One Hundred Twenty Six: AT&T, Tmobile

So ATT has failed in its attempted acquisition of TMO. The timing of all this was good for me. Last summer I migrated from ATT to TMO. The merger had nothing to do with my decision. Rather, the ATT cell coverage for calls was so bad in my area I would literally have 2 or 3 dropped calls per day. ATT eventually agreed to waive early termination fees as well as a few hundred dollars of past due monthly bills, which I had strategically stopped paying.

Now I see that ATT will be paying TMO $4 bilion. Boy, am I glad I'm not an ATT customer now. I'd be really pissed off if I knew I was paying part of that break up fee.