Verizon Wireless Finds Buyer for Remaining Alltel Assets
When will AT&T buy out this company!
One step toward little guys getting bought out and Verizon and AT&T fully monopolizing the U.S. market!
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I doubt anyone will buyout Comnet. Comnet has their networks in areas that the big guys don't want to build out. For areas where both AT&T & Verizon have networks in no man's land, those networks were built out years ago, and they're not doing major upgrades to those areas. AT&T already must spend some big bucks to upgrade the GSM network in areas where they bought divested Alltel markets that had both GSM & CDMA.
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I actually don't think it is going to cost as much to upgrade from CDMA to GSM. Many of those Alltel markets that AT&T is buying were former Western Wireless markets with GSM roaming capabilities in a sizable are within their coverage. I actually think it's great because now many customer who only had access to CDMA carriers will now have a choice between CDMA and GSM.
I have driven through North Dakota and South Dakota, and the GSM coverage is already quite good, but residents could choose only between CDMA carriers (Alltel, Verizon, and Sprint in a few cities, with the small mom and pop CDMA carriers) or Nextel, which has terrible service in those areas. I was there last summer and the residents loved the concept of the SIM card an...
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I have driven through North Dakota and South Dakota, and the GSM coverage is already quite good, but residents could choose only between CDMA carriers (Alltel, Verizon, and Sprint in a few cities, with the small mom and pop CDMA carriers) or Nextel, which has terrible service in those areas. I was there last summer and the residents loved the concept of the SIM card an...
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