Saturday, August 6, 2011

AT&T merging with T-mobile



There have been recent plans for the two wireless companies to merge into one company. The outlook is that many people are against the merge because that would make AT&T almost a monopoly wireless company.
Let's look at what a monopoly is in the business. It is when one company owns everything within that business.
Currently there are many different wireless companies that have different cellphones. However the way phones are made is there will be the same phone that comes out with slightly different features that will be sold to the different companies as they sign their ownership to those phones. For example, I am with the Spring provider. My phone is Samsung Epic Touch. For T-mobile it is the Galaxy S and for AT&T it is called Samsung Captivate. They all operate with the same system called Android. So if I liked the version for a different provider better than the one my provider purchased- too bad for me. The reason why there are so many versions of the same phone is to create a competitive filed for the companies. It is certainly NOT in the best interest of the people per say. As each company has it's pro's and con's a person can never get the full satisfactory package of their wireless phone.  For example, T-mobile is great with their sim cards which can be transferred from phone to phone such as the GSM's in Europe. However their connection service is horrible. Sprint has a very good connection service but they don't offer the changeable sim cards. AT&T has both but that makes them more expensive for plans. There is of course more pro's and con's, one just has to look at their own wireless company.

According to this site that opposes the merge http://attmobile.savetheinternet.com/ if the two companies merge AT&T and Verizon (which I think had previously merged) would own 80% of the market. I suppose the other one will be Sprint and all the other smaller companies.

I am neither for the opposition or for the merge, however I do stand for a principle that is best for all, which would mean that it will not be about the company's capital, but about the products and service of quality and fair price that is offered to the customer. In the current system neither can be a good thing, competition or monopoly it is just another polarity playing around for profit and disregarding human life. I am not sure how companies would operate in an Equal Money System, but one thing I do know of certainly is that the value of human life will be placed first which means "best for all". I would like to have all the options in one place. And if companies were not competing but focused on what really mattered (the person) than they will have all the equal options available in one big company or many small companies=which becomes irrelevant which option it is. See how the polarity of monopoly and competition simply vanishes. It is not about being better than another, it is simply producing a product of equal share to all that is practical and effective.

I am ONE Vote for an Equal Money System and for stopping the madness we create in this world.


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