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| The good olde' days! I remember the days when Sprint used to come out with new phones before anyone else. They always had the cool gadgets. The 6700 came out first on Sprint before it even hit Verizon. Sprint's EVDO network was up and running before VZ's.
People forget that Sprint was the first all-digital wireless carrier from the ground up. VZ had to switch from analogue and Cellular One was nowhere insight.
I remember clearly when AT&T bought Cellular One and then went belly-up. I remember when Cingular (bellsouth) came out and it had $h!tty service all over the North east (still does), I remember Voicestream customers not being able place calls even if they were seating on top of the tower (still has poor service T-Mo).
ATT has grown to its current size because of all the little mergers here and there. NY Telephone+NJ Bell+NYNEX+Bell Atlantic+GTE=Verizon... Who has Sprint merged with that is of some notable size... NexTel... Ummm that's even debatable.
I've only had 2 cell phone carriers in my life; Bell Atlantic for 3 years (hated having my fcking analogue phone cloned every week), and now Sprint since 97. To make a long story short, I think it's natural for everyone to bitch, moan and sh!t on the little guy.
Yes Verizon has caught up and surpassed Sprint by leaps and bounds, ATT the iphone has brought them stardom but that's about it. If ATT didn't have the iPhone they'd still be trailing after the VZ's and Sprint of the world.
Now GSM vs CDMA... Who gives a FCK over what Europe is using. Why do I need a phone that will work somewhere at 3 dollars a minute... Come on! All I really care about is that when I'm "Home" (50 states+territories) I have something that works, and last time I checked CDMA worked in all those places.
I carry a Mogul and own 2 iphones (2g and 3gs). The only reason why I have iphones is because I'm not paying for the service. The 2g is fully unlocked and I use when i travel abroad, the 3gs work pays for.
If for some magical reason the iPhone were to come in a CDMA + EVDO Rev. B or WiMax version and it happened to be available to VZ and Sprint; ATT could potentially be in the situation that sprint is currently in. | |
patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by flyingjoey:Sprint's EVDO network was up and running before VZ's. No. VZ had EVDO live before Sprint by 2 years. I remember at the beginning with VZ EVDO in San Diego, there was a fine print disclaimer that even though the cards could do 2mbitps, the towers were limited to 1.5 mbitps. Sprint later passed VZ in coverage during 2005-2006, then in 2007/2008 Verizon started to add EVDO to its "outer" areas that Sprint didn't have any coverage and it exceeded Sprint's EVDO coverage. | |
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