What will happen?
In theory, one day the TDMA network will be obsolete. Nobody will access it & it will have no purpose.
What will happen to it? Will it be torn down or will it be sold off?
What will happen to it? Will it be torn down or will it be sold off?
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probably left to rot...I doubt any major corporation is too concerned with what happens to its trash once they're done making $$$ off of it
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Well, the FCC will mandate that TDMA towers are till supported. Even analog towers are still supported by a few carriers, however sometime in 2006 the analog signal will be shut down completly. About once every couple of months, I upgrade a customer who still carries an analog phone, which surpeises the **** out of me.
All carriers will give some type of finacial incentive to switch off TDMA. As of now 83% of all minutes on Cingular are on GSM service. Which is signifcant as GSM was made avaliable late 2003 nationwide. I know that TDMA phones were still being sold on new activations as late as May of 2004 (West Texas, and North Texas markets). For those customers, they are looking at the beggining of 2006 before they are elligible for GSM...
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All carriers will give some type of finacial incentive to switch off TDMA. As of now 83% of all minutes on Cingular are on GSM service. Which is signifcant as GSM was made avaliable late 2003 nationwide. I know that TDMA phones were still being sold on new activations as late as May of 2004 (West Texas, and North Texas markets). For those customers, they are looking at the beggining of 2006 before they are elligible for GSM...
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Thanks for the info! It is a better explanation than "they will just let it rot cuz they made their money off of it"
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Ok Ok......my typing skillz went straight south on that last message.
What I was trying to say is it's more likely that the TDMA system will rot. Personally I doubt Cingular will spend any more money to tear down TDMA after they have sunk so much money into GSM.
What I was trying to say is it's more likely that the TDMA system will rot. Personally I doubt Cingular will spend any more money to tear down TDMA after they have sunk so much money into GSM.
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Well....just letting it tor cause they made there $$$ off of it is more plausable. Not like they do anything with it.
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