AT&T Could Save T-Mobile

T-Mobile apparently isn’t doing so well, with a loss of 99,000 subscribers in the past quarter and a huge drop in earnings from $362 million to $135 million, it is a possibility that this could have been what prompted AT&T to buy over T-Mobile.

It does look rather noble of AT&T to step in and “save” the Deutsche Telekom’s US service provider but at the moment everyone seems to be rather against the acquisition with Sprint claiming this if this acquisition were to go through it would end up being a duopoly.

So what happens if this deal is not allowed to go through, what are some of T-Mobile’s possible back up plans? Colin Gibbs down at GigaOM thinks that T-Mobile could produce a hit handset, much like AT&T’s iPhone. They could also give in to Google Voice which would allow their customers an alternative means to text and make calls from Gmail. Lastly they could always find another buyer.

Perhaps T-Mobile should be looking into alternative means should this deal fall through as it’s starting to look like everyone else except for AT&T and T-Mobile wants this deal.