AT&T: The Mobile Monster Carrier?

Considering that 72% of parents invite it into their beds and bedrooms, while only 62% of childless adults welcome it (Nielsen)… This is just one of numerous, ever-increasing cell phone usage statistics in America, part of a study by Nielsen conducted in 2010. AT&T, the nation’s best mobile phone coverage provider in the world (AT&T) and the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network, has recently set out to acquire T-Mobile. T-Mobile is one of the world’s largest multi-national cell phone service providers. The T-Mobile wireless company provides the ability for its customers to maintain coverage almost anywhere in the world with the same mobile device and phone number. The merging of these two very powerful companies will potentially increase 4G-network coverage worldwide, to reach more consumers everywhere, and to create over an estimated 95 thousand jobs; many of which would be in America (AT&T). Corruption in technology makes most think of corrupt files and error messages on digital devices. However, corruption also often occurs in the technology industry between digital design firms, computer companies, and even wireless phone service providers.
Corruption is the impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle (Webster); it occurs in many markets and countries. This report will be focused on corruption in technology, with concentration in the wireless phone service industry. Before wireless phone providers are discussed though, digital design firms, and computer companies will be briefly discussed.
This large merger between AT&T and T-Mobile has raised many eyebrows in multiple markets, because if successful, it could be one of the largest technological mergers in history (AT&T). This raises flags because, to many consumers and even manufacturers, it sounds too good to be true. There are also many questions of