RSSNo T-Mobile USA Sale, 3G in 2007
By Ed Oswald | Published September 21, 2005, 2:40 PM
There is no "for sale" sign in the front yard of T-Mobile USA. Deustche Telekom's mobile division chief Rene Olbermann told a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce that the company plans to invest in 3G in the US, and said the unit's importance to Deustche Telekom's bottom line "is beyond doubt." Financial analysts had rumored T-Mobile USA as being on the chopping block since the beginning of the summer as a way for Deustche Telekom to cut debt.
However, T-Mobile continues to grow quickly, passing 20 million subscribers this week. In two and a half years, subscriber numbers have doubled, Olbermann said. He also solidified T-Mobile's promise for 3G services in 2007, and seemed content with the carrier's position as the fourth largest operator in the US, far behind market leaders Cingular, Verizon and Sprint-Nextel.
Sprint/Nextel and Cingular will never take over the market. For one, Verizon is very big and will not have that happening.
I have T-Mobile and I've gotta say I love it - I wouldn't leave them currently.
I've had cingular when it was bellsouth wireless and freshly cincular (in FL), and it was pretty good but expensive.
I jumped ship to a company called MetroPCS in Miami, but their service was horrendous - but what could you expect from a fledgling company that offered unlimited-unlimited calling? They're much better now than they were and offer calls to the entire U.S, so I won't knock them.
Then I went to sprint because I felt like everyone had one....after unexplainable 200 and 300 bills with like, 10-30 minutes over, I stuck with them for a year with MINIMAL use. The service was nasty, the calls would drop when I had 5 bars and though you could hear people clearly, the number of drops vs clear calls ratio wasn't worth it. That and the expense and nasty customer service caused me to drop them as soon as the contract was up.
In 2003 I went to Tmobile and I've never looked back. They've only gotten better too, with unlimited Text/IM/Picture msging for 15, unlimited tmo to tmo for 6 and unlimited Inet for 5, I pay a total (inc. tax) of 80 a month, I get 1000 minutes daytime and I NEVER ever go over. I'm getting my wife to switch from cingular and some of my friends are coming from Sprint and Nextel. Nextel holds a unique position with it's walkie talkie feature however, since it's very convenient for companies.
I suspect that more people will wake up to Tmobile eventually though. It's just going to take time for people to be free to move, now that sprint/nextel, cingular and verizon have 2 year contracts - so if you change your mind within say, 1 year, you're still screwed.
I had one year with Tmo, and that was up long ago. Now I'm just with them because I love em.
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|im very moved by your life story
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|Me too. I made a mess on the floor of my office reading that. I hate all cell providers. They suck. But they suck less than land-line providers. Communications in the U.S. sucks anway. They've managed to convince us we have the best in the world, when we really don't.
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|Deustche Telekom never had ANY plans to sell T-Mobile USA. I don't know where the media got this story from since Deustche Telekom has NEVER made any anouncement they were considering the sale of T-Mobile.
By the way, Sprint has the worst coverage of any phone company and their merger with Nextel is very unlikely to improve Sprint's coverage. T-mobile has the second best coverage in the US next to Cingular which is number one in coverage.
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|This is not true, Telekom made some inquiries back in May to see if there was any market for, or interest, in buying or selling T-Mobile. I am glad they have made the decision not to, I have been a customer of T-Moible or one of their acquired Mobile companies since 1998 and have always been very satisfied with their service.
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|T-Mobile's coverage stinks. My company is looking into cingular for international and verizon for local. My personal cellphone(verizon) has great coverage everywhere I go and my work cell (t-mobile) is always out of coverage. My fellow employees are very frustrated when they travel because T-Mobile never has any signal in most places they go. B
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|Actually it's Cingular, Verizon, then T-Mobile. No matter how long it takes, they will eventually be overpowered (2 years max)
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|When the Chinese finish building their cell industry they'll own it all.
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|There should be a "yet" in the title. They should sell the company while they can, price will only go down once Sprint/Nextell and Cingular/ATT take over the market.
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|too stoned too comment, röker den gula u-båten (translation: smoking tha yellow submarine)
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