Ron wrote:
> Nice try at spinning. Even a Sprint MVNO has to suffer Sprints
> 1900 Mhz poor coverage and lack of indoor penetration.
It's worse than that actually. Not only do the Sprint MVNO's have to
deal with Sprint's coverage (which according to every independent survey
is much worse than Verizon's), they don't get to roam onto other CDMA
carriers to compensate (a trick that many Sprint subscribers have
mentioned is forcing roaming to Verizon). If you have Virgin, MetroPCS,
etc., you're using Sprint sites _only_. Yesterday I got a call from a
guy I knew and he kept dropping, and I said to him that I thought he had
an iPhone on AT&T. He told me that it was too expensive to use all the
time, and that he had a MetroPCS phone to use in the Bay Area.
The latecomers to wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile U.S., got stuck with
1900 MHz, and it works okay in densely populated areas where they can
install enough towers. However an area like mine, a suburb in Silicon
Valley, has terrible Sprint and T-Mobile coverage because the zoning in
the large residential areas doesn't allow for cell sites. It's a
tremendous battle every time a carrier proposes a site someplace where
they aren't permitted. The 800 MHz carriers essentially surround the
residential neighborhoods with sites in the commercial areas, and it's
good enough to provide good coverage.
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