Karl wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:26:44 GMT, John Navas
> <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>>>> When the FCC permits AMPS to be shut down in 2008, it will almost
>>>> certainly immediately be shut down in areas that are covered by digital
>>>> service, because it uses a lot of bandwidth unnecessarily.
>
>
> That makes no sense at all. Perhaps it might be sold to other
> carriers? Why would Cingular forego all the income they get from
> those Analog towers???

First, the CDMA carriers aren't really selling may tri-mode phones, so
the amount of income Cingular gets is very limited. Second, it makes
Cingular look bad when their top competitors have coverage in areas that
they lack coverage. They'd be willing to fore go the small amount of
roaming income in order to worsen their competitors coverage.