MobilizeEverything | AT&T Public Policy Blog

This is what AT& T posted on their blog. See my comments immediately following.

Posted by: AT&T Blog Team on March 22, 2011 at 3:16 pm

So, we’ve made some news this weekend. In case you missed it, we announced on Sunday we have agreed to acquire T-Mobile USA from German-owned Deutsche Telekom.

The deal will undergo a thorough review by the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission. We understand that Congress, the DOJ, the FCC, as well as wireless consumers will have questions about the transaction. We look forward to answering and addressing those questions.

We are confident that the facts will demonstrate that the deal is in the public interest (FCC focus) and that competition (DOJ focus) will continue to flourish. For example, a large majority of Americans today can choose from at least five wireless providers offering nationwide service. Also, the transaction will allow us to expand the next generation of mobile broadband to 95% of the U.S. population – up from 80% as previously planned – covering an additional 46.5 million Americans, a key objective of the Administration.

For further information on the transaction, and to stay informed of the latest news and information as the process moves forward, please visit www.MobilizeEverything.com.

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I really do not like or agree with this merger. From my personal experience, T-Mobile is the better run company in terms of service and Customer service. I never have dropped calls and if I need assistance – I can call and someone is on the phone within a minute. Their G-4 phone is the best on the market and way out performs the i-phone. I have personally tested my G4 against 3 i-phones and won each and every time. My past experience was not good with AT&T customer service and I know others who have the service and have switched recently or are considering switching. Then I also hear that T-mobile users will have to purchase new 3G phones once this merger goes through. I have a family plan and 4 of my phones are brand new 3G phones. If this is so, AT&T – you need to pay for new phones for everyone who needs to switch with a phone of equal or greater value. I have been with T-Mobile for 3 years now and I loved their service. If this goes through, it will be bad for the market, but if it does go through – you should think about replacing all your customer service people with those from T-Mobile. I also have unlimited Web – Everyone I know with AT&T’s plan hates it. If this goes through, all T-mobile customers with unlimited Web should be allowed to keep the service just as it is now. IF you want to join in and write to your Congressional Representative, you can look them up here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

This is my sample letter I have sent to them:

I really do not like or agree with this merger. This would be bad for the market. It would limit competition and eventually increase pricing even further.. I remember when the government broke up AT&T, now we are moving back in the direction of monopolies. I understand how government works though, so I am assuming this may somehow be approved. IF so, here are some of my thoughts and stipulations that should be required:

I see that T-mobile users will have to purchase new 3G phones once this merger goes through. This can be a great cost for many consumers. If this is so, AT&T should be required to pay for new phones for everyone who needs to switch with a phone of equal or greater value.

Unlimited Web - If this goes through, all T-mobile customers with unlimited Web should be allowed to keep the service just as it is now, without a price increase. After all T-mobile's current plan is actually unlimited, unlike that of AT&T. AT&T advertises unlimited Web, but they limit it.

AT&T boasts that this merger would actually be good for the market and keep pricing down or even lower it - if so, make them prove that by not raising any plan prices or altering what is included in a plan unless it adds to the plan. Require them to prove they can offer service for less.

Thanks for listening!

Sincerely,

Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief for the Children

Please donate and help the thousands of children affected by this terrible catastrophe in Japan. It is estimated that as many as 100,000 children have been displaced by these events. They need your help and this organization provides direct relief to help these children. Please click here and read about the facts in Japan. Save the Children has a team in Sendai helping right now in this devastated region. If the link above does not work,copy and paste the link below in your browser. Please have a heart and give what you can.

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Mark Wills "Looking For America" official music video

This song hits home and really gets to your heart. Where has America gone, what have we done to it over the past 20 years or so. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about how true these words are. For those of you that are old enough, remember the commercial with the Indian on the side of the road and someone drives by and tosses trash out the window, they show the Indian right after and a tear is flowing down his face. That is how I fell everyday thinking about where we have taken our country and all that we forgot about the sacrifices our forefathers made to give us freedom and a country to call home. We need to get our country back on track, take our country back from the rest of the world and show the world we are the UNITED States of America!

NEW Uncensored E*TRADE Baby

Just something amusing to watch. Smile and have a wonderful day!

He had a Dream - Remembrance of Martin Luther King

Here is a part of Martin Luther Kings wonderful speech:

"In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead."

Now today it is so unfortunate that we still have racism and prejudice in our great American Society. Not only against blacks - but against all nationalities. It is sad and it is somewhat of a disgrace. Not only are whites displaying this sad state, but so are Hispanics, Asians and Blacks. Blacks are even hating on their own, Asians are hating on their own, Hispanics are hating on their own and whites are hating on their own. And everyone is still hating on each other. Until we can all learn to get along - Martin Luther King's "Dream" will never be fully realized. We must all cut out the derogatory words, the hate toward others. We are destroying ourselves. I have several black friends that say the worst thing they here out of a black man' mouth is the "n" word. If they can't stop using it, how is the rest of the world going to stop.

White people need to get a grip also, not all are bad, but i have still seen my fair share. I lived in a neighborhood that wrote KKK on my front door - an absolute disgrace to America. The Asians that run some stores - you need to get a grip also - just because a man of color enters your store, he is not looking to rip you of or rob you. I have been in stores where Asians have asked people to leave - not for anything they have done, but because of their color - a behavior that is disgrace to America. Hispanics - show respect for a country that has given you so much opportunity - speak English when others are around, stop talking behind peoples backs thinking they don't understand you because you won't speak English. Everyone - quit hating on others. take the 1st step, someone has to. Indians (from India) seem to be the most tolerant and non-racist people I have met.

So now all of us have issues we all need to work on. Let's get started and have Martin Luther King look down from Heaven and smile. Let's strive to make his dream a true reality. - My Explosion of Thought!

Tell Congress you support the F136 engine program.

Airmen Will Suffer Without 2 Types of Engines for Joint Strike Fighter

“…with a JSF engine monopoly, the big losers will be America’s airmen…our history is rich with examples of engines that got into production and subsequently failed. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Stephen G. Wood, an F-16 pilot and a former U.S. air commander in Korea, said in an interview: ‘There is a great risk in allowing only one propulsion system for the Joint Strike Fighter, which could make up over 85 percent of our nation’s fighter force in 20 years.’…”

http://www.f136.com/?gclid=CNaRqIKeuKYCFQFM5QodBTvEHQ

Who needs enemies when we have ourselves

The rest of the world is now laughing again at America. Actually some are laughing and some are thinking we are pretty stupid. How can we take a tragedy, like what happened in Arizona and blow things so far out of proportion. Terrorist around the world are saying to themselves - "they don't need us as an enemy - they are destroying themselves - let's just sit back and watch."

Let's face this as a fact - Loughner was a wacko, a loner acting on his own. He never got help when others obviously recognized he needed it. That may not have helped anyhow because if a person does not want help, he will not accept any help. So many shootings that occur across this country are enacted by similar type persons. Why do we try to put the blame on everyone else and make ourselves look like fools. Or actually, why do we allow those in the media to make us look like fools to the rest of the world. This makes me sick.

Then you have some idiotic so called church groups who are just as wacko and sick wanting to stage a protest at a 9 year old's funeral. They had to enact an emergency law to head off picketing by a fundamentalist Kansas church near the funeral service for a nine-year-old girl killed during the mass shooting in Tucson. What the hey?

No - America - we need to take a deep look at ourselves. Something that should be uniting us is tearing us apart. How long will we let those in the media do this to us. Who needs enemies when we have ourselves! - My explosion of thought!

Tragedy in America

Another tragedy born out of the Tragic shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as she fights for her life and of the 6 others killed and others wounded is the fractured souls in the media putting blame for this on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Some going so far as to say Palin and the Tea Party are militant because in speeches they have used the words “Targeted” and “Reload”. I think many of the media need to look more at themselves for helping to create this discord in America. We all need to face the fact that U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fights for her life after a mad gunman shot her on Saturday.

Even some in the Democrat party have joined the media to try to pin the blame for her attack on the tea party movement and conservatives like Sarah Palin, despite the fact that the we have learned that the shooter was both deranged and fascinated by left-wing politics. Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, told Mother Jones magazine within hours after the rampage that the “political tone and tenor” created by Palin and the tea party movement had set the stage for the shooting. He went so far saying, Palin's “apparatus” had put Giffords' and his own life at risk. “Both Gabby and I were targeted in the apparatus in that cycle [saying] these people are ‘enemies.” I say these people and the media better take a better look at themselves. They are hyping this type of behavior and trying to split and tear America apart.

The NY Times was not far behind in jumping on this band wagon, insinuating that the conservative criticism of President Barack Obama and his policies may have been at the root of this weekend's violence, noting that " it was hard to separate what had happened from the heated nature of the debate that has swirled around Mr. Obama and Democratic policies of the past two years." They went so far as to suggest that tea party criticisms of Obama's healthcare plan, the debate over Arizona's new rules on police handling of illegal immigrants, and even the fact Giffords were Jewish could have played a role. They joined in the tale that Palin's political action committee had targeted Giffords for defeat may have played a role.

Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, noted on his website that Giffords is “a liberal,” but added, “that does not matter now. No one should be a victim of violence because of their political beliefs.” He is absolutely correct in this. This is a free country where we are free to express our beliefs and no one should be faulted for those beliefs and no harm should come to you because of your beliefs.

The profile that has been obtained of the accused shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, is that of a deranged young man whose mind was deeply disturbed, but who also tinkered with both anarchist ideas and left-wing politics. He had identified among his favorite books "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," and the fiction classic "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" — hardly the reading list of a conservative supporter.

He is "described by friends and former classmates as a loner, prone to dressing in black regalia of boots, trench coat and baggy pants even on the hottest days. He was removed from Pima Community College "for causing disruptions in classrooms and the library, college officials said. His dispute with college officials prompted him to post a bizarre YouTube video declaring the college illegal under the U.S. Constitution and culminated in his suspension from campus." His rants against the government that have surfaced on the Internet don't suggest he had a conservative perspective on big government. Instead Loughner 's MySpace featured a photo "showing a close-up picture of an automatic handgun sitting atop a book or paper titled 'United States History.'" Another video shows a masked man burning the American flag. "I can't trust the current government because of fabrications," Loughner wrote in a YouTube slideshow. "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."
I blame many in the Media for blowing tragedies out of proportion. The media needs to tone this down, don’t they realize that they are the ones are causing a tear in our society. I have watched the media trying to cause many uproars over the past several years. Why can’t they accept the fact that there are some crazy people out in society? Those out their blaming the Tea Party and many in the conservative movement are actually guilty of doing what they are blaming on others. Is it acceptable to condemn vitriol in politics while contributing to it in the same breath? Can this be what passes for restoring civility to our nation's discourse?

The Tea Party, Sarah Palin and Conservatives are no more responsible for Mr. Loughner's attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords than the liberals were for John Hinckley Jr.'s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. America, let’s get a grip on ourselves. We need to come together in times of tragedy and not allow our media to try and incite more violence and split us apart as a nation. We have enough enemies around the world – speak out against the media and it’s rhetoric, don’t let them create a voice for you. This was a tragic event orchestrated by a deranged soul – let’s face that fact, pull together as a nation and make our society better.

Jillian Michaels is leaving 'The Biggest Loser'

This is a loss for this show. She always knew how to motivate people and even though she was tough, she had a big heart and really cared for all the contestants. Hope they can find someone with the same character. Wish her well and I believe she will make a wonderful mother.

Jillian Michaels is leaving 'The Biggest Loser'

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I have been studing this lately. This is all very interesting and all backed up by factual finds and statements.

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