Bit of Regret for Jettisoning T-Mobile
When the news hit that T-Mobile had been acquired by AT&T, I developed a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. You see, I had just dumped T-Mobile (and my Android phone) so I could finally get the iPhone I had dreamed for years of acquiring. With AT&T out of the way, I finally bought my iPhone through Verizon cellular service. I have no idea how my experience is going to go with Verizon yet (so far, smooth sailing), but I do know that T-Mobile was a good company, and I felt sad leaving it.
Then I heard the follow-up to the news story. T-Mobile would be offering iPhones. Now I felt like a complete ingrate. After two years with T-Mobile, a company that did me no wrong, charged me fairly, and never provided poor service, I could have waited a little bit longer and gotten my iPhone with them. But after a bit of time, I got to thinking. Who says that T-Mobile is going to stay the same after the AT&T merger? It's highly unlikely that the influx of AT&T chaos (and that's all I ever heard about AT&T) would have no effect on much smaller T-Mobile. And just because T-Mobile served me well in my vicinity (Chicago), there's no telling how it would end up on a national scale with AT&T's influence, infrastructure, and hardware. Things could go downhill quickly.
Then there's the worry that everyone put on Verizon when iPhone became available there: would the high demand that iPhone users bring cause the service to become unmanageable? It didn't happen at Verizon, because they prepped for just about a year in advance. As I said, it's been unbelievably smooth on Verizon with no static, no dropped calls, no feedback. Cell calls work better than my landline. But over at T-Mobile, a smaller service, the influx of iPhone calls, with their need for Internet usage, could cause trouble, and the backup of AT&T, legendary for its screw-ups, probably can't be of any help whatsoever.
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