| No, The fee is for TDMA, not AMPS customers. I can almost promise you that AMPS is only about 0.001% of any customers remaining. TDMA customers still make up something like 15% of customers but only 2 or 3% of airtime used on the network. |
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 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | said by SterlingJ85:The fee is for TDMA, not AMPS customers. I can almost promise you that AMPS is only about 0.001% of any customers remaining. TDMA customers still make up something like 15% of customers but only 2 or 3% of airtime used on the network. Hmm... If true, that sounds rather stupid, then. If that 15% is consuming disproportionately less airtime than other users, why would you want to put that subsidizing subscriber base ate risk? That would be kind of like an insurance company telling their abnormally low-risk members to leave.
-tom
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| Cingular is using the excuse that the network operations fee of TDMA is increasing. It really isn't, most of the equipment that exists for TDMA shares GSM site assets. The only thing it's really costing Cingular is routine maintenance.
They are charging this fee to try and push as many customers onto GSM as possible. TDMA customers are far less spectrum efficient than GSM, and it takes more resources on the air interface to keep those customers. Plus, it will be less people for them to shift when they shutdown TDMA in 2008. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | However, any time you force a customer to "switch", there's at least a 50:50 chance that they WONT switch to another one of YOUR products.
-tom |
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 Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
kudos:2 | reply to SterlingJ85
Article says.... The article says 92% are on GSM. So that leaves 8% for TDMA. How do you estimate 2-3% of airtime? Just a guess? It might be true as older customers are on legacy contracts (which are probably less minutes), but there are still a lot of TDMA users!
The excuse in the article is TDMA use is now small enough the cost to keep the old network up and running in cost per user is way up vs GSM. |
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