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

In article <[email protected]>, JF Mezei
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> > that's good, because they don't anymore, nor can they. 
> 
> Did it stop on the day the merger was signed? If not, when?

when lte came along, long ago.

> > for lte, they *can't* roam on each other's networks since the lte bands
> > are different.
> 
> Differeent bands make no difference to roaming. I can go roam in
> Australia or Europe that use different bands than in Canada.

different bands absolutely *do* make a difference.

if the phone lacks the necessary bands for a particular carrier, it
*can't* connect at all, roaming or native.

> This was an issue in early phones that supported only 1 band, then
> supported 2 or 3, then 4. But they have now supported a whole bunch of
> bands for a long time.

recent iphones have lte bands for all four carriers, but that was not
always the case. 

android phones vary quite a bit in what bands they support. in general,
the higher tier phones support more bands than the cheapos.

put simply, no roaming.

> If Sprint has some "odd" spectrum for which there is no handset support
> on LTE or 5G, it may not deploy it until/unless it gains support from
> everyone. 

nonsense.

> It learned its lesson having to put 3G on 1700 which nobody
> else in USA had.

that was t-mobile 3g aws and completely irrelevant to lte, cdma or
anything being discussed. 

> Considering T-Mobile won't shutdown CDMA till early next year at
> learliest, I suspect the current arrangement continues till then. 

cdma is no longer used except by old cdma-only phones (mostly flip
phones), which are rare. 

> The
> faster T-Mo converts Sprint customers to GSM-only, the less CDMA it
> needs to buy from Verizon.

nope. everything is lte now, which t-mobile and sprint fully support
and have for years, although different bands.

> But once T-Nio is a single network with LTE for both voice and data, it
> can shop around for which of AT&T or Verizon it gets its LTE from. I
> beleive it has FCC mandate to get some from AT&T, but what if Verizon
> offers better price?

nonsense. nobody needs to shop around for lte. why do you make up such
shit??

> This is where monopolistic behaviour comes in. Verizon may prefer to
> lose the roaming revenue so it can market its better coverage nobody
> else has.

there is no roaming revenue.