Is Sprint Going To Be The Only Remaining CDMA Carrier?

I read in another post that Verizon is moving away from CDMA. What are they
going to use? GSM? What about their existing customer base? What will it
cost to convert their towers? How much will that disrupt the reliability of
their network?

Is this all just a rumor, or will Sprint customers be the only ones left on
CDMA? That would eliminate the ability to roam, wouldn't it?

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On Feb 21, 11:47 am, "Jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I read in another post that Verizon is moving away from CDMA.

It's going to take years.

> What are they
> going to use? GSM?

"GSM" consists of the current 2G (TDMA) and 3G (W-CDMA), and upcoming
LTE (OFDM).
Verizon's said they'll use LTE in the future.


> Is this all just a rumor, or will Sprint customers be the only ones left on
> CDMA? That would eliminate the ability to roam, wouldn't it?

There are multiple CDMA operators that Sprint customers can roam on
(Alltel's a major one in my area),
so roaming will be affected much less than you'd guess.

>
> There are multiple CDMA operators that Sprint customers can roam on
> (Alltel's a major one in my area),
> so roaming will be affected much less than you'd guess.

This is not true. In many parts of the USA, Verizon is the only roaming
partner especially in the Western USA.

USCellular is also CDMA.

Jeremy wrote:
> I read in another post that Verizon is moving away from CDMA. What are they
> going to use? GSM? What about their existing customer base? What will it
> cost to convert their towers? How much will that disrupt the reliability of
> their network?
>
> Is this all just a rumor, or will Sprint customers be the only ones left on
> CDMA? That would eliminate the ability to roam, wouldn't it?
>
>

On Feb 22, 7:44 pm, "Jar-Jar Binks" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There are multiple CDMA operators that Sprint customers can roam on
> > (Alltel's a major one in my area),
> > so roaming will be affected much less than you'd guess.
>
> This is not true. In many parts of the USA, Verizon is the only roaming
> partner especially in the Western USA.

What's the population density of the majority of those areas
in which Verizon is the only other CDMA carrier?

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:47:05 UTC, "Jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I read in another post that Verizon is moving away from CDMA. What are they
> going to use? GSM? What about their existing customer base? What will it
> cost to convert their towers? How much will that disrupt the reliability of
> their network?
>
> Is this all just a rumor, or will Sprint customers be the only ones left on
> CDMA? That would eliminate the ability to roam, wouldn't it?

In the same manner as the GSM operators with their future technology
choices, the current CDMA operators will probably support existing
CDMA technologies for many years in the future. At least Verizon
will, there is the question of whether Sprint can remain a viable
company.