AT&T bites back at Sprint’s attempt to block merger

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Verizon has the best coverage, though they are better than tmo and att at customer service

Well, that’s what their marketing department says.

Sprint is supposed to get the iPhone 5.

It would hurt the smaller carriers in the long run since they essentially resell the services provide by other carriers. If T-Moble and AT&T merged then AT&T would have full control of the GSM Market in America and can place any price on these smaller carriers that resell their service. It would force the smaller carriers to raise their price. With AT&T and T-Mobile separate, they would be able to continue to complete against each other in the GSM resale space.

Good point.  But aren’t most companies are moving to LTE: AT&T, Verizon, Metro PCS, there was even an article I saw about Sprint’s possible move to it away from WiMax.  So will the market even remain viable?  But I guess the now GSM carriers would still need it in the future to fall back on where their 4G isn’t available and AT&T would own most of spectrum. 

But then again, if no one else tries to purchase T-Mo after AT&T then they would eventually go bankrupt, then all those jobs would be lost.  Mergers do come with job loss, you don’t need two CEOs, but a lot of the workforce remains as long as the purchasing company remains profitable.  AT&T won’t suddenly be able to stop trying to sell new phones and services.  At the end of the day, AT&T needs it’s customers so I doubt we would see a price hike that wasn’t going to happen eventually.  I don’t get why everyone thinks this acquisition will just be the nail in the coffin for the wireless industry.  It will certainly stir things up, but every industry has those times.  The companies need to adapt and the governments involvement needs to be just to make sure the practices the companies use aren’t anti-competitive. 

I cant seem to reply to your comment like you would expect, The LTE Market is still in its infancy so its hard to speculate how that will work. However I could assume that the smaller carriers are locked to the provider they are signed up with and that their phones by the cellular technologies they use would restrict them from hopping to a different type of carrier like Verison. Mergers are bad as it will reduce competition there is no way to dispute that. The NFL wouldn’t be popular with 4  teams, the more teams the more games. We have four major carriers and reducing them to 3 would make them less inclined to innovate or invest in improving their network. I’m about to get busy so I can’t complete my response right now.

You’re an uneducated idiot. I do not know how to repond to you. I hope your post was a satire, otherwise youre the reason America ranks low in education. Sprint buying Clearwire would be a Vertical Merger, with benefitial holdings. Since you will not understand what that means I will give you a recent example. When Google purchased Motorola Mobility, Google was not buying a direct competitor. Motorola makes hardware for mobile devices and Google offers software. So it is a Vertical Merger. The case would be the same with Sprint buying Clearwire. The spectrum would benefit Sprint, just like the patents will with Google. Clearwire does not compete with At&t and Verizon in the Mobile business. Also if you look at the market share (if you know what that means) you will see that T-Mo and At&t merger will make Sprint by far the smallest of the carriers, and not earn enough profit to compete with At&t and Verizon. The At&t and T-Mo is a horizontal merger and would create a duopoly. Heres the market share breakdown after the merger At&t+T-Mo= 44% (85% holding on GSM), Verizon=39% and Sprint=16%. Its Anti-Competitive anyway you look at it. Sprint could not compete, and therefore would be eliminated creating a duopoly. I would remove your post to save yourself from embarrassment.

You think your so smart yet your a fuckin idiot. I kind of feel sorry for people like you who think they know it all yet you dont know shit. Clearwire is a direct competitor, they may not be a large competitor but they are a competitor. They have 6.15 million subscribers which consists of 1.29 million retail subscribers and 4.86 million wholesale subscribers. Saying that a sprint buying clearwire is a vertical merger is like saying that nokia buying pantech is a vertical merger. If att/tmobile gets blocked so will sprint buying clearwire The spectrum holding of sprint/clearwire merger would give them way too much of an advantage. These are the current spectrum holding by carrier in the topp 100 markets: Clearwire 150 mhz, verizon 88 mhz, at&t 84 mhz, sprint 69 mhz and tmobile 51 mhz. A sprint/clearwire merger would give them about the same amount of spectrum as verizon, att and tmobile combined. This would allow sprint to continue to offer unlimited data plans without worrying about network congestion unlike the other carriers. Look you have to let the market speak for itself. Regardless of the outcome of the att/tmobile merger, sprint will coninue to lose customers and lose money. The market has spoken and people prefer at&t and verizon. tmobile and sprint have been the low cost carriers for the past couple of years and they are still losing subs and money. Neither one of the companies are going to last much longer. How many companies do you know of that can lose money year after year without going under. im sorry bro but you can be up sprints ass all you want and you can cry about prices going up but the bottom line is that att and verizon will continue to dominate and sprint will be around for a couple more years and will then prob go bankrupt. sprint investors better get out now while they can still make some money cuz once they go bk they will get nothing. SPRINT SUCKS. DAN HESSE IS A CRY BABY BITCH. PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE MERGER ARE A BUNCH OF BITCHES.

@weirdfetishwithdabhessehater, who used to be the CEO of at&t. You’re still wrong. Yes the spectrum holdings are in Sprints favor it still does not justify how this merger will not create a duopoly. Clearwore holds a very large specrum, unfortunately a majority is not of the very useful frequency. I.e 2.5 ghz. At&t does not efficiently use their current holdings and have enough 700mhz to cover the major markets with LTE. I blame At&t’s stupidity for not purchasing the additional spectrum they were going to need during the last spectrum auction. Sprint already has a 54% stake in clearwire and can use the spectrum as they please. Again you failed to see the market share. You keep saying Sprint will fail, but the company is turning around and will be earning instead of churning. T_mobile has the opportunity to turn their fortunes around if this falls through. Wasn’t the Cingular aquisition supposed to give us a better network and more jobs and options? Also I thought that it would improve the customer service. That was a lie. I hate calling at&t customer service.

You may discover that companies that are at the losing side are the most aggressive with trying to get back on top. This can manifest itself with more attractive pricing, better phones, better service. Since T-Mobile may get 6 Billion if the deal falls through they will have more money that they can use to compete with. The 6 Billion could be used to sustain them while they lower their prices to make themselves more attractive to the potential customer.

OMFG, seriously? The whole time I thought GSM and CDMA were a lot different. Glad to know its just the ability to travel. As for Free market, if we had a complete free market, you would be paying 500 per month for your At&t monopoly home phone right now (no competition eliminated the need to build a wireless network. Why innovate when you have no competition?). For a successful economy and for free market to work you have to prevent monopolies, and duopolies. If you do not want this competition Guest, then go live in Russia.

look the fact that at&t will be the only gsm carrier doesnt matter. you can pretty much get a cdma version of any gsm phone. I dont know how any one can say that them being the only gsm carrier will hurt anyone. if you dont like at&t then go to sprint or verizon. its that simple. Stop crying about duopolies. we have a duopoly in microsoft and apple. we basically have a monopoly in every state when it comes to your choice of electricity company and cable company. What your basically saying is that if the merger goes thru then at&t and verizon will not compete with each other. to the contrary if the merger does go thru than it will push verizon even harder to try and become number 1 again. Like anything else, if verizon and at&t just sit on their asses than some company will come out of nowhere and bite them in the ass. Kmart did it back in the early days of walmart when they didnt see them as a competitor and look what happened. Microsoft sat on their asses and now apple has passed them up. nokia and rim sat on their asses and everyone is passing them up. You just have to let the market dictate everything.