 VegasManAre We There Yet?Premium
join:2002-11-17
Schaumburg, IL | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: TM and Sprint said by hottboiinnc:well iDEN is set to shut down soon anyway. so there would be no big lose there. thats why the new phones came out and q-chat should be seeing deployment over the phones to bridge everything together. as far as using CDMA over GSM id take the GSM any day. I love the option of taking a simcard out of the phone and putting it in a new one without having to reprogram the phone with your information and can use a friends phone if your's dies (as long as they have the same carrier of course). I could see TM taking over and redoing the entire company. iDEN should be shut down with the problems it causes Emergency workers, and CDMA needs to be replaced with the new GSM. Although anyone taking over Sprint should be a a carrier like MetroPCS or Revol Wireless (www.revol.us) and turn them into a large flat rate company nation wide using their current pricing. You really know nothing on how cellphones work do you? The sim card has nothing to do with if the phone is CDMA or GSM of TDMA or even analog. It has to do with the locking of the phones and the embedded software. If AT&T used the same software as Sprint, Verizon, Alltel I would be able to use my Sim card in any of them. The sim is locked in by the provider. The only thing GSM has done is that the companies that use The GSM Association Standard have agreed to follow that standard of allowing the sim to be interchangeable.
Secondly iDEN isn't going anywhere. iDEN and public safety can and do work together if the local Gov't and Nextel talk to each other before the network is setup.
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join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
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| T-MO should buy Sprint, spin off Nextel, keep their RF spectrum, and sell the customers to smaller upcomming CDMA PCS providers like Cricket and MetroPCS.
I don't know if any serious offer prices have been suggested, but going forth into 4G LTE and 5G???Whatever.
The RF spectrum costs will be worth far more than the current Sprint customers are.
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| The thing though with Cricket and MetroPCS they'd want the network as well. Not just the customers. Their network is very limited. MetroPCS probably would look at the entire company to take over. It would be a plus for the Sprint customers as far as voice services go. |
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KA3SGM- -... ...- -Premium
join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
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| said by hottboiinnc:The thing though with Cricket and MetroPCS they'd want the network as well. Not just the customers. Their network is very limited. MetroPCS probably would look at the entire company to take over. It would be a plus for the Sprint customers as far as voice services go. That would work too.
Cricket(Leap) and MetroPCS already have RF spectrum in many major markets, they even were exploring a merger late last year but the deal seems to have fallen through.
T-Mobile should buy Sprint for the RF spectrum alone, they can sell the network and the customers to Cricket and MetroPCS for use on their own owned spectrum.
As for Nextel, I'm sure they will figure something out.
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Why would you want to get rid of your customers for the RF spectrum. The spectrum is useless if you don't have the customer base. Also, if I am the customer and you sold me to a low level carrier. I would remember that and never use you again. Not a good move. |
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