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ConstantineXVI
on Dec 20, 2011
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AT&T Drops T-Mobile USA Deal
Google buying them would be even worse for competition than AT&T. It'd be a total closed loop: Google OS, Google handsets, Google network, Google services. John Rockefeller could only dream of that sort of integration.
orangecat
on Dec 20, 2011
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Not if Google agreed to run it purely as a dumb pipe.
resnamen
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Ah, a dumb pipe carrier. Why hasn't one materialized already? I was saying that it was inevitable at least a decade ago.
thatjoshguy
on Dec 20, 2011
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> Ah, a dumb pipe carrier. Why hasn't one materialized already? I was saying that it was inevitable at least a decade ago.
Plenty have materialised. Just not in the US. The three carriers in Aus are pretty much dumb pipes.
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