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Posted on 03-20-11 08:00:32 PM Link | Quote
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So ... yeah. Mainly AT&T is saying that this would improve their bogged-down infrastructure.

I am not a fan of AT&T, but I'd be lying if I said I liked any US phone provider. More coverage can't be a bad thing, though ... right?


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Posted on 03-20-11 08:30:11 PM Link | Quote
This sounds like it would have a very high regulatory risk associated with it- at&t would be more than twice the size of the third-largest player (IIRC Sprint has around 60 million customers, correct me if I'm wrong), which would probably raise some alarm bells... but I'm not confident in that.

And having one (major) GSM player in the US means that GSM essentially loses its advantage of carrier switching...

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There's also this thread here on the same topic.

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Posted on 03-20-11 09:26:33 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Metal_Man88
There's also this thread here on the same topic.

This thread is technically the older of the two, it's just buried in the Computers / Technology forum.

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