3G Roaming?
Question for all those T-mobbers using unlocked N95s and other american 3G capable phones with 850/1900 MHz...
Can you guys roam off AT&T's 3G anywhere? Have you been able to get 3G speeds with any unlocked 850/1900 MHz 3G capable device?
Can you guys roam off AT&T's 3G anywhere? Have you been able to get 3G speeds with any unlocked 850/1900 MHz 3G capable device?
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I highly doubt that will ever happen considering even the voice roaming contracts are not being resigned with at&t. Sorry, though there are rumors that T-Mobile is testing the N95/96 on its network(very preliminary).
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If Tmo is not resigning with ATT then what are they going to do? Att gobbled up Cell One, and with out that there would be no rural coverage and Tmo would go back to 2003.
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If T-Mobile does end up purchasing Sprint, they would have all the rural coverage they would ever want.
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Only for CDMA customers, which would be zero for Tmo at first. This possible merger makes no sense at all. Both companies have similar native footprints, and they operate on two incompatitable networks. Other than increasing customer base, what is the point?
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The fact that the footprints are similar is actually a good thing. There is a limit to the number of customers a cell phone carrier can have in a given area. I don't know what the limit is and I don't know if T-Mobile is reaching that limit but just the fact that there is one means this is a good idea because they can convert that network to GSM. That would be cheaper than building out towers on their own in those areas.
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I would debate that. The most expensive part of a tower is gonna be the antennae, the same thing you would have to switch on the existing towers. It may be cheaper initially but think of all the CDMA customers you would have to convert. AT&T converted its TDMA towers to GSM and lost 300,000 subscribers that didn't want to go. How many Sprint people would just leave rather than go through the conversion? Personally I would leave, wait till the conversion is done with, and then consider coming back. That's a lot to pull off though, sounds like T-Mobiles deathtrap if they try.
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300,000 subscribers compared to the millions they have now and the millions they kept during that process not to mention the millions they continue to gain every year? I do not think it's as big of a loss as you might think. Sprint didn't handle it as well as AT&T did which is why they're in the situation they're in right now. I think T-Mobile has their act together far more than AT&T did and does so I don't think it would be as big of a problem as you might think.
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Also getting zoning rights for building towers can be increadibly hard in some areas, if not impossible. I would bet that companies spend more overall to get zoning rights (paying employees to negotiate, actual costs for the rights) than the antanaes.
If this happens it will either make or break T-Mobile and possibly even DT themselves. I do believe the leadership of this company could pull it off.
If this happens it will either make or break T-Mobile and possibly even DT themselves. I do believe the leadership of this company could pull it off.
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