SMS wrote:
> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>
>> That logic goes both ways. Sprint and T-Mobile might have towers in
>> place and Verizon and Cingular get denied.
>
> It's rarely the case, because in most cases Verizon and Cingular have
> the legacy 800 MHz networks (after a series of mergers, acquisitions,
> etc. (except in a few major metro areas like South Florida, and parts of
> Texas).

I mostly thinking of the 1900 MHz deployment that T-Mobile built out ten
years ago in California.

> because even if Sprint and T-Mobile could get
> approval for sufficient towers to equal the coverage of Cingular and
> Verizon, the cost of putting in so many towers would hurt their margins.

Getting approval is pretty much a trivial task now. Planning commissions
and home owners have no more recourses to deny an application.