Rumor Mill
This site is getting boring...
Omg people... Verizon isn't switching to GSM... get over it and talk about something more interestesting... 👿
...
How could you fathom T-Mobile switching to CDMA? T-Mobile isn't up for sale, sales may have decreased but churn decreased also. Who's got the money to buy them anyway, no one so T-Mobile is gonna be around for a while.
...
Okay, so maybe they are giving up Catherine-Zeta-Jones-Douglas for Michael Douglas and switching to AMPS?
...
I think two ways about this..
DT has the money to upgrade the tmobile network and it's the fastest growing part of their company, but will they want to spend the money to upgrade it?? thats the question of the hour here.
The other way is, they may sell it, but it'll probably be to a regional carrier since all the major carriers are already to big for the FCC to approve a deal that big. A regional carrier may try to buy it so they will gain a national footprint (if you want to call tmobiles coverage national) Maybe two regionals will team up to buy it, then split the assets and customers...
you never can tell what'll happen with things like this, maybe a foreign company will buy them to gain access to the US...
DT has the money to upgrade the tmobile network and it's the fastest growing part of their company, but will they want to spend the money to upgrade it?? thats the question of the hour here.
The other way is, they may sell it, but it'll probably be to a regional carrier since all the major carriers are already to big for the FCC to approve a deal that big. A regional carrier may try to buy it so they will gain a national footprint (if you want to call tmobiles coverage national) Maybe two regionals will team up to buy it, then split the assets and customers...
you never can tell what'll happen with things like this, maybe a foreign company will buy them to gain access to the US...
...
What do you mean "too big for the FCC to approve that deal"?? T-Mobile is #5 in customer count. AT&T and Cingular each had more customers, and Sprint and Nextel each have more customers. I love some of the "weekend experts" on this site.
...
Your right, att and cingular had more customer at that point. But look at the overall picture... cingular had to divest some of the markets the combined company was in because of market share....
Even if they wanted to buy tmobile, the fcc would be unlikely to approve it because of cingular's size and market share now.
Simple math points me in this direction. Why would Cingular want to buy tmobile, only to divest itself of half of the customer's???? that would be a waste of money, and time, which is better spent integrating the att network and customers, not to mention improve it's image.
Weekend expert?? ok, I don't have a college degree in business or anything, but I have been watching and studing the wireless industry s...
(continues)
Even if they wanted to buy tmobile, the fcc would be unlikely to approve it because of cingular's size and market share now.
Simple math points me in this direction. Why would Cingular want to buy tmobile, only to divest itself of half of the customer's???? that would be a waste of money, and time, which is better spent integrating the att network and customers, not to mention improve it's image.
Weekend expert?? ok, I don't have a college degree in business or anything, but I have been watching and studing the wireless industry s...
(continues)
...
I think that T-Mobile should stick around for the next generation of phones. They have plans to release the push-to-talk feature in the US, but thats about a year down the road. Anyway, T-mobile can easily be purchased out if they bought out Voicestream 5 or 6 years ago. Even AT&T was purchased out. If Deustche Telekom can make a better profit by selling T-mobile USA, i'm sure they will. Also out of all companies, T-mobile would be the last to switch network from CDMA. Europeans strongly believe that GSM will become a worldwide standard and i can see that happening.
...
T-mobile would be the last to switch network from CDMA. Europeans strongly believe that GSM will become a worldwide standard and i can see that happening.You mean - switch TO CDMA.
That's not going to happen. Everything that they have is GSM - here and abroad. Switch? What do you figure that would cost them??? Every customer has to buy a new phone too??? No chance.
GSM is also NOT the new "world standard". Just ask the far east! So. Korea, which has some of the best (if not THE best) installed wireless technology anywhere in the world is running CDMA. The Korean market is really adopting the EvDO technology at a very rapid pace!!
...
Yes... switch TO CDMA... sorry.
And yes, i understand that will never happen. However, Sprint and Nextel were approved to merge yesterday, which means one of the two incompatible cell phone companies will be switching their technology. More realisticly, motorola will be be manufactuing handsets to support both iDEN and CDMA. Current customers will be less effected. Make sense?
And yes, i understand that will never happen. However, Sprint and Nextel were approved to merge yesterday, which means one of the two incompatible cell phone companies will be switching their technology. More realisticly, motorola will be be manufactuing handsets to support both iDEN and CDMA. Current customers will be less effected. Make sense?
...
completewireless said:That's Sprint/Nextel's problem! Will it be a clean transformation? Doubt it. Those technologies are vastly different! It can and will happen, but it's gonna be a very big price tag!
Sprint and Nextel were approved to merge yesterday, which means one of the two incompatible cell phone companies will be switching their technology. More realisticly, motorola will be be manufactuing handsets to support both iDEN and CDMA.
Motorola already supplies every phone being used at Nextel - so they will win out again! The bad part is that customers will be stuck with one handset supplier.
And since I can't stand moto (and I'm certainly not alone in that dislike!), I know I'm not going down tha...
(continues)
...
The Sprint/Nextel thing as I understand is easy to figure out. They are keeping both networks from what a buddy of mine said (he's higher up at nextel). Which is why they are going to be selling both services at their retail sites(internet, retail, agent). They aren't simply abandoning either.
...
