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True. AT&T is so badass other people want to expand their name for them..
But really, pretty impressive.
To manny:
It's also about the wireless spectrum. They doubled their alloted "space" while reducing their need (at the moment) buy streamlining both networks. It was a deal towards the future as they now have more to play with.
True. AT&T is so badass other people want to expand their name for them..
But really, pretty impressive.
To manny:
Manny being the typical that he is
Let's see what that smarmy little T-Mobile has to say about this.
and since Cricket and Pocket merged, that's another lost bit of compe on.
I guess the good thing is that I'll now pay my mobile and cable at the same time.
yay
Manny, they might keep the towers. With all the data pigs out there streaming videos, etc. they may need the capacity to keep up.
That is a fairly significant increase by looking at the map, but I call foul on the map. Sprints coverage is limited to near the interstates in most places but you get coverage everywhere and I don't pay roaming so I have to go extremely desolated places to get out of the coverage area. Pretty sure its the same for ATT.True. AT&T is so badass other people want to expand their name for them..
But really, pretty impressive.
To manny:
That being said, it does look like their home network is getting bigger and being on your home network is better a lot of the time for data so they do see an improvement there that was larger than I thought it was going to be.
Still ty for consumers in the end. Tmobile customers aren't going to be happy to see their rates go up.
You're missing the point that ATT was broken up and yet the initial company is almost all the way back together again. ATT might as well be trying to kill a teenage John Conner at this point.
The total deal is 39 billion USD. This will be great for consumers tbqh
Any removal of choice and concentration of economic power is always bad for consumers. That's exactly why corporations do it, to make more money from consumers.
And of course 10s of 1000s of jobs will be lost along with $100Ms of increases in profits for investors and mgmt.
Compe ion? GMAFB cell phone pricing is a de facto price-fixing cartel.
I disagree. HEB did not get much worse since it still has to compete with wal-mart. That is such a stupid comment.
Oh really? Walmart wasn't selling groceries in San Antonio for a long ass time after Albertson's left and HEB did get worse and prices went up.
What the is it with you dumb assholes that you come crawling out of the woodwork with your idiocy? You're like re ed roaches all scurrying around.
It's bad for tmobile customers who have to pay more once their current contract ends. The Corp mergers screw customers every time.
I've got Sprint. How will this effect me?
I still love my HEB and yeah, prices went up but they did everywhere. I too didn't see a major downhill slide when Albertson's shut down.
f that we still have Handy Andy and La fiesta.
The best thing about HEB was the bulk es at Central Market. The rest of it can sod off. HEB has some of the most discriminatory management I've ever seen - the stores in wealthier areas are nice, but anyone who's ever been to the stores at Fredericksberg & I-10 or the one at Olmos Park knows just how ty they can get when the population they serve isn't privileged enough to have a voice. I have seen more rotten produce at HEBs than in every other store I've ever been in combined (the economically disadvantaged apparently don't need access to fresh food after all). It got to the point that I had to go to two different stores every time I needed groceries when I was living in Monte Vista - Olmos Park for pre-packaged foods and cleaning supplies, and then over to Central Market to find produce that wasn't swimming in fruit flies.
But back to the merger, any time you have fewer choices the consumer will suffer. Case in point: the only internet provider to which I have access at home is Comcast, and the service we get for the price we pay is beyond ridiculous. We pay as much per month for an average speed of 3 Mbps as people in other areas do for 12.
HEB absolutely puts products on the shelf that they believe caters to the shoppers that live in the area. I know because it was part of the orientation program used for new hires.
You might not find as many Hill Country Fare brands (different from HEB label brands) out at the HEB near the Dominion, while at the HEB on South New Braunfels, you might be hard pressed to find somethig like a jar of pine nuts.
HEB believed that the reason Albertsons went down and out is because they used the same store model for each and every neighborhood.
don't remind me
What you mean is that you might find fresh produce on Dezavala but on Zarzamora you're going to find flies all around the fruit.
Per CNN
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an an rust lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block AT&T's $39 billion merger with T-Mobile.
The merged companies would be the largest wireless company in the United States, combining AT&T's 95 million customers with T-Mobile's 34 million users. Along with Verizon Wireless, the merged companies would combine for more than two-thirds of the wireless market and account for 78% of the wireless industry's revenue.
"The combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the United States facing higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality products for mobile wireless services," the Justice Department said in its announcement.
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That's awful nice of them, but I would rather they levy the full penalty to the banks.
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