Re: T-Mobile Sprint Merger: Say goodbye to scam calls
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| Newsgroups | misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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In article <[email protected]>, sms <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are not many areas where T-Mobile would benefit by adding Sprint > native coverage, but a lot of areas where Sprint would benefit by adding > T-Mobile native coverage because in many cases it replaces Verizon > roaming coverage. false. > The issue is that there are also a lot of areas where > Sprint now roams on Verizon but where there is no T-Mobile coverage. LTE > is the great equalizer since most recent vintage phones have all the > bands for all the U.S. carriers. actually, relatively few. recent iphones have all bands, however, older iphones and most android phones do not. > If and when Sprint loses that Verizon > roaming there will be some very unhappy Sprint users. nope, since there's nothing to lose. sprint *can't* roam on verizon lte. spring can roam on verizon cdma, but that offers little benefit. > > 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). > > For now, Sprint customers still get some LTE roaming on Verizon. no they don't, nor have they ever, since that's not physically possible for most phones. > And > while you can no longer activate a CDMA-only phone on Sprint or Verizon, > an LTE phone with CDMA coverage will still work in the rare cases that > you can get a CDMA signal but no LTE signal. all sprint/verizon towers now have lte. cdma support only exists for those with very old phones that do not support lte and/or volte. > > 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. > > Not clear. Currently Sprint postpaid customers still get LTE roaming on > Verizon, according to the Sprint/T-Mobile coverage map. they do not.