ATT complaining again

[zuben el genub]

AT&T CEO: Consumers will pay for failed T-Mobile deal - Kansas City Business Journal

AT&T CEO: There's Too Many Damn Competitors! - Blames Higher Prices on Blocked T-Mobile Deal, Aliens, Wild Bears | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

I'd love to get the whole article, but I don't subscribe to the WSJ.

Haven't we just had a couple of new startups? One was a Sprint MNVO.

Plus he also has to cope with MS and Barnes and Noble. They just signed a deal. Since the Kindle is outselling the Ipad right now-----

 

[JunBringer]

These idiots don't understand how to compete.

 

[james515]

they know how to compete, people just dont understand the situation why at&t wanted to buy t-mobile.

its not for the cell towers, its not for the customer base, its for the frequency spectrum. Right now there is only 50mhgz of available spectrum to use. this is not enough to support all wireless carriers. There are many companies who purchased spectrum over the years in auctions the FCC holds. now they companies hold it waiting on the big players with lots of cash to get desperate and pay them lots of money for a few small chunks of spectrum.

The problem is actually caused by the FCC in the way they allotted the spectrum to be used and by who. In the old days you could get away with small chunks for spectrum with in a certain range because voice calls were NOT data intensive.
Now in a world of data hungry devices and users, the spectrum each of the carriers has is limited on what it can do due to how it was allocated to them.
For data usage you need larger chunks of spectrum so the data will flow better and faster with in the network.

So what we are in right now is a very classic example of supply and demand. the carriers dont have the supply to match the demand unless the FCC does something NOW instead of spinning their wheels on the spectrum they are not allowing to be used and what can be re-arranged to better suite the needs to the wireless market.

 

[JunBringer]

I thought I read that they were doing something about Verizon hoarding spectrum.

 

[james515]

AT&T is not making that big a deal about it, but they are squeaking a little. Verizon wanted to do a deal with Comcast for some spectrum, but the FCC is "investigating" that deal also.
Sprint is the carrier that has been the most vocal about all this spectrum buying and selling. They are afraid they will get gobbled up by Verizon, that's why they were so against the AT&T and T-Mobile deal. If that would have happened, then Verizon would have snatched up Sprint with a quickness.