Sunday, April 24, 2011

AT&T: T-Mobile sucks (and we'd like to buy it for $39 billion)

After reading AT&T's massive argument (PDF) for why the government should allow it to purchase T-Mobile, you might wonder just why AT&T wants the smaller company at all. And you might have a few questions about AT&T's own network, which the company says will shortly be under severe capacity constraints that its rivals won't face.

The whole document is a rather amusing exercise in making both AT&T and T-Mobile look like underdogs in a field of unbeatable competitors. Actual quote from AT&T: "With sharply declining prices, dazzling innovation, soaring output, enormous product differentiation, new entr[ies], and fierce advertising, the intensity of the competition in the US wireless marketplace is extraordinary."

And here is AT&T's own description of the company it plans to buy for $39 billion:

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Source: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/n9g4DcMaTwU/att-t-mobile-sucks-and-wed-like-to-buy-it-for-39-billion.ars

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