Verizon buying Sprint?
FCC. And Verizon would never buy Sprint because Sprint only uses a PCS network which is crap.
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but if they bought it they could convert all sprint to the verizon cdma stuff right?
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It already is CDMA, but Sprint has a PCS network. Verizon alreadys covers 97% of the areas Sprint does. The only good Sprints network would be good for is the areas that Verizon doesn't have service in and the customers.
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Right to up the bar even more since vz is launching 4G and sprint already claims they have it
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Sprint does have it and this is a FACT not a claim as you have put it. Right now verizon has no 4g which amounts to zero coverage. lets see how long it takes big red to catch up!
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Catch up...or pass? It's called 2010. And it's an entirely different 4G network. Sprint went the wrong route with their 4G. The rest of the world went with LTE. Yea, they might have WiMax up and running (in about 5 cities (yippie))...but LTE is live currently in 2 US cities for test markets and will be live in quite a few more nationwide in a short period of time. As for the ridiculously stupid question that started this topic...what's stopping Verizon from buying Sprint? Intelligence! As well as what the first reply said, the FCC and the DOJ...they frown on monopolies you know.
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wow someone really needs to do there research Sprint has way more then 5 cities up and running and it covers 30 million people. Lte has a long way to go before it gets out to the masses like Sprints 4g. Test markets and real world are 2 different things. Do you even know how many places around the world have Wimax networks up and running! Lte is not even close. Right now the world has chosen wimax and Sprint has already stated if Lte is more advanced it would just be an upgrade of there current 4g. Sprint is the Now Network and is ahead of the pack with better services and plans then verizon. So yes verizon needs to catch up and you obviously have no idea what the world has chosen. I'll stick with Sprint save a buck and get better service. ...
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wow someone really needs to do there research Sprint has way more then 5 cities up and running and it covers 30 million people. Lte has a long way to go before it gets out to the masses like Sprints 4g. Test markets and real world are 2 different things. Do you even know how many places around the world have Wimax networks up and running! Lte is not even close. Right now the world has chosen wimax and Sprint has already stated if Lte is more advanced it would just be an upgrade of there current 4g. Sprint is the Now Network and is ahead of the pack with better services and plans then verizon. So yes verizon needs to catch up and you obviously have no idea what the world has chosen. I'll stick with Sprint
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VZW611LA said:
FCC. And Verizon would never buy Sprint because Sprint only uses a PCS network which is crap.
Do you realize that Verizon has a PCS network as well? Some of their markets, such as Jacksonville, Miami, & Orlando in Florida; Milwaukee, Green Bay, & Madison in Wisconsin; & Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas being PCS only markets. I have used my phone on Verizon's PCS network in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and had no problems with it. So it all depends on how well it's built out. Built out right, it can outperform an 850 band network built out crappy.
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Well...I don't think head-to-head that I would want a PCS license if I could have cellular. That old PrimeCo network was garbage when the Verizon merger was formed and is probably where a lot of the money for upgrading the network went.
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Azeron said:
Well...I don't think head-to-head that I would want a PCS license if I could have cellular. That old PrimeCo network was garbage when the Verizon merger was formed and is probably where a lot of the money for upgrading the network went.
Cellular networks are last decade's news. They have poor voice quality, slower data speeds, and interfere with other radio devices.
Yeah, cellular is so good, Verizon is moving away from it. 🙄
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Yeah, and having a cellular network is what Verizon still craves wherever possible. I know you're joking about Verizon moving away from it. They can't walk away from it in most of Illinois & Northern Indiana, since they only have 10mhz of PCS.
To Azeron: I'm aware that Primeco had poorly built networks. Nearly every market that Verizon acquired Primeco, they had to spend money to built it out better. I never got to experience the old Primeco network in Wisconsin until 2002. Now I got to experience Verizon's PCS network in SW Michigan in 2006, and did well with that (even better than Verizon's Wisconsin network) since that was built from the ground up.
As for the Primeco network in Illinois & Northern Indiana, USCC acquired that, a...
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To Azeron: I'm aware that Primeco had poorly built networks. Nearly every market that Verizon acquired Primeco, they had to spend money to built it out better. I never got to experience the old Primeco network in Wisconsin until 2002. Now I got to experience Verizon's PCS network in SW Michigan in 2006, and did well with that (even better than Verizon's Wisconsin network) since that was built from the ground up.
As for the Primeco network in Illinois & Northern Indiana, USCC acquired that, a...
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Azeron said:
Houston Gulf Coast and some Florida markets are PCS, no?
Verizon does own some PCS licenses for Houston, but they also have a cellular network there too. The Dallas/Fort Worth area is PCS only. GTE had a cellular network there around the time Verizon was formed, but they had to divest it in 2000, because they chose to keep the entire 30mhz that Primeco had, instead of keeping the GTE network. That went to the old AT&T Wireless, & Cingular (nee SBC Mobile) held the other license. With Cingular acquiring AT&T Wireless, the FCC allowed Cingular to keep both licenses there. I don't remember completely about Florida, other than Primeco had PCS licenses for that state, and it was 30mhz. So Ver...
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if they did it it would only be for the customers and fcc would never allow it.... if you take a native verizon map and lay it over a sprint map...well the sprint map would disapear so there is no real network benefit big enough to justify the cost
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I don't think it would be worth the divestiture headache. Alltel made sense because geographically it filled in much of the holes Verizon had. Roaming fees go bye bye! I don't know Sprint has those P2K customers who are used to paying just enough toward their bill to keep or restore their service for another week. Verizon would churn those types quickly. All in all a lose-lose.
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I honestly don't think the government would allow it, would make Verizon a monopoly company. AT&T, along with other companies would fight tooth and nail to stop it.
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Sprint is a sinking ship. The only thing they have that a competitor could possibly want is a vast resource of PCS band spectrum that is terribly under-utilized because their subscribers are deserting in droves.
I don't see anyone making a move to buy "the whole company" unless the U.S. Bankruptcy filings show up some time in the future.
Sprint has poor brand image, terrible customer service, an overbuilt network that has been outsourced for maintenance, and calling plan rates that would be flat LOSS to offer on any stronger carrier.
If VZW were to pick up Sprint, they would:
a) Force-migrate the Sprint customers to Verizon rate plans, thereby loosing a huge portion of the acquisition to T-mobile defectors
b) Let the Sprin...
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I don't see anyone making a move to buy "the whole company" unless the U.S. Bankruptcy filings show up some time in the future.
Sprint has poor brand image, terrible customer service, an overbuilt network that has been outsourced for maintenance, and calling plan rates that would be flat LOSS to offer on any stronger carrier.
If VZW were to pick up Sprint, they would:
a) Force-migrate the Sprint customers to Verizon rate plans, thereby loosing a huge portion of the acquisition to T-mobile defectors
b) Let the Sprin...
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