| John Navas 2008-01-22, 3:33 pm |
| On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:37:07 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in < 47961b16$0$84193$742
ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:
>Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>
>I'm sure that John is well aware that Sprint's current problems are
>totally unrelated to CDMA.
On the contrary -- CDMA2000 has made it difficult to migrate Nextel
customers, a problem I pointed out way back at the beginning. You just
don't like admitting that. ;)
>OTOH, Verizon and Alltel's success in terms of being the top quality
>networks in the U.S., _is_ partly related to using CDMA which is able to
>provide better coverage and fewer dropped calls. The financial success
>of Verizon Wireless is very much tied to their lower capital costs
>because even though CDMA infrastructure equipment is more expensive, you
>need fewer sites to cover the same area and fewer sites to provide
>equivalent capacity (compared with GSM). Even Cingular admitted this,
>and used it as an excuse for their poorer financial performance,
>claiming that once they completed build-out of their network that their
>margins would increase to close to Verizon's.
Total lack of citations, as usual, but of course that's no surprise,
since that's totally false.
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John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/AT&T_Wireless_FAQ>
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