iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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Re: No No No No!!
Though in lots of areas VZ just roams on Alltel, though in some places their coverage does overlap.
This also means bad things for SPrint, who uses Alltel as their main roaming carrier, and anyone else who isn't Verizon. Once VZ gets the roaming monopoly (or close) for CDMA, they'll jack up rates as soon as roaming contracts expire, forcing companies to either choose local alternative companies with lesser data services or decreases in footprint\increases in costs passed to the customer. Not such a hot thing when it was only a year or two ago that you saw companies taking off roaming charges... |
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DarnellP
join:2004-10-12
Las Vegas, NV
| I believe one of the conditions for the merger is that VZW can't do jack up rates like that and that they have to honor existing existing Alltel roaming agreements. Back in 2006 Sprint and Alltel signed a 10 year reciprocal EVDO roaming agreement, so I'm guessing they at least should be ok for the forseeable future. |
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Alltel1
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Also forgetting Verizon will have a large GSM roaming business. Alltel has a large GSM roaming business when they bought Western Wireless, while they were a cdma provider they had licences and ran gsm and cdma off there towers. Take your ATT or Tmobile phone out in the middle of no where nevada and your phone will switch and say alltel it really fliped out my friend who was on ATT on his way to vegas ( road trip ) |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
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| reply to iansltx
Sprint, Alltel, and Verizon are the only major CDMA carriers in the USA. They all have roaming agreements as far as voice. the only thing Alltel and Sprint have that does NOT include VZW is the EVDO roaming.
And the areas that Alltel and VZW over lap i'm sure VZW will be made to sell them off as far of the merger. MetroPCS, Cricket or Revol.com will end up expanding.
But like i said before, Metro, Cricket, and Revol should all merge and buy up Sprint. That would be a wireless company
Kiss Alltel, VZW, TM, and AT$T good bye cause nobody could stop them once they all merged or even just one of them and Sprint. Unlimited Deals going from $99 to $47 per month! no way in hell would anyone else touch that. |
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datwell1
join:2002-01-08
Falls Church, VA | One question is, "Can they really make any money with those rates?" Remember, telephony is quite capital-intensive and with the coverage people expect these days... |
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viperlmw
Premium
join:2005-01-25
·Qwest.net
| Verizon must think it's worth the capital. They are expanding into my area for the first time by installing 1 site in each of 2 small cities (3500 and 1000 people) in Northern Idaho, and are expected to start selling service this month. Alltel has service here (previously Western Wireless), so I am interested in how this all shakes out. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
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Cleveland, OH
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actually yes they do make money (Cricket, Revol, MetroPCS), Cricket is actually publicly traded under their parent company Leap Wireless who also owns JumpWireless.
The thing is though that once VZW sheds the spectrum that over laps someone is going to pick it up and it won't be Sprint so the only others left really are the unlimited providers. Someone is going to face some serious price wars and the big boys won't compete. Because if they could they would have already done it.
Revol actually trims costs by not mailing bills they actually charge you $2 for your bill to be mail. Why? It's the same every month. Also the bill is not detailed. It's just a couple pages at most.
People want unlimited flat rate calling and that's what it is going to come to. Too many people have the unlimited plans for $99 so why not unlimited local. long distance, nationwide coverage, texting for $47 add picture mail for an extra $5
check out Revol.com for pricing. Pricing is great and they'd have it made if they would just merge with someone else or started picking up small CDMA carriers or take over what Alltel/VZW gets rid of. |
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