N.C. Sen. Tom Goolsby thinks it might. From a report on the N.C. News Network, Oct. 19:
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The combination of the country’s second and fourth largest wireless carriers would violate antitrust law and “substantially lessen competition," according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department. But North Carolina state Sen. Tom Goolsby said he thinks the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile would be good for the Tar Heel state. ...
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Chances of a merger like this benefiting rural areas of NC are exceedingly slim to non-existent. Once they have a monopoly, service will only be extended when the cost/profit analysis leans heavily towards profit and that doesn't happen in the hinterlands.
AT+T is my phone service. The sales department has sold me high speed internet once, swearing up and down it was available when even I knew better and keeps trying to sell it to me again. The engineering department laughed at me when I asked when they were going to get high speed internet up here. Not gonna happen they said. Just getting a land line phone was a major three month long ordeal with AT+T.
By Christopher C NC
10/22/2011
Obviously the N.C. rep who is trying to con us into believing that the T Mobile/ ATT merger is a good thing is one of the many who were paid off.
By T Mo Scam
10/24/2011
Obviously the N.C. rep who is trying to con us into believing that the T Mobile/ ATT merger is a good thing is one of the many who were paid off.
By T Mo Scam
10/24/2011