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

On 2020-08-05 07:50, sms wrote:

> • Please note that it is not Sprint's intention to have roaming be the 
> primary source of your coverage."

Intention is likely an understatement. In Canada, there was a lot of
regulatory debate on this issue. Incumbents got a lot of wording in
regulations to prevent new entrants from selling service where they had
no coverage to ensure coverage was incidental and that they didn't
compete against incumbents using incumbent's networks in "permanent
roaming".

I suspect AT&T and Verzion had similar language in their contracts with
T-Mo and Sprint respectiveley.

With T-Mo now having larger market share having absorbed the corpse of
Sprint, AT&T and Verizon may become more predatory againat T-Mo and be
far more reluctant to offer roaming, even if it means reduced revenues.

Current contracts between Sprint and Verizon and T-Mo/AT&T will
continue, but when they come up for renewwall, it will become very
interesting to see what happens.

Remember that T-Mo was bragging to FCC that if allowed to buy Sprint, it
would have greater 5G coverage than AT?T or Verizon.

If T-Mo has a lot of customers in an area where they depend on roaming,
then expect it to use some of its now redundnat equipment to deploy
service there. However, setting up an antenna or renting space on
another guy doesn't get done quickly (on purpose by the big guys), so
thyey may have to pay expensive roaming for these customers for a while
until their setup their own service, or decided it isn't worth keeping
them and let them move to AT&T or Verizon.