Verizon Expands Coverage With Purchase of Rural Cellular
Perspective from an RCC employee
Just to clarify a couple of things... first, our GSM markets greatly outnumber our CDMA markets. We only use CDMA in the midwest area, which is most of Minnesota and small portions of Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. That means that Verizon Wireless will have to overlay most of our network with CDMA. Interestingly enough, the word is that they plan to keep the GSM network running as a source of roaming revenue, since AT&T is our single biggest customer in terms of airtime billing. The ...
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Data goes up 70%????
I wonder the reason for the increase????
Now cutting through the bullshit, any VZW rep would prob...
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will VZW keep there name when they take over unicel
will VZW keep there name when they take over unicel
Does this mean verizon will use GSM towers
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wow
though it will keep the GSM networks up and running to help provide roaming coverage to other GSM carriers
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this is very cool
...I wonder if there doing this because there going to take down there old analog towers witch would make the rural areas worse with coverage?
jamesb said:...
this is very good for me because i live in the country in Maine and verizon wireless was never very good here but now with this rural cellular i think it will do much better I'm telling everyone
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UNICEL IN MAINE
Coverage, for the Maine Market anyway, will greatly improve for Verizon Customers plus Verizon is currently only licensed to sell in parts of Maine, but with the addition of RCC they will be able so service most of the State.
The only nagitive I see with the purchase is for the Employees of RCC Unicel which may lose the jobs, especially the call center employees here in Bangor.
But on the whole, GOOD NEWS!!
I am sure they can hire a few of you ๐คฃ
You're not surpised, are you? Well, kinda!
I would have never guessed VZW, though. Who would have thunk?! I always assumed T-mo, AT&T, or even Alltel at one point. But VZW shocked me. GSM may prove to be a good bargaining chip for them, though, but time will tell.
Good luck to all those folks in regional offices, retail stores/warehouses, marketing, etc. VZW won't allow much redundancy and they didnโt wake up this morning and decide to do this. They have a plan and will follow it. Your input and concerns m...
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NO FAIR
Now that Verizon has done it. What say you Verizon fan boys / AT&T haters?
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mcfadonna said:...
Hey Verizon Shouldn't be able to do this. Its anti-free market. They are gonna become a Monopoly ๐ Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah!
Now that Verizon has done it. What say you Verizon fan boys / AT&T ha
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Bad news for consumers
Look for AT&T to try and get a deal in place with other carriers to fill this gap. The last thing in the world AT&T likes doing is writing a check to Verizon for anything!
I just hope that...
regine44 said:»
Their Coverage for anyone wondering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicel
Interesting. Thanks!