| att If this deal goes through, att would have around 71.4 million customers vs vz's now 80 million. I doubt att would pay vz to reach some rural areas. I would expect att to go on a rural wireless carrier (GSM) buying spree. |
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| Not many carriers left for them to Grab. They'll be paying TM though in some areas and TM them. Since they roam on each other. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by hottboiinnc:Not many carriers left for them to Grab. They'll be paying TM though in some areas and TM them. Since they roam on each other. I don't know of any areas where ATT roams on TM. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to pepperxn
said by pepperxn:If this deal goes through, att would have around 71.4 million customers vs vz's now 80 million. I doubt att would pay vz to reach some rural areas. I would expect att to go on a rural wireless carrier (GSM) buying spree. ATT and Verizon are buying up rural carriers and spliting spectrum and towers if they are buying a CDMA/GSM hyrbid rural carrier. ATT and Verizon will roam on each other very soon in the future. ATT and Verizon both chose LTE on 700, its guarenteed they will roam on each other, Alltel also chose LTE, but they don't own any 700 so I'm not sure what spectrum Alltel LTE will run on. |
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 AZ_OGM
join:2007-01-12
Phoenix, AZ | reply to patcat88
There are a few areas in southern Minnesota where my old AT&T phone would switch over to T-Mobile. Especially around the Rochester area. |
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said by hottboiinnc:Not many carriers left for them to Grab. They'll be paying TM though in some areas and TM them. Since they roam on each other. There's T-Mobile (around 30.8 million customers, GSM, will cost them over $30-40 billion to buy), and Centennial (GSM, 1.1 million customers, cost around $1-1.2 billion to buy). The rest are minor regional carriers. |
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