Pierocksmysocks

It's one of those situations where crossroads was going to be an SRA for Sprint so they wouldn't have to manage as much of their network. Sprint just didn't anticipate them going under, let alone so fast. Sadly enough they had a couple hundred employees one month, then just a handful the next. That and they couldn't get their act together network wise... but that's just a personal opinion.

So not to bring up an old thread, but... after reading this thread there seems to be a lot of confusion about Swiftel's plans for expansion and 4G implementation. I just thought I'd offer up a few facts that might help to clear things up. 4G is on the road map for Swiftel's expansion. To expand on this statement, there's a lot of options for how Swiftel wants to run a 4G network, and it's not exactly an inexpensive endeavor. The decision on who they want to get their equipment from, setup type, etc. has to be made based on available funding and longterm support. If say Ericsson, AL, Motorola, or Samsung were to say the heck with it and stop supporting their hardware for the backend, then Swiftel would have to reinvest a ton of money to change everything up. They then have to decide on what locations to deploy the LTE tower, and keep in mind they won't work on just any tower setup. Throw in some FCC approval, testing, and hiring more personnel to fix issues that come up... Make sense why it's not happening at the speed of which you would demand? Now for expansion of the regular network, Swiftel cannot expand that far to the west without purchasing spectrum in those areas. It just doesn't make sense to spend booku-monies on spectrum just so a family farm can have service. The population base just isn't there to make it a cost effective situation, and Sprint isn't interested in the idea either. It's just more cost effective to have a roaming agreement in place for those areas. As far as Sprint buying out Swiftel... not going to happen. They inked a contract, and that buyout wouldn't be able to happen for quite some time. But the real question is why would Sprint want to buy Swiftel? There's not much of a population, and it would cost them more money in the long run... I would feel bad for them having to deal with the customer's who're used to getting their way with Swiftel. Oh and FYI that Crossroads Wireless mess was horrible. If the powers that be in that situation had stopped trying to micromanage and they had their act together, life would have been better off for them.