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    600 MHz auction results posted and transition schedule

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    The Auction is over, that was the 4th and final round. It has been a flop, eversince the 5g plans have come around, people have put aside getting 600mhz and if they bought it at all was going to do at a minimum. Pay exorbitant prices for very little spectrum, or save money and go for high and in the millimeter wave bands.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    I've heard alot from people online over the years about how expensive Canadian wireless rates are and how they think its linked to there being "limited" competition, which they often bring up when I talk about how I believe there ought to be two or three national carriers here in the U.S.

     

    I always tell them that three national carriers in Canada is too much for just 10 million wireless subscribers. That is why their prices are so high because of the land mass coverage versus the money the Canadian wireless carriers are able to make based on those limited amount of customers they split between the three carriers already servicing that huge amount of area, including all the expense to cover it and keep those networks updated/upgraded.

     

    I believe having a competitive wireless landscape in Canada just isn't possible while also providing decent rates, unless Canada were to have a regional system of cooperative carriers with reasonable roaming agreements. Or just nationalize a single national wireless carrier, but that itself of course has its drawbacks.

     

    Things here in the U.S. are very different where there is much less land mass than in Canada, with over 200 million wireless suscribers. There really doesn't need to be a regional carrier system here, and with fewer carriers here to collect more cash, the networks could be improved quickly while rates kept low. The bigger problem in the U.S. is spectrum to keep all the subscribers having decent speeds, especially during congestion. Yet, the U.S. government sells tepid amounts at exorbitant rates, making the need for consolidation even more important in order for carriers to make enough money to have both enough spectrum and also enough money to spend on network upkeep.

    Just one little problem, only 50% of Canada is covered by cellular, the wilderness area is covered under Satellite phone service or two way radio, hf band mostly. So your conclusion needs a little more research.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    That's the problem here, there are some that keep speculating merger when it isn't in the picture. The business environment is about to change where even a 2 percent drop in the corporate tax rate would spur on hiring. Changes in the tax code and killing Obamacare aka affordable Care like there's a OXY moron of I ever seen it could get repealed and save companies money in which they could hire. Spend more on company infrastructure. Improve the network greatly. There is no merger happening for at least a couple of years. The merger people are the same ones that are saying 600 MHz will be a panacea and that's turning out to be a crook. Get your heads away from mergers, you will only disappoint yourself again.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Why do you think Son is letting Trump take credit for the $100B/50,000 jobs and now the 5,000 jobs? You'd be totally naive if you did not think that there was some serious quid pro quo, aka horse trading going on. What would Son want from Trump? Think hard! :P

    I don't think you really listened to the first announcement back a couple of weeks ago when Masa spoke after meeting with Trump. If Hillary had won, this wouldn't be happening because it would be business as usual with policies already in place by Obama. Masa had said if Hillary had won, no way he was going to be able to do what they are doing now. There is no quid pro quo, just the US is about to become a lot more business friendly and job creation.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Here are 3 recent examples of mergers that happened, FedEx buying TNT Express in the Netherlands, no one lost there job because it was buying a company in a country where FedEx wanted to get into. But UPS was denied buying them because there would have been a loss of employment, UPS already there doing business. Example 2, Lenovo buying Motorola, there is no one there from Motorola anymore. They were all given the pink slip. Example 3: Verizon buying AOL, no one at AOL anymore. Given compensation and pink slip and all sucked into the big red void known as the Verizon universe. Mergers do not create jobs. They retain, and or cut duplicate positions out.

     

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