Your oversimplification of the issue is hilarious.

DT wants out of the US market, TMo is likely to see about 0 of that $4B fee

Too late, they already bought your data. You will be asimilated

Gowalla, not groupon. Totally different.

Meh, I used to love gowalla, until they changed their entire service earlier this year.

Yeah, having to sit through an ad to place a call, or people having to sit through one to leave me a voicemail, or anything like that would be a complete waste of my time. I'm a bit picky about what I use for "free".

Not unless you specifically ask it to. Apple is trying to use less and less google.

Because, in the US, she has a female voice. Genius.

Instead of trying to put their hands in everything (and eventually shuttering most of what they try to start), why doesn't google just focus on what they do and stop trying to be everything for everyone? Their good products are, I feel, suffering a bit because of their desire to control everything on the web.

You're missing the whole "DT wants nothing to do with the US Market and will be doing nothing to aid T-Mobile moving forward" part of the story.

Also...

Oh god, google owning a carrier? You'd have to pay me to use that service.

Only the truly clueless would have expected anything instantaneous. It would definitely be faster for AT&T to build off of T-Mobile's network than to build new sites of their own, and cheaper to buy them and do it than license/lease the towers to do so. It would be cheaper in the long run for AT&T to just build the…

"let T-Mobile have the money as a parting gift so they can strike out on their own. Their is still room for growth and innovation in the wireless industry. "

AT&T (despite its reputation) and Verizon are both experiencing pretty healthy growth, not at all like T-Mobile. Everyone jumps directly to it just being AT&T buying competition, I believe it really is about buying spectrum, who they're buying in the mean time is kind of a bonus, but I really don't believe they're so…

Nah, just like selling car parts, DT can make more by selling it off in chunks, rather than in whole. What happens after this is likely going to end poorly for T-Mobile's customers, and employees, despite the Fed's insistence that it shut it down for the good of the consumer.

The parent company wants to dump it because it's a slowly sinking ship.

I don't know, T-Mobile has a pretty healty surplus of network right now, so while there will be an influx of users on AT&T's network, the network will grow far and above that. You may be right in the case of AT&Ts interest in investment, though I believe the T-Mobile deal is far more about investments in time, than…

More competition isn't 'always' good, less competition isn't always bad. In a perfect world, maybe, but we don't live in one of those. You're only looking at one side of this. This isn't just AT&T trying to buy out a company, this is DT trying to sell one. T-Mobile will be gone pretty soon, whether it's to AT&T, which…

It's more of a long term state of growth. Their growth is slowing, pretty significantly, while the rest of the industry grows far more than T-Mobile. As a result, while they may still be gaining profit it's profit growth that lags behind many of the US carriers. For DT, this is an attempt at offloading a sinking ship…