danlodish345

The New T-Mobile is trying to cover its bases by making a lot of promises that will require the use of all of the spectrum they have. They mention that they'll build a nationwide 5G network, which their lower bands spectrum holdings will be good for. But they have also been arguing that their competition will not only be Verizon and AT&T but also cable companies. Those comments combined with their commitment to becoming a WISP is where the high band is 100% a necessity. Without high-band spectrum, they wouldn't have the capacity to have both fixed wireless and mobile subscribers on their network in a way that effectively competes with other local ISPs. We can see that today with AT&T. Despite having a ton of spectrum they only allow fixed wireless in select rural areas and they do so with low data caps and high prices.

Okay well the problem I have is that it's all promises but more than half of that never comes to fruition. Obviously we need fixed Broadband access. But it's still in its infancy. I agree capacity and coverage reliability consistency and overall quality is needed. But it's starting to sound more likes the grounds of promises that who knows they'll be delivered upon. I want to see up front definitive proof that they can cover all their bases including the coverage part. I'm very skeptical at this point of what can be done and I have from past experiences don't believe it companies promises unless I see actual results right in front of my face. So first thing is this whole thing has to be approved obviously. After that if the merger is approved then it's time for them to put their money where their mouth is. It will be time for them to put up or shut up.

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And that I think will be the major key here. That 2.5 is the bread and butter for their 5G and having to give some up would defeat the purpose of coming together. Another carrier will swoop in and buy up what Tmo/Sprint had to give up. If that happens...Then what? 

Well the thing is also that divesting so that high band Spectrum. I still see low band spectrum being key for 5g networks.. So high band is still costly to deploy...

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3 minutes ago, utiz4321 said:

I dont think they will. This admin. Put promarket people in the FCC and DOJ. The FCC is judt going to rubber stamp it, the DOJ might question it a bit more but it will go through as is. 

 I will be willing to watch and wait

54 minutes ago, jefbal99 said:

Rather than a divestment, to ensure the new three carrier system, I'd rather see a requirement of 4G coverage matching the Blue/Red in 36 months and 5G that overlays 4G.

Just show me the proper coverage. That's what I want from this merger. If it happens. I don't believe a single thing until it happens in front of my eyes. I want to see real world results

25 minutes ago, jefbal99 said:

Rather than a divestment, to ensure the new three carrier system, I'd rather see a requirement of 4G coverage matching the Blue/Red in 36 months and 5G that overlays 4G.

I want to see matched Verizon coverage...

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Dan, how do you know this?  I'm having trouble with you being so sure "Well I know the government will definitely make them divest some of their Spectrum."    Really?    Nobody knows anything yet!   

Nah I m just saying that based on past mergers some of them jad to divest some spectrum...so it's a high possibility....

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1 hour ago, dnicekid said:

Maybe this ^^^^^^^^^ could be a sticky and updated as more comes out? 

Well I know the government will definitely make them divest some of their Spectrum. But if they don't divest some the merger won't happen.

42 minutes ago, greenbastard said:

I wonder what T-Mobile will do with the 33% ownership of Tidal? Marcelo is also a board member of Tidal. What will happen to that?

who knows for sure. i m interested to see if the deal gets shot down or not.....

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I knew that much, but why they locking us out of it since it's native.
 
Rickie

Exactly it's very greeting

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So Sprint is telling me LTE Roaming with USCC is not possible on S9+, any one done any LTE roaming??
 
Rickie

That's totally false. It's definitely possible because the phone supports the proper bands for u.s. Cellular roaming so it might be just a provisioning thing but the hardware is there to support it

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1 hour ago, bigsnake49 said:

Yeah, this business about beating China on 5G is to tug at the patriotic strings of this administration. But not having to play a lot of money for 5G spectrum would allow New T-Mobile to concentrate on integrating the two networks and deploying 5G.

That's because China controls the telecoms. So they're more focused and more developed.

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4 hours ago, gusherb said:

Need help identifying this one. I’d normally assume T-Mobile but the middle panel is unfamiliar to me, not sure if that’s massive MIMO or something else.

It seems like it might be Verizon.

Just experienced those 6 hours of T-Mobile outage and I hated it. No voice or texts, period! 
I remember whenever Sprint had outages. I would at least roam on Verizon and have voice/SMS service. Not with T-Mobile. No service all day. This is probably the only negative I can think of to come from this merger for Sprint users.

Yeah I understand your issue. I'm in New Jersey which is very far from the outage but it does suck when I lose service when I go south 2 South Jersey

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