Wednesday, July 10, 2002
AT&T Wireless and VoiceStream to merge?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 08:22 AM
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.asp?Symbol=US:AWE&Feed=RTR&Date=20020710&ID=1765607
"VoiceStream Wireless, controlled by Deutsche Telekom AG , is in talks to merge with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.(AWE). a move that would create the second largest cellular phone company in the U.S, according to a Wall Street Journal report."
This can only be good news for the US. The bigger these things get, the less roaming we have and the more coverage we have. By 2010, we in the US will be enjoying what Europe has enjoyed sonce cell phones were invented. It would tickle me to death if SprintPCS and Verizon merged too, leaving two standards, GSM and CDMA, and three massive players, Verizon/Sprint, VoiceStream/AT&T and Cingular. Heck, I'd be happy if Cingular got their act together and killed off all of their TDMA networks.
And can someone explain this to me? Verizon and SprintPCS are both CDMA. Why can I not be a SprintPCS customer roaming on a Verison digital network and not drop to an analog signal? Have I ever told you how much I hate the cellular networks in the US?
"VoiceStream Wireless, controlled by Deutsche Telekom AG , is in talks to merge with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.(AWE). a move that would create the second largest cellular phone company in the U.S, according to a Wall Street Journal report."
This can only be good news for the US. The bigger these things get, the less roaming we have and the more coverage we have. By 2010, we in the US will be enjoying what Europe has enjoyed sonce cell phones were invented. It would tickle me to death if SprintPCS and Verizon merged too, leaving two standards, GSM and CDMA, and three massive players, Verizon/Sprint, VoiceStream/AT&T and Cingular. Heck, I'd be happy if Cingular got their act together and killed off all of their TDMA networks.
And can someone explain this to me? Verizon and SprintPCS are both CDMA. Why can I not be a SprintPCS customer roaming on a Verison digital network and not drop to an analog signal? Have I ever told you how much I hate the cellular networks in the US?
