At 25 Apr 2008 03:07:25 +0000 danny burstein wrote:
> Whoaaaaaaa... I thought D.T. bought up Western Wireless.
> Was it a split up, with some going to one and the
> rest to another?
IIRC, Voicestream and Western Wireless were run by the same guy. He sold
Voicestream to DT who renamed it T-Mobile, and a few years later sold WW to
Alltel.
> Oh, and another reason to "leave some GSM capacity up"
> is to prevent the FCC, on behalf of a competitor, pulling
> a "you didn't use it, now you've lost it" line.
Alltel is already using the bandwidth for CDMA. But, as a rural carrier,
they have more capacity than they need, and from what I understand, just
leave a few channels of GSM running for roaming use alongside their CDMA
system.
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