no more agreements with T-mobile?
"In January, T-Mobile USA and Cingular Wireless terminated their network sharing joint venture and T-Mobile USA acquired 100 percent ownership of the shared network assets in California, Nevada and New York City, plus additional California spectrum for a net cash payment of $2.46 billion."
does this mean no more roaming agreements?
The information you read deals with the network sharing of the CA and New York systems. Basically Cingular sold service in NY on T-Mobile's network and T-Mobile sold services in CA on Cingular's network. The agreement that was "unwound" was the carriers had joint ownership.
The end result is that Cingular uses the network from the ATTWS aquisition in CA and NY and T-Mobile is buying the CA network to use as their own.
The roaming agreements around the country are of seperate issue. Cingular will still be using T-Mobile towers in some areas as needed. Should those agreements terminate they would be noted under seperate release. While the usage has dwindled due to spectrum development, the ag...
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NRushing said:
I say forget the roaming agreements and just buy the lossers out Their network may be borderline crap but a couple million more cusmers never hurt... and surly t-mobile international knows when to throw in the towel last year was the first year they had one quarter that wasn't in the red
Hold on, let's make a thing clear here:
Cingular needed coverage in CA area, so they signed a sharing coverage in the area, with the Buyout Cingular wanted to unwind the roaming agreement there.Which is smart, cuz the frequecy was 850 Mhz, and Cingular from the buyout got 1900 Mhz from ATTWS, so cingular get stronger signal, and no piggy backing from T-mobile anymore.
So T-mobile has to Swim or Sink on ...
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