AT&T just said they want to be best in class!!! ever since they got the first responders contract they ramped up there network!!! i remember when it was cingular and AT&T before cingular. i used to call em single bar
. back in those days the reception sucked!!! now in my area they make verizon look like t-mobile with one bar service as we get full bars no matter where we are... plus we have there wide band service and a micro cell out in front of our house verizons still light years behind..
Band 14 LTE was huge for AT&T, I see very little dead zone from them, their coverage has improved. The rollout of n79, the 4.9 GHz spectrum that they got for FirstNet earlier this year will be a big increase for speed. This should being multigig to AT&T mid band, if done right. If you look at Stankey's statements, you can almost infer that AT&T will won't be doing new builds anytime soon, they will use the 600 MHz spectrum they got from Dish to fill in coverage gaps as best they can. Which is why I believe they will not do a spectrum swap with T-Mobile.
Like I said, between the Nokia to Ericsson conversion, the 600 MHz from Dish, the 3.45 from Dish, the 4.9 for FirstNet, AT&T is looking pretty good at the moment. Time will tell though. From the few sites I saw examples of online, there have been decent performance increases from sites that went from Nokia to Ericsson.
From what i heard dish echostar will actually be shutting down there native network and decommissioning there towers, they will continue to have there own network core sims phone numbers ect. but it will all be roaming with AT&T as the primary partner and t-moble access as well
That nothing but a FAIREY TALE!
<Fingers in ears> La la la la Everything is going to be fine! La la la la
AT&T just said they want to be best in class!!! ever since they got the first responders contract they ramped up there network!!! i remember when it was cingular and AT&T before cingular. i used to call em single bar
. back in those days the reception sucked!!! now in my area they make verizon look like t-mobile with one bar service as we get full bars no matter where we are... plus we have there wide band service and a micro cell out in front of our house verizons still light years behind..
It's a convoluted history. I may be wrong or misremembering, but Cingular was formed as a result of the merger of Bell South and SBC in the late 90s/early 2000s, a few years later Cingular then bought AT&T Wireless and a few month before the iPhone launch Cingular changed its name to AT&T Mobility with the tagline 'the new AT&T'. Given how many regional providers and wireless offshoots of the baby Bell's there were at this time, there is likely much more to this. While both the wireless and wireline operations of the company known as AT&T today share common lineage with the AT&T of 30 years ago, they are not the same company.
Verizon was a merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic (fka NYNEX) and then started acquiring both wireless and wireline assets from there. Fun fact, up until 2014, Verizon Wireless was not wholly owned by Verizon Communications. The official name of the company was Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless, 55% owned by Verizon/45% owned by Britain's Vodafone. For a small period of time AT&T Mobility was the only 100% US owned carrier. Sprint had Japan's Softbank, Verizon had Vodafone and T-Mobile had their Deutsche Telekom mothership in Germany.
If it wasn't for two key things T-Mobile wouldn't be in the position they are today. First, the failed buyout when AT&T tried to acquire them. AT&T has to pay them a $4 billion dollar breakup fee, $3 billion in cash, $1 billion in spectrum. T-Mobile used that money to get 600 MHz at auction. Second, the Sprint buyout. Without that there would be no 2.5 GHz. No lowband 5G, no midband 5G = not much of a modern network
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. when and if dish goes under charlie should just kick back and retire he has enough money to
