http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21669405 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:05 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21677874
While Alltel does have customers in these markets, most of their revenue in these parts does actually come from other carrier's customers roaming. For this very reason, no matter who picks up the divested areas will more than likely keep these networks alive until the technology has been sunset (for GSM and CDMA this could be a decade - for TDMA/AMPS some sites may have aleady been turned down in some areas if there is little demand on the network).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21677874 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:25:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21677134
Crawl a little out of your cave and learn a little about the rest of the US before you start calling people trolls.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21677134 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:55:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21673541
But, when they bought Western Wireless they also now own a huge geographical area of GSM (Mountain/Mid-Western States). This makes up most of the rural GSM coverage you see in the middle of the US. Alltel still runs the GSM network for roaming revenue, and part of Verizon's condition by the FCC for the merger was that they keep running it for several more years. However a lot of the areas will be divested to another carrier (probably AT&T, but that's an unknown right now).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21673541 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:54:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21672512
Good job, troll, good job.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21672512 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:20:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21672483 said by PolarBear03:

How did he downplay it and flame it? If anything, he flamed T-mo for using non-standard 3G frequencies. I don't think anyone can blame Apple for there being only one other GSM provider in the US.
Not quite right. There are quite a few more than 2 GSM providers in the US....

»www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo···us.shtml]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21672483 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:14:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21672379 said by PolarBear03:

How did he downplay it and flame it? If anything, he flamed T-mo for using non-standard 3G frequencies. I don't think anyone can blame Apple for there being only one other GSM provider in the US.
You are incorrect. There are quite a few more than 2 GSM providers in the US....

»www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo···us.shtml]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21672379 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:55:15 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21671043 said by Nemokrad:

Read up on past stories about Apple and you will see...
But since he didn't do that here, how was your comment relevant at all? :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21671043 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:26:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21670898 said by PolarBear03:

How did he downplay it and flame it? If anything, he flamed T-mo for using non-standard 3G frequencies. I don't think anyone can blame Apple for there being only one other GSM provider in the US.
Read up on past stories about Apple and you will see...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21670898 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:58:15 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21670119
As for LTe, it's totally independent of CdMA or GSM. So is WiMAX for tgat matter. As a matter of fact, the current 3G (HSPA) is closer to CDMA in tech specs than GSM, though the band width is much wider...5 MHz vs 1.25.

So for either tech you'll need new equipment. Personally, WiMAX is already here, so Sprint has the jump on things.

Oh, and WiMAX seems to havecaught on where CDMA cought on before, like Korea. I don't think it'll pull an EPIC FAIL like HD DVD did.

I'll take my CDMA phone, thanks...with high speed data in 99% of the places I go. ATT 3G is getting better, but the EvDO footprint available to me is huge...and tends to be just as fast as ATT 3G, if not faster...despite what the specs say.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21670119 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:22:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21669939 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21669939 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:47:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21669415 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Now-now-Karl-21669415 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:50:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Now-now-Karl-21669405
Adi]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Now-now-Karl-21669405 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:48:54 EDT