They would only step in if Sprint, ATT and Verizon all joined into one big company. People are really over reacting. This just eliminated redundancy in coverage, decreases cost and helps coverage. It allows ATT to be more competitive with Verizon. If ATT buys Verizon, that's time to start freaking out.
Different technology and very unlikely. T-Mobile matches AT&T. Sprint and Verizon are both CDMA. My big question too. I hate AT&T with a passion for a lot of reasons. If they give me a reason to leave, I will.
Will this in some way void my two-year contract with Tmobile? I mean, in my understanding the contract was a statement of loyalty to Tmobile, not to AT&T. I swear to god, if AT&T dickwads start to throttle, cap, limit, restrict, etc... I just switched from Verizon to Tmobile because of the low costs.
That's the biggest tragedy of this whole thing. That chick is smokin hot. RIP Now she'll have an obnoxious dude in an ill-fitting suit riding on her back, too. I'm hoping he makes her take off her shirt for a data plan
I would never date her with that disgusting belly button. /internetdude http://coedmagazine.com/2011/02/28/...es-bikini-pics-33-photos/carly_foulkes_16/#16
Seriously, do not get the appeal of her. Smokin hot? She's way too skinny and looks a bit manly in the face.
CDMA> GSM in so many ways. Better call quality, better building penetration , less interference, and better tower hand off. Ever wonder why AT&T and TMobile drop so many calls? It's due to tower hand off, GSM is limited to usually 1 towers. So say you're driving, and you're on a call that's connected to a tower that already has a ****ty signal (it can have good signal as well), your phone can only choose ONE other tower to keep that call alive, if it's far in range then you get a dropped call. Depending on the topography of a city , in which I will use San Francisco as a example, the tower hand off can just turn into drop call city . AT&T Is notorious in SF and NY for having horrible outages. This is also where the Iphone comes into play, many people say the iphone causes alot of congestion and yes, it does. However, the limitations of GSM only allow a certain amount of people to be on one tower. CDMA handles capacity extremely well, and tower hand off in which your phone will choose from an available list of the nearest 2-4 towers, not 1 to keep your call alive without dropping. Now as for data. GSM gets praised for being able to do simultanoues voice and data. GSM uses some WCDMA for that to happen. It's receiving two signals at once. In fact, it's currently not advertisied but there is one phone on Verizon that does simultaneous voice and data over 3g, and that's the Thunderbolt. 3G really got started as becoming fast with EVDO, CDMA carriers kinda started that (sprint and vzw), GSM will stilll rolling around with EDGE which is basically garbage if you ask me. Now pro's of GSM which both TMobile and AT&T use is worldwide dominanace with GSM. Ever wondered why the whole world usually runs on GSM. Qualcomm (who manufacturers CDMA radio chips in phones nowadays) invented CDMA. They tried to get it up and running but there was a company who was so deeply involved with GSM in Europe and other countries that they would go as far as to talk mess about CDMA to prevent people from even deploying it. The company is Ericcson ( who ironically has a deal with Sprint to manage their CDMA network) they fought and fought and even took qualcomm to court over some patent stuff. Their aguments is that they invented CDMA but never said anything about it (yeah right.) also they argued that CDMA would never come to anything because it was "expensive", "difficult to manage" ,etc THIs is what started Europe to start banning carriers from even thinking about deploying CDMA networks, in fact in many parts of Europe it is illegal. There was this big picture of a "perfect network" and that's why. Anyways, just my two cents, and I hope trash mobile and AT&t can step up to LTE because in the end, the world dominant standard (10-15 years) will be LTE
greeeat, now all we need is for verizon to buy sprint. can't wait for $75 basic plans with $10 per megabyte data plan and $1 per text....
