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That is certainly the best case scenario. And I'm not saying it won't happen, but it does give me pause. T-Mobile has been doing a pretty great job in recent ye
by untog 9y ago
That is certainly the best case scenario. And I'm not saying it won't happen, but it does give me pause. T-Mobile has been doing a pretty great job in recent years of expanding coverage while keeping prices relatively low, and I can't help but worry that a Sprint merger complete with two different cellphone technologies will end up being a huge distraction that'll slow both of them down for years.
- Aloha 9y agothe differing technologies thing isn't a big of a hurdle as you'd think - the future is LTE, not CDMA or GSM - and their respective LTE networks are fully compatible.
- untog 9y agoThe future is indeed LTE, but there's a long tail of people out there with old devices they have little intention of replacing. It would be interesting to see how they'd handle that. Also, are they on the same LTE bands? Even that matters. I know a lot of phones don't use T-Mobile's band 12.
- Aloha 9y agoCDMA is unique, thankfully in this case - you can put up a single CDMA carrier on a shared frequency in a market and cover the whole of the market - CDMA works fine when doing a same channel/same channel handover. Essentially, with say, 2.5 MHz you could cover a whole market with a single CDMA carrier, and 1-2 GSM carriers, the sprint equipment at least is designed to do both CDMA and LTE with one hardware set - the gear that t-mobile uses is more modular, so it's even easier to leave the legacy bearers up for the long tail.