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DE 2 Philly

Aug 31, 2010, 9:01 PM
With Sprint having the first quarter in 3 years grossing more gains than losses; and the still surplus in moneys incoming.. (no sprint isnt in debt before everyone goes ranting).. I would think they would be able to afford more investments into their 4G network?

Does this hint toward another reason for a merger?
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Versed

Aug 31, 2010, 9:09 PM
Not sure but time will tell, but there are other options, TMO/TD investing into Clear and either continuing with wimax or the smarter course dump it and go LTE and or doing what the Canadian cdma carriers do, use hspa+ as their 3g alternative. Which would be a great idea.

Moving away from dying cdma would be a very smart move. Merging isn't really needed, but a different business model is a good idea.
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DE 2 Philly

Sep 1, 2010, 10:19 AM
CDMA = Verizon & Sprint
USA = WIN

GSM = AT&T & T-MO
International = WIN

CDMA is a much better technology in this country compared to GSM.. so dying? Meh..
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ButtaKnife

Sep 1, 2010, 10:51 AM
GSM is also dying, though, since carriers are looking at 4G.

I would actually like to see Sprint and T-Mo merge and deploy an LTE network. Sprint has the spectrum and head-start on a new network build-out with Clear, and the extra assets of T-Mo could help speed up the process.
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Jayshmay

Sep 1, 2010, 11:10 AM
GSM isn't dying, LTE is an evolution of GSM.
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Azeron

Sep 1, 2010, 9:14 PM
🙄

Seriously. Anyone can determine what technology they are stepping up to next. The reason for switching to a new technology? The old one is obsolete? GSM is NOT LTE. So GSM is a dying technology. Just as CDMA is.
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