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Verizon's spectrum lust

viper

Jul 12, 2004, 11:59 AM
obviously Verizon wants more spectrum pretty badly. they keep buying more and more of it.

This is actually a very good strategy. Verizon has two strengths at this point, a strong balance sheet and a large subscriber base. i can not fault them for trying to profit from their strengths.

I think verizon wireless, whose parent's claim the operation has been profitable for years, was trying to spend its competitors, especially debt ladden Sprint, into the ground. EV-DO was one way of doing so, acquiring more spectrum is the other. More spectrum means better quality of service (less interference per band per cell hence fewer dropped calls), ability to offer more talk minutes per dollar and ability to offer a greater variety of services (a la...
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muchdrama

Jul 12, 2004, 3:00 PM
viper said:
obviously Verizon wants more spectrum pretty badly. they keep buying more and more of it.

This is actually a very good strategy. Verizon has two strengths at this point, a strong balance sheet and a large subscriber base. i can not fault them for trying to profit from their strengths.

I think verizon wireless, whose parent's claim the operation has been profitable for years, was trying to spend its competitors, especially debt ladden Sprint, into the ground. EV-DO was one way of doing so, acquiring more spectrum is the other. More spectrum means better quality of service (less interference per band per cell hence fewer dropped calls), ability to offer more talk minutes per dollar and ability to offer a g
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Rich Brome

Jul 12, 2004, 6:07 PM
EV-DO is at least part of the reason for this spectrum grab. EV-DO requires its own additional spectrum.

So where they're already maxed out on 1xRTT, they can't roll out EV-DO without more spectrum.

Plus, EV-DO is a "shared pipe", so the more people use it on one tower, the slower it gets... Unless you allot more spectrum to it.

So there's two things going on:

1. In spectrum-tight markets, Verizon needs more spectrum to roll out EV-DO at all.

2. If EV-DO takes off, Verizon will need all the spectrum it can get to keep the speeds up.
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