On October 5, 1999 Sprint Corporation and MCI WorldCom announced a $129 billion merger agreement between the two companies. Had the deal been completed, it would have been the largest corporate merger in history, ultimately putting MCI WorldCom ahead of AT&T as the largest communications company in the United States. However, the deal did not go through because of pressure from the US Department of Justice and the European Union on concerns of it creating a monopoly. On July 13, 2000, the boards of directors of both companies acted to terminate the merger. Later that year, MCI WorldCom renamed itself to simply "WorldCom" without Sprint being part of the company.

Edit: Quoted from Wikipedia. Should I look for more instances?

for you who care about this merger and not happy about it please spread the word or post it on your fb and twitter...
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/sto...bought-by-att/

my reason is i dont want for at&t to be the only GSM carrier and CDMA is not an option for us especially for people who travels and buy unlocked phones. T-mobile is the best prepaid you can get especially if you have Gold rewards put 10$ and it wont expire in a year, tell me if theres any prepaid company who does that and who knows whats gonna happen to Simple Mobile which is tied to T-mobile mvno network.

But... But AT&T claims there's a TON of competition out there from companies like metroPCS, Leap Wireless, Cricket, nTelos, etc. AT&T is just doing all this for the good of the CUSTOMERS! They love you! Embrace AT&T. I mean, really... would you want the alternatives?

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/21/tech...mobile_merger/

I hope GSM becomes King in America and CDMA goes away 100% forever. Then America can leave the cellular stone ages.

I have no doubt that 'the internet' will not let this happen.

I hope CDMA becomes King in American and GSM goes away 100% forever. Then American can leave the cellular stong ages.

:P

Do you work for Verizon? Are you in alignment with their never ending goal to perpetuate backwards technology?

Today was a huge article on the merger in my local german newspaper (T-Mobile is a division of german Telekom).
Their german stock soared up over 12% on Frankfurt SE.
Bankers applaud them on dumping the unprofitable US market.....

Woman, please. Do you work for AT&T? Are you in alignment with their never-ending goal to perpetuate an insecure, slow technology that has difficulty penetrating walls? I personally always preferred CDMA because of those advantages--and started out on SprintPCS before moving to Verizon recently... both systems using CMDA.

I have an N900 and I am on T-Mobile in the States. I enjoy great service, 3G speeds and unlimited international texts for $5. Right now I'm in England and have swapped out my Tmo sim card for my Virgin UK sim card (so that I get cheap calls+free texts+free web rather than pay expensive roaming costs). When I go back to the US next week, I'll simply swap my Tmo sim back in. Hey friggin presto. Quick, easy, convenient and cost-effective.
Now change the Tmo part to AT&T and I'd lose all that good stuff like unlimited international texts, lower bills and great service, and my data speed drops to 2G.
Magically change the whole thing from GSM to CDMA and I don't take it to England.
Personally, I'd like the whole merger to fail so I can carry on doing what I'm doing. But I know the world don't spin the way I want it to...