Reports are coming in from all over this morning that AT&T has bought fe T-Mobile USA. According to the wires, AT&T has picked up the company from Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG in a deal that's valued at $39 billion in cash and stock. The transaction is expected to close within a year, pending all of the usual paperwork, and of course regulatory approval (which probably isn't a complete given, considering how large these two companies are).
The primary fallout of a deal like this would be to set up AT&T with one of the largest 4G networks in the US, which could possibly lead us into a 4G iPhone on that network. Of course, that's all speculation at this point, but with
