| You know if they did that ATT would jump all over this You know if sprint did this ATT would jump all over this and call for a block on this like sprint did to ATT when ATT tried to buy out TMOBILE. |
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 mix
join:2002-03-19
Utica, MI | Ownership That's a lot of ownership for 9.35 million customers... prepaid customers on the low end of the credit scale that can jump ship at any time. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | Guess they learned their lesson It could have been NexTel all over again! |
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mix
join:2002-03-19
Utica, MI | Except that MetroPCS runs a CDMA network and Sprint and MetroPCS devices already roam on each others networks. These aren't completely non compatible technologies. They are much alike. |
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ditka_bPremium
join:2001-10-05
Barrington, IL | ATT couldnt defeat this one ATT and Verizon are the top 2.
Sprint buying this MetroPCS 9.35mil customers wouldnt have made that much of a dent and probably would have passed with minimal whining.
Smaller companies growing is good for competition and generally allowed. ATT buying T-mobile was a different story it made a top company grow by too much and lessened competitiveness and certainly would have hurt consumers(pricing) and competitors as well.
I would'nt expect Verizon or ATT do much of anything as their on the DOJ's radar. |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| Metro PCS Customers are lucky that the deal failed.  MetroPCS subscribers would have gotten a hosing when Sprint announced no more flat rate plans. Subscribers would have probably suffered the same old wireless crapola. Yes Dorthy you can keep your grandfathered MetroPCS Plan but if you want to make any changes or purchase a compatible handset you will have to go to a measured rate plan. Remember we are not Burger King, you cannot have it your way and if you do not like it you can go F#*K yourself.
Some of the frequencies used by MetroPCS do not match the frequencies that Sprint uses and all subscribers would probably have to eventually purchase new handsets. Sprint management probably realized that as soon as the merger was announced the screaming by MetroPCS subscribers would begin. |
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jagged
join:2003-07-01
Boynton Beach, FL | reply to mix
Re: Ownership where would they go to? They'll have to shell out for new phones.
Besides look at T-Mobile USA. Bleeding contracted subscribers, but gaining ~200k pre-paid subs per quarter |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | reply to axus
Re: Guess they learned their lesson said by axus:It could have been NexTel all over again!
And Google notified them last week that Google was dumping Clearwire stock. Maybe the Board of Directors realized that Sprint may need that cash to bail out Clearwire once again and that they couldn't do that and buy MetroPCS at the same time. |
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Re: Metro PCS Customers are lucky that the deal failed. much of the networks work with each other. Its in very rare areas they don't. Sprint only needed METRO to keep their customer count up and to gain more $$$ long term with prepaid customers.
And Virgin does have unlimited plans; but limits data. Metro though already has an LTE network that is being built and used. while Sprint has pretty much nothing and ZERO cash to do anything major. |
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| T-Mobile - MetroPCS would be a good combo In my opinion.
T-Mo needs spectrum for LTE, Metro PCS has LTE in a lot of places.
MetroPCS CDMA footprint isn't large, T-Mobile has a large GSM/HSPA+ footprint.
only downside - MetroPCS CDMA |
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mix
join:2002-03-19
Utica, MI | Do they? Just how much spectrum does MetroPCS have for LTE. How much spectrum is their current LTE network using? I thought MetroPCS LTE was kind of a joke? |
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 Lone WolfIndependent Voter, Buy Gold and GunsPremium
join:2001-12-30
USA
kudos:1
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| $8 Billion For This? That's a lot of money to spend to get the type of customers Metro has been pandering to. I doubt if any of their current customers can qualify for a contract with any cell carrier.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWLWKAGUGU
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| Nice to see racism is alive and well even on a site like this. Yeah, because everyone knows just because someone has a different color skin they must all be poor and on a prepaid phone because they can't get a postpaid one.
Not only is that display your racism, it also displays your ignorance: only those with the absolute worst credit cannot get a postpaid cell phone...virtually all carriers will allow you to get one if you put up a deposit (typically of $150-$250, depending upon the phone and plan). Yes, that is a lot of money but considering you have to pay a non discounted price for a phone on prepaid plans the difference is minimal. |
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 intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
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| said by OhReally :Nice to see racism is alive and well even on a site like this. Yeah, because everyone knows just because someone has a different color skin they must all be poor and on a prepaid phone because they can't get a postpaid one.
Not only is that display your racism, it also displays your ignorance: only those with the absolute worst credit cannot get a postpaid cell phone...virtually all carriers will allow you to get one if you put up a deposit (typically of $150-$250, depending upon the phone and plan). Yes, that is a lot of money but considering you have to pay a non discounted price for a phone on prepaid plans the difference is minimal.
um, he was just playing a MetroPCS commercial. The people in it represent the customer MetroPCS wants...how is he racist for just playing their own commercial. If I play a Mcdonald's commercial with black people in it that makes me racist?
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 djdanskaRudie32Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
San Diego, CA
kudos:4 | reply to OhReally
He was telling the truth. MetroPcs caters to that particular market. In many areas, boost mobile does the same. It's not being racist. It's knowing your market! |
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Re: T-Mobile - MetroPCS would be a good combo I see 30MHz of PCS and 20MHz of AWS in CA, it doesn't cover all parts. |
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Re: $8 Billion For This? It was racist in how his remarks were "I doubt if any of their current customers can qualify for a contract with any cell carrier" suggesting the demographics portrayed in the commercial are a bad credit risk. While I have a white finance professor that has a prepaid phone, is he a bad credit risk? NO he simply can't justify the cost of a subsidized monthly contract phone with how little he calls. |
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Although I would admit there advertisement sucks, it's beyond ignorant to say that those customers who go to MetroPCS are those who don't qualify for a contract.
What I actually find hysterical is how people who use AT&T, Verizon, and T-mobile and pay over $60 per month on services yet don't even get unlimited data, still are under minutes that they track, and are locked into a two year contract because "those who can afford and qualify for postpaid" cannot even afford the cost of the phone up front most of the time. It's a joke.
I live in Miami so MetroPCS is a excellent option for me, I do travel, and my phone has worked from Miami, to Lewiston Maine, and as far west as San Antonio, Texas. I am more than likely roaming when I do travel, but at the end of the day I don't get any roaming charges and I still pay my $45 LTE plan. In short I am taking advantage of the same great coverage you postpaid customers enjoy without paying a dime really into it.
AT&T keeps sending me promos saying I qualify for up to 4+ lines and they go straight to my shredder.
Maybe this country needs to think twice about what they are blowing money on before saying ignorant comments like "I doubt if any of their current customers can qualify for a contract with any cell carrier." |
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 IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Sprint and U.S Cellular? I always wondered about them pairing up?
With 6.x million subscribers, The DOJ might let it happen who knows? |
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| That does make a certain amount of sense. In fact, too much sense for it to actually happen... |
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