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AT&T Buys T-Mobile: Farce or Retro-Metamorphosis?

April 17, 2011 – 6:18 pm

TweetFour weeks ago, we got the bad news: AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA for $39B. An already bad carrier will get worse by gobbling a competitor, thus gaining more pricing power and reducing competitive pressure. Higher prices, lower service levels. The transaction leads us into a de facto oligopoly: AT&T and Verizon. (From the Wikipedia [...]

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The Carriers’ Rebellion

September 26, 2010 – 5:18 pm

TweetBefore the Steve Jobs hypnosis session, AT&T ruled. Handsets, their prices, branding, applications, contractual terms, content sales…AT&T decided everything and made pennies on each bit that flowed through its network. Then the Great Mesmerizer swept the table. Apple provided the hardware, the operating system, and “everything else”: applications, music, ringtones, movies, books… The iTunes cash register [...]

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Fun AT&T numbers

June 14, 2009 – 5:50 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée AT&T can’t seem to catch a break. A couple of weeks ago, at All Things Digital, an industry conference, Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s Chairman, got the audience to snicker and roll eyes. The conference is held by the Wall Street Journal, led by its digital guru, Walt Mossberg and, “by invitation only”, $5K [...]

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