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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / T-Mobile / October 2004new coverage
Today a t-mo rep told me that they are expanding their coverage come february, at least that will be the official announcement, but it's happening as I type this and that is when they expect things to be done. Interesting enough, it's the 850 band they are going to expand on. Allowing for better coverage and more areas of service. Thought I would share. Question though, will this make them competitive with cingular now, especially since the deal with cingular/attws is finalized? Capt. Most likely the expansion would be in the markets where Cinular had to divest their spectrum. TMobile and some smaller GSM carriers will benefit from this ruling. > Today a t-mo rep told me that they are expanding their coverage come > february, at least that will be the official announcement, but it's [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Capt. Actually no, the expansion is due to new roaming agreements with those who have access to the 800 mhz band. In MN that means dobson/cell one, from what I understand Cingular has nothing to do with it, especially in MN where cingular isn't even here and attws service here isn't part of the divesting cingular has to do. > Most likely the expansion would be in the markets where Cinular had to > divest their spectrum. TMobile and some smaller GSM carriers will benefit [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > Capt. >Actually no, the expansion is due to new roaming agreements with those who >have access to the 800 mhz band. In MN that means dobson/cell one, from what >I understand Cingular has nothing to do with it, especially in MN where >cingular isn't even here and attws service here isn't part of the divesting >cingular has to do. Then it seems they're just making "official" what has actually been true practically speaking for some time now. >> Most likely the expansion would be in the markets where Cinular had to >> divest their spectrum. TMobile and some smaller GSM carriers will benefit [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> > >> > Capt. > Actually no, the expansion is due to new roaming agreements with those who > have access to the 800 mhz band. In MN that means dobson/cell one, from what > I understand Cingular has nothing to do with it, especially in MN where > cingular isn't even here and attws service here isn't part of the divesting > cingular has to do. As the merger has been declared complete, I would expect that you can say that Cingular IS in Minnesota and in fact, I expect that AT&T Wireless website to disappear soon. - -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 2DB9 813F F510 82C2 E1AE 34D0 D69D 1EDC D5EC AED1 Spammers please contact me at renegade@veldy.net. > As the merger has been declared complete, I would expect that you can > say that Cingular IS in Minnesota and in fact, I expect that AT&T > Wireless website to disappear soon. it already says.. cingular when u go to attwireless.com Pete > Today a t-mo rep told me that they are expanding their coverage come > february, at least that will be the official announcement, but it's [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Question though, will this make them competitive with cingular now, > especially since the deal with cingular/attws is finalized? I wonder who they purchases cellular spectrum licenses from? I wonder if perhaps they are actually going to allow roaming onto Cingular and others? Perhaps they are buying up the cellular spectrum that the FCC is forcing Cingular to sell as a result of the Cingular AT&T Wireless merger? - -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 2DB9 813F F510 82C2 E1AE 34D0 D69D 1EDC D5EC AED1 Spammers please contact me at renegade@veldy.net. >Today a t-mo rep told me that they are expanding their coverage come >february, at least that will be the official announcement, but it's >happening as I type this and that is when they expect things to be done. >Interesting enough, it's the 850 band they are going to expand on. Allowing >for better coverage and more areas of service. Thought I would share. Whichever mall rat you heard this from has his head up his butt. T-Mobile can *never* have 850 as they are not a cellular license holder *anywhere!* Never trust that guy in the mall kiosk for news! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Didn't say they would have any 850 license, it would be aroaming agreement. > >Today a t-mo rep told me that they are expanding their coverage come > >february, at least that will be the official announcement, but it's [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >Didn't say they would have any 850 license, it would be aroaming agreement. You didn't say that either. AND... The previous info already posted here, T-Mobile was cited as NOT actively pursuing 850 roaming with any carrier... Period... So, the mall rat comment stands... > >Didn't say they would have any 850 license, it would be aroaming agreement. > > You didn't say that either. i did forget to mention it was a corporate store not a multi-carrier kiosk. > AND... > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > You didn't say that either. >i did forget to mention it was a corporate store not a multi-carrier kiosk. Sales Reps do not have the inside track to proprietary and confidential information. If this was one of the senior network engineers...maybe. Sales Rep? Not likely. They have a hard enough time navigating the ICM to pinpoint existing coverage much less forecasting future coverage...on a different band...one that almost all T-M handsets do not support...on a different carrier...roaming. |
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