AT&T Responds to FCC

CommanderFrank

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And the dancing between the FCC and AT&T over the proposed merger with T-Mobile continues. The FCC requests additional information and AT&T responds with promises of creating more jobs and generate spending….and Oh, by the way….we will answer the question later. AT&T sure can dance.

AT&T also said the merger will “unleash billions of dollars of investment in advanced mobile broadband technologies, provide LTE coverage to 55 million more Americans, and create thousands of jobs in one of the most challenging economic environments in modern history.”
 
More jobs? shoot you mean layoffs :p

Of course more jobs, they are going to hire more outsourced call centers to help answer customer questions about the merger.
Though with this increase in jobs in other countries, they will have to remove local jobs to pay for this. :rolleyes:
 
How many acquisitions in the history of the telecommunications world have resulted in massive job growth after the takeover?

How many have resulted in layoffs or downsizing or right sizing or job relocation or job reallocation, all codewords for job loss.

I think history speaks for itself. There's been maybe 1...2 instances tops where jobs have ultimately been created over a 5 year span compared to probably 50-60 where jobs have been lost, all due to acquisitions. Companies don't buy each other for the people they get most times. People are worthless to them, its the technology that the people invented that is worth it. People are just speed bumps in the way to higher profit margins and better ROI for stockholders
 
Can you say monopoly ??? This merger Sux so bad for everyone involved from the T-mobile customers to all the employees involved if the government cares about any of the parties involved except for the politicians coffers who have been filled by AT&T money over the years they won't allow this to happen!!!
 
Sure it will create jobs. The former T-mobile employees will be forced to re-apply for jobs, and those few that get rehired will be new ATT employees, so thus they created new ATT jobs that didn't exist before.

See, pure double speak, but technically accurate.
 
they just want tmobile's hspa+ hsdpa and call it 4g and then use the lte and call it 5g you sit and watch
 
Can you say monopoly ??? This merger Sux so bad for everyone involved from the T-mobile customers to all the employees involved if the government cares about any of the parties involved except for the politicians coffers who have been filled by AT&T money over the years they won't allow this to happen!!!

They don't care, and it probably will happen. Nothing like an envelope padded with crisp 100's fighting for your rights on capitol hill. Oh, wait...
 
Can you say monopoly ??? This merger Sux so bad for everyone involved from the T-mobile customers to all the employees involved if the government cares about any of the parties involved except for the politicians coffers who have been filled by AT&T money over the years they won't allow this to happen!!!

Nothing wrong with a monopoly, it's the abuse by a monopoly that is the problem
 
What if the merger doesn't happen? Deutsche Telekom wants to dump T-Mobile, so what other option is there? Unless they allow it to become its own entity.
 
What if the merger doesn't happen? Deutsche Telekom wants to dump T-Mobile, so what other option is there? Unless they allow it to become its own entity.

The most likely option is it will be spun off as an independent company there was also a article I came across a month or so ago that speculated at a what if Google bought up T-Mobile which as a T-Mobile customer I would be all for.... G-Mobile I'd be game.
 
When talks of this merger surfaced, Tmo moved all it's tech support offshore. Prior to that time they had awesome customer service, you could converse with an American customer service rep with very little waiting.

I wonder if the merger would bring those jobs back in country? Or does ATT offshore those jobs too?
 
What would be so bad about that?

idk, i guess the wiretaps and continuous (new) fees and now lying to the country about how this merger will be good for us?

How about all the money they pump into washington? I can think of a lot of reasons to not like (or work) at AT$T.
 
Well I agree with all of you but as a TMobile customer what are we to do? They outsourced all this customer service to make everyone even more disgruntled probaly at the urging of AT&T. This whole deal makes me want to throw up!!! I hope someone sees the frustration of it all that can do something about it and stops it!!! We'll all suffer from price fixing by the top 2 companies and just look at them now? They flaunt it all in the Feds Face and no one cares about us the little guy. I may just cut mine off and go back to a landline!!!!!
 
When talks of this merger surfaced, Tmo moved all it's tech support offshore. Prior to that time they had awesome customer service, you could converse with an American customer service rep with very little waiting.

I wonder if the merger would bring those jobs back in country? Or does ATT offshore those jobs too?

I know that ATT has a large call center in Austin - it used to be the Wayport call center before they bought out Wayport, but I'm not 100% sure what the call center is used for. It keeps growing though - I know a lot of people that work there.
 
they just want tmobile's hspa+ hsdpa and call it 4g and then use the lte and call it 5g you sit and watch

AT&T already have HSPA+, it's purely to to get rid of a provider, and monopolize what is left of the market.
 
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