i cant really say 100 percent yes, becuase no one guarantees coverage, hwoever, i will say with the co-locations with 45,000 towers nationwide and more spectrum, that common sense can tell us that the answer to your question would be yes.

I think it will take a while, having a CDMA Sprint phone will not beneift by having a TDMA tower close by, I think the benifits will only start when they make a dual mode phone (CDMA and TDMA/iDEN) there might be an immediate benifit from analog but analog is almost useless anyway.

Plus not to mention the problems of merging TDMA and CDMA, think Cingular had problems with the merger? Wait till nextel and Sprint merge

well half of nextel's towers will be on the cdma network in 2007-2008 time frame. when you have a dual mode phone it basically takes the better signal. if iden is stronger in that area then it will take that signal and same thing with cdma. i belive it will take about 12-18 months to make a dual mode phone and to implement it onto the network. (i dont know when they have started that, but i would presume they are 1. either working on it now, or 2. waiting till the merger is final and approved.

when you merge iden and cdma its not so hard as you think it is. since nextel will be getting contig spectrum in the 800mhz spectrum, they can "transform" that into cdma. (too add spectrum and capacity to the cdma network).

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But what I meant is that a customer who has a Sprint phone will not wake up one day and find out that his phone suddenly works much better in more places because of the merger, it will take new equiptment to fully take advantage of both of the networks

your statment might not be true.... becuase ... since nextel will be putting more spectrum and towers onto the cdma network and if a sprint phone (that just used cdma) was to be on the cdma network then it would be better. dual phones would help even more....

hope that helps.

Great Information! 😁

you are very welcome!

Sprint and Nextel are more than likely very well prepared for network integration...and have probably have added Sprint PCS antennas to a significant portion of Nextel's towers already. With the wireless market becoming more competitive and high-speed data networks becoming more important, the combined companies will not be waiting for 2 or 3 years to make this all happen.

Merging these two great cellular companies, and with the innovation they are so well known for...Nextel with the first national walkie-talkie network...Sprint for the first digital cellular and data network. They are bound to give us all a welcomed and pleasant suprise with a much larger and more capable network than ever before. Things will likely fall into place qu...
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I don't think anybody is touching anybodies towers until the FCC says its kosher to do so... The way it looks to me, there won't be any integration done for some time... In fact, I wouldn't doubt it if the first couple of months was them doing absolutely nothing and seeing how much money they can pocket... You know, synergies...I love that word.

well said, but i already knew all of that. 🙂

nextel18 said:
well said, but i already knew all of that. 🙂

Gee, what a courteous and polite way of congratulating someone on a post well done. Pfft. 🙄

storm99 said:
Sprint and Nextel are more than likely very well prepared for network integration...and have probably have added Sprint PCS antennas to a significant portion of Nextel's towers already.

There's more to network integration than antennas and signal, as US Unwired's recent lawsuit illustrates. Once combined, Sprint will be in direct competition with its own affiliates, even if under the Nextel brand name. That's a violation of the agreements Sprint has with those affiliates. US Unwired is now suing to block the merger because (if we believe US Unwired) Sprint doesn't seem to be making any effort to address this.

That's a mighty big monkey wrench to throw into this process.