So, Sprint is owned by Japanese company (80%) while T-Mobile is owned by a German company (60%). This means the combined company would still be foreign owned. I guess that doesn’t bother anyone since most US companies are majority-owned by companies outside the US.
How can a Sprint (CDMA) customer use T-Mobile’s (GSM) network?
What’s most interesting is that each company uses four totally different LTE bands, so every single one of their customers is going to need a new phone (with 8 antennae) to be able to use the new network.
Not true. I’m using a Sprint phone on the T-Mobile network. Both Sprint and Verizon iPhones are fully compatible with the AT&T and T-Mobile networks.
It is the iPhones labeled for T-Mobile and AT&T that are not compatible with Verizon and Sprint networks. I was with AT&T for many years and always bought a Verizon iPhone. I then switches to T-Mobile and bought both Verizon and Sprint iPhones to use with the T-Mobile network.
I've been a satisfied TMO user for years. I get unlimited everything including tethering for a hundred bucks a month. I never get throttled either.
As far as I am concerned this is great news, it just means better coverage in fringe areas
The loss of a competitor could never result in a price increase.
I'm a TMO user now, and am very pleased. But I am also skeptical that this news will be good for me as a consumer.
I wouldn’t assume T-mo will be raising prices. They’ll fire the deadweight that’s been holding down Sprint and I think they’ll aggressively continue to chip away at AT&T and Verizon to steal customers.
The new, combined company will be larger than either AT&T or Verizon.
It will be interesting to see them squirm as they become the small fry in the market. The school yard bullies will now be the bullied....
It would be even more interesting to see what kind of back room shenanigans they pull to try to block this merger. Bullies hate being bullied. They just hate it.
The new, combined company will be larger than either AT&T or Verizon.
It will be interesting to see them squirm as they become the small fry in the market. The school yard bullies will now be the bullied....
It would be even more interesting to see what kind of back room shenanigans they pull to try to block this merger. Bullies hate being bullied. They just hate it.
Every statistic I've seen says that they would be smaller then Verizon and probably smaller then At&t(obviously by a much smaller margin), so they'd only be on the verge of reaching as many customers as them, the good part being a company nearly twice the size, they would be on the same level as the other two.
Side note: Why are there so inconsistent statistics online, I've seen some website show all the carriers having less then a 100 million each, and others placing both AT&T and Verizon at about 150 million each?
How can a Sprint (CDMA) customer use T-Mobile’s (GSM) network?
What’s most interesting is that each company uses four totally different LTE bands, so every single one of their customers is going to need a new phone (with 8 antennae) to be able to use the new network.
Not true. I’m using a Sprint phone on the T-Mobile network. Both Sprint and Verizon iPhones are fully compatible with the AT&T and T-Mobile networks.
It is the iPhones labeled for T-Mobile and AT&T that are not compatible with Verizon and Sprint networks. I was with AT&T for many years and always bought a Verizon iPhone. I then switches to T-Mobile and bought both Verizon and Sprint iPhones to use with the T-Mobile network.
Yes, good point. That's why Apple require the Qualcomm chipset for iPhones compatible with Verizon and Sprint networks.
IMO, T-Mo+Sprint now have a fantastic opportunity to jettison the CMDA2000 legacy network fairly quickly; this would be one less carrier that requires the Qualcomm chipset.
How can a Sprint (CDMA) customer use T-Mobile’s (GSM) network?
Customers of the combined company would have greater coverage across the country, especially those in rural areas whose current provider would get a boost from the other company’s towers.
And even if regulators scuttle the merger, the companies said they had struck a roaming agreement that will allow customers of either company to use the other company’s network.
Better news for Sprint customers. Hope, at some point 5G brings some synergy among various cellular networks in USA who has hardly overlapping GSM,CDMA,LTE bands.
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Not true. I’m using a Sprint phone on the T-Mobile network. Both Sprint and Verizon iPhones are fully compatible with the AT&T and T-Mobile networks.
It is the iPhones labeled for T-Mobile and AT&T that are not compatible with Verizon and Sprint networks. I was with AT&T for many years and always bought a Verizon iPhone. I then switches to T-Mobile and bought both Verizon and Sprint iPhones to use with the T-Mobile network.
I'm a TMO user now, and am very pleased. But I am also skeptical that this news will be good for me as a consumer.
It would be even more interesting to see what kind of back room shenanigans they pull to try to block this merger. Bullies hate being bullied. They just hate it.
Side note: Why are there so inconsistent statistics online, I've seen some website show all the carriers having less then a 100 million each, and others placing both AT&T and Verizon at about 150 million each?
IMO, T-Mo+Sprint now have a fantastic opportunity to jettison the CMDA2000 legacy network fairly quickly; this would be one less carrier that requires the Qualcomm chipset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CDMA2000_networks
Customers of the combined company would have greater coverage across the country, especially those in rural areas whose current provider would get a boost from the other company’s towers.
And even if regulators scuttle the merger, the companies said they had struck a roaming agreement that will allow customers of either company to use the other company’s network.