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U.S. Cellular Being Pressured by Investors to Sell

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Sprint Needs to move

KennyJ19

Mar 13, 2009, 12:06 PM
I hope that sprint moves on this, this would help them out... they need to find the money and buy Us Cellular.
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tetero

Mar 13, 2009, 12:56 PM
lol r u kidding?? they aren't even the ones investing in the WiMax network, but cable companies...
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Pink Jazz

Mar 13, 2009, 2:27 PM
Sprint doesn't have the money to buy out US Cellular; they have billions in debt since they bought out Nextel, and continues to lose money today.

If any of the major carriers were to buy out U.S. Cellular, it would probably either be AT&T or T-Mobile/DT. Neither the DOJ nor the FCC would probably approve a Verizon buyout of USCC, due to their recent Alltel acquisition. While AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM rather than CDMA, they will soon use LTE which is the same evolution path as USCC. I am guessing both carriers will keep the CDMA network up and running while slowly migrating them to GSM. USCC still even has a running TDMA and AMPS network, which AT&T shut down over a year ago. If AT&T buys out USCC, they will probably target the TDMA/A...
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computerking

Mar 13, 2009, 2:35 PM
USCC has shut down both the analog and tdma networks in all areas as of February 2009.
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Pink Jazz

Mar 13, 2009, 2:55 PM
Are you sure about this? Looking through the web, I found nothing confirming that USCC has shut down their TDMA/AMPS network. Not that I don't believe you, however, I couldn't find anything confirming it. I know that Alltel's TDMA/AMPS network was shut down around September/October 2008.
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U.S. Cell

Mar 13, 2009, 3:25 PM
This is correct... U.S. Cellular shut down or is in the process of saying goodbye to TDMA... as of Feburary...
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