Well CDMA is being fazed out. Also I hope this deal does happen sprint has been going down the tubes the last few years anyways. Customer service and a few other things. I mean they pretty much have to give phones away to get customers now a days. TMobile can really help sprint. The only way Sprint can help TMobile is offering towers in areas where sprint service is better.
On 4/29/18, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > The prevailing argument is that going from 4 major providers to 3 in fact > takes competition away. T-Mobile initially caused the other big carriers to > drop their prices and to reinstate unlimited plans, but Sprint also has had > an impact because they are financially not so well off and have offered very > good deals in order to attract customers. The argument in some of the > articles is that if T-Mobile (the stronger and financially sound company) > merges with the weaker Sprint the new larger organisation which would rival > AT&T and Verizon in terms of subscribers is less likely to continue to offer > such good deals since they don't have to do so any more to attract > customers. > Here in Canada that is certainly the case, we have Bell, Telus and Rogers, > all are GSM, but all seem to be equally expensive. Bell which is more > dominant out East is the largest provider in terms of numbers since Ontario > and Quebec have about half of the population of Canada's 36 Million, Telus > is next and Roger's I think is last. As for MVNO's we have 3 main national > companies, Virgin Mobile, Koodo Mobile and Fido. However, Bell owns Virgin, > Telus owns Koodo and Roger's owns Fido. This leaves a few smaller MVNO's > which are usually only available in the larger markets like Videotron in > Quebec, the province of Manitoba and Sasketchewan used to have their own > companies, but Manitoba Tel was bought out by Bell and neither offered > national service anyways. In Quebec the MVNO's like Koodo offer pretty > competitive packages because of Videotron, but normally you can only get > those if you have a Quebec phone number. I have gotten onto these plans > along with my wife, my Mom and a few friends by first buying a new sIM with > a local British Columbia number and the cheapest Koodo prepaid plan. Then > once we activated our self-service accounts online we went ahead and > changedd our BC numbers to Quebec numbers which of course is possible since > people do move and may want to have a new local number Once that was done we > suddenly had access to the plans offered in Quebec, the one we all have is a > $49 plan which offers unlimited calling and texting, basic voice mail and > 6Gb of data. After we had switched to that plan we had to wait a few days > (depending on when the SIM was bought I think it was a week or 10 days at > most), for the first billing statement and the first new full billing cycle. > At that point it is possible to request to have your number ported over to > an existing number so we then requested to have our Quebec numbers ported to > our existing BC numbers. This is also permissible because of course people > do get new service but want to keep their old number, especially nowadays > with unlimited Canada wide calling it doesn't really matter where your > number is from. Anyways, oru Quebec plans remained but were now transferred > to our existing BC numbers and the $10 SIM cards we bought went in the > trash. If I wanted that same plan from Koodo here in BC it would cost at > least $25 or $30 more. > At this point there is little hope that we get better deals let alone > unlimited plans because some smaller, but still significant provider such as > T-Mobile offers it because they can attract customers that way and by doing > so they force the other large players to follow along. Bell, Telus and > Rogers approximately have a third of the Canadian market each between the > main company and their corresponding MVNO so they have very little incentive > to offer better deals. > Our CRTC which is a bit like the FCC in the US has ruled in favour of > consumers in a few cases such as when they decided no provider could sell a > locked phone any more and now even phones bought on a 2-year contract have > to be unlocked, but they can't force the providers to really lower their > prices. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mary > Otten > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2018 2:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merger > > Well anything that provides more competition to Verizon has to be good from > a consumer point of view. As for 5G and that CDMA, my impression was that it > goes away. If you’re having five G, it’s all one system and it doesn’t have > CDMA anymore, correct? In other words, CDMA is just not important anymore. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 29, 2018, at 1:10 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Usually with mergers like this, the employees and consumers rarely >> benefit, only those at the top. It will be interesting to see if it's >> approved. They will also have to figure how ot merge their networks since >> t-mobile uses GSM and UMTS and Sprint uses CDMA, of course, it will be >> going to LTE eventually anyway so I would think that CDMA will be phased >> out. >> >>> On Apr 29, 2018, at 2:03 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Here is news which was news before but this time sounds like it might be >>> happening. Interesting is the variety of headlines listed when you do a >>> Google search. Our CBC canadian headline/perspective is neutral/objective >>> without implications: >>> >>> T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merger | CBC News - CBC.ca >>> >>> The CNN search result which includes the word “finally” would seem to >>> indicate that this is about time: >>> T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merge, finally >>> >>> An article from The Guardian immediately highlights the potential job >>> loss, probably won’t go over too well with Mr. Trump: >>> T-Mobile and Sprint agree merger that could cost 20,000 US jobs >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Sieghard >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone >>> list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >>> [email protected]. 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