AT&T and Verizon -head to head

AT&T just scooped up Centennial Wireless and that gives them a big roaming advantage in Indiana and Ohio plus some parts of Michigan.  Verizon is buying Alltel and that will help them in SW Michigan plus a bunch of other areas.  It is the epoch of the big boys and they are buying all the smaller players to get spectrum and coverage in areas that they are not well represented.  It is going to take something like this to get 3G and 4G nationwide.  However, will prices go down?  I doubt it.

My brother has an iPhone and it is all we can do to avoid becoming involved with that phone.  Here is a guy that just started using email a couple of years ago and is semi -computer literate.  Now he has the toy everyone wants but doesn’t not want to pay the recurrring monthly 3G fees.  That is where I am.  I would like to have Internet on the road and email too but I will not pay $99 per month to have that.  If I was not retired then I might spring for the $ but as it is I need the $ for other things.