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T-Mobile customers will finally get the iPhone as AT&T acquires T-Mobile

By | March 20, 2011, 11:46am PDT

Summary: Wow, AT&T is going to buy T-Mobile USA and this is NOT an April Fool’s joke. The two main U.S. GSM carriers will now combine to take on Verizon and T-Mobile customers will finally get an iPhone.

Just a couple of weeks ago there were rumors that Sprint was going to aquire T-Mobile USA and I commented how difficult that would be with completely different cellular technologies. That might have just been a smoke screen as we just learned that AT&T is going to aquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. This actually makes sense given that both are GSM carriers and all I have to say now is that Sprint has some major work to do to compete with Verizon and this new AT&T/T-Mobile company.

It is reported that AT&T is buying T-Mobile USA for $39 billion and the deal has been approved by both company boards. T-Mobile has a unique 1700 MHz AWS band for 3G, but maybe they will give that up and go with AT&T’s frequencies. The thing is, T-Mobile has a much faster HSPA+ network at the moment so we will have to keep an eye on what shakes out from a technical basis. I think LTE may become a focus for the AT&T/T-Mobile company now as they compete with Verizon for the top spot in the U.S.

The Nokia N8 that I have is a penta-band 3G phone that supports both the AT&T and T-Mobile network so why can’t HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and others do the same thing moving forward to have GSM world phones?

It looks like T-Mobile customers will finally be able to get an iPhone, huh?

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Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
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RE: T-Mobile customers will finally get the iPhone as AT&T acquires T-Mobile
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Panskeptic 20th Mar 2011
If T-Mobile customers get AT&T service, they will lose. I'm one of them and I'm not looking forward to it.
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news flash: not everyone wants an iPhone.
rorrr 20th Mar 2011
customer service, pricing, and smart phone offerings are all reasons why people have chosen T-Mobile over AT&T
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Rick_K 20th Mar 2011
@rorrr
news flash: not everyone wants an iPhone.
That is a good thing, because choice is always a good thing. There is no phone that suits everybody?s needs.
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While true, that isn't the whole story
edtimes 20th Mar 2011
@Rick_K
There is no phone that suits everybodys needs.

While this is true, it is also true that some people have really stupid needs. For example, they claim they "need" replaceable batteries and expandable storage and Flash support but the fact that Apple has sold over 100,000,000 iOS devices that have none of these features proves that those features are dumb.

Remember Rick, choice isn't a good thing, it simply confuses people. That is why Apple's walled garden is best. People don't have to deal with malware, Flash slowdowns, or carrying 5 extra batteries and memory cards in their pockets. Considering Apple is the only company making a profit in the portable computing market, it is obvious that the only meaningful choice (meaningful being the key word) is "Which iOS devices are right for me?" and "Do I want to upgrade as soon as the next version comes out or do I want to wait a month before lines have subsided before upgrading?"
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SanFranciscoCA 20th Mar 2011
edtimes.... That's the corniest and most flawed analysis I have ever read. If you are going to go by sales of iOS devices, you should compare that 100 million with the 5 billion in sales of non-iOS devices.

You are apparently unaware that while in 2010 Apple sold about 47 million iPhones, there were sales of about 1.3 BILLION "non-iPhones."

"100 million iOS sales = other features are dumb." What a laugh. Your post disregards that Nokia is the world's largest handset maker, Samsung is number two, RIM #3.
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Name 1 phone that sells better than iPhone
edtimes 20th Mar 2011
@SanFranciscoCA
You can't. None of them do. It doesn't count if you have to add up all the sales of hundreds of other models just to be bigger than 1 model of iPhone. That isn't fair!!

Besides, none of those other companies you mentioned made anything close to the amount of profit that Apple has made from smartphone sales. All the others have to rely on "buy one get one free" offers or they have to sell at a loss just to convince people that, while their phone isn't anywhere near as good as iPhone, hey, at least it was cheaper! None of these are sustainable long term strategies. I predict that within about 5 years, Apple will be the only company making smartphones. All the others will have completed the race to the bottom and will be selling dumb phones with 5 cent profit margins to poor people who can't afford anything better.
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storm14k 21st Mar 2011
@edtimes You all do realize how dumb you sound asking which single phone outsells the iPhone right? Just about any other platform gibes you hardware choice. With iOS you have not choice so sales are simply concentrated. You look at platform which makes more senseband iOS is easily being outsold by Android. And every market share analysis for over a year now had shown that the iPhone isn't gaining any market share. There's a set number of people that want these super simple and limited phones and they already have them now.
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jgm@... 22nd Mar 2011
Here's a perfect example of Poe's Law in action: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

I can't tell for sure if edtimes is being sarcastic or if he's really delusional. With the first post I thought he was being silly, but as the posts went on I'm not sure. I'd say 80% chance it's parody though.
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Rama.NET Updated - 20th Mar 2011
@rorrr
of course there will be a lot of choice with this. When Cingular acquired AT&T, I personally had a chance to get WinMo phone and then when AT&T acquired Cingular that time also I had good choice of plans. Of course AT&T had become greedy after that and they started charging for everything. I never had issues to tether my WinMo to more than 2 devices at a time without getting calls and emails from AT&T. But now I am not doing tethering with the phone, because I have my own prepaid MiFi, which I use whenever I travel and have control on my data consumption with various devices.


news flash: not everyone wants an iPhone.
Well I agree with you on this, but this definitely opens door for T-Mo customers to have iPhone. I know quite a good number of people who have bought Jail Broken iPhones on eBay and use as their device for communication on T-Mo network.

Since I am AT&T customer, I really don't care if AT&T buys T-Mobile here though.
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jgm@... 22nd Mar 2011
@Rama.NET I'm not experiencing choice at all! I had Cingular... then it became AT&T. I left AT&T for T-Mobile a few months ago... now it's going to become AT&T too!!
sad It's like being in the movie "Burnt Offerings" where they try to drive away from the haunted house but every road they take just keeps bringing them back to it.
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Good point @rorrr
LTV10 21st Mar 2011
If those 36 million T-Mobile customers wanted an iPhone so bad, they wouldn't have gone to T-Mobile in the first place.

Which means the author of this article is making an irrelevant point.
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I'm ready for an i-Phone
jaustin33 20th Mar 2011
When can I buy one? Don't be haters.
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I rather purchase T Mobile my self if I could
Uralbas 20th Mar 2011
I refuse to be an ATT customer. Its the WORST COMPANY from a customer stand point of view.

Deuttsche Telelom sold us out! We should all leave TMobile asap. Unless you want to be charged extra for an inferior service.

ATT provides the following benefits to its customers:

-- A service so poor, that is not even allowed in third world countries
-- You will pay dearly
-- You wont be able to user your hotspot unless you pay up what ATT wants.
-- Your Android cap will be limited to make iPhone look good so your speed will drop from 5K to 0.5K Mbps
-- You stand a good chance of been overcharged without noticed for services you dont comsume.
-- You will have to review your bill every month to see if its accurate.

Advice to ALL TMobile customers, LEAVE while you can!
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SanFranciscoCA 20th Mar 2011
@Uralbas I am planning to leave T-Mobile.

But I am going to a prepaid service, such as Boost or Metro PCS. I will get a low-grade Android-based phone and then a really nice standalone tablet that works with WiFi.

I don't use my phone's browser and 4.3" display enough to justify paying $500 for a phone. (I am on T-Mobile's Even More Plus plan, so while I pay less monthly, I pay full price for phones.)

So paying $50 monthly for unlimited everything, on a 3.5" Android phone (that by the time I switch will be FroYo), a phone that will cost me maybe $300, and to also get a 10.1" tablet (not tied to a carrier), well this all makes sense to me.

Despite T-Mobile going to AT&T, I was almost ready to switch to prepaid and use a tablet.

Bottom line: I don't really care about T-Mobile being no longer. (Albeit if I was going to stay with T-Mobile, I would switch to another carrier since I don't like AT&T, and I don't like Sprint - former customer of both. Prepay was kinda in the cards.)

LOL... AT&T paid $19 billion more than T-Mobile was worth. If part of that premium was based on getting customers like myself (an eight-year customer who has paid T-Mobile about $25,000) boy is AT&T in for a rude awakening.
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Good
rmt99e 20th Mar 2011
This is awesome for both companies. If carried out properly, everyone will share the benifits, including consumers & phone owners. I wrote a blog on this http://bit.ly/fDnwWs
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Joe Acerbic 20th Mar 2011
@rmt99e Nobody cares enough to click through, you meaningless spammer loser.
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@Joe Acerbic hey i'm not a spammer, I visit this site regularly. Nothing wrong with a relevant link plug!

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jgm@... 22nd Mar 2011
@Joe Acerbic He didn't write a blog post on this. He wrote exactly NINE SENTENCES that sound like they were paraphrased/copied outright from other articles I've read.
For instance, his post cites PC Magazine as a source. A PC Mag article has the sentence "It gives T-Mobile's struggling parent, Deutsche Telekom, a gigantic cash infusion." He wrote "T-Mobile?s struggling parent, Deutsche Telekom, will also be [sic] benefit from this transaction." Half the remaining 8 sentences also sound like paraphrases that I'm too lazy to look for online. The other half don't add anything at all. happy

His blog has areas for technology, sports, music, etc. All the articles I looked at also seem to be about 9 sentence summaries of other articles or are just reposted YouTube videos. There's no original thought or analysis (beyond "I like X" or "I think Y is good"), making the whole point of having a blog in the first place questionable.
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What does this mean for existing AT&T iPhone users?
CathyCC 20th Mar 2011
How will MILLIONS of existing AT&T iPhone users be affected?
Faster speeds?
Access to more towers?
More towers in new areas?
Nothing?
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AT&T
DirtyDingus 21st Mar 2011
@CathyCC . Your questions are very relevant. However, there's two more questions you need to ask.
Better customer service?
More cost?
Answering your question in order, to include the two added:
No.
No.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.

As you can surmise, I refuse to use AT&T. I've used AT&T in the past, both for corporate and personal phones. I will not use AT&T for anything.
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When can I buy my new T-Mobile iPhone?
CathyCC 20th Mar 2011
> T-Mobile customers will finally get the iPhone

Yeah! I can now buy a T-Mobile iPhone.

(VERY misleading headline, once again, ZDNet)
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The more iPhones, the better!
rmt99e Updated - 20th Mar 2011
This is definitely one aspect I didnt think of when I wrote my blog post on this. More coverage, more iphones, more compatibility, more integration, more FaceTime, more fun!
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jgm@... 22nd Mar 2011
@rmt99e There were no aspects covered in your 9-sentence blog post. Did you address issues such as all existingT Mobile 3G phones being rendered useless and whether customers will have to pay to replace them, or any other original analysis?
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1019902735 20th Mar 2011
C'mon Matthew! Update your post - T-Mobile will NOT get the iPhone (per T-Mobile). Anyway, love that the acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T was basically funded by AT&T iPhone users. Ha!
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Joe Acerbic 20th Mar 2011
@1019902735 Yup. I wouldn't mind stupid iphony cultists tithing away all their money, but now it was used to ruin a good deal for smarter people. Disgusting iDiots.
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Everyone will be able to buy an iPhone within 5 years anyway
barence773 20th Mar 2011
That's the only way Apple will be able to compete in the smartphone market. Android is not going to go away, and now that Microsoft has an actual contender in the race, people will go with whatever works best. If Apple want to compete, they'll have to allow all US carriers to offer their phones.
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marbo100 20th Mar 2011
Obviously, we know now that T-mobile won't be getting the iPhone any time soon. I don't think that is the main priority for most T-mobile customers. The people who stayed with T-mobile, rather the switch carriers for a specific phone, did so for the service plans and customer service. As long as those things don't change, then customers would go for an iPhone on T-mobile. Otherwise they would have switched to AT&T already.
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I hate At&t...nuf said..
pcmonkey@... 20th Mar 2011
looks like I'll end up at Simple mobile or another 2nd teir carrier if they do what they're best at...charging for extras while giving crappy service...ATT is the 'amtrak' of the cellphone industry, they'd die if it werent for their terrestrial phonelines that the make govt help prop up..sad..less competition means our prices go up and choices got down..
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Get the iPHONE
sackbut 20th Mar 2011
and get screwed all at the same time! What a DEAL.
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danbpc 21st Mar 2011
@sackbut
I agree, Had At&t and left because of crappy customer service and Junk fees that raised the cost of my service by 20% each month.
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Knowles2 21st Mar 2011
Is not there already a big lack of competition in the US mobile market. I am not sure how the regulators can wave this through without a investigation.
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T-mobile users losing out
hotwirez@... 21st Mar 2011
T-mobile customers were there because of T-mobile's superior customer service and fair pricing schemes. With AT&T purchasing them I know that I for one will definitely leave and go with Sprint, who seem to have the next best deals in fairness. The only downside is that they do not support GSM, which I didn't want to give up. However if AT&T is becoming the sole GSM provider, you can bet your rearend I'll be switching mobile formats.
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matt@... 21st Mar 2011
I'm a happy T-Mobile customer but an Apple enthusiast so this is bitter sweet for me. I hear all the AT&T horror stories but I sure would like to have an iPhone, which I have put off for the reasons mentioned above: I'm a happy T-Mobile customer and I've heard mostly horror stories about AT&T. Naturally this has tweaked my curiosity very high. There is a Q&A link at T-Mobile's site and it says this will not change T-Mobile's service. T-Mobile will remain an independent entity. It also makes no claims that the iPhone will come to T-Mobile in a question that specifically asks just that. Instead they encourage you to enjoy the Samsung Galaxy and Mobile Sidekick offerings they have. I will have to continue to watch this develop and see what really comes from it. So, I'm not panicking yet and I'm not jumping for joy yet either. I can only hope I get to keep the T-Mobile service I enjoy and get the iPhone I want.
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This is Very Bad news for T-Mobile customers
Luminous007 21st Mar 2011
If T-Mobile customers get AT&T service, they will lose. I'm one of them and I'm not looking forward to it.

Customer service, pricing, and smart phone offerings are all reasons why people have chosen T-Mobile over AT&T.

When AT&T acquired Cingular, I was constantly charged additional fees on top of the plan I was in.
As soon as my contract expired, I went to T-Mobile's unlimited everything plan which has saved me hundreds of dollars over the past year!

I refuse to become an AT&T customer again, I have an exit strategy in place!

Further, Andriod kicks iPhone's Azz, hands down!
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neilpost 21st Mar 2011
You might complain a little that not everyone does a Penta-band phone, but that is pretty small beer compared to Verizon and Sprint's CDMA phones which are bricks in 95% of the rest of the world where no-one cares about CDMA.
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Happy with AT&T
wellcraft19 21st Mar 2011
Been happy with AT&T since 1994. As much as I hate this merger for the impact it will have on Seattle, I really do not see anything negative in it from a service standpoint.
Pricing going forward is another issue.
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Dalece 21st Mar 2011
Everyone is missing the real problem with ATT acquiring T-Mobile and now with rumors of Verison acquiring Sprint.

Lack of competition. Creation of another monopoly that controls a sector of the economy, and higher prices as a result.

The FCC, FTC, DOJ, SEC all should halt these mergers. Further they should outlaw exclusive contract deals with one carrier that gives them a monopoly position over competitors.

Or maybe you like higher prices and further restrictions on what you can do with your phone because there is nowhere else to turn.
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FlyingsCool 21st Mar 2011
I don't want an iPhone and I don't want to become an AT&T customer. I'm perfectly happy with my Nexus One, I don't use my replaceable battery a lot, but am happy I have it and it has saved my butt many times when on the road, and I use flash websites all the time.
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Oh no!
shanedr 21st Mar 2011
This is not good for consumers. We need more competition, not less.

Is there a difference between the Obama administration and the Bush administration? It's looking like the answer is no.
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StoneSatellite 21st Mar 2011
AT&T can keep their iphone and jam it. I like tmobile because my service is good, customer service is good, and I have a good plan that, including my wife, is the cheapest around. I keep my phone for one reason; to hear the person on the other end, and it does that well. I don't need an iphone so that I can look all worldly and stylish to the guy or girl next to me. I'm sure of all the neat and keen things it can do, I could make it do one more; make it turn in to a frisbee.

So that knocks out one more of the competition, which in my mind, less competition equals higher prices and less innovation. Yea iphone! Sheesh.
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bobmatch@... 21st Mar 2011
My contract with T-mobile has be up for years, My old win 5.0 phone has just gotten a new battery. Now I wondering if I should up grade and lock in now or split. If I wanted ATT, I would be a ATT costumer now. For my small biz T-mobile had the better plan.
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gadgetgirl515 22nd Mar 2011
i love t-mobile's service. never had a problem. at&t, not so much. i think other than offering us the iphone the t-mobile customers are getting the short end of the stick.
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Gadget Girl 22nd Mar 2011
The title of this article is grossly incorrect. Although it is true that AT&T acquired T-Mobile, it is NOT TRUE that T-Mobile is picking up the iPhone. According to a press release from T-Mobile, all phones, plans and features will remain the same and the companies will remain separate. As a T-mobile customer, I happen to be happy about this because I hate AT&T, I think AT&T is a very scandalous and dishonest company; plus the iPhone is not all that. It's a nice phone, but it's not the best thing since sliced bread. People need to stop over dramatizing this phone. It may be a shocker to this author and to many of you, but the reality is that everybody does not like or want the iPhone. Just because it's a huge seller doesn't make it a good product. That just means that Apple has a good marketing strategy and thousands of people have been suckered into buying this phone and that's fine for them. But the reality is, that there are so many other spectacular devices to choose from. Does everybody have to have the same cookie-cutter phone as everybody else just because of a bunch of marketing hype? Of course not. Personally, I don't want the iPhone simply because everybody else has one and because the entire media world pushes it. All the hype surrounding it just made it an instant turn-off for me. I don't want to be like everybody else, look like everybody else, and I don't want what everybody else has and carry the same phone as everybody else. I have my own choice, my own style, my own taste, etc. and it just doesn't include the iPhone. It's called personal choice.
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sncking 22nd Mar 2011
BFD, so crapple can sell to more people. Who gives a $h1t? I would rather put my arm into a meat grinder.....
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alfredport 22nd Mar 2011
If AT@T thinks that it is buying 35 million customers for $ 39 billion, they are wrong. People are T mobile customers because they chose not to be AT@T customers. I believe that T mobile customers will migrate away as their contracts expire. The best destination for them would be a prepaid operator like Straight TAlk, where they are not tied to any contract and they get great service at a much lower cost.
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alfredport 22nd Mar 2011
If AT@T thinks that it is buying 35 million customers for $ 39 billion, they are wrong. People are T mobile customers because they chose not to be AT@T customers. I believe that T mobile customers will migrate away as their contracts expire. The best destination for them would br a prepaid operator like Straight Talk, where they are not tied to any contract and they get great service at a much lower cost.
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BAD, BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD news!
hellopaul 22nd Mar 2011
AT&T is without a shadow of a doubt the worst company in the world, ever. They are scam merchants of the worst order. You WILL get random charges, you WILL get TERRIBLE customer service and you WILL get LIED TO by AT&T on a regular basis.

I am one of the millions of T-Mobile customers who will be leaving by the time you read this.
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dwighthendricks 24th Mar 2011
Not good for my company. After 10 near-perfect years with T-Mobile (back to the days of Powertel, remember them?), we made the stupid mistake of switching our corporate account (we pay for all employees' cell phones) to AT&T in 2008 because several of our top managers wanted iPhones. Turned out to be the longest & most agonizing 4 months in history; God only knows how we didn't lose our customer base, with all the dropped calls & clients starting their conversations with "can you hear me?" T-Mobile took us back with grace & dignity and a better $$ rate than we had to begin with.

As if that wasn't bad enough, in 2009 we switched again -- to Verizon, because a Verizon higher-up hustled us with a phenomenal package deal, and we fell for it. Then they proceeded to politely decline to resolve every one of our service issues which came up. You got it: back to T-Mo again.

I really hate having to deal with this, trying to figure out where we go next. For a group with our specific needs, all the choices are bad ones.
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The iPhone isn't the Issue.
theperezbot 10th Jul
Anyone who wants the iPhone can go to ATT or Verizon. It is not as if we were lacking in our choice of places to get the iPhone. This isn't about the iPhone. It's about whether or not everything that was good about T-Mobile is now going to vanish. If that happens the benefit of having more places to "choose from" if you want the iPhone pails in comparison next to the fact that people will lose the choice of having decent customer service and reasonable prices, which is what attracted people to T-Mobile in the first place.
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