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Re: T-Mobile? said by iansltx:Seems like TMo and CV would be a god fit on this. T-Mobile just has to resurrect their UMA handsets and all systems would be good to go for the service. I wouldn't be srprised if CV offered "Optimum Mobile" service with unlimited voice minutes on WiFi and 500 minutes (plus unlimited nights and weekends, naturally) for $30-$40 per month. I was thinking AT&T.. but whatever.. it's still cdma either one-- I'd like to be able to get onto a network such as tracfone so you dont' have to get robbed for cell service pricing and be locked into a contract. Tracfone & wifi would be a killer handset!
Also, did I read that right... $100 per subscriber.. and they surcharge you $300 for early adopting docsis 3.0?
Hah! Evidence of a ripoff, much? |
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| said by tmc8080:I was thinking AT&T.. but whatever.. it's still cdma either one-- VZW and Sprint are CDMA
AT&T and TMobile are GSM/WCDMA (not the same as CDMA) |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to tmc8080
AT&T is a telco in the US. T-Mobile is not. Sprint is not. I'd expect CV to go with one of those two. |
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| Sprint may not be a Telco anymore but they have a HUGE IP Backbone and know how to build a network from the ground up. They also are one of the most used carriers by the MVNOs.
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iansltx
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Golden, CO
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| I'm not doubting that. However they don't have any UMA capabilities right now, though eventually with WiMAX that'll probably happen.
The "not a telco" thing here is a pro rather than a con; Cablevision likely doesn't want to work with a telco...they're competing against one. |
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 Frankis chillingPremium
join:2000-11-03
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said by tmc8080:said by iansltx:Seems like TMo and CV would be a god fit on this. T-Mobile just has to resurrect their UMA handsets and all systems would be good to go for the service. I wouldn't be srprised if CV offered "Optimum Mobile" service with unlimited voice minutes on WiFi and 500 minutes (plus unlimited nights and weekends, naturally) for $30-$40 per month. I was thinking AT&T.. but whatever.. it's still cdma either one-- I'd like to be able to get onto a network such as tracfone so you dont' have to get robbed for cell service pricing and be locked into a contract. Tracfone & wifi would be a killer handset! Also, did I read that right... $100 per subscriber.. and they surcharge you $300 for early adopting docsis 3.0? Hah! Evidence of a ripoff, much? tracfone doesnt have it's own network.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by hottboiinnc:Sprint may not be a Telco anymore but they have a HUGE IP Backbone and know how to build a network from the ground up. They also are one of the most used carriers by the MVNOs. The only reason why Sprint wholesales cell service so aggressively that MVNOs grow like bacteria is since Sprint has been loosing customers for years, and MVNOs make the losses less than they would have been otherwise. Also Sprint wholesales cell service by blocks of minutes, ATT/Verizon wholesale cell service with minimum monthly fee per phone number to keep ARPU high (meaning ATT/Verizon MVNO plans have aggressive minute expiration). TM basically doesn't MVNO so financial details are unknown for TM MVNOs.
Sprint's IP backbone seems to be moribund. Other than govt contracts, I dont know of any other ISPs or major customers of Sprint IP. Level 3 and ATT (ex-clec) and Verizon business seem to be the most common names in the USA from my personal experience of corporate business internet connections, universities, and non-peering ISPs (until TWC bought Adelphia was and VZW still is, Level 3 only). |
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| TWC uses Sprint. Sprint is the power of a good share of their backbone to the internet. and they also power the Digital Phone service across the country.
Sprint was ahead in the MNVO market well before VZ and ATT started to get into it. Well before the customer losses.
What does VZW have to deal with TWC and Sprint? Also TWC and Comcast both took over Adelphia. TWC couldn't take the entire thing with the debt that was included. That's how TWC got some Comcast markets and Comcast got TWC.
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