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Lex Luthor
PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:27 pm 
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http://www.arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... he-fcc.ars

Ha. It was very short sighted of them to think they can get away with this. I'm not too surprised they withdrew the bid. I'm sure AT&T wouldn't want months of very negative publicity.
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Except they didn't withdraw their bid. They withdrew their application with the FCC so they can focus their efforts on getting past the DoJ.

They haven't abandoned the effort (yet).
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I don't want it to happen cause I don't want all those Iphones dumped on the Tmobile network.

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Hannibal wrote:
I don't want it to happen cause I don't want all those Iphones dumped on the Tmobile network.

It would be the other way around. You'd be dumped on the ATT network.

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Yeah, AT&T plans to merge TMo's entire spectrum into their data band.
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Yeah either way I would like it to stay sepetate.

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It's official now. AT&T has officially withdrawn it's requests to the DOJ and FCC. The deal is off. AT&T has to pay the $3Bln penalty and fork over some spectrum.
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Midgen wrote:
It's official now. AT&T has officially withdrawn it's requests to the DOJ and FCC. The deal is off. AT&T has to pay the $3Bln penalty and fork over some spectrum.


This is absolutely hilarious. Do you have a good link?
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I crossposted this in Tech as well. I had linked this article there

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-1 ... ition.html

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According to the terms of the offer, AT&T must pay Deutsche Telekom a $3 billion breakup fee in cash, transfer radio spectrum to T-Mobile and strike a more favorable network-sharing agreement. Deutsche Telekom has valued the breakup package at as much as $7 billion.


The article doesn't mention that all eligible T-Mobile employees will also be paid retention bonuses for staying after the merger announcement. In some cases, these bonuses are significant. :D
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