800,000 more users decend on Verizon!

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Larry - 07 May 2008 02:14 GMT

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"On May 5 came news that Sprint's subscriber exodus will
accelerate as phone company Qwest Communications (Q) switches to
Verizon Wireless to provide mobile-phone calling to more than
800,000 of its subscribers. The decision to drop Sprint is just
the latest blow for a cellular company that has stumbled almost
continuously since its $35 billion acquisition of Nextel in
2005..."

Business Week article: http://www.starturl.com/Sprint

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Am I the only one wondering what effect 800,000 MORE users are going to
have on the already overloaded Verizon sellphone system??

......coming soon to a tower near YOU!

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Frankster - 07 May 2008 03:12 GMT

> Am I the only one wondering what effect 800,000 MORE users are going to
> have on the already overloaded Verizon sellphone system??

In theory, it will give them more money to expand and enhance their
services. In theory...LOL!

-Frank

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Agent_C - 07 May 2008 21:39 GMT

>Am I the only one wondering what effect 800,000 MORE users are going to
>have on the already overloaded Verizon sellphone system??

None, because it's not.

A_C

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TeddeLI - 08 May 2008 01:05 GMT

Larry was thinking very hard :
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> Am I the only one wondering what effect 800,000 MORE users are going to
> have on the already overloaded Verizon sellphone system??
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> ......coming soon to a tower near YOU!

I'm not an expert in this but doesn't Verizon now get to use the towers
that Quest was using?

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Todd Allcock - 08 May 2008 05:22 GMT

> > Am I the only one wondering what effect 800,000 MORE users are going to
> > have on the already overloaded Verizon sellphone system??
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> I'm not an expert in this but doesn't Verizon now get to use the towers
> that Quest was using?

Qwest has no towers or infrastructure of their own. (They sold it all to
Verizon years ago.) Qwest operated as an MVNO, or "Mobile Virtual Network
Operator." They simply bought airtime wholesale from Sprint and resold it
to customers as "Qwest Wireless Service" much like Virgin Mobile USA
(Sprint), Boost (Nextel), Tracfone (mostly AT&T) does.

Switching to Verizon will only change who Qwest uses as a "supplier"- no
towers or spectrum changes hands.

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SMS - 08 May 2008 02:24 GMT

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> Am I the only one wondering what effect 800,000 MORE users are going to
> have on the already overloaded Verizon sellphone system??

It depends on the infrastructure in the Qwest service areas, and how
much those users are spread out. At worst, Verizon would have to install
a few extra sites to handle the extra load. Verizon's system is not
overloaded, so you're starting with a false premise.

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