CNBC: Sprint Board Nixed MetroPCS Acquisition at Last Minute
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Um...what???
Not eactly sure what kind of spectrum MetroPCS has, but I can't see how this would have been a good purchase for Sprint. Based on coverage map alone, this acquisition would not really add anything to Sprint. There may be some unused spectrum that I'm not aware of. If anyone knows, please help me out. In the meantime, what were they thinking???
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Sprint does not want to cover rural areas. All they seem to want is more spectrum in urban areas.
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Sprint has decent coverage in rural areas in the midwest....indeed, there are still vast stretches of land in the midwest where Sprint is the ONLY carrier....
The sad part is that there was a time when Sprint was actually a good carrier (namely the mid to late 1990's) they had excellent coverage and good service....then it seems to me that around 2000 or so the company just started falling apart at the seams...I would actually estimate that it was the MCI acquisition that first started seeing Sprint collapse...
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...Which is 2% more than at&t. Where do you people get your info from anyway? "Carrier X" has poor coverage because I say so?
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Maybe 99% population, but not even close to 99% AREA....to cover 99% of the population you only need to be on the 2 coasts and a couple midwestern states....
But you're forgetting that even in places where they technically have 'coverage' it's crappy and shallow with frequent dropped calls..or they have voice coverage but no data coverage, or where they have IDEN but not CDMA....
And I happen to live in an area where the voice coverage is 'roaming' with no data coverage...
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