So the proposed merger with AT&T is officially dead thanks to some good old fashioned government intervention.  Now what?  Other than the release of that new Nokia Windows Phone 7 P.O.S. T-Mobile has been completely dormant for the last few months.  It’s almost like they didn’t have any back up plan in case the AT&T deal fell through despite the fact that there were concerns over the lack of competition in the marketplace from the day the sale was announced.  Or maybe they are just giving up. Sure seems that way to me.

A few weeks back I spoke of my hatred for Verizon‘s onslaught of high-quality Android phones but I realize that I’m just a bitter T-Mobile customer gazing longingly at Verizon’s considerable riches.  Sure, I’ve got the Samsung Galaxy S II and the HTC Amaze 4G to fawn over but Verizon has the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, LG Spectrum, HTC Rezound and like 26 variations on the Motorola Droid RAZR.  I mean even AT&T (yeah, THAT AT&T) is leaving T-Mobile, the wireless carrier who first brought Android to American shores, in the dust.  The biggest problem is that things don’t look like they’ll be getting better any time soon as T-Mobile doesn’t look to have anything big queued up for the next few weeks either.  Is it the lack of LTE that is pushing manufacturers away or is it that T-Mobile was busy planning for the end of their existence instead of making their existing customers happy.

I’m sure there will be something big that will land on T-Mobile at some point in the not to distant future (HTC Ville?) but it might not be enough to keep me as a customer for much longer.  With Sprint working on its own LTE network, T-Mobile will be the only one of the four major wireless carriers without a LTE data network which will go a long way towards making T-Mobile look out of touch.  That means new customers will not be flocking to T-Mobile if they have fewer high-end phones and an outdated data network.  The future isn’t bright in some cases.  This really looks like one of those situations.