AT&T drops its attempt to buy the United States' other major GSM carrier. [All Things D]

  • The_Tim

    It’s a Christmas miracle!

  • vonbobo

    The government telling a corporation “no”? Someone forgot to deliver the case full of cash.

    • EH

      It’s AT&T, there probably simply wasn’t enough money possible to give to do this in an election year.

  • coffee100

    Good.  One less monopoly for people to contend with.

  • failquail

    Wow, well done America :)

    Personally i’m greatly mourning the loss of competition from T-mobile and Orange merging in the UK (4 standalone networks down to 3*)

    Merely having 2 GSM networks is nearly a monopoly in itself, glad you didn’t manage to make it even worse over there.

    The bigger the company, the harder it should be to merge.
    Unless the business is a not-for-profit- setup, a private monopoly is hellish for consumers

    *excludes the ‘virtual networks’ that piggyback off the other 3 networks towers, but they don’t really count