AT&T considering buying Dish Network to solve its spectrum woes

2. Galen20K posted on 17 Jan 2012, 19:17 0 0

oh jesus, not more merger news....

3. Carlitos posted on 17 Jan 2012, 19:41 0 0

HOLY MOTHAF......ER

4. codymws posted on 17 Jan 2012, 20:02 0 4

That's just what AT&T does. Instead of solving their problems themselves, they buy another company to do it for them.

6. snowgator posted on 17 Jan 2012, 21:55 0 0

I have been fighting off AT&T U-verse for years, now, happy on Dish Network. Oh, the irony if this happens.....

7. tigermcm posted on 17 Jan 2012, 22:36 0 0

what the !@#$ is wrong with them sheesh. sounds to me that Dish would most likely get with T-mobile and AT&T will wait till its final then try and take Dish anyone else think the same?

8. Tarkio posted on 17 Jan 2012, 23:07 0 0

Unfortunately, I don't think that will work. As soon as Dish were to buy T Mobile, they would be a wireless carrier. So att would have to go thru the essentially the same process. And since it's failed already, they won't try it again.

10. bluechrism posted on 18 Jan 2012, 08:23 2 0

I hope this one goes away quickly. Dish wanted to form a partnership to get into mobile and had no intention of selling spectrum.

When all those dish+t-mo rumours were going around during the AT&T deal wiund-down i never have had the impression Dish have the capital to buy t-mo, or were looking to acquire a mobile company, but more form a partnership. I actually liked the idea of them getting with T-Mo to do LTE together - neither taking over the other, and using that Dish spectrum where it's most needed, and both getting a boost in subscribers and profits as a result.