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DT would have several advantages to buying Sprint.

ATnT Nokia

Sep 13, 2009, 8:49 PM
1. This would give them access to a CDMA network which means:
a. More roaming income from other CDMA carriers.
b. T-Mobile USA could get GSM/CDMA capable handsets which would allow T-Mobile customers to roam on Verizon which would expand T-Mobile coverage.

2. Another possibility is that T-Mobile could take its US market to CDMA and sell off or collect roaming revenue from its GSM network. Or it could stay with GSM and use the CDMA network for roaming and or for MVNOs who wish to use the former Sprint network.
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ATnT Nokia

Sep 13, 2009, 8:54 PM
ATnT Nokia said:
1. This would give them access to a CDMA network which means:
a. More roaming income from other CDMA carriers.
b. T-Mobile USA could get GSM/CDMA capable handsets which would allow T-Mobile customers to roam on Verizon which would expand T-Mobile coverage.

2. Another possibility is that T-Mobile could take its US market to CDMA and sell off or collect roaming revenue from its GSM network. Or it could stay with GSM and use the CDMA network for roaming and or for MVNOs who wish to use the former Sprint network.


Just read the UK Telegraph's article and had a thought: if they buy Sprint, they could go CDMA and sell off T-Mobile's GSM network to Vodafone, which could in t...
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Azeron

Sep 13, 2009, 10:24 PM
Vodaphone would be crazy to give up its stake in Verizon Wireless with VZW going to LTE.
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BigKippa

Sep 14, 2009, 1:38 PM
How about T-mobile keeps it's Network and converts it entirely into WiMax, lepa frogging the merged company into a dominating 4G network even more ahead than Sprint already is. Sprint is already ahead of the game in 4G, and T-Mo is barley 3g, just skip the 3G upgrade and help build out and convert T-Mo's network! What an idea, I hope I am right!
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Azeron

Sep 14, 2009, 2:26 PM
But what would T-Mobile do with the AWS spectrum they purchased? They've already rolled out handsets with 1700mHz and 2100mHz for 3G.
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BigKippa

Sep 14, 2009, 2:28 PM
Ehh I'm just dreaming here, thee are too many factors that say this is a bad deal. I wish Google would hurry up and buy Sprint and turn it in to Google Wireless!
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Tmo Slave

Sep 14, 2009, 2:30 PM
If the deal did go through it would be at least a year before things are switched over. That is more than enough time to change phones coming out and new phones.
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WMDuchess

Sep 13, 2009, 9:11 PM
or maybe they can use the money they are going to use to "buy sprint" to get their own cdma up and running or even better get their 3g up and running as fast as verizon or sprint...

but hey its just an opinion right.
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