AT&T and T-Mobile: What Went Wrong with Their Merger?

Jul 18,2016

Michael Hoyos

Bus. 101

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 AT&T Corporate Headquarters in Dallas, Texas was formally called Southwestern Bell Corporation ( 1983- 1995)  SBC Communications , Inc. (1995- 2005) AT&T Corporation (1895-2005) it is a telecommunications Industry lead by Founder Key Person Randall Stephenson ( Chairman & CEO) ( AT&T – Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia) AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in the united states and also provides broadband subscription television services. AT&T is the third – Largest company in TEXAS. AT&T can trace its origin back to the original Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander Graham Bell after his invention of the telephone. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AT&T is the second – largest donor to U.S. Politics (Wikipedia AT&T) Contributions and politics. According to Historical Financial Performance (2014 had a Total Debt of 76,0111 the minimal amount of dept. was 58,971 in the year of 2010) Privacy Controversy Allowed the (NSA) to monitor phone and internet communication of AT&T customers without warrants. IF this were true, this would violate the foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the first and fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

T-Mobile Founded in 1990 Telecommunications Headquarters in Bonn, Germany has a number of 36,000 employees Germanys first mobile – Communications Services were radiotelephone systems that were owned and operated by the state postal monopoly, Deutsche Bundespost. Region it operates are in U.S. Albania, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Greece and the Worst Ranking according to T-Mobil Wikipedia is in the operations section is the U.S. including Metro PCS) it operates in many more countries but the import fact is that we stick to the U.S. Operation since I am in California and University is in Monrovia.

Horizontal Merger – Definition is a merger between firms that make and sell similar products or services in similar markets. Since there was high involvement of completion the term Horizontal merger was applied to both companies since they marketed the same product to consumers. (Page 120 Business book) Under ethical behavior and conflict of interest the only thing I noticed is that in my personal experience this year is that the main supplier and manufacturer of apple does not service T-Mobile it only works with AT&T so that was a bit of conflict of interest because as a financial saver I would have drove down to Victoria Gardens and paid their because the tax is cheaper, so I don’t know if apple makes it harder financially for consumers but they sure know how to make an impact on consumers wallet and the advantage of consumer spending more because I had to buy here in la Verne the upgraded version of apple. Which technically came our more expensive. Reference to bus. Page 120 the U.S. Department of justice filed a law suit to block the merger. Accoding to the department of justice, the main reason behind the government’s legal action was to protect the competitive environment and the consumers right to choose. (Bus. Page 120) Vertical Merger is a merger between firms that operate at different but related levels in the production and marketing of a product. Generally, one of the merging firms is fighter a supplier or a customer of the other. For example, if a developer creates a big social media network that has not been invented, then someone would buy it and boom the term Vertical meger pops in. meaning someone just bought my idea and I would be a CEO! Summify is like coming up with a startup and establish a network under (Google) a Conglomerate Merger is someone like Warren Buffet who eats ice while making numbers work at wall street market exchange. Now what does he do? He makes investment decisions like Anyone ordinary person investing in books. Now bus. 120 page says and I state “CEO Warren Buffet, has a long history of acquiring firms that have a great financial potential. Media general, on the other hand, is a smaller company with its main business interests in 63 daily and weekly newspapers in the southeastern part of the united states. The Advantages of each merger making decision and outcome is that it all creates a financial percentage of pad revenue. I have more belief that there is more of a positive outcome in a vertical merger because it is a more organized established method of purchasing. If we talk about a conglomerate merger well. Than it gets more complicated involvement where A high intelligent person like warren buffet makes ends meet to invest in another different industry. To have a greater financial potential. The highest disadvantage merger is the horizontal merger for example “Lt. Slade said in class “leave government out of this! and what happens in the Horizontal merger!? anyone know? the U.S. Department of justice came into the merge of T-Mobil and at and T and threw a how bunch of legality issues and these companies and what is the us department of justice? It is part of the government. Government doesn’t appreciate private sectors getting rich in my Opinion 

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AT&T and T-Mobile: What Went Wrong with Their Merger?

 AT&T and T-Mobile: What Went Wrong with Their Merger?

AT&T and T-Mobile: What Went Wrong with Their Merger?

AT&T and T-Mobile: What Went Wrong with Their Merger?

Michael Hoyos

Bus. 101

                                    AT&T and T-Mobile: What Went Wrong with Their Merger?

 

 

 

 AT&T Corporate Headquarters in Dallas, Texas was formally called Southwestern Bell Corporation ( 1983- 1995)  SBC Communications , Inc. (1995- 2005) AT&T Corporation (1895-2005) it is a telecommunications Industry lead by Founder Key Person Randall Stephenson ( Chairman & CEO) ( AT&T – Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia) AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in the united states and also provides broadband subscription television services. AT&T is the third – Largest company in TEXAS. AT&T can trace its origin back to the original Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander Graham Bell after his invention of the telephone. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AT&T is the second – largest donor to U.S. Politics (Wikipedia AT&T) Contributions and politics. According to Historical Financial Performance (2014 had a Total Debt of 76,0111 the minimal amount of dept. was 58,971 in the year of 2010) Privacy Controversy Allowed the (NSA) to monitor phone and internet communication of AT&T customers without warrants. IF this were true, this would violate the foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the first and fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

T-Mobile Founded in 1990 Telecommunications Headquarters in Bonn, Germany has a number of 36,000 employees Germanys first mobile – Communications Services were radiotelephone systems that were owned and operated by the state postal monopoly, Deutsche Bundespost. Region it operates are in U.S. Albania, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Greece and the Worst Ranking according to T-Mobil Wikipedia is in the operations section is the U.S. including Metro PCS) it operates in many more countries but the import fact is that we stick to the U.S. Operation since I am in California and University is in Monrovia.

Horizontal Merger – Definition is a merger between firms that make and sell similar products or services in similar markets. Since there was high involvement of completion the term Horizontal merger was applied to both companies since they marketed the same product to consumers. (Page 120 Business book) Under ethical behavior and conflict of interest the only thing I noticed is that in my personal experience this year is that the main supplier and manufacturer of apple does not service T-Mobile it only works with AT&T so that was a bit of conflict of interest because as a financial saver I would have drove down to Victoria Gardens and paid their because the tax is cheaper, so I don’t know if apple makes it harder financially for consumers but they sure know how to make an impact on consumers wallet and the advantage of consumer spending more because I had to buy here in la Verne the upgraded version of apple. Which technically came our more expensive. Reference to bus. Page 120 the U.S. Department of justice filed a law suit to block the merger. Accoding to the department of justice, the main reason behind the government’s legal action was to protect the competitive environment and the consumers right to choose. (Bus. Page 120) Vertical Merger is a merger between firms that operate at different but related levels in the production and marketing of a product. Generally, one of the merging firms is fighter a supplier or a customer of the other. For example, if a developer creates a big social media network that has not been invented, then someone would buy it and boom the term Vertical meger pops in. meaning someone just bought my idea and I would be a CEO! Summify is like coming up with a startup and establish a network under (Google) a Conglomerate Merger is someone like Warren Buffet who eats ice while making numbers work at wall street market exchange. Now what does he do? He makes investment decisions like Anyone ordinary person investing in books. Now bus. 120 page says and I state “CEO Warren Buffet, has a long history of acquiring firms that have a great financial potential. Media general, on the other hand, is a smaller company with its main business interests in 63 daily and weekly newspapers in the southeastern part of the united states. The Advantages of each merger making decision and outcome is that it all creates a financial percentage of pad revenue. I have more belief that there is more of a positive outcome in a vertical merger because it is a more organized established method of purchasing. If we talk about a conglomerate merger well. Than it gets more complicated involvement where A high intelligent person like warren buffet makes ends meet to invest in another different industry. To have a greater financial potential. The highest disadvantage merger is the horizontal merger for example “Lt. Slade said in class “leave government out of this! and what happens in the Horizontal merger!? anyone know? the U.S. Department of justice came into the merge of T-Mobil and at and T and threw a how bunch of legality issues and these companies and what is the us department of justice? It is part of the government. Government doesn’t appreciate private sectors getting rich in my Opinion 

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