Dennis Ferguson wrote:
> On 2008-05-06, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I believe that, but MetroPCS isn't a Sprint MVNO and doesn't use
> Sprint's network so that particular anecdote says nothing about Sprint.
> MetroPCS owns and operates its own network and their coverage in the bay
> area is not too wonderful.
Yes, my mistake. MetroPCS leases infrastructre from Sprint, but they are
not an MVNO. Their coverage is worse than a Sprint MVNO's because they
are using a subset of Sprint's towers. You're still using Sprint sites
only, just not all of them.
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