On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:41:08 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <45c97485$0$68974$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>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.

Please cut out the silly anti-Cingular trolling.

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