AT&T Inc struck a $39 billion cash-and-stock transaction to buy Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA, creating a new industry leader, that would overtake Verizon Wireless in customer numbers.
The deal, announced Sunday, will give AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. mobile service much needed spectrum, or wireless airwaves, to deliver surges in video, games and entertainment to devices such as Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad tablet computers.
I've been with T-Mobile for 13 years (!) and have generally been happy with their service - including THE SERVICE I RECEIVED JUST A FEW HOURS AGO. All I hear about AT&T is how badly they suck. Oy.
I'm obsessed with my Feedjit thingy (located at the bottom of my right sidebar). Feedjit tells you where visitors to your blog are physically located, what website they came from, and where they go when they leave. It will also tell you if someone got to your blog as a result of a Google search - and if so, what they were searching for.
Yesterday, someone from Hixon, TN found DavidDust by Googling the following:
why is it that new members at tmobile get a new phone but people who have been with get a stupid discount that aint nothing
I cut and pasted that bitch EXACTLY, because it cracked me up! They ended up on THIS post about my new (free!) phone. Speaking of my new phone, I still don't know how to use the MP3 thing, but the radio is FIERCE!
When I was looking for pictures to accompany this post, I found the above. Go ahead, follow the instructions and see what happens. Google is funny!
I am such an idiot when it comes to any kind of technology - but I've been in desperate need of a new cell phone for a while.
So I finally got my T-Mobile bill paid up so I could negotiate a new contract with them. I've been with T-Mobile forever - actually I started with Omnipoint, which turned into VoiceStream, which was bought by T-Mobile. So even though my credit in the real world sucks ass, T-Mobile thinks I'm the Daddy Mack.
So I called them up and: a) got 400 texts/month b) got unlimited calling, and c) got a new free phone. And I got all of this for LESS than I was paying before. Previously I had to pay for all my text messages and I only had so many daytime minutes I could use each month.
And yesterday I received my free Nokia 5310...
Please DO NOT leave comments about how much this phone sucks. As long as this bitch can make and receive calls, I'm happy. And to demonstrate how 20th Century I am (as opposed to you 21st Century kids) - the only thing I figured out how to do was operate the FM Radio. I was thrilled!! Yeah, the phone also has one of those MP3 thingies, (I think) but I'm still not quite sure how those bitches work. I CAN, however, operate an FM Radio. Most of the time.
Even Oscar tried to show me some of the neat features of my new Nokia, but all I want to do is listen to the radio...
If it could just play my old Culture Club cassettes, my phone would be absolutely PERFECT...
Some of you may remember the "Rats at KFC" story from 2007 - when a hoard of the varmints were caught on camera in a Manhattan KFC. News outlets nationwide reported the story - if for no other reason than the video was just so damn scary. For those of you who are unfamiliar, check it out below...
When I first saw this I almost barfed - because THAT had been one of my favorite KFC/Taco Bells. The location was close to my job, which made it easy to get my Original Recipe on - especially when I had a hangover.
Needless to say, the city shut that bitch down and a T-Mobile store opened up. Although I couldn't buy Popcorn Chicken and/or Chalupas anymore, I could at least pay my cell phone bill there.
So I was surprised last week when I stopped by to pay my bill and saw that T-Mobile had closed the location. It had stripped the place of all the demo cell phones and basically left only the display fixtures and the promotional posters on the walls.
Then, as I peeked inside, something gray and fuzzy caught my eye. There was A BIG RAT on one of the abandoned displays ...
But it wasn't real. I assume that one of the T-Mobile employees left the stuffed rat on the counter as he walked out the door one last time. A plush homage to the rats that paved the way for that very T-Mobile store.
