Verizon Wireless, metroPCS Win New Spectrum
Verizon's spectrum lust
obviously Verizon wants more spectrum pretty badly. they keep buying more and more of it.
This is actually a very good strategy. Verizon has two strengths at this point, a strong balance sheet and a large subscriber base. i can not fault them for trying to profit from their strengths.
I think verizon wireless, whose parent's claim the operation has been profitable for years, was trying to spend its competitors, especially debt ladden Sprint, into the ground. EV-DO was one way of doing so, acquiring more spectrum is the other. More spectrum means better quality of service (less interference per band per cell hence fewer dropped calls), ability to offer more talk minutes per dollar and ability to offer a greater variety of services (a la...
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This is actually a very good strategy. Verizon has two strengths at this point, a strong balance sheet and a large subscriber base. i can not fault them for trying to profit from their strengths.
I think verizon wireless, whose parent's claim the operation has been profitable for years, was trying to spend its competitors, especially debt ladden Sprint, into the ground. EV-DO was one way of doing so, acquiring more spectrum is the other. More spectrum means better quality of service (less interference per band per cell hence fewer dropped calls), ability to offer more talk minutes per dollar and ability to offer a greater variety of services (a la...
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viper said:...
obviously Verizon wants more spectrum pretty badly. they keep buying more and more of it.
This is actually a very good strategy. Verizon has two strengths at this point, a strong balance sheet and a large subscriber
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EV-DO is at least part of the reason for this spectrum grab. EV-DO requires its own additional spectrum.
So where they're already maxed out on 1xRTT, they can't roll out EV-DO without more spectrum.
Plus, EV-DO is a "shared pipe", so the more pe...
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So where they're already maxed out on 1xRTT, they can't roll out EV-DO without more spectrum.
Plus, EV-DO is a "shared pipe", so the more pe...
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Metro Licenses.
It's nice to see Metro moving into new areas. Here's a fantasy: Unlimited coverage over the entire state?
yea thats great that metropcs is making its move to be part of a big boys. I just like to see some better signal strenth like version and sprint. but they are a young campany, so we will have to wait and see. i think if they was to go national, they w...
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