Ditto! Looks like I'll have to go to a prepaid with someone or Metro PCS...No contract with T Mobile for a few years now...just a good company for customers that will now be hosed by AT&T.
From The New York Times http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/the-advisers-behind-the-att-deal/ "The Advisers Behind the AT&T Deal" By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED More than a few banks and law firms will be ringing up handsome fees for putting together AT&Tâs $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA. Proceeds from the acquisition â the largest announced so far this year and one of the biggest since the end of the financial crisis â will be divvied up among a dozen financial and legal advisers. Particularly striking is the presence of two major boutique firms, Greenhill & Company and Evercore Partners, as advisers to AT&T. Then again, Evercore has long served as an adviser on the roughly $200 billion in mergers that led to the modern-day AT&T. Others will benefit as well. JPMorgan Chase, an adviser to AT&T, will cement its standing as the top-ranked adviser on deals worldwide as counted by Dealogic, with $170.1 billion worth of transactions as of Saturday. Morgan Stanley, the principal adviser to Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile USA, is ranked third worldwide with $110.9 billion worth of deals, drawing closer to longtime rival Goldman Sachs. Credit Suisse, another Deutsche Telekom banker, will probably displace Bank of America Merrill Lynch as the fourth-ranked deal adviser globally, having racked up $101 billion worth of assignments to Merrillâs $108.5 billion as of Saturday. The AT&T deal is also notable for who is missing: Goldman, which had been advising Sprint Nextel in its talks with Deutsche Telekom, people briefed on the matter previously told DealBook. Hereâs the breakdown of the advisers: AT&T: Banks * Greenhill & Company * JPMorgan Chase * Evercore Partners Law firms * Sullivan & Cromwell * Arnold & Porter * Crowell & Moring Deutsche Telekom: Banks * Morgan Stanley * Deutsche Bank * Credit Suisse Law firms * Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz * Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton * Wiley Rein
AT&T becomes the major GSM monopoly after this acquisition, which I hope as a customer means an expansion in their network. I dont have a ton of problems when I have coverage, but I'd like to have more 3G.