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| Roaming is not a business issue, not technooogical If Verizon allows you to roam onto Sprint (or vice versa), it is a business issue. It has nothing to do with wether they run proprietary CDMA or global GSM network stacks.
AT&T is really made up of the old AT&T that was going down fast, and Cingular which itself was made up of Pac Bell and Bell South (and probably others). These mergers and re-mergers happened not too long ago and there hasn't been much time to merge all networks, remove redundancies, fix problems AND upgrade to 3G. And more importantly, AND FIX THEIR BUSINESS PRACTICES ISSUES.
Having said this, when 3G to 4G happens, those on the GSM stack will be better positioned to move to LTE, while those stuck on the now dead end proprietary CDMA stack will be forced to do a more comprehensive upgrade. At that point, AT&T may be able to move quicker and catch up or even get ahead of the Verizon/Spring networks.
The *may* catch up. It all depends if their management is smart.
If Cingular ended up keeping much of the AT&T management in place when they bought AT&T Wireless, then it is likely that the same practices that caused AT&T Wireless to spiral downwards may contaminate the Cingular portions of the business.
Remember that companies who need contracts to survive are the ones with the problem networks. One with superior network and service doesn't need contracts because customers are happy. |
