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

In article <[email protected]>, sms
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > Considering T-Mobile won't shutdown CDMA till early next year at
> > learliest, I suspect the current arrangement continues till then.  The
> > faster T-Mo converts Sprint customers to GSM-only, the less CDMA it
> > needs to buy from Verizon.
> 
> Well obviously the CDMA roaming from Sprint onto Verizon CDMA can't 
> continue once Verizon shuts down CDMA. But there is also Sprint roaming 
> onto Verizon LTE. That's something that T-Mobile obviously doesn't want 
> to keep paying for, at least in areas where both T-Mobile and Verizon 
> have coverage.

there is no lte roaming between sprint and verizon, nor can there be
due to using different bands.


> 
> > 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.
> 
> Perhaps, but for now the roaming agreements Sprint had with Verizon are 
> still in existence. While the LTE roaming is less than the CDMA roaming, 

as in zero.

> you can still see a large amount of LTE roaming onto Verizon as well. 

nope.

> It's not unlimited roaming and Sprint has all sorts of language warning 
> users about excessive roaming 
>
> <https://www.sprint.com/en/support/solutions/connectivity/learn-more-about-dat
> a-roaming.html>:

not relevant for lte, and they don't enforce it anyway.
> 
> If T-Mobile's goal is to retain a large percentage of the Sprint 
> customers that it acquired then they'll need to tread carefully. While 
> Sprint's native footprint was much smaller than T-Mobile's, their total 
> coverage (for postpaid) was actually much larger than T-Mobile's, thanks 
> to extensive roaming onto Verizon, and that coverage was in a lot of 
> areas where T-Mobile has no native coverage to replace Verizon coverage.

absolutely false.