AT&T: T-Mobile sucks (and we'd like to buy it for $39 billion)
Last week AT&T filed a formal application at the FCC seeking approval to takeover T-Mobile. If you read one story about this regulatory milestone, read the one I've linked to above from Ars Technica.
Writer Nate Anderson points out how AT&T regulatory attorneys (i.e. FCC lobbyists) spend the entire document trashing T-Mobile and talking up all the competitors they are afraid of, like Cricket and Metro PCS. (I am not making this up.)
Apparently AT&T is really scared of Sprint -- they can't say enough nice things about us. They love us so much, it led two Washington Post reporters to claim that an AT&T lobbyist -- I mean, regulatory attorney -- was starting to sound like a Sprint spokesperson.
Wait a minute. That's MY job.
Maybe the AT&T lobbyist -- I mean regulatory attorney -- really wants my job instead of the one she has. Do you think she knows what kind of pay cut she'd have to take if she left AT&T for Sprint?
Hmm.
