SMS 斯蒂文• 夏 wrote:
> Tinman wrote:
>
>> In fact it's just the opposite: most of AMPS will be shut down with
>> only a handful of rural operators--statistically insignificant--that
>> cling to AMPS.
>
> What you don't understand is that those handful of rural operators,
> while insignificant as far as their own subscriber numbers, are
> providing roaming coverage to tens of millions of Verizon and Sprint
> subscribers (and getting revenue from doing so). I don't care that a
> company like Golden State Cellular has only a few hundred thousand
> subscribers, they still provide CDMA and AMPS coverage to me in many
> areas where there is no other coverage at all. GSM users are SOL in
> those areas.

I wonder how many their really are? I border on a rural area and VZW
uses the carrier there for roaming. Even they added digital channels on
every site and have been deploying additional sites to fill in to the
point that there is really decent digital coverage there.