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Originally Posted by Dr.8820
the sim and/or gsm ain't shit...unless this deal gets blocked....sprint and at&t wants what t-mobile has, soldier  . |
Well you can still use it outside the border...and LTE and GSM are compatible..aka once CDMA is dead and all the CDMA phones become shiny pdas you might just still be able to use those GSM phones lol...I mean imagine yourself using a TP2 with GSM 20 years from now while we all communicate with each other via telepathy...lol
I still prefer CDMA here in the US over GSM due to carriers using weak encryption on GSM..aka anyone with spare 1k can intercept your signal and decode it.
But overall I dont see what sprint can gain out of t-mobile...I mean Sprint has already too much spectrum..what are they going to do with more 1.9ghz spectrum or more AWS spectrum?
I could see a point of the deal 2 years ago, but right now Sprint has no use for T-Mobile...AT&T on the other hand gains A LOT from the deal...but going through it will kill the mobile industry for us consumers...
I wish we would do what Russia did where all the carriers work together to build out an LTE network and then cross license each other...then we would finally be able to achieve 100% coverage in the US..but instead we have multiple carriers all roll out towers covering the exact same cities...waste of spectrum in my opinions :/