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Tulsa, OK | What a waste.... Pretty crappy company. I hope they didn't buy them for the customers because they'll just go to ATT (Suncom got most of their properties from ATT back in the day).
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00000 | Re: What a waste.... they bought them for the footprint. if i'm not mistaken, t-mobile has limited service in the carolinas. quite a hole. | |
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Lagrange, GA | Re: What a waste.... spotty service in Georgia too. | |
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join:2002-02-18
Willingboro, NJ | i agree, but ever since t-mobile parners with suncom about a year or two ago i get great service when i visit Shannon, nc. If you don't know where it is, don't feel bad...no one does. | |
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Lexington, KY | said by morbo:they bought them for the footprint. if i'm not mistaken, t-mobile has limited service in the carolinas. quite a hole. Sounds quite right. I went to Myrtle Beach this summer and while I was there and on my way there I never once was on a T-Mobile tower. 95% of the time I was roaming on SunCom (the other 5% being Cingular). They seem to have excellent coverage in the Carolinas. | |
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| Waste eh ? Do you realize the #1 complaint so far among tmo users ?
When vacationing to the "islands" they get horrible coverage because tmo's negotiated contracts are only allowed so many roaming minutes before they get a huge price jack.
This kills off the complaint and the providers roaming agreements to many quality resort islands, as well as the Carolinas where they have a big coverage gap.
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join:2007-01-23
Winston Salem, NC Reviews:
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| Re: What a waste.... Even T-Mobile prepaid has roamed on Suncom and AT&T for more than a year now in the Carolinas.
I suppose postpaid users might have to pay extra, but prepaid users were very happy with the ability to roam for free.
Now we can get local numbers... | |
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Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Wonder probably almost all of them. | |
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Wonder tmobile doesn't usually deal with such stuff. Hell, when they bought out voicestream it was with very little fanfare. No massive media campaign like cingular... | |
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join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
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| Re: Wonder said by tiger72:tmobile doesn't usually deal with such stuff. Hell, when they bought out voicestream it was with very little fanfare. No massive media campaign like cingular... UH, I did notice the transition from Jamie Lee Curtis to Catherine Zeta Jones, as the Voicestream Wireless, to T-Mobile Spokesperson.
That was a life changing moment for me.
They could run those commercials for 20 years and I would never complain. 
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Wonder haha good point. But as you said, that's an ad-campaign I'll take and not complain a bit. | |
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I just dropped that crap a** Verizon and their "CAN'T hear me now, can ya?" service this past weekend for T-Mobile. Although I haven't hit a T-Mobile tower yet, and probably never will until T-Mobile moves a little closer to me, but my connection is 10 times better than Verizon's ever was, even on a good, clear day. | |
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join:2002-03-11
Miami, FL | No roaming? Does this mean that I won't be roaming if I go on vacation to the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico now? | |
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join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI | Forced move This is most likely a response to at&t buying Dobson. T-Mobile needs to grow or else be rendered irrelevant as a national carrier.
»AT&T to buy Dobson Communications | |
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| Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Re: Forced move Verizon Wireless is also buying Unicel, that doesn't leave much left for T-Mobile. | |
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| |  Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | Re: Forced move Unicel is up in Vermont no?
I know seeing it on my T-mobile phone once. | |
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| Re: Forced move said by Subaru:Unicel is up in Vermont no? I know seeing it on my T-mobile phone once. Unicel serves most of Northern New England: Western, Northern & Seacoast New Hampshire, Northeastern New York, Western Massachusetts, all of Vermont, as well as most of ME.
They were bought out by Verizon for the CDMA coverage of those pesky winter vacation spots like Cannon mountain. Verizon was paying so much for roaming out there that it was simply smarter to buy the company and add more profit to the Wireless behemoth.
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| I beg to differ. There are many regional gsm providers that can and will be bought by tmo or AT&T in the future.
Alaska is a rather bustling area of growth now. And most services there are indeed GSM.
Caprock in texas is a small company that is probably next on the purchase list for TMO, just for the towers. As well as dtcwireless and iowa wireless. Unless they have already been sold. But I don't remember.
There are many hole tmo can fill here if they choose to keep buying. then again AT&T now has enough capital from wireless to keep engulfing the local wireless carriers to fill it's gaps as well.
Win win in the end , customers get better rates from the big guys then the little guys and the company gets more customers. Instant growth for the company.
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Plymouth, MI | Re: Forced move said by BosstonesOwn:I beg to differ. There are many regional gsm providers that can and will be bought by tmo or AT&T in the future. I think that's the future trend as well.
said by BosstonesOwn:Win win in the end , customers get better rates from the big guys then the little guys and the company gets more customers. Yep. It doesn't make much sense economically for all of these little independents to be out there. This way the big boys can put together a huge unified network and eliminate roaming charges that they pay.
In the future I see at&t and tmo increasing their GSM footprint with Sprint and Verizon duking it out for a national CDMA footprint by buying out the small fry.
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| Re: Forced move I agree 100 %.
In fact I see sprint/nextel being sold off to Verizon wireless for quite a bit of change in the next 8 to 10 years.
The only place sprint can compete is on data. And that alone won't keep them in the game.
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join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA Reviews:
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| Re: Forced move said by BosstonesOwn:I agree 100 %. In fact I see sprint/nextel being sold off to Verizon wireless for quite a bit of change in the next 8 to 10 years. The only place sprint can compete is on data. And that alone won't keep them in the game. Great, another name change for NASCAR.
The VERIZON CUP Series.
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| iowa is actually a TM reseller/T-Mobile Affiliate.
Iowa Network Services (iWireless' owners) is privately owned by a group of 127 Independent Telephone Companies that serve 500,000 rural Iowans. Core network transport, broadcast video and Internet service via netINS are among the products offered by Iowa Network Services to telephone companies across the state of Iowa and to enterprise customers nationwide. For more information, go to: »www.IowaNetworkServices.com | |
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| Re: Forced move said by hottboiinnc:iowa is actually a TM reseller/T-Mobile Affiliate. Iowa Network Services (iWireless' owners) is privately owned by a group of 127 Independent Telephone Companies that serve 500,000 rural Iowans. Core network transport, broadcast video and Internet service via netINS are among the products offered by Iowa Network Services to telephone companies across the state of Iowa and to enterprise customers nationwide. For more information, go to: » www.IowaNetworkServices.com Yeah I figured as much just didn't see that they are tmo resellers. Either which way I wouldnt expect them to get away from having thier cu base bought soon.
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| Re: Forced move I actually think that their partnership with TMO is a long standing one so far. They've been a partners for some time now. Roughly 3 to 5 years. I don't see TMO cutting the deal only because TMO gets a cut of the sales. Either way its a win win for both companies. Its basically like reselling Cable modem service, either way the actual company is keeping a customer weather it be from the ISP they're wholesaling to or the customer buying direct.
iWireless is a regional provider though there and have plans for the most part targeted to their users such as prepaid iWireless (the prepaid cards) or unlimited iWireless like Revol or MetroPCS or Cricket. | |
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West Des Moines, IA | Re: Forced move Did iowa wireless get bought by Alltel recently? | |
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| Re: Forced move no. iWireless is a private company owned by a bunch of co-ops. The link i posted tells about them and who they're owners are and what the purpose of them doing business. They're customers of T-Mobile and iWireless is all GSM. Why would Alltel want them? iWireless doesn't own anything. | |
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join:2006-04-02
West Des Moines, IA | Re: Forced move My mistake, it's Midwest Wireless that was bought by Alltel. They are my neighbors at the collocation facility I'm in. | |
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join:2001-02-22
Clover, SC | I predicte this 2 years ago I predicted this two years ago, I wish I could have had money on it, here is the deal T-Mobile does not offer service in the Carolina's they have roaming here, but they do not have local phone numbers or local stores, those stores and employees will probably keep their jobs as the stores will be re-branded.
The network here is GSM and it is fairly new it was built by AT&T Wireless, Suncom owned a GSM network in VA which they built with some help from AT&T Wireless When Cingular bought AT&T Wireless they gave the AT&T GSM Network in the Carolina's to Suncom in exchange for the Suncom network in Virginia, basically becuase Cingualr had it's own GSM network in the Carolina's and didn't need both, but Cingular had no VA coverage. The Current Suncom stores here in the Carolina's were originally AT&T Stores those were traded as well, these employees all kept their jobs.
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i dread this happening!
t-mo absolutely SUX here in the carolinas. plus,
i don't know ANY plan t-mo has that will compare to
my suncom $49.99/month unlimited plan!
hello at&t, here i come!! | |
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but not everyone roams the country or europe!
so, i guess i get to pay extra for someone else to have those
benefits!
blows!
there's nothing good that t-mo brings to the table for me, and many others in this area of the country. | |
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| | morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | Re: hate when this happens so you'll essentially downgrade even further (fewer minutes, higher cost) to AT&T in protest? doesn't make much sense, but good luck to you! | |
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH | sprint as a verizon customer i dont want sprint. Plus it is nice to see competition for verizon to keep them in check. | |
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|  Homer JMmmm, Free Goo
join:2000-10-05
Springfield | Re: sprint I have a Verizon phone for work and a personal Sprint phone. I am surprised by the amount of places I canget service with Sprint but not with Verizon. There are a few where I get Verizon but not Sprint, but they are few and far between. I also get unlimited internet for $15/mo and I can tether for that price, can't do that on Verizon. I know it is the old slower data service, but it works great for email at the airport. I almost went with Verizon for my personal phone, but I am glad I didn't.
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH | Re: sprint I thought you could do it but you had to pay extra to tether even on their old network. | |
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