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llama said:
Isn't Virgin a MVNO...not a full fledged carrier? I don't see why there'd be any kind of "divestitures".
The FCC is not likely to allow VZW & AT&T to just "buy up" even more market share.
AJ
WiWavelength said:
The FCC is not likely to allow VZW & AT&T to just "buy up" even more market share.
AJ
That and at least with VZW, buying an MVNO just doesn't seem to be a good strategy. Most MVNOs operate at much lower costs than contracted and carrier-branded prepay, and VZW would rather just have the contracted or prepay revenue.
llama said:
I guess I didn't realize the FCC was in the business of regulating "market share". I just thought the FCC regulated radio spectrum, and considering Virgin Mobile has none, I didn't figure this would be the realm of the FCC.
The FCC has a mandate to oversee healthy competition w/in the services it regulates, especially those that rely upon public spectrum. To allow an already overblown wireless carrier (e.g. VZW or AT&T) to use anti competitive means to steal away additional market share from a smaller competitor (e.g. Sprint) would contravene that mandate.
AJ
Those considerations would likely rule out both MetroPCS & Leap (dba Cricket), as neither would be content to operate on the Sprint network and neither has sufficient coverage to migrate all Virgin Mobile subs to its own network.
And, agreed, it would not be VZW or AT&T. While either could readily migrate Virgin Mobile subs to its own network, both have worn out their welcome w/ mergers & acquisitions.
It could be T-Mobile USA, as Virgin Mobile in the UK is an MVNO on the T-Mobile network. It could be a cable company, such as Comcast or Time Warner or Cox, all of which have wir...
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