T-Mobile Users Rejoice At Justice Dept. Blocking AT&T Merger

"I'm so cheerful that we do not have to be an ATT customer."

Posted to a T-Mobile summary house this morning, a user's feelings spike the feeling amid consumers subsequent to Wednesday's statement that the Justice Department is suing to inhibit ATT's draft merger of the Deutsche-Telekom-owned wireless network.

T-Mobile users normally responded in a positive way to the headlines that they wouldn't be saying the ATT demise star on their cellphone bills anytime soon. Riffing on the oft-bemoaned shortcomings of both networks, a Wired.com reader draft an unfavorable merger scenario:"ATT's zero-bars accepting fused with T-Mobile's patron service. we regard the outcome might only fall in to a black hole of suck."

ATT has long championed its draft merger of T-Mobile as being profitable to the wireless customers of both networks. The firm claims it will upgrade wireless service for ATT and T-Mobile customers, spread 4G coverage to more of the nation and, many recently, increase a poignant number of jobs to the U.S. workforce.

But in the Justice Department's eyes - andanecdotallythose of T-Mobile's patron bottom as good - the expenses of the merger might transcend the benefits. "The multiple of ATT and T-Mobile would outcome in tens of millions of consumers all opposite the United States confronting aloft prices, fewer choices and descend high quality products for mobile wireless services," mentioned emissary profession broad James M. Cole in the Justice filing.

Not to speak of a few of the concessions existing T-Mobile customers would have to make if the merger were to go through. ATT has repetitively settled it programmed to use T-Mobile's 1700-MHz spectrum for its contingent 4G LTE deployment. That would eventually make T-Mobile customers purchase new phones that could function on ATT's network - unless, that is, you're fine with EDGE network service .

Those smallest cheerful about the Justice Department's activities are, of course, ATT and T-Mobile. In the past year, T-Mobile has seen a solid reject in profits as T-Mobile patron contracts have been marked down by scarcely a million subscribers. If Deutsche Telekom were able to sell off T-Mobile to ATT for $39 billion, the German firm could then use that allowance to deposit in its European business.

Not to speak of a successful restraint of the merger would stop ATT's dreams of apropos the largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, leading Verizon as the reigning champ and leaving Sprint in the dust.

Of course, if the legal case fails to inhibit the merger, today's patron jubilant could lend itself to tomorrow's pile patron departures: "If ATTerrible is able to pick up them," wrote a T-Mobile subscriber , "then we am outta here so swift they won't even know we existed."