Just over a year, but I plan to keep this one for at least 3 more
Floffe Send a noteboard - 23/03/2011 08:22:12 AM
I would be surprised if it is more than three years old, probably less than two. The roll out will take a couple of years and the majority of customers will buy new phones during that time anyways. If they don’t they will still be able to talk on the phones they will just not get 3G data rates. The one who really care about 3G data rates are the ones mostly likely to have upgraded their phones. If you care about date rates you should be more than happy for the switch to 4G.
Most of what I see online is simple sour grape because they hate AT&T, because you know it is cool to hate AT&T these days. I have had a phone with Verizon, Sprint and AT&T and there really is not that much difference between them unless you live in an area where one of them has a weak network. I like the AT&T customer service better than I liked Verizon’s and I just to work for Verizon. It is all just a bunch of hype. Some of the T-Mobile customers will run to Verizon when their contracts are up but most will stay and notice they have a bigger network and faster rates once 4G is in place.
Most of what I see online is simple sour grape because they hate AT&T, because you know it is cool to hate AT&T these days. I have had a phone with Verizon, Sprint and AT&T and there really is not that much difference between them unless you live in an area where one of them has a weak network. I like the AT&T customer service better than I liked Verizon’s and I just to work for Verizon. It is all just a bunch of hype. Some of the T-Mobile customers will run to Verizon when their contracts are up but most will stay and notice they have a bigger network and faster rates once 4G is in place.
But from what I can tell, a lot of the congestion is due to the iPhone, and hence increased data use. And no iPhone so far can use T-mobile 3G. In fact I can only find four phones that have both 1900 (AT&T) and 1700 MHz (T-mobile), all of them Nokias. There's also an announced but not yet released one from LG.
Then again this acquisition might make manufacturers more interested in releasing such phones.
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AT&T to Buy T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion
- 21/03/2011 10:45:31 AM
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i am waiting to see how this merger will affect the company I work for
- 21/03/2011 01:03:48 PM
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NO!
- 21/03/2011 01:06:20 PM
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It should hurt the T-Mobile users but help the AT&T user since AT&T has the more overloaded network
- 21/03/2011 02:10:27 PM
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Everything I'm seeing says that T-Mobile customers will eventually be transferred onto ATT's network *NM*
- 22/03/2011 01:19:42 PM
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They have very similar networks and it shouldn't take much to intergrate them
- 22/03/2011 03:10:48 PM
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Perhaps network-wise but few phones can handle both 3G bands
- 22/03/2011 07:24:54 PM
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how old is the phone you use now?
- 22/03/2011 09:15:35 PM
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Just over a year, but I plan to keep this one for at least 3 more
- 23/03/2011 08:22:12 AM
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I'm confused.
- 21/03/2011 07:37:40 PM
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ATT is acquiring customers, not infrastructure.
- 22/03/2011 01:21:51 PM
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Maybe. That's not what most of the articles I've read have been saying, though.
- 22/03/2011 01:50:51 PM
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Boo! Boo! AT&T was the reason I went with T-Mobile. This blows! *NM*
- 22/03/2011 12:42:09 AM
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Same here. I'm not looking forward to this.
- 22/03/2011 06:07:05 AM
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If they make significant changes to your plans you should be allowed to get out of it *NM*
- 22/03/2011 01:03:50 PM
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they will not be changing anyones plans *NM*
- 22/03/2011 09:16:20 PM
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It's not the plans
- 23/03/2011 05:40:56 AM
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I would assume you will be able get Android phones when you go to upgrade since you can buy them now *NM*
- 23/03/2011 01:39:44 PM
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