How the New AT&T-Mobile Is Probably Going to Screw You Hardcore

If we have n’t alreadymade it fair absolved , let ’s be straight up : We believe that AT&T ’s swallowing of T - Mobile USA is a bad affair for everybody except for AT&T and Deutsche Telekom . rent us count the mode .

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Less competition all around

correctly now , there are four major carriers . Verizon and AT&T are the freehanded , with around 94 million and 86 million customers , severally . Sprint ’s got 50 million , T - Mobile around 34 million . In the fresh landscape , you ’ll have two mega - carriers : AT&T , with 120 million or so , and Verizon , with around 94 million ( in all likelihood a million or two more by the time the deal fill up ) . And then Sprint . Which’ll be half the size of it of the secondly largest carrier , and a lilliputian more than a third as big as the almighty AT&T. plainly , that concentrates enormous , near - duopoly powers in the hands of AT&T and Verizon .

AT&T likes to talk about how there ’s piles of contention in local markets . MetroPCS , for good example , is apparentlya Brobdingnagian competitorthat ’s totally fall apart AT&T ’s balls . ( distinctive response from people I ’ve related that to : Who ’s MetroPCS ? ) Gartner roving analyst Phil Redman says that AT&T ’s argument is n’t entirely specious : Smaller regional mailman do legitimately still compete with AT&T , particularly on cost in local areas — most citizenry just want a web that works in their realm . Andas the WSJ luff out , with T - Mobile gone , these diminutive carriers might be able to compete even better with AT&T and Verizon on price . Nonetheless , it ’s hard to imagine regional carriers fright the pants off of AT&T as legit competition Carry Amelia Moore Nation - wide .

AsGlenn Fleishman lays out here , right now , “ AT&T leans on T - Mobile to roam customer in a large identification number of areas in which AT&T did n’t spend money to build out inspection and repair . ” So it would patch inthose massive holesin its coverage sphere where T - Mobile ’s built out . ( Update : AT&T say Fleishman ’s assertions about be given on T - Mobile are incorrect . ) It also summate much needed spectrum and towers in station like New York and San Francisco , where AT&T suck in because it simply does n’t have the electrical capacity . Andas AT&T explained today , it ’s going to be using T - Mobile ’s spectrum for 4G. All of this will give it serious competitive advantages against niggling immune carrier , further concentrating serious home wireless broadband in the paw of a couple carriers . ( The thing about spectrum is that there ’s only so much of it — like a crowded highway with a finite routine of lanes . )

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There are also untold and unpredictable lobbying and regulatory consequences . AsOm Malik points out , Sprint and T - Mobile used to remain firm against Verizon and AT&T on a gang of regulatory stuff — now Sprint will be all alone . ( mayhap so alone it ’ll involve to merge with somebody else . Sascha Seganmay not be far offhere , imagining a scenario where we wind up with nothing but Verizon and AT&T and how it would recreate out . ) Other analyst say Verizon amount out a success because itmight be able-bodied to nibble up more plus for itself(still concentrating stuff amongst the two biggest carriers ) , particularly if AT&T - Mobile has to shake off some .

perchance most important from the militant standpoint , T - Mobile was the major common carrier that competed the most on damage and customer overhaul . decently now it ’s sleep together as the cheap carrier . But get T - Mobile and Sprint be notably cheaper than the braggart two brought Leontyne Price down for everybody . Remember whenT - Mobile and Sprint sparkedtheunlimited calling war ? Well , we ’re currently in the middle of an outright data war — also thanks to the smaller carriers . T - Mobile and Sprint will presently be the only carriers offer unlimited data — AT&T ’s switched to tiered , and Verizon will make the jump this summer . Text message fees are stilltotally laughable . Interestingly , Sprint may benefit here to some degree , allege Gartner mobile analyst Phil Redman — they’re suddenly the sole interior wheeler dealer contend on price , so they might pick up value - orient customer from the combined AT&T - Mobile . The good we could hope for is lower pricing guarantees made by AT&T to get the softwood approved , according to one analyst .

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Same thing with earpiece option . T - Mobile have chances and bring in us the Sidekick — the precursor to what we expect in a New , cyberspace - connect earpiece , in many way — and the first major Android phone , the G1 . ( Albeit , AT&T call for a chance with the first iPhone , so we ’ll give them that . ) AT&T ’s first Android phones weren’teven announcedfor another year and a half . And they sucked , to boot . ( The first becoming AT&T Android phone , the Captivate did n’t launch until summertime of last year . derisory . ) Without T - Mobile , there ’s one less major national GSM carrier for phone makers to pitch telephone set to , less contender to enable a wider array of groundbreaking phones in a mart that ’s take to the brim with shitty handset . Now we ’ll have one major GSM aircraft carrier in the US offering phones , and no existent alternatives . And its track disk , especially when it comes to Android , is fairly crummy .

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Even if things do get better, it’ll take a while

Okay , let ’s usurp that the merger will cause flower to spud from speech sound , and the connection will be as if by magic and perfectly heighten , with 4 G for everybody .

AT&Tsays that in NY and SF , it ’ll have a 25 - 35 pct rise in cell site , along with T - Mobile ’s additional spectrum — the equivalent of five long time of building . Which will result in good service . Gartner ’s Redman suppose in New York alone , T - Mobile owns 30MHz Charles Frederick Worth of spectrum that ’ll seriously assuage atmospheric pressure on AT&T ’s meshwork there . So that ’s legit .

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But the merger is expected to take a whole year to close . And then , even with AT&T ’s fantabulous record of integrating acquired networks into its own , and the informality of integrating T - Mobile ’s 1900MHz striation into AT&T ’s , at best customers will see improvements in sure grocery store “ within a twelvemonth , ” with everyone seeing the benefits within two years . That ’s potentially three years off from today . ( Meanwhile , today , AT&T ’s pushing 4 deoxyguanosine monophosphate phonesthat do n’t birth full 4 G fastness . ) And then there ’s the process of migrating customer with current T - Mobile French telephone over to AT&T ’s web , which will take years after that . ( fortuitously , AT&T says it will pick up the cost . ) So yeah , T - Mobile customers will eventually get the iPhone and people with iPhones may see better response and reportage thanks to extra spectrum , towers and backhaul , but it ’s gon na be around 2 - 3 class for most multitude . And AT&T ’s been say things’ll be better in a couple year , well , every year . ( Seriously , if they pitched meone more timeabouthow 850MHzwasgoing to fix everything , I was become to shed my brick - like iPhone at them . Though , props where prop are due : It is adept in NY than it has been in a long time , and in Austin for SXSW , they managed not having the web ground into dust for the first time in year . )

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Then there ’s 4G. By that I think of LTE , not the imitation clobber that ’s only halfway - ferment on AT&T right now . AT&T , to make the amalgamation more swallowable by the FCC , is promising to cover 95 pct of Americans with 4 G LTE , supply another 45.6 million mass to its original coverage program . ( The FCC is super big on fast wireless broadband for rural areas . ) This is unspoiled news program . But ! AT&T wo n’t even reach 80 percent reportage until 2013 . And then the last rural 15 per centum ? AT&T does n’t have an approximation . I wager it ’s some time after 2013 though !

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So , if you’re able to explain why this uniting would be at all great , I ’d really love to hear it . the right way now , the close result look like less competition , less option , fewer phones , higher prices and marginally better service days down the road ( which AT&T was promising already anyway ) . Awesome .

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