SterlingJ85
Obama 2008
join:2000-11-19
Millville, NJ
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| reply to PolarBear
Re: Now now Karl
Uhh.. Yes, Alltel is predominately a CDMA provider.
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). |
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swelch51
@cableone.net
| Give SterlingJ85 a cigar. Right on the money. Western Wireless had a huge footprint. Around here, they were known as Cellular One, now they're Alltel. Western had started rolling out a GSM network before they were bought out. I'm not sure whether or not Alltel is continuing that build.
Crawl a little out of your cave and learn a little about the rest of the US before you start calling people trolls. |
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SterlingJ85
Obama 2008
join:2000-11-19
Millville, NJ
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2 edits | AFAIK, Alltel has overlaid CDMA/GSM across all the old Western Wireless network for purposes of roaming revenue from other carriers.
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). |
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