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The 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 h
by untog 9y ago
The 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.