Leap Wireless, T-Mobile Swap Spectrum As Both Companies Focus on LTE Deployments Leap Wireless and T-Mobile today announced that the two companies will engage in a spectrum swap as they prepare to get their next-generation LTE networks up and running. According to a press statement, Leap winds up gaining 10 MHz of AWS spectrum in Phoenix, and Houston, Galveston and Bryan-College Station, Texas -- while T-Mobile should net new spectrum across various markets in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin. "These transactions will enhance our spectrum depth in these markets and provide us longer term flexibility to offer a larger LTE channel," says Leap CEO Doug Hutcheson. Leap launched LTE services in Tucson last December, and insists they hope to cover 25 million people with LTE by the end of the year.
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 | | t-mobile seems to me that this benefits leap more so than T-Mobile , know I just need many more deals like this from T-Mobile to feel secure as a customer. | |
|  | | | Re: t-mobile feel secure as a customer over LTE? LTE isn't going to be available for sometime with TMO-USA and customers should have realized that a LONG time ago. They have a HUGE amount of upgrades left to their current network before they sink more money into a new network. They're doing what Cellco and Sprint should have done a LONG time ago and kept upgrading their networks instead of sitting on a network that still had room with EVDO-Rev-B. | |
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@verizon.net | Re: t-mobile said by 25139889:LTE isn't going to be available for sometime with TMO-USA and customers should have realized that a LONG time ago.
No LTE, no problem. HSDPA can easily handle what AT&T laughingly calls 4G speeds. | |
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| | | I gave up on t-mobile today - after being with them for 10 years now, and slowly seeing them die, I decided to try another. Since I already have a vz phone from work, there was no reason to spend so much on service - went with Virgin Mobile and the Moto Triumph phone.
At the end of the day, I am not sure where tmo will be in 2 years, and I don't want to sign a contract to be told next year that XYZ inc is buying them. No thanks, the coaster isn't so fun anymore. | |
| |  tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | You mind elaborating on that?
It doubled the available spectrum in my market (Saint Louis, MO) which, until this was announced, didn't look to be on any roadmap for LTE.
Now there's enough spectrum to get LTE deployed here. The only places where T-Mobile "lost" spectrum is where they already have more than enough to have both DC-HSPA+ and LTE. This deal enables them to offer LTE in more markets, so it looks like it benefits both companies quite well. | |
| | tkdslr
join:2004-04-24
Pompano Beach, FL Reviews:
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| said by markinect:seems to me that this benefits leap more so than T-Mobile , know I just need many more deals like this from T-Mobile to feel secure as a customer.
some more details.. (from t-mobile press release)
»newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/l···exchange
"Pending regulatory approval, T-Mobile will receive spectrum from Leap in several markets in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota, and Leap will receive spectrum from T-Mobile in Phoenix, AZ and Houston, Galveston and Bryan-College Station, TX. Additionally, the companies will exchange spectrum in Philadelphia, Wilmington, DE and Atlantic City, NJ as well as several markets in Texas and New Mexico."
Sounds like t-mobile has a decent plan to go forward. | |
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