 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to mob
Re: It will be said by mob:It will be exactly like Sprint/Nextel if the deal goes through.
LOL.
Sprint had an interest in keeping iDen around due to Direct Connect. It then wasn't sure if it wanted to refarm iden or turn it into their low-cost network (Boost originally). Of course, this pissed off their expensive Nextel customers who had degraded service thanks to the Boost influx. Finally, some 5 years later, Sprint decided that they should shutter the iDen network in a few years, and then refarm the spectrum.. you know... eventually.
In contrast, T-Mobile has no interest in keeping CDMA2000 around. Metro's network doesn't even use EvDO. That makes it both inefficient and technically worse on all merits. T-Mobile has stated since day 1 that they want to move CDMA customers to HSPA+ so they can refarm CDMA for even more HSPA+.
Unlike Sprint with iDen, there's no reason T-Mobile would have to keep CDMA around. It needs spectrum, and the longer CDMA sits on that spectrum, the longer they languish. Considering their numerous spectrum-grabs over the year, as well as aggressive spectrum refarm, as well as unlimited data push, they certainly seem to know where they want to go (again, unlike Sprint when it bought Nextel).
TL;DR
I fell for ze trolling.
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| The only problem I think they'll have is that prepaid customers buy new phones much less frequently than postpaid, so getting all of the cdma users upgraded to HSPA+/LTE phones will take quite awhile. Prepaid doesn't offer phone subsidies so you can't even give away free phones to MetroPCS customers.
They will have to get inventive to upgrade those MetroPCS customers |
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| prepaid customers actually buy more phones as they're not tied to just one phone and a contract or the cost to change the ESN. On the GSM side, it would be easy for a Metro customer go to their local Target or TMO store and buy a phone without doing much.
And with TMO "supporting" the iPhone5 more and more people will likley buy it now and use it on the new company. |
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| hottboi we actually semi agree on something.. Also the fact that TMO is looking to put metro pcs customers on HSPA while deploying there own LTE so all those previous refurbished HSPA smart phone ( and feature phones) will be a easy sale to Metro customers for a price much less than purchasing a new TMO LTE enabled phone not to mention they can still label it a 4G phone as Metros LTE is just as fast as TMO HSPA. Heck TMO could/ might actually give Metro customers free refurbished comparable TMO HSPA phones (post and prepaid customers) to Metro customers who choose to stay to keep them happy. |
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
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said by MovieLover76:The only problem I think they'll have is that prepaid customers buy new phones much less frequently than postpaid, so getting all of the cdma users upgraded to HSPA+/LTE phones will take quite awhile. Prepaid doesn't offer phone subsidies so you can't even give away free phones to MetroPCS customers.
They will have to get inventive to upgrade those MetroPCS customers
According to MetroPCS, their customer phone churn is 60-65% per year. After 2-3 years, a vast majority of their customers would upgrade themselves to T-Mobile UMTS/LTE equipment. Let's not forget that customers themselves would have an incentive to upgrade to T-Mobile's *significantly* better performing network.
I don't think that the transition will be flawless - there are always speedbumps along the way. However they do seem to be quite aware of the flawed approaches of the past.
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