mindfrost82
join:2003-04-19
Cortland, IL
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Re: Sprint
I agree that the Nextel merger should have been handled differently, but to be honest, without that merger, they wouldn't have been able to expand their coverage as much as they did in the past couple of years. That was the main benefit of the merger. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
4 edits | said by mindfrost82  :I agree that the Nextel merger should have been handled differently, but to be honest, without that merger, they wouldn't have been able to expand their coverage as much as they did in the past couple of years. That was the main benefit of the merger. Good point. Sprint added CDMA to 4000 Nextel sites and plans for a total of 8000 new CDMA on Nextel sites.
Sprint/Nextel combined cover 270m pops natively, but CDMA only isn't there yet. Verizon covers about 255-260m pops natively. I think ATT is around 270m pops native, but they're turning off analog, so not sure on the latest. Roaming for all is over 290m pops if I recall.
But was it worth the merger? Sprint probably should have merged with Alltel. |
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