 BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | reply to pnh102
Re: Popular Stupidity Too They are big because they have the most customers. The have the most customers because they provide service to the most people. Sprint and T-Mobile don't offer service in my area because I guess we not big enough for them. Is that Verizon's or at&t's fault? Nope. If these companies want more customers go to where the customers actually are. |
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CXM_SplicerLooking at the bigger picturePremium
join:2011-08-11
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| Again, this 'spectrum crisis' could be avoided completely if the carriers built up their infrastructure. Expensive? Sure it would be but, as Pnh correctly said, people snap up these plans like water now. How about forgoing dividends and re-investing for a change?
People who live in hurricane prone areas should spend some of their own money to board up the windows... buy a generator... store some extra food; and not go crying to the government for a spectrum handout. |
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by CXM_Splicer:Again, this 'spectrum crisis' could be avoided completely if the carriers built up their infrastructure.
Considering Verizon has LTE to 80% of its customers and is by FAR ahead of anyone else. I'm not sure how you can say they are not doing that. The ones that are far behind are Sprint and T-Mobile the very companies al the at&t and Verizon haters want to give all the spectrum to.
What expertise do you have to say how much spectrum is "enough" to serve over 100 million customers? And what expertise to do you to say what will be enough in 5 or 10 years? |
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It is indeed their fault actually because they control the high quality spectrum.
It takes 5 times the PCS sites to match one 850Mhz base station. A whopping 9 times the sites of 2.6Ghz equip to match 1, yes 1, 850Mhz site. |
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CXM_SplicerLooking at the bigger picturePremium
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Obviously there is no 'expertise' that can predict what the wireless landscape will look like in 10 years and I would be highly doubtful of anyone that claimed to know.
True VZ has been at the forefront of the LTE expansion but that has been under the current spectrum-hogging tower footprints... that's not what I mean by building up their infrastructure. I am not saying that VZ should never get spectrum under any circumstances... what I am saying is that they shouldn't get more until they are using their current spectrum at maximum efficiency; or, at the very least, until they make progress in addressing the spectrum shortage for themselves rather than just whine to the FCC about it. Standardization of technologies, micro-cells, sharing cell sites, there are LOTS of ways industry could & should deal with this NOW, before there is a problem.
If only companies still thought this way. Unfortunately, they have cut off their innovative 'balls' to maximize short term profits. Personally, I don't think the government should step in to encourage more of this behavior. |
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