Looking Back At Leap Wireless And MetroPCS Days

[4GHoward]

If T-Mobile or Sprint bought Leap Wireless, where do y'all think we will be at now?

[4GHoward]

[Validorama]

Appreciate this. I remember always being so fascinated by the smaller carriers and how they built out. In California for example there are none left now. Good memories.

[greenbastard]

I was always fascinated at how Las Vegas was one of the few markets serviced by AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, Cricket, MetroPCS, and Nextel.

The other forgotten carrier is Alltel 

[4GHoward]

Does anyone recall the amount of LTE spectrum utilization from Legacy MetroPCS and Legacy Cricket (Leap Wireless)?

[iansltx]

IIRC both topped out at 5x5 MHz, though 1.4x1.4 was more common. 5x5 was e.g. on MetroPCS in Dallas.

[greenbastard]

On 6/15/2022 at 12:32 AM, iansltx said:

IIRC both topped out at 5x5 MHz, though 1.4x1.4 was more common. 5x5 was e.g. on MetroPCS in Dallas.

I remember Cricket only had CDMA services on the AWS band in Las Vegas (or was it Phoenix?...I remember it was somewhere in the southwest).

The old fabled BC15.

[4GHoward]

Phoenix was Cricket (Leap Wireless) very first LTE Market.

[bigsnake49]

I wish that Sprint had absorbed them both + Alltel. I believe that they would have done better than absorbing Nextel.

[4GHoward]

On 7/10/2022 at 12:14 PM, bigsnake49 said:

I wish that Sprint had absorbed them both + Alltel. I believe that they would have done better than absorbing Nextel.

Then, DISH could have bought Nextel and absorb Boost Mobile and the Band 26 spectrum at the same time!