T-Mobile Tests MediaFLO Too

Threaten Verizon?!?!?!?!?!? Tmobile is still 20 million plus customers behind Verizon, but things are going to change really, really fast by this time next year in the wireless industry. Probably both Cingular and Verizon will have more than 60 million customers each, Sprint is pretty aggressive too.

I don't think the number of customers is the only indicator of service. Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, but I don't think it's safe to assume that Wal-Mart carries the highest quality products...

The only reason most of the companies are up there are because of mergers/acquisitions. Verizon Wireless, Cingular, Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel all got bigger because of this. I'm not sure if T-Mobile has done any acquisitions where it has gained customers since DT took VoiceStream.

All good points. Though I still believe things are going to change a lot towards the end of 07.

If you count all of the T-Mobile customers around the world, every carrier is really small. Last I heard that was about 85 mil customers in '05

T-Mobile has network in 10-13 differant parts of the world.

Bigger than Vodafone?

You can only believe that because that is expected from a nation/wide carrier, not because they are hermetic as far as press releases/conferences go. it is in fact rather discouraging not to hear any news from your service provider and get to watch all the other news from other companies on almost any known media. You must have a lot of faith in Verizon to state this, man. Even if that was true, companies who advertise get revenue, and they also gain customers or potential customers by "leaking" this kind of info.

either way T-Mobile has some serious plans up their sleeves and they are gonna make sure they do everything right. While T-Mobile may at the moment have the smallest customer base out of the top 4 carriers, those are loyal customers. When they catch up or get ahead of the other carriers that's when other carriers are gonna be worrying because T-Mobile has the customer service to back them up too.

unlike Sprint who has their EV-DO and kewl phones.... If you don't serve your customers... who wants to use the product...

yeah sorry to burst your bubble but t-mobile doesnt have anything except minutes. i think t-mobile should downgrade themselves to a prepaid service personally.

right now for voice its:

cingular
verizon
sprint/nextel
alltel
t-mobile

for data cards:
Sprint/nextel
verizon
cingular
alltel
t-mobile (scarce)

but since alltel and sprint and the cable companies are working together for data, i dont think anyone will touch sprints data, especially since rev.a is up and wimax this year.

verizon already has mediaflo tv phones and sprint does too. but with verizon having limited channels mostly on demand on v-cast, and sprint having mostly live. i fell sprint would also win this with their merger with cable companies

All tmobile has is minutes? So the fact that tmobile is doing everything in their power (acquiring spectrum, adding towers)to catch up to the big boys means nothing to you. And that list that you came up with is pretty silly unless of course you have tried each and every carrier for a period of time.

...true, and 4 JD Power awards in a row for customer care is also nothing.

Try 26 in all. 6 regions in the USA x 4 years. Plus the 2 for best B2B sales dept.

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But by most peeps math it would be 6 in all.

Not only every carrier for a period of time, but every carrier's nationwide coverage, know which areas are strong and which are weak, and yes, every carrier has them.

I agree T-mobile is up and coming however, T-mobile is a little short on spectrum (as of right now and in the near future) to compete as a bigboy. They have purchased spectrum, however it will be sometime before that spectrum will be used. I am curious to see where they are headed in the next year but they still lack home coverage in some key areas in order to become a true big player.
One other note is that T-mobile is still small enough to get swallowed up by another carrier. And since they spent some money on the spectrum auction, it will be a while before they aquire some other ma and pa cell companies...

Jonathanlc2005 said:
yeah sorry to burst your bubble but t-mobile doesnt have anything except minutes. i think t-mobile should downgrade themselves to a prepaid service personally.

right now for voice its:

cingular
verizon
sprint/nextel
alltel
t-mobile

for data cards:
Sprint/nextel
verizon
cingular
alltel
t-mobile (scarce)

but since alltel and sprint and the cable companies are working together for data, i dont think anyone will touch sprints data, especially since rev.a is up and wimax this year.

verizon already has mediaflo tv phones and sprint does too. but with verizon having limited channels mostly on demand on v-cast, and sprint having mostly live. i fell sprint would also win this with their

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8-12 months and it will still be 20 million some odd subscribers 🤣

i heard about t-mobile in the west coast. and i said sprint is better in my opinion because it roams on verizon towers and alltel and many more with no roaming charges(just without the arm and a leg of verizons prices or brew phones)

by the way, 1xrtt is just as fast as edge, but wifi is limited to blocks. wimax is miles(more like over 10 miles on one tower) feel free to look it up on youtube.

you can have your wifi. but why stay limited to a certain area for like 40 bucks a month when you can have mobile everywhere for 60 dollars unlimited and its like double then dsl.

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Tmo works fine for me. You are entitled to your opinion, but I reiterate that the list you came up with is ridiculous.

That's great that you are holding on to the "right now", cause if you didn't notice, I was talking about the future. What customers care about customer base? In a year T-Mob will have the @home service, and be a whole new company. And who cares if you have the strongest internet if you keep getting "phantom" charges from a company trying to recoup losses from bad mergers, on top of higher charges already? Sprint needs to make major moves to stay up, and don't have the money anymore to do it.

if you didnt read my last post... thats why the cable companies have joined with sprint 🙄

So, what does that mean, that Sprint is going to outsource its data to the cable companies?

I haven't heard of anything with the cable companies contribution to the infrastructure of Sprint's networks, as far as I know it's simply marketing to bundle and have service that Sprint itself cannot offer.

In all honesty, the previous post looks like PR directly from Sprint-Nextel.

Cingular bought AT&T Wireless. Sprint bought Nextel. Verizon has been buying small companies and was itself the merger of Bell Atlantic, GTE, PrimeCo, and Vodafone AirTouch.

Any major purchases for T-Mo since DT bought VoiceStream?

If you want data coverage, Sprint is about as good as a cordless phone plugged into a wireline. I've used Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular data cards. Cingular was the clear cut coverage winner. When I'm roaming, I've never had a problem connecting to other carriers for data, something that Sprint and Verizon aren't very good with. The CDMA companies have some time to catch up to the GSM companies with data roaming.

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I agree that Verizon will be easy to pick off the top.

I remember the days when AT&T Wireless was considered the ultimate company, the best plans, the best coverage, the best customer service, and the best price. We all knows what happened to them: cash sale of assets to the highest bidder (Cingular).