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kudos:5 | US Cellular's way to pay for LTE expansion? US Cellular just announced that they were expanding their LTE footprint. Maybe this is their way of paying for it.
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kudos:4 | White Sox Park So if Sprint is buying the Chicago market, does that mean the Sox play at Sprint Field now? |
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Re: US Cellular's way to pay for LTE expansion? from what i read this wont include USCC towers and such so it really wont include better coverage for sprint users...but at least they get spectrum.
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Re: White Sox Park Doubt it. |
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Re: US Cellular's way to pay for LTE expansion? Stock market didn't like the US Cellular , Sprint deal. US Cellular dropped 12.4% today.
»www.thestreet.com/quote/USM.html···ers_NYSE
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Morton Grove, IL | reply to ILpt4U
Re: White Sox Park said by ILpt4U:So if Sprint is buying the Chicago market, does that mean the Sox play at Sprint Field now?
No the US Cellular FAQ specifically says Cellular Field stays as is.
From here: »www.uscellularinfo.com/USCC_FAQs.pdf
"What are you selling? What are you not selling?
U.S. Cellular is selling its Chicago, St. Louis, central Illinois and three other Midwest markets to Sprint Nextel Corp. The sale includes PCS spectrum and 585,000 customers. We are not selling other spectrum we own in these markets (700 MHz licenses), corporate or field buildings located in these areas, or the naming rights to U.S. Cellular Field." |
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| NO, the Sox will continue to play at US Cellular.... (I am a Sox fan) but, I am disappointed that USCC will sell my wife's account out to Sprint, from USCC.
We will NOT be using Sprint here...doesn't work well....
Wife is long time mobile user...Only Verizon and USCC work OK here in Peoria area....Everyone else stinks...
River valley has a lot to do with it. |
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| Sprint will work in that area since the customers and the spectrum will be moved over to Sprint-Nextel. So your service should increase as far as coverages goes. And you can tell Sprint phones to roam onto other networks, but in some cases you must force roam them. |
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Saint Peters, MO | reply to swintec
Re: US Cellular's way to pay for LTE expansion? Crap! lol as soon as I read the title I immediately that about how my Sprint signal up at Mark Twain Lake sucks, but US Cellular's is perfect. |
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Re: NO, the Sox will continue to play at US Cellular.... peoria is not being sold just bloomington and champaign springfield decatur and such. |
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| USC Looks like US Cellular is dumping areas that king street spectrum doesnt have 700mhz assets to add their LTE footprint. At least in Chicago I remember the spectrum US cellular uses was bought from an a company called primco (one of the first to offer unlimited wireless minutes for a reasonable flat rate)... There probably not enough to run LTE and CDMA at the sametime |
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| Getting ready to sell the rest to AT&T? USCC's CLR and SMH holdings align very well with AT&T's. I wonder if they are getting ready to sell the rest to them, and did this to avoid regulatory headaches with Chicago, since AT&T owns the Chicago market, and giving them more customers and spectrum there would look really bad? |
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Re: NO, the Sox will continue to play at US Cellular.... said by TBBroadband:Sprint will work in that area since the customers and the spectrum will be moved over to Sprint-Nextel. So your service should increase as far as coverages goes. And you can tell Sprint phones to roam onto other networks, but in some cases you must force roam them.
they arent giving the towers and network to them though so im not sure how this will help actual sprint coverage.
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College Station, TX | reply to BiggA
Re: Getting ready to sell the rest to AT&T? said by BiggA:USCC's CLR and SMH holdings align very well with AT&T's. I wonder if they are getting ready to sell the rest to them, and did this to avoid regulatory headaches with Chicago, since AT&T owns the Chicago market, and giving them more customers and spectrum there would look really bad?
T doesn't need any more spectrum. They are already sitting on a large amount, along with Verizon Wireless |
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Re: NO, the Sox will continue to play at US Cellular.... said by Bob61571:(I am a Sox fan) but, I am disappointed that USCC will sell my wife's account out to Sprint, from USCC.
We will NOT be using Sprint here...doesn't work well....
Wife is long time mobile user...Only Verizon and USCC work OK here in Peoria area....Everyone else stinks...
River valley has a lot to do with it.
This is TERRIBLE news! Sprint's actual signal covers Peoria area fairly well, but their data service is HORRIBLE! I left Sprint for US Cellular in January because of this! I can't believe US Cellular would sell us out like this, after being in the market for 25 years. I WILL NOT BECOME A SPRINT CUSTOMER AGAIN! I guess we will just have to go back to Verizon. |
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the sounds of their press release and the way its worded sounds like they're taking over. Why else would Sprint be interested in taking those customers besides a little spectrum. |
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| said by TBBroadband:the sounds of their press release and the way its worded sounds like they're taking over. Why else would Sprint be interested in taking those customers besides a little spectrum.
Because the customers are worth something, plus the spectrum is very valuable for sprint especially in a spectrum starved market like Chicago. This may give them the ability to do 10x10 deployment for LTE in those markets instead of 5x5 like what they are doing.
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| Customers maybe worth something and I know how the market is in Chicago, but the fact is Sprint is going to want more than just a few customers and some Spectrum. With customers being dropped from USC to Sprint is NOT going to go over very well, especially when customers are going to be upset and will look else where.
And when you have a deal like this, the buying company, normally gets more than just the customers and a spectrum, they get the entire network in those markets. It seems like something is not being said. |
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| said by TBBroadband:It seems like something is not being said.
Possibly, who knows. The article says only spectrum and customers. A good thread for the technical aspects of it: »s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2566-···om-uscc/
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»seekingalpha.com/article/987591-···t=single
"So, first at closing Sprint will pay U.S. Cellular $480 million. As Mary mentioned the sale includes most of the PCS spectrum and 585,000 customers in our Chicago, St. Louis, Central Illinois, and Indiana, Michigan, Ohio markets. The sale also contemplates the number of related agreements, the most significant of which our two transition services agreements; one to cover network operations and the other customer services. Under which the terms will provide for U.S. Cellular to continue to operate the network and service and build customers for up to two years after the closing. Sprint will pay U.S. Cellular for these services. Sprint will also reimburse U.S. Cellular for certain cost related to decommissioning the network and employee termination benefits up to a defined cap. U.S. Cellular will be responsible for store closing cost including employee and termination benefits."
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