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T-Mobile Expands MetroPCS Into Ten New Markets
T-Mobile has announced that the company will be pushing MetroPCS 10 new markets across the country this fall. According to a company press release, since acquiring the prepaid carrier, T-Mobile has taken MetroPCS from just over 6,000 points of sale in 15 metropolitan markets to nearly 11,000 points of sale in 55 metropolitan areas. This latest market expansion includes Chattanooga, Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick and Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News.
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buddahbless
join:2005-03-21
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buddahbless

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Have to keep up with Cricket

Well this had to happen sooner than later after ATT purchased Cricket and is now pushing Cricket commercials everywhere, T-Mobile had to play catch up and start pushing there Metropcs brand.

josephf
join:2009-04-26

josephf

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MetroPCS' legacy CDMA network

T-Mobile purchased a legacy CDMA network with its MetroPCS acquisition and began transitioning it to its own GSM/HSPA+/LTE network, thus giving them the ability to introduce MetroPCS in geographical areas that it was not previously able to cover.

dnoyeB
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join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI

dnoyeB

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Re: MetroPCS' legacy CDMA network

Interesting. I thought MetroPCS simply used T-Mobile's network!?

josephf
join:2009-04-26

josephf

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Re: MetroPCS' legacy CDMA network

Before they were purchased by T-Mobile they didn't even roam on T-Mobile's network.

JimThePCGuy
Formerly known as schja01.
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join:2000-04-27
Morton Grove, IL

JimThePCGuy

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Roaming

Does MetroPCs prepaid have domestic roaming included? With T-Mobile's poor coverage footprint that would be important to me.

buddahbless
join:2005-03-21
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Re: Roaming

I believe at first it was that Metro PCS was to only operate on TMO's native network. IM not sure how there roaming arrangements work now for TMO's Metro PCS brand. However if your looking to A MVNO I know that the Walmart Family mobile (on TMO network) has full access to All of TMO's domestic roaming agreements.

JimThePCGuy
Formerly known as schja01.
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JimThePCGuy

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Re: Roaming

Thank you.
tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Brooklyn, NY

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no rush

Tmobile is in no rush to merge the brands the way Sprint had done and ruined any good will of it's bought customer base. Expanding into new markets is a good thing-- so long as the service doesn't suck. No sense building it if they don't have the frequency bandwidth or the backhaul fiber.

It remains to be seen whether TMO will continue its arrangements with Net10/Tracfone.
As pricing edges down into their range.. there's no real difference other than cheap subsidy phones in the prepaid market.
98778011 (banned)
join:2014-08-24
Charlotte, NC

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Re: no rush

Sprint didn't rush to merge any brands. They operated Nextel for YEARS after they purchased them. And VM and BM still operate without Sprint's branding. But Sprint would be better off to change their name to Virgin Mobile, at least then it would have a world class name that people know and realize it's not going away anytime soon.