Good! There is already too little competition in the US mobile phone industry. This takeover, if it were to go through, would result in consumers paying higher prices for lower quality services.
Indeed. What the heck has it done for you lately? Nothing? Bingo. It's like the "Electrical Products & Safety Commission" in my birth country. The iPod touch launch was delayed because they had to "approve" it (after, oh, the US, UK, Australia, Singapore all approved the EXACT SAME MODEL). Moreover, no offence to Muslims, but it was Ramadhan time so things somehow moved a little slower... I suppose kinda like Christmas in Western countries when everybody's in "holiday" mood.
And that's only the officially imported stuff and local products. They have virtually zero regulation over grey market imports, just like the FCC I'm sure has not much control over grey market imports into the US.
These are essentially monolithic anachronisms that just waste time, money and all kinds of essential resources.
As some have agreed, the FCC screwed the pooch and invalidated themselves when they messed up 3G and 4G spectrum allocations. They should have gone with the model of most countries, whereby 3G and 4G world-standard spectrum is auctioned to allow a few major players to have equal access to said spectrum. This way, the telcos are not wasting resources competing among themselves too much but also having ability to develop, import and export products and services that are compatible with the rest of the world**. It's also, *cough* better for competition because if you also disallow carrier-locking, then consumers have the best choice of phones, carriers and international options when travelling.
Instead, what do we get? Carrier locking continued unabated, carrier crapware forced upon users, incompatible spectrums, incompatible phones, lack of spectrum, patchwork coverage, patchwork mobile protocols, and so on. Tell me where are the benefits for consumers? Where is the real competition?
Until Apple the telco industry was one of the most bloated, arrogant and clueless industries in the US. What exactly has the FCC done?
**Motorola's CDMA-exclusives eg. cost them global growth, among other things. If the Droid was not CDMA-Verizon-whatever-exclusive it could have at least come out swinging against Samsung and Apple all around the world. Instead, "Bye Bye Moto"... to cruelly paraphrase their famous ads.
You might be insane. Seek treatment. Today's AT&T is Southwestern Bell aka SBC buying the AT&T long haul and wireless replacing AT&T wireless with their Cingular. Verizon even bought up parts of the oringal Ma'Bell broken up by the central planning committee you hold pure. Forget it. Go back to reading the works of Marx.
Not everyone that disagrees with you is a closet communist (the marxist thing doesn't even really apply here). I'm not following part of your statement though. AT&T wireless was already a relatively large carrier before they purchased Cingular.
Well, then what you're proposing is that assets be sold to the lowest bidder, no?
Do you find putting words in other peoples' mouth an effective debate tactic?
I don't care who buys TMO, if anyone, as I think just about any buyer other that Verizon or ATT would be better for the market than either of those two. The fact that ATT bid so exorbitantly only signals just how much profit they expect to squeeze out of TMO. The best case is that DT sells its stake to some other company hoping to break into the mobile business and TMO continues to operate as it has, which it looks like is exactly what will happen.
Looks like the ATT and TMobile merger may now be officially abandoned. ATT has pulled the merger request as well as filing notice of a $4B charge-off related to the merger efforts. Similar to Google's exposure if their Moto deal isn't approved, ATT had agree to give Deutsche Telekom $3B if the deal wasn't finalized. The other $1B was removing the value of the added TMobile spectrum from their books. (Don't know why they had already added it in anyway)
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Can we abolish the FCC?
or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on ATT
But it feels so empty, without me
So, come on and dip, bum on your lips
F*** that, cum on your lips, and some on your tits
And get ready, cause this 4G's about to get heavy
I just settled all my lawsuits, F*** YOU FCC!
I find the FCC is not in the public interest...
Can we abolish the FCC?
Indeed. What the heck has it done for you lately? Nothing? Bingo. It's like the "Electrical Products & Safety Commission" in my birth country. The iPod touch launch was delayed because they had to "approve" it (after, oh, the US, UK, Australia, Singapore all approved the EXACT SAME MODEL). Moreover, no offence to Muslims, but it was Ramadhan time so things somehow moved a little slower... I suppose kinda like Christmas in Western countries when everybody's in "holiday" mood.
And that's only the officially imported stuff and local products. They have virtually zero regulation over grey market imports, just like the FCC I'm sure has not much control over grey market imports into the US.
These are essentially monolithic anachronisms that just waste time, money and all kinds of essential resources.
As some have agreed, the FCC screwed the pooch and invalidated themselves when they messed up 3G and 4G spectrum allocations. They should have gone with the model of most countries, whereby 3G and 4G world-standard spectrum is auctioned to allow a few major players to have equal access to said spectrum. This way, the telcos are not wasting resources competing among themselves too much but also having ability to develop, import and export products and services that are compatible with the rest of the world**. It's also, *cough* better for competition because if you also disallow carrier-locking, then consumers have the best choice of phones, carriers and international options when travelling.
Instead, what do we get? Carrier locking continued unabated, carrier crapware forced upon users, incompatible spectrums, incompatible phones, lack of spectrum, patchwork coverage, patchwork mobile protocols, and so on. Tell me where are the benefits for consumers? Where is the real competition?
Until Apple the telco industry was one of the most bloated, arrogant and clueless industries in the US. What exactly has the FCC done?
**Motorola's CDMA-exclusives eg. cost them global growth, among other things. If the Droid was not CDMA-Verizon-whatever-exclusive it could have at least come out swinging against Samsung and Apple all around the world. Instead, "Bye Bye Moto"... to cruelly paraphrase their famous ads.
You might be insane. Seek treatment. Today's AT&T is Southwestern Bell aka SBC buying the AT&T long haul and wireless replacing AT&T wireless with their Cingular. Verizon even bought up parts of the oringal Ma'Bell broken up by the central planning committee you hold pure. Forget it. Go back to reading the works of Marx.
Not everyone that disagrees with you is a closet communist
I goess the public interest is better served with t-mobile just going out of business and we can all pay for the bankruptcy proceedings.
It's NOT going out of business. T-Mobile is profitable. Profits are down but not in the red.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...r-2010-Results
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/08/t-mob...000-customers/
http://www.t-mobile.com/company/Inve...iewArchive=Yes
Dont ever trust anything a corporation says.
Let's be honest. The FCC commissioners really dig the T-Mobile girl.
Well then the FCC needs to ask AT&T to keep the T-Mobile girl employed, and problem solved.
So, you want to maximize consumer surplus.
Well, then what you're proposing is that assets be sold to the lowest bidder, no?
Do you find putting words in other peoples' mouth an effective debate tactic?
I don't care who buys TMO, if anyone, as I think just about any buyer other that Verizon or ATT would be better for the market than either of those two. The fact that ATT bid so exorbitantly only signals just how much profit they expect to squeeze out of TMO. The best case is that DT sells its stake to some other company hoping to break into the mobile business and TMO continues to operate as it has, which it looks like is exactly what will happen.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/24/2...om-fcc-records