Rumor Mill
What about Cellular One? Dobson Communications?
I heard that Sprint may be buying Cellular One, but I do not see anything on it, does anyone know anything? Cellular One is owned by Dobson Comminucations.
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2 different things. Alltel is in the middle of buying Cellular One (Western Wireless) which is a CDMA carrier that bought the Cellular One liscense.
Now, Dobson Communications also has the Cellular One liscense, but it is a GSM carrier. Sprint is a CDMA carrier trying to integrate an iDEN network at the moment. GSM is so far from their minds that there is no way they would purchase Dobson.
The other possible explanation of this "rumour" is that they are looking at purchasing the Cellular One liscense from Alltel, who has decided not to use that branding for their phones. This would also not make much sense because the Sprint brand and the Nextel brand are both more famous than the Cellular One brand. I hate to be the bearer of ...
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Now, Dobson Communications also has the Cellular One liscense, but it is a GSM carrier. Sprint is a CDMA carrier trying to integrate an iDEN network at the moment. GSM is so far from their minds that there is no way they would purchase Dobson.
The other possible explanation of this "rumour" is that they are looking at purchasing the Cellular One liscense from Alltel, who has decided not to use that branding for their phones. This would also not make much sense because the Sprint brand and the Nextel brand are both more famous than the Cellular One brand. I hate to be the bearer of ...
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US Cellular will acquire Cellular Ones' licenses in Nebraska & Kansas since there's too much overlap, and if I heard correctly, Alltel had to divest those 2 states. Or it might have been that US Cellular approached Alltel about swapping Nebraska & Kansas in exchange for what little network US Cellular has in Idaho. US Cellular already sold off their Tampa Bay area network to Alltel, and looking to divest Idaho to concentrate on being a midwest carrier. Somewhere down the line, I believe Alltel might acquire US Cellular and enter Chicago & Milwaukee, plus Fort Wayne & South Bend in Indiana.
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US Cellular acquired Kansas and Nebraska in exhange for Idaho (and a big chunk of cash as well), but won't be giving up Chicago and Milwaukee considering that they just built a brand new call center in the Chiacgo area to support those customers. Florida and South Texas went away quite some time ago to AT&T and Alltel.
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US Cellular acquired numerous licenses from AT&T before they were sold to Cingular, and most of the licenses and towers were TDMA, and US Cellular is converting all of those to CDMA. I know they're adding coverage to Indiana and Illinois, plus SW Michigan. I know there were areas Primeco had licenses to cover, but never built out the network, and were never merged into Verizon Wireless's network, when Verizon Wireless decided to buy Ameritech Cellular in 1999, forcing Verizon to divest Primeco in Illinois & Indiana. When US Cellular acquired the remains of Primeco in 2002, they had some licenses for service that never got built. From what I hear were for rural areas of Illinois & Indiana, and Primeco never had the towers built. One area...
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Excellent information, Dave! I do agree that it will be interesting to see what USCC will be doing with the old PrimeCo towers or if they will be selling them off. Thank you for responding! 🙂
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What little was left of Primeco's network after Verizon divested it was acquired by US Cellular in 2002. I'm not sure where US Cellular was originally headquartered at, but more than likely, their original headquarters were in the Milwaukee area, where TDS Metrocom is based at, US Cellular's parent company. Basically, US Cellular later became a Chicago based company and probably moved into Primeco's facilities once the acquisition was completed over 3 1/2 years ago. From the few people I know who have US Cellular, plus the Chicago predecessor, Primeco, US Cellular has done a better job building out the network to have excellent coverage, and much better plans than Primeco did. Primeco refused to get into nights & weekends when everyone e...
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Who cares. Small players. The customers of these small time cell companies should be up in arms because they are going to get jacked. The big companies move in claiming they will honor rate plans and commitments, but it starts with a logo change, then rate plans, and when you least suspect it, they whore out the towers to their own technology or sell it off to a competitor.
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