who bought who, and who is using what???!

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Trey - 27 Aug 2004 04:50 GMT

Went into a T-Mobile store today to get some prices on a few things and got
to talking to the rep there. According to him, T-Mobile bought the cellular
towers in Socal from Cingular when att bought Cingular, and att is now
converting everything over to TDMA, just like sprint. The are also offering
850mhz phones that support dual tower connection for redundancy. ... at this
point I just stopped listening.

So here is the question:
Who bought who, who bought what, who is using what?

Does anyone have any links to some sites that would have more info on this
topic? I will be hitting google on this topic, but I was hoping someone
would be able to point me in the right direction before I go fishing for the
info.

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sw - 27 Aug 2004 05:17 GMT

> Went into a T-Mobile store today to get some prices on a few things and got
> to talking to the rep there. According to him, T-Mobile bought the cellular
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> would be able to point me in the right direction before I go fishing for the
> info.

Firstly, it is Cingular buying ATT wireless.
Secondly, Sprint is using CDMA.
Also, FYI 850 mhz = GSM.

-Carrera

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Trey - 27 Aug 2004 06:17 GMT

>> Went into a T-Mobile store today to get some prices on a few things
>> and got to talking to the rep there. According to him, T-Mobile
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> -Carrera

That would be why I stopped listening to him.

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Joseph - 27 Aug 2004 17:12 GMT

>Went into a T-Mobile store today to get some prices on a few things and got
>to talking to the rep there. According to him, T-Mobile bought the cellular
>towers in Socal from Cingular when att bought Cingular, and att is now
>converting everything over to TDMA, just like sprint. The are also offering
>850mhz phones that support dual tower connection for redundancy. ... at this
>point I just stopped listening.

If he did indeed say what you have said he doesn't have too many
clues. T-Mobile indeed will be getting the infrastructure in
California/Nevada *when* cingular acquires AT&T Wireless. 850 Mhz is
of very little use for T-Mobile at least domestically. They have no
roaming agreements for 850 roaming in the US. They can roam on 850 in
Canada and in a couple central American and South American countries.

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Trey - 27 Aug 2004 17:38 GMT

>> Went into a T-Mobile store today to get some prices on a few things
>> and got to talking to the rep there. According to him, T-Mobile
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I wish I had a tape recorder to get his EXACT words, it was too funny to
hear him talk about this stuff.
I even mentioned that Cingular bought ATTws, and he corrected me. ATT bought
Cingular.

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