokia, especially the Nokia WP7 devices – AT&T is the premier partner for WP7, so it should bode well.
This is bad news for me since AT&T is planning to use T-Mobile’s AWS band for LTE rollout. My Nexus S is now up for sale. Will probably buy an E7 which has pentaband so I can be rest assured my phone will work on both T-Mobile and AT&T 3G network.
Other than that, its higher prices and internet cap @ 2GB for AT&T.
This could be an opportunity for Nokia since they use pentaband already and they are the only manufacturer currently who produces devices that work simultaneously on both USA 3G flavors. If they keep things like UMA and I would be happy but things like carrier-independent tethering (joikuspot) will be a thing of the past.
um you know what i think i think that Tmobile will be still the same but now the money will just be going to At&t instead of Tmobile
looks like At&t wanted to control the full 5 spectrums used
850/900/1700/1900/2100mhz fuck this is bad
Stuart – i don’t get your point. Ultimately, there will only be one US 3G flavor again reading some of the stiff that got announced with the 1700 band being used for LTE, combined with the 700 band AT&T bought a few years back.
What it does do is kill the market for unlocked phones and give AT&T de-facto exclusivity on GSM (i.e Nokie) handsets – a hugely powerful position, in a country where manufacturers are already having to bow lower to carriers than anywhere else in the world.
Many T-Mobile folks will be off to Sprint/Verizon or a smaller CDFMA carrier. Nokia would do well to make smartphones that will work with these networks. If not, any thought of being a success in the US depends on the whim of AT&T who really only care about iPhones.
Also looking at their rates etc, they charge $9.99/month for navigation, $5.99/month for voice dialing – seriously. I thought these were features of the phones that draw a customer to use a phone on your network in the first place – why they charge extra for this stuff is beyond me.
So Nokia, now that it seems you don’t need to do Pentaband any more, please swallow a bit of pride, make handsets for each of the big US carriers, and don’t give AT&T that nokia monopoly as well as the GSM monopoly.
pentaband is for world wide option cause no one wants to bring around 2 phones anymore so make one type of phone that can be used on every network
yews, but other than T-Mobile in the US, does anyone else use the 1700Mhz spectrum? If not, there will be no need for it on phones as AT&T intend to migrate T-Mobile customers off the frequency so they can use it for LTE. If so, then fair enough, they should keep making pentaband phones.
AWS is also used by Wind Mobile in Canada and can be used by other countries in the Americas as they progress to 3G. It will definitely be a while before they can “kick” people off of T-Mobile’s 3G band, probably 2 years at the earliest after the deal is finalized. I would reckon that they will be sharing towers long before then so you can use your pentaband in the USA to get the best coverage without switching sims for a while.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/21/confirmed-atandt-wants-to-use-t-mobiles-aws-spectrum-for-lte-bui/
AT&T keep it’s 3G spectrums, migrate T-Mobile customers of 1700mhz and use it for LTE. So no need for pentaband 2 years from now.
Actually, I see the phrase “Deploy multimode devices for T-Mobile customers to migrate” – pentaband devices would be considered great for this – any chance nokia was in on this? Propbably not (they just want tot release the same phone in europa and the US without having to change the hardware).
Also, strikes me this is good news for T-Mobile customers in Europe.
http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/att-acquires-tmobile-USA
“René Obermann, CEO Deutsche Telekom: “We have achieved the best solution for our company, our customers and shareholders. This will strengthen our position in Europe, whilst we are still participating in the rapidly growing business of mobile data. We will be able to focus more on the opportunities of a modern infrastructure in Germany and Europe, as well as in Internet products that accompanies to our strategy “fix, transform and innovate”. Following our initiatives of finding a solution for our activities both in the United Kingdom and Poland, we have with this transaction nearly accomplished the “fix” part of our strategy. We will now focus our resources more on the “transform” and “innovate” blocks of our strategy in order to accelerate the transformation of Deutsche Telekom.” ”
T-Mobile basically ditching it’s US customers to make mobile in Europe better. All i can think of is a song by Placebo – “You don’t care about US”.
Not cool. T-Mobile was the only one who left Nokia phones alone. AT&T is all about designing shit around what they want. This is bad for Nokia AND the consumer only because of the way AT&T does things.
AT&T requires a $20/month commitment for tethering on top of the $25/month data plan. For prepaid users I’m not even sure there is an option. If they demand their AT&T navigator service or their voice dialing, as mentioned above, they are getting a lot of recurring revenue for features you can pay for one-time with certain phones.
Me too as long as i keep my 2.99 unlimited internet plan and 40.00 payment plan i guess it’s ok what can i do anyway .
As long as I keep my .99 cent Unlimited internet plan, Im good.
This is a bad news for Nokia , because Nokia has always problems with at&t – T-mobile was the only Nokia supporter – so it’s over for NO kia