bye, bye T-Mobile (fwd)

Any bets on when Verizon Wireless will make its move for Sprint/Nextel?

It's not a Great Day at T-Mobile, sigh. I am a subscriber too.

Does anyone know the company's history? Didn't know it was a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary.

Hahahaha

T-Mobile's dreadful ad campaign versus AT&T Wireless, ripped off of Mac versus PC, is still running on tv.

I'd say withing 8 months. Then there will be two.

Then within five years we'll get to watch as either at&t or Verizon becomes Mother Bell all over again.

Start the anti-trust lawsuits now! Don't waste any time!

It started out as OmniPoint. Great service, great prices at the time and the first GSM operator in the United States.

OmniPoint became VoiceStream. Not so great really but still ok.

And then Deutsche Telecom bought VoiceStream and T-Mobile was born.

The first GSM system in the US was put in place by Sprint in Washington, DC prior to them deciding to be a CDMA operator and was later sold to VoiceStream Wireless.

T-Mobile USA traces its roots back to Pacific Northwest Cellular and Western Wireless. Western Wireless spun off VoiceStream. VoiceStream purchased other GSM operators such as Omnipoint in the northeast and in Florida as well as Aerial in parts of Texas and parts of Ohio as well as many smaller operators. DT when they acquired VoiceStream also acquired Powertel and DigiPH to further expand their network when they re-branded the whole lot T-Mobile USA.

And one of the T-Mobile Customer Care phone numbers is still the old Western Wireless number 1-800-937-8997 = 1-800-WEST-WYR :-) .

Cheers, -- tlvp