House of Reps Wants Verizon's Spectrum Plans Examined
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But consumers choose them. 100,000's are leaving Tmo each qtr.
Jayshmay said:
Good point! Their both tooo big!!!
But consumers choose them. 100,000's are leaving Tmo each qtr.
In whoose estimate?
A lot of customers want national coverage, rather than regional with spotty roaming.
A lot of customers want a company that can actually build and maintain a reliable network and invest in faster networks.
To achieve that, those companies must be large.
If all you want is coverage in your particular area with slower networks, then the smaller companies will fit you desires.
But the 'OMG they are too big' stuff is just so wrong as to be laughable...
Every cellular customer has choices.
The fact that millions choose Red or Blue shouldn't be of any concern t ...
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There was no gross bias in my post.
I laid out some very pertinent facts and it probably stings you to get a dose of reality.
I've been a cellular customer since the first bag phones came out.
I've lived through the pangs of a fledgling industry, seen the good and the bad.
The patchwork of local networks that would call your phone when you wandered into their terrotory to tell you your roaming charges for them calling you.
Lawsuits with Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems over billing practices.
The fact remains, that your opinion of what constitutes 'too big' is rather immaterial.
The fact remains that millions upon millions do prefer to utilize national networks as laid out by Veris...
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When one or two players in any industry become so large that they can dramatically influence the ability of other companies to compete in the marketplace, that's bad for everyone except the stakeholders in the larger companies.
The FCC needs to resurrect the Spectrum Screen:
No single entity shall operate service in more than 30% of the available actively deployed and used spectrum in any given market.
There is no monopoly or immenent monopoly in the cellular industry.
There are very few consumers who's carrier choices are limited to less than 3.
The more dense the population of a region, the more carrier choice there will be.
The very fact that Verison and ATT have millions upon millions of customers would indicate some merit in the service they supply to their customers.
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