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How well did T-Mobile do?

Protege

Sep 19, 2006, 8:43 AM
Did they do as good as expected or were they expected to do better? It sounds like they did well.
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longhorntodd

Sep 19, 2006, 9:50 AM
They spent allot of money but the real question is did they get good bang for their buck? My belief is they over spent in many areas. But all in all they did well I think! Can they continue to offer their data products at such a low cost with this kind of money to make up?
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vzwcellular

Sep 19, 2006, 2:01 PM
My question is this: did they get any spectrum in the Carolinas?
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terryjohnson16

Sep 19, 2006, 3:35 PM
Yes.
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mingkee

Sep 20, 2006, 2:53 PM
yes
at least 20MHz
to answer the OP:
currently T-mobile still have no 2G coverage in some markets
these 3G licenses can help opening up these new markets, and gain at least 1 million customers
yes, T-Mobile can simply buyout Suncom to gain 2G native coverage in these markets, but the question is: how much it costs to acquire Suncom?!
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roamer1

Sep 20, 2006, 7:21 PM
Yes...the large Southeast REA licenses cover the Carolinas.

IMO, the new AWS licenses still don't change the likelihood (high) of T-Mobile taking over SunCom sooner or later...having AWS without PCS doesn't make a lot of sense.

-SC
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krum303

Sep 21, 2006, 3:05 AM
Plus, T-Mobile just switched their main roaming partner in the Carolinas from Cingular to Suncom (Triton) so maybe there's a buy-out in the works? Regardless, this isn't going to affect their voice/data plan prices as T-Mobile USA didn't put up the cash, Deutsche Telekom did. 🙂
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mingkee

Sep 21, 2006, 7:37 AM
Suncom will merger with T-Mobile/DT eventually, but it may not be that soon because $$$$$, and T-Mobile will have native 3G coverage there
if Triton (Suncom) mergers with DT, it'll be certain type, that may not cost DT much money (this'll be a mutual relationship, or like Iowa Wireless, becomes a T-Mobile Affiliate)
since Suncom is under bad fincial shape, that they're likely to ask DT to help, and becomes T-Mobile Affiliate (the latter case) is just a matter of time
Suncom must join DT to save themselves (and gain 3G service from T-Mobile, and give 2G service to T-Mobile)
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jinx7676

Sep 20, 2006, 7:42 AM
longhorntodd said:
They spent allot of money but the real question is did they get good bang for their buck? My belief is they over spent in many areas. But all in all they did well I think! Can they continue to offer their data products at such a low cost with this kind of money to make up?


i don't think they can. in order to build out this new spectrum, i wouldn't be surprised if you see them start to scale back on their offerings to more closely resemble plans that the other major carriers offer.

DT might be the parent company, but $4 Billion is a lot to make up. it's not like the spent it aquiring another company and gaining subs. they have the same number of subs, so they have their work cut out ...
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krum303

Sep 21, 2006, 3:09 AM
We'll see in the next quarter or so. I'm sure the UMA release is going to add a considerable amount of subscribers especially those swapping there landlines for T-Mobile@home. DT loves T-Mobile USA, however...according to businessweek.com they made alot of profit for them the first 2 quarters even though their churn was awful in Q2.
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bfedor78

Sep 21, 2006, 8:05 AM
Yes 4 billion is a lot to make up. But, when you are the 3rd largest wireless company in the world it doesn't hurt so much. Yes for you that don't know T-Mobile is the third largest company in the world. We have almost twice as many subscribers as Cingular. Don't expect T-Mobile to mirror the other carriers, as a matter of fact you will see a few new plans come out in the next couple of months that will make T-Mobile even more competitive.
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nextel18

Sep 22, 2006, 10:37 AM
I actually agree. I think they did quite well despite odds that they wouldn’t be so successful. However, in the West they got F block which was great because that would allow them to have an additional 20mhz. North East however they got the E block which only allows them to get 10mhz. in Central they did well with getting 20mhz Great lakes and Southeast they only got E and D blocks which only gives them 10mhz. The other areas where they bought spectrum seemed to be some nice areas and they got A block in a lot of areas and F blocks, which gives them 20mhz while they did get some others that give them only 10mhz.

I think all in all they did a good job but they should have tried to outbid Verizon with getting the F blocks in the areas wher...
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mingkee

Sep 25, 2006, 12:25 PM
this is WAY TOO EXPENSIVE to get all F blocks (over $60G)
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Protege

Sep 25, 2006, 3:40 PM
Tell me about it... Essentially they are bidding on invisible radio waves... 😕

lol
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mingkee

Sep 26, 2006, 4:57 PM
go to wireless.fcc.gov, pick auction 66, and check the results
scroll to the bottom, you'll see the REAG licenses, and see how much of all F blocks
they're all premium!!! 🤣 😲
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nextel18

Sep 27, 2006, 9:49 AM
Of course, it is excessively expensive but in order to provide customers with the right scale of devices, and solutions you need the best of things.

It isn’t $60g it is more like billions of dollars in major areas.
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