“That 39 billion could have been spent on creating the world’s fastest, most reliable network.”
I dunno if it’s fair to discount the potential for *genuine* synergies between the two radio networks here. I’m not an RF engineer, but I em very willing to believe some technical good can come from this deal.
“MBAs, however, don’t have nearly the foresight, patience, or wisdom to make those types of strategic decisions. so instead, AT&T gets a cheap artificial jump to #1, which will gradually dissipate in the long-term. Customers and employees get less than nothing (higher prices, “redundance” layoffs of the two merged companies). In business school, I learned that they don’t matter anyway.”
I’m not an MBA, either (along with the RF stuff above), but I completely agree with this bit. Most businessmen today don’t know how to create organic growth, so, in order to meet their “business growth” goals, they just go out and buy something. Then they reduce headcount due to the “redundancies” that lead to “synergies”. I’m not sure that I understand your comment about “customers” and “employees” though. Are those people? can we somehow monetize that?
If yo want to be favorably bamboozled about the deal, go look at the pretty maps that AT&T is advertising (not that the Dallas Morning News would have any kind of bias :
techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/att-maps-4g-lte-deployment-pla.html
