AT&T Assimilation of T-Mobile Network to Provide 30% Capacity Lift? At What Cost to TMo Customers?

Star Trek The Next Generation (STTNG) fans will remember the Borg and their motto: Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. One can almost imagine similar sentiments regarding AT&T’s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA. The merger (purchase) would create the largest mobile network in the U.S. It would also mean that there will be a single nationwide GSM network provider in the U.S. instead of two competing ones. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is trying to spin the outcome as a positive one to blunt the criticisms that have been flying fast and furious since the announcement.