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6 More Regionals Join Verizon's Rural LTE Initiative

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Well, So Much For The Little Giants.

Slammer

Feb 15, 2011, 12:51 PM
Within 5 years, I suspect these carriers will be gone. No longer able to recover and offset the price of building the networks, they will fall to grace and Verizon will mop them up for a fraction of the cost of building the network themselves.


John B.
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Feb 15, 2011, 3:17 PM
2014 sounds about the right time when these will be folded in. 😉
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GettingSleepy

Feb 15, 2011, 4:58 PM
There's no other way for these carriers to acquire access to the spectrum that's needed for LTE right?
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Azeron

Feb 15, 2011, 5:18 PM
These little guys need to look to Cellular South for some heart. Everyone knows this is just Verizon's way of easing the *Bleep* into them.
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Azeron

Feb 15, 2011, 5:15 PM
If they fall, it better not be Verizon or AT&T for that matter who gets to mop up the leftovers. Those guys are big enough as it is. The Alltel thing was overkill. Verizon should have to pay a luxury tax like the Yankees. They are WAY over the spectrum cap. They had to perform so many divestitures to absorb Alltel that the whole thing was laughable.
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Slammer

Feb 15, 2011, 5:56 PM
Unfortunately, Verizon owns the spectrum. If these carriers fail(and I suspect most will under this initiative), Verizon will be the only logical candidate to make an economical takeover.

This is the worst thing that can happen in an already depleting competitve market.

John B.
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Hitur Petar

Feb 15, 2011, 8:32 PM
As far as LTE is concerned this might be true, but I'm not sure it will be so easy to actually own these smaller companies due to regulations. The companies themselves are sometimes the only competitor to Verizon and it wouldn't be allowed to buy them.
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JeffroPuff

Feb 22, 2011, 5:51 PM
it would be a market-by-market thing. they would apply to acquire, be told where they could and where they couldn't. Divest what they couldn't. those broken little pieces would be too weak to sustain, so getting slurped up by another one of the big 4. Either way, doom for the little guy.
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