AT&T ready to pay up on their Spectrum to T-Mobile

The AT&T/T-Mobile deal fell through in December of last year, ending with AT&T giving up 3 billion dollars and 1 billion in spectrum. Today AT&T and T-Mobile have submitted and application to the FCC, to transfer the AWS spectrum over to T-Mobile. This should be the last bit that AT&T has to pay to T-Mobile for the repercussions of the loss of the purchase. T-Mobile has more money now, along with no plans for a future when compared to the other main carriers in the US. Our bet is that they still might be sold in 2012.

(via The Verge)

AT&T’s Deal to Buy T-Mobile is a Bust, Sort of

AT&T announced today that it’s plans to merge with T-Mobile have now been dropped. AT&T will now be paying Deutsche Telekom around 3 billion dollars for their troubles if you will, and about 1 billion in spectrum. The deal will allow each others customers to share their networks.

It is not clear at all how the networks will share the spectrum, they have some different bands and it will take some effort to work out. Who knows, this could help T-Mobile switch over to LTE in the future if they decided to go that route. This saga is still going strong and hopefully it pushes forward to benefit everyone in the future.

(via The Verge)

Dish Network would buy T-Mobile

The T-Mobile and At&t merger saga is still going, but who knows if it will ever take place. If it doesn’t, the CEO of Dish Network, Joseph Clayton has said that he would love to partner with T-Mobile for their spectrum. Dish has already been buying spectrum up this year with a LTE network planned to try to take on Verizon and At&t. They are even looking to Sprint if they have to, either way, the carrier wars keep getting interesting as time rolls by.

The Gadget Gurus Podcast Ep 140 – Thanksgiving Hangover

This week the Gurus discuss the down fall of HTC, Apple’s subscription based game rules, AT&T-Mobile FCC withdrawal, and much more! Enjoy!

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Samsung Galaxy S II Review (AT&T)

Samsung had a rocky start with Android. Their first couple of phones were under powered and never received the updates they were promised. Than something changed at Samsung. They released the Samsung Galaxy S. They didn’t just launch it on one carrier, one country, or even one continent, they flooded the global market with it. It was an instant success and quickly placed Samsung on the top as an Android manufacturer. Does this sequel live up to the first device, or is this phone going the way of Ocean’s Twelve?  Find out in this Guru Inspection of the Samsung Galaxy S II!