MetroPCS and Deutsche Telekom Confirm Merger Talks
This Would Be a Bad Move.
John B.
Slammer said:
Tmobile is GSM based and MetroPCS is CDMA. While both carriers transitioning to LTE would eliminate compatibility issues, the GSM, CDMA legacy would remain for several+years. This would inherently re-live a Sprint/Nextel mess. I doesn't make sense to me. Personally, I don't know what DT is thinking.
John B.
Even Forrest Gump knows that "stupid is as stupid does"
If any entity merges with MetroPCS, some of the most competitive prices in the industry would go right down the drain............ 😲
Slammer said:
Tmobile is GSM based and MetroPCS is CDMA. While both carriers transitioning to LTE would eliminate compatibility issues, the GSM, CDMA legacy would remain for several+years. This would inherently re-live a Sprint/Nextel mess. I doesn't make sense to me. Personally, I don't know what DT is thinking.
John B.
True but Metro was planning to move the CDMA customers to VoLTE and sunset the CDMA network anyway. Either way it would be inevitable that the CDMA customers would somehow be affected. I don't think it would be that messy as Sprint/Nextel though and prices would stay competitive IMO. Plus the spectrum matches. Metro has AWS and so does T-Mo. T-Mo wants LTE and Metro already has it.
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I don't see the logic. Tmobile could possibly refarm their spectrum but it doesn't seem very strategic. It would leave them in a chaotic position. They are already an outcast with their current AWS spectrum holdings.
I say leave well enough alone.
John B.
Slammer said:
Tmobile is GSM based and MetroPCS is CDMA. While both carriers transitioning to LTE would eliminate compatibility issues, the GSM, CDMA legacy would remain for several+years. This would inherently re-live a Sprint/Nextel mess. I doesn't make sense to me. Personally, I don't know what DT is thinking.
John B.
I disagree with that statement.
If managed appropriately, the technology should not be an issue. They could pool together their LTE resources, and begin transitioning all GSM/CDMA customers to LTE as devices are upgraded or brought to market, as both companies are already planning combined GSM/LTE or CDMA/LTE devices.
Does anybody remember the Cingular acquisition of AT&T Wire...
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