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Article #58Re: No Activation Required at Best Buy?
From: Carl.
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 05:43
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 05:43
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"t.r" <the.remixNOSPAM@gmx.net> wrote in message news:un2vuu8li5o4i3ohd4h55lin61oc8cjev1@4ax.com... > > sprint makes huge profits on its mobile service - that is why their > plans offer ridiculously more free mins than any other network. they r > smart cos they structured their network from day one- unlike other > networks who are not sure whether they r gsm or tdma or cdma or > whatever. Pretty much all carriers are scraping rock bottom, including Sprint which just fired a couple thousand people. Sprint does not offer more free minutes than most other networks. Sprint started as GSM, then switched to CDMA, leaving a bunch of GSM customers on the back burner, and faced a lawsuit over it. Verizon knew they were CDMA when they were becomming Verizon. GTE was CDMA, as was Bell Atlantic. Cingular (SBC) knew they were TDMA since the beginning of TDMA. Ditto for AT&T, and now both AT&T and Cingular are overlaying GSM as part of an upgrade path to 3g. They know where they are going. T-Mobile sure as hell knows what they are doing and are better financially than other carriers (ignoring the debt-ridden German stepfather).
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