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T-Mobile/Metro Talks

THE W said:
yeah, wont happen for the same reason ATTs acquisition attempt of tmobile didnt happen.

monopolies are baaad..mmmmkaay.
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It didn't happen this time true. Imo though it's only a matter of time before AT&T or Verizon eat Tmo or Sprint or both.

Monopolies are as evil as some people make them out to be. I agree that in most case they are bad, but some are actually a good thing.

The Bell system was very good, breaking it up was a mistake imo. What eventually happened was it ended up being somewhat put back together under the AT&T name(which is what it was to begin with, it was just branded different).

Ironically the old Bell system(AT&T) actually created AT&T's biggest rival today, Verizon. Verizon was Bell Atlantic(a former cog in AT&T's "bell system").

When the baby bells were reacquired by AT&T, Bell Atlantic had grown too big for them to swallow back up and eventually became Verizon.

Anyway, I kind of ran longer than I wanted. A monopoly is mostly a bad thing, but their are exceptions.
 
HereticSins said:
In 09'.
Verizon stopped using alltell branded phones this year.
I feel like same thing will happen with metro phones on T-Mobile. So they will be useless.

Maybe metros data will be cut off as well?
Verizon Will Begin Shutdown of Remaining Alltel Data Network in January 2013 – Droid Life
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Even though im leaving metro, I dont want anything bad to happen to them. I have nothing bad to say about metro in light of my upcoming departure but I really hope they actually do maintain as a company beyond the 2015 marker. In recent articles it's been said that the whole VoLTE thing might go by the wayside which "could" possibly leave cdma in place. Who knows what will happen. There's going to be so many changes in the years to come that I doubt THEY fully understand or know what they want to do just because there is so many varibles involved.

It would be nice to be able to BYOD to metro and hopefully if the merger does take place, that will be an option for Metro seeing as its an option for Tmobile.


Who knows? No one knows. As long as I have a BYOD plan I can sign up on I dont care honestly. :D
 
I would have to question what and where Alltel was before the merger. Was Alltel a top 4 carrier 3 years ago like tmobile and sprint are right now? The government isn't going to allow Verizon or att to gobble up the competition especially legit competition. Both companies are way too big now. In a situation where a huge company would no longer have to price competitively, a monopoly would be very bad.

I don't believe Alltel or Nextel had their lights put out by the companies that bought them. The just ended up folding due to losing their customers through the merger. Sprint had all sorts of complications matching iden up with their network that it screwed up Nextel service. Customers bail company goes under. I don't believe either company went into the merger with the intention of Nextel closing its doors.

Anything can happen and all we can do is speculate but I'm putting my money on Metro's survival.
 
Insanecrane said:
It didn't happen this time true. Imo though it's only a matter of time before AT&T or Verizon eat Tmo or Sprint or both.

Monopolies are as evil as some people make them out to be. I agree that in most case they are bad, but some are actually a good thing.

The Bell system was very good, breaking it up was a mistake imo. What eventually happened was it ended up being somewhat put back together under the AT&T name(which is what it was to begin with, it was just branded different).

Ironically the old Bell system(AT&T) actually created AT&T's biggest rival today, Verizon. Verizon was Bell Atlantic(a former cog in AT&T's "bell system").

When the baby bells were reacquired by AT&T, Bell Atlantic had grown too big for them to swallow back up and eventually became Verizon.

Anyway, I kind of ran longer than I wanted. A monopoly is mostly a bad thing, but their are exceptions.
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You are quite right. If the old Bell system (A T & T) hadn't been allowed to be a monopoly, we wouldn't have had the standard telephone infrastructure that we have. In the beginning there were several companies and they weren't compatible with each other. You couldn't call someone with a different phone company. The government stepped in and made AT&T the defacto phone company so that a standard infrastructure could be made across the US. One company, one standard. Once the infrastructure was there, the monopoly could safely be broken up and everything would work and play well together. Then along came cell phones. :-)
 
THE W said:
I would have to question what and where Alltel was before the merger. Was Alltel a top 4 carrier 3 years ago like tmobile and sprint are right now? The government isn't going to allow Verizon or att to gobble up the competition especially legit competition. Both companies are way too big now. In a situation where a huge company would no longer have to price competitively, a monopoly would be very bad.

I don't believe Alltel or Nextel had their lights put out by the companies that bought them. The just ended up folding due to losing their customers through the merger. Sprint had all sorts of complications matching iden up with their network that it screwed up Nextel service. Customers bail company goes under. I don't believe either company went into the merger with the intention of Nextel closing its doors.

Anything can happen and all we can do is speculate but I'm putting my money on Metro's survival.
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Alltel was a Verizon acquisition . Alltel was an immensely profitable rural carrier with about 21 million subscribers...that's why VZ bought them
 
Primevyl said:
Alltel was a Verizon acquisition . Alltel was an immensely profitable rural carrier with about 21 million subscribers...that's why VZ bought them
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Still no where near as large of a competitor as sprint or T-Mobile, it was growing yes, but Verizon buying Alltel would not lead to a monopoly
 
well, i guess the proverbial "____||tihs" has hit the fan...
Things should get interesting from here on out... :creep:

|| is an electronic mirror. use it wisely. ;)
 
Wow. I knew things would change before everything settled but I wasn't expecting that. Good for them. If they feel they are getting cheated then good for them.
 
Hey I admit I really don't know a damn thing here but seriously, the first few times I read thru how the deal was gonna happen, and it TOOK a few times to begin to figure it out, I was getting this real nasty taste in my mouth.

It "tasted" a LOT to me like that Chrysler-Mercedes Benz deal. The one that wasn't in real life Anything like it was portrayed as and there were so many mirrors and smoke some of the participants didn't really know what was happening. Purposely Overcomplicated and made difficult to figure out.

Just made me go, what the heck is this mess?

Who knows.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
OcalaFlGuy said:
Hey I admit I really don't know a damn thing here but seriously, the first few times I read thru how the deal was gonna happen, and it TOOK a few times to begin to figure it out, I was getting this real nasty taste in my mouth.

It "tasted" a LOT to me like that Chrysler-Mercedes Benz deal. The one that wasn't in real life Anything like it was portrayed as and there were so many mirrors and smoke some of the participants didn't really know what was happening. Purposely Overcomplicated and made difficult to figure out.

Just made me go, what the heck is this mess?

Who knows.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
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i switched carriers just so i wouldnt have to deal with it.

also could have gotten the s3 for 50 bucks instead of the 500 metropcs is going to want.

nonetheless i still went with the ihpone 5 yolo.
 
counter423 said:
i'd have to get you to sign up for a website and shop through there.

but we all know how fishy that sounds.

unfortunately, no $50 s3's for you guys.

plus you still need to open up a 2 year contract.
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Welcome to the phone contract road.

You're stuck with that phone for 2 years and you'll be paying off the phone with the monthly bill.
 
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