FCC Chief Glad Sprint Ditching T-Mobile Bid
This Says It All.....
I'm quite sure AT&T and VZW feel the same way.
John B.
If DT wants to sell T-Mobile, it needs to sell it to a company that isn't already involved in the wireless business in this country. We need to keep at least four national carriers.
But, to go a bit offtopic, my opinion of why Sprint and T-Mobile lag behind AT&T and Verizon is mainly because the two smaller carriers have refused to expand their coverage outside of major metro areas and...
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Why do so many people feel extensive coverage is so important. I have concluded in so many mathmatical figuring that most don't need the kind of extensive coverage AT&T and VZW have successfully marketed to the consumers. Sprint's coverage is actually very good. I can go just about anywhere and have service. At the few times where there is no Sprint service, I roam on VZW. I think the largest complaint is in building signal. Both Tmobile and Sprint have addressed this with the low band spectrum holding they have acquired. Tmobi...
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John B.
As far as data speeds lets be honest, on a smartphone, I really doubt anywould notice a difference between 15 or so mb's down then 30. That all is bragging rights. Rather see some nationwide consistancy on all the carriers then people posting they got 64mb's down on TMO. And I don't doubt them. Even I've seen some fast speedchecks, then drive 10 minutes and you're lucky you get hspa+.
3 weeks or so I got a One Plus One, and see very little differences between big blue and magenta.
So, I'm sure that when you're in traffic you don't notice any difference between the lane moving 15 mph and the lane moving 30 mph. The people in the lane moving 30 mph just have bragging rights, but they're not really getting anywhere any faster, right?
Variances and licensing is fickle for tower placement. I can agree that many areas could use more choices. However, an instance happened near me a few years ago where Sprint tried to build a tower and were voted down by the town. Miraculously, a year and half later, AT&T was given approval for the same area. Another example is a place in the Adirondacks was just given a variance for a tower in the Hamlet to build. It specifies that only AT&T and/or VZW have the rights to installing antennae on these towers. Any other carrier would have to seek another tower variance.
These are only a couple of examples...
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There's no reason for a merger and we've disagreed on this from the beginning. Dish is just sitting on substantial spectrum albeit high frequency. They would be a better suitor for T-Mobile.
Sprint is also sitting on a lot of spectrum. Why aren't they deploying it and taking on Verizon and At&t?
They were postpaid customers. The most desired kind.
Verizon added more customers, but most of them were for tablets. Remove tablets from the equation, ie lets talk about cell phones only, and T-Mobile added more postpaid than Verizon.
At the risk of sounding stereotypical, what kind of post paid? I know many individuals that can't afford to flush their toilets, yet, still have post paid phones.
John B.
And that has What exactly to do with the value of the subscriber? Post paid's are more valuable because they make a lot more profit off them, plain and simple, and there is an contractual ETF tied to your social just in case they default.
A carrier doesn't Really care if they pay their bill or not, if they don't often the carrier makes more whether or not they pay the ETF due to charge offs. The carriers pay the master agents hundreds of dollars, often well over $500 for a Single good credit post paid activation in addition to the dealer subsidy offset. This business mode...
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I happen to agree having four carriers woud be better then 3, having 5 major carriers would be even better. You may not believe me, but I wish all of them did well. And I also agree I don't know how long TMO will be able to keep this up. Sprint as far as using evdo and regular voice for calls ir good here, but they always neglected where I live improving data. No LTE, and previous no WiMAX and that with all of their promises. I will also say I dislike CDMA, I think half the problems in our nation is do to locked down CDMA. I have two line for myself, my family plan is with AT&T, and with their new schemes and corporate discount the price isn't bad. 5 Smartphones, 10 gb of data, unlimited calls and texts cost me there abouts...
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AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless) became a giant when the former Cingular Wireless bought out the floundering old AT&T Wireless in 2003/4. AT&T bought out additional regional carriers like Cell One Dobson.
Verizon Wireless bought out Alltel in 2009.
Both the current AT&T and Verizon Wireless were formed as a result of mega mergers:
Verizon Wireless was formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic Mobile, Vodafone/Airtouch Cellular, GTE Wireless and PrimeCo.
Cingular was formed by the merger of BellSouth Wireless and SBC Wireless in 2001. (both companies had previously gobbled up several other carriers around the country)
Sprint and T-Mobile have made a...
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VZW and AT&T were destined to be the largest right from the start. The Bell system had it all worked out from the beginning. Equivalent to a rich person willing the entire fortune to their children.
John B.
Most of those large mergers in the past required the buyer to sell off redundant properties. It was not just a competitor buyout like Sprint was aiming for (or AT&T when they recently tried to do the same).
As of now, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon have little need to add more area.
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