I am an AT&T Wireless customer as they have good coverage in my area. Mobile to mobile and roll over keep me "loyal." I was initially against this merger, however I read some articles that changed my mind. First T-Mobile has no 4G Spectrum. All the 4G spectrum was sold to Verizon, Sprint and AT&T who acquired theirs from Nextel. The monopoly is created by the spectrum requirements, not the companies themselves. The government messed this up and T-mobile has no opportunity to continue competing.
It makes no sense for Sprint or Verizon to buy T-mobile as the technologies are incompatible. AT&T on the other hands needs more towers and they take time to approve. Acquiring them from T-mobile will speed up the deployment of more radios.
If you want true competition, the government needs to stop selling the spectrum, and instead pay for the infrastructure and let the companies all provide competing services over the same infrastructure. It does not make sense to force T-mobile to compete in a 4G world with 3G service.
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For $20 bucks your "wins" come down to programming, application availability and device compatibility. Personally I would argue the last two. The iPad can send files to any other device you want via e-mail, or programs like drop box. Sure you can't use a file browser to do it, but does it really matter? As far as applications go, those windows applications are not designed for mobile computing. Yes you can run Photoshop on your laptop, your 4 hour battery life also dropped to 2.5 while it's open. Find a task you actually want to do while mobile, and there is likely and app for it. Hardly stomped. In your opinion, in your mindset, for your purposes maybe, but not in the general sense.
For years this site has discussed the mantra of 90% of home users only read e-mail and surf the web. Out comes a device, the iPad, that is really useful for reading e-mail and surfing the web, oh and listing to music, watching video and reading books. Yet the IT tech "gurus" still can't figure out why they sell well. I mean no one needs one!
The truth is, every household does not need a PC/Mac. Every household was getting one because it was the only device that could get them access to the web. The iPad is changing this and as upgrade cycles come up on those home computers, I think you will see a lot of people ditch the PC for the iPad. If you need a laptop and or a PC get one. A lot of people would be much happier with just an iPad.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.