Cnet: At&T Mobility to buy out T-Mobile USA

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SamuelRSmith said:

disolitude said:

I don't get this... What does Tmobile have that AT&T wants to take over? Or make dissapear?

I used to do Tmobile tech support back in 2004...good times. I'm lying it was terrible...

AT&T have become the largest provider in the USA. They've gone from being 2nd in a race with 4ish players, to 1st in a race with 2.5 players (Sprint cannot compete, anymore). So, it's basically gone from a fairly uncompetitive market, anyways, to an effective duopoly. That's what AT&T gains.

Are there any smaller players in the USA's mobile game? In Canada doors were wide open a year ago and we got Wind mobile, Koodo, Mobilicity, public mobile... They are killing the big 3 here...at least in the major markets, since they don't have coverage outside major cities.