T-Mobile USA posts record subscriber losses

ecstatic

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Sat May-07-11 01:42 PM
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T-Mobile USA posts record subscriber losses

NEW YORK – T-Mobile USA lost a record number of subscribers in the first three months of the year, posing a conundrum for regulators as they look at whether to let AT&T Inc. buy the smaller carrier for $39 billion.

The argument against the deal is that it would eliminate one competitor in the wireless industry. But judging by results reported Friday, T-Mobile isn't competing successfully.

T-Mobile, the smallest of the four national carriers, lost a net 471,000 subscribers on contract-based plans. It was able to add subscribers through wholesalers, who pay much less than contract-signing customers, but it still lost 99,000 overall. Both figures are record losses for T-Mobile, the Bellevue, Wash.-based subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110506/ap_on_hi_te/us_t_mobile_at_t

I was one of the people who left! If you're planning on leaving, study your final bill carefully. They tried to get away with charging me for the entire month when I switched 3 days into the cycle. I threw a few key words at them (FCC, hidden termination fee, gotcha fee) and they did me the "favor" :eyes: of removing the charges.

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ProdigalJunkMail

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Sat May-07-11 01:48 PM
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1. one of the reasons people are fleeing T-Mobile

IS the proposed merger with ATT. There are people who would rather die than be tied to ATT again (not that any of the carriers is all that great).

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peacetalksforall

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Sat May-07-11 01:57 PM
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3. Where to go? Do any of them avoid compliance with the data theft?

At some point in the past - we were told that T-Mobile doesn't allow data appropriation - while AT & T was the first participant in theft.

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WinkyDink

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Sat May-07-11 02:27 PM
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5. i-Phone and Verizon.

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Liberal_in_LA

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Sun May-08-11 01:29 PM
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11. I had bad experiences with ATT decades ago, before cell phones, hard to forget

Can barely remember the details but once a negative view of a corporation is developed, hard to lose

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CreekDog

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Sat May-07-11 01:56 PM
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2. I left Tmobile last year because their service degraded so badly

Their service didn't work at my house for a period of time and it took them months to get it fixed.

In the interim, I was making my plans to jump (Verizon). Though they credited me nearly two bills worth of service through the worst of the outages (related to a local tower), having to keep my landline because their phone didn't work at my house basically sent me running for the exits.

When i first got Tmobile their coverage was better. it seems like they leased access to competitors towers and then later reduced those arrangements, hence so many new dead spots where there weren't any before.

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Change Happens

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Sat May-07-11 02:01 PM
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4. I just left them yesterday...Did not want to end up with At&T!

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Sat May-07-11 03:40 PM
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6. Interesting. Why did you leave?

I'm currently a T-mobile subscriber and I was considering upgrading to their Samsung Galaxy 4G. Should I reconsider? Why?

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ecstatic

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Sun May-08-11 01:17 PM
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9. If you're under a great plan, by all means, stay

I was with them for over 4 years. But I couldn't help but notice all the prepaids popping up that had unlimited everything for 1/3 the price I paid for just unlimited talk and text. I didn't have anything against them, but the way they tried to get over *after* I left totally rubbed me the wrong way!

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fishwax

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Sat May-07-11 11:46 PM
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7. I'm considering switching to T-Mobile

but the ATT thing definitely scares me. I have them now and my home is a dead zone. Very frustrating. But then again I may be moving soon, and aside from the difficulty of getting service in my living room and office, I don't mind them -- I didn't mind ATT when I had them before moving in here.

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Heywood J

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Sun May-08-11 09:39 AM
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8. People are dropping T-Mobile because it's going to merge with AT&T.

So they're using that as an excuse to let them merge with AT&T...

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Tikki

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Sun May-08-11 01:26 PM
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10. I've never had a problem with AT&T.....

I think a merger will give some orphan communities a chance for some real cell phone service.

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