AT&T Going After Verizon Wireless Assets
I don't understand how this works. . .
A little help please.
For most markets that Verizon must divest, they are CDMA (which is what Alltel currently uses). Some markets in the great plains & the west also have GSM overlaid from Alltel's purchase of Western Wireless. In those markets, both CDMA carriers held the cellular licenses, and no GSM carrier built out in PCS. So Western Wireless (and later Alltel) put up the GSM roaming network to make some money off AT&T (nee Cingular) & T-Mobile. AT&T would have to be foolish to pass up places such as Montana & all of North & South Dakota, since GSM is al...
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Verizon sold their Puerto Rican network and subscribers to America Movil/Claro, and Claro has been converting Verizon's existing CDMA network to GSM/UMTS. I think AT&T can easily do the same with the Centennial subscribers there.
TheSinister said:
😈 🤣 Thats the Whole True fact now behind this story, and I was trying to get across to everyone read my most at the bottom. You'll understand this whole point of view AT&T wants the GSM cell sites, not the CDMA Cell sites come on people understand this!!!
In some markets that AT&T acquires, they won't have a choice, but to acquire CDMA networks, and spend money to convert those markets to GSM. The CDMA/GSM markets will be easier, as it's already in place. The only thing AT&T would have to do for those markets (should they acquire the CDMA/GSM combo networks) is add additional towers to make the GSM side work like it should, without lots of holes in the coverage area.
Spectrum is issued by the FCC (like in the 700 MHz auction) for any company to use for their needs. This has nothing to do with the technology used to handle wireless calls, it is merely the frequency used to to carry the technology (it's basically the road in an interstate system).
CDMA and GSM are technologies that allow the phones to communicate to the network in general. In a technical term they are decoding schemes that use the spectrum to communicate how the phones should talk to the network. (They would be the cars on the interstate, they are how you get around).
Towers are where carriers put up their antennas to transmit the spectrum to user their technology to talk. (They wou...
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What Verizon is doing is selling off floors because it already has space above or below what Alltel owned. AT&T may not own any floors in that area.
the government regulates how many lanes of the toll road each carrier has access to. the more spectrum a single carrier has the more lanes they can have customers on and the easier traffic flows (fast internet speeds, good call quality, few dropped calls). In turn if a carrier owns a small amount of spectrum there would be traffic jams and customers would have dropped calls, poor call quality and slow connection speeds.
in short the more spectrum you have the better you can provide service to customers.
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I don't know if any of the markets Verizon is divesting of Alltel involves any PCS or not. I know Alltel doesn't have many PCS only markets, and any markets that do have PCS running are in cellular/PCS markets. I do believe that Verizon is acquiring the unused PCS licenses that Alltel holds, but doesn't have a network built out on them. Alltel did acquire all the PCS licenses that Western Wireless held when they were bought out in 2005. So I expect the markets to be the 800 bane spectrum being divested of Alltel's. Only in Mich...
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