Posted on 03/11/2020 7:42:26 PM PDT by Rabin
Final roadblocks preventing the merger between T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. were eliminated Wednesday after the California Public Utilities Commission and the state's Attorney General made separate agreements with the two carriers.
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Not going to help coverage in the more “remote” places in The West [like fairly heavily traveled US highways].
I thought that T-mobile had WORSE coverage than Sprint.
Maybe just out west.
Good. At least it’s three more equal cell phone outfits instead of everyone outranked by the AT&T/Verizon duopoly. Then we need to see Comcast increase it’s mobile venture by using the considerable cellular spectrum leases it has, instead of piggy backing its mobile service off of Verizon cell towers, combined with its own hot spots. Then we might have real 4-way competition. Then if only new phone prices would come down.
Kar “less coverage than Hooterville Bell”
The “underlying”, value is of course not bandwidth. It is fiber, bunker to bunker, under sea, and by the tracks. Check it out.
Rabin.
Two negatives don’t make a positive.
They want their capacity and technology and not their coverage. 5g networks are hogs.
I’ve been told by a guy that Sprint had pretty excellent coverage. I have Tmobile and am not all that pleased, but Sprint was more expensive. Maybe it will get better now?
Sprint’s coverage in CA & NV sucked...T-Mobile has stepped up their game in the last 3 years...(spectrum purchases at the UHF TV spectrum sale). T-Mobile/Sprint coverage will be about the same as AT&T. Verizon still has the coverage advantage due to legacy tower coverage since the old GTE (now Verizon) cellular 5 watt bag phone days.
I’ve been with TN since about 2004 and have never had issues.
Ooops...TM
Well that’s disappointing! Seriously, I drop a lot of calls at our new home with T-mobile, a lot of frozen facetimes. But McCaaron has a lot of dead spots anyway.
Texas?
We don’t need no steenkin’ Anti-Trust laws.
Reno. Oopsie. For some reason I was thinking you were from around here!
Not too far away...we stayed at Boomtown not too long ago, and come up for Fresno St. vs. Nevada baseball games. Only about 300 miles or so. I would imagine there are some bad dead spots around Reno/Carson City...mountains = bad line of sight for cell signals. It is all about the towers (or lack thereof)...hard to get city/county approval for new ones (”eyesores”)...that is way you see a lot of “fake tree” ones.
Yes there are a lot of dead spots! And unfortunately our house is in one:( We use our cable company wireless to get around that though, but it doesn’t always seem to work.
Yes, verizon wireless sold me an extender which has helped as well as going through wifi. Too bad underground cables are being jettisoned for digitalization.
I don’t get the want or the need to be connected by phone at all times. I have a smartphone, but it is a PHONE or texting device when I am not home. At home I have a PC connected to a big screen I can use from the recliner. I can watch my wife watch TV, while I surf the net and rabble rouse. Fiber optic to the house, hook it up to my router, and I am happy as a pig in, well you know. This 5G is not going to be free, and the towers will not improve my life one iota. Just get me off of the Comcast IV please.
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