Verizon to Swap Its 700MHz for U.S. Cellular's 1900MHz

It is no benifit to them to buy USCC. USCC used their system to roam on and they are already in most of the same areas that USCC is in. so where would be the benifit? they would be only purchasing 6.1million customers.

iDont Care said:
and get rid of them!

VZW may be thinking that it can divest these Lower 700 MHz licenses, then recover them in a few years in an acquisition of US Cellular. However, the Carlson family -- who apparently retain enough stock to control parent company Telephone and Data Systems, which in turn controls 81 percent of US Cellular -- have thus far shown no indications of selling.

As for the "get rid of them!" quote, that is juvenile. The last thing that the already over consolidated domestic wireless industry needs is for VZW or AT&T to swallow up yet another mid major carrier.

AJ

Your wish is a very dangerous one.

Approximately 6 rural carriers have already joined VZW's continuing network alliance of having the smaller carriers build out their own networks while being able to use VZW's LTE licensed spectrum.

My fear is that all of these carriers will succumb to failure and end up in the the crosshairs of VZW once most of the networks are built.

I would like to point out that we need MORE competition; not LESS. While USCC is small in comparison to tier1 carriers, it's existence is crucial to a small percentage of balance in retaining some form of justified competiton.

Let's not have death come upon the few left rebels of hope.

John B.