AT&T bought T-Mobile USA, let the Duel-poly begin

I work for one of them and an internal e-mail sent out said AT&T will be buying T-Mobile USA. There are only 2 ntion wide companies now for cell service in America, I think this is bad, what do you think? Sorry I can not give proof, just wanted to post first before the news came out so the ATSers had this one first to chew on.


Question one: Legality
Question 2: how big is it now
Question 3: how much will rates go up for all of us?

sorry close this MODs, I see it already in headlines.......

Yes this has already been covered by news

Ha, you say there are only 2 major wireless carriers left, remember where they came from, bell. Verizon and at&t are and will always be in cahoots together. Im in the biz, people go back and fourth like its one company, and their switching departments.

Umm, I'm not sure what you're talking about with there being only two companies providing coverage. I presume this is in the USA. There are companies like Sprint, metroPCS, Virgin mobile, just to name a few. So umm, no duel-opoly?

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ATT (GSM)

Verizon (CDMA)

Nextel (iDen)

everything else is an MVNO

en.wikipedia.org...

T-Mobile merged with Orange over here in the last year but we still have multiple other providers (02, Vodafone, Virgin, Tesco Mobile and others)

looks as if ma bell wants her monopoly back.
still trying to gobble up the little guys and exert total control.