Re: T-Mobile Sprint Merger: Say goodbye to scam calls

On 2020-08-04 14:09, nospam wrote:

> it's an independent survey of actual coverage.

On the year I used T-Mo for my trip to Delaware, one spot in Port henry
NY was marked as covered by T-Mo. And indeed, there was signal, except
it was AT&T signal. When I tried to make a phone call, it was rejected.

So a lot of the advertised coverage is "shared" with on of the big guys
but only usable with postpaid plans.

The merger promotional materials to get approval to buy Sprint mentioned
increased coverage by combing both networks. In many cases, this ould
mean the map doesn't change, but by being able to use the Sprint tower,
the T-Mbile customer gets stronger signal.  Remember that maps are
overly optimistic marketing docuemnts. Internally they have real maps.

I had not considered Sprint roaming on Verizon. Curous how T-Mo will
handle that one.   Obviouslt T-Mo customers won't roam on it. And new
Sprint Customers won't roam on it (likely won't have CDMA enabled on new
phones starting today).

But existing customers may be grandfathered and may continue to roam
till CDMA is shut down in 2021, after which, all customers being on
LTE/VoLTE would liekly roam on AT&T instead of Verizon.

Remains to be see if Verizon might *want* the roaming revenue or be
gland to get rid of it since T0-Mo would have an "inferio" network to
its own.