topic Re: US Roaming in Get Support

US Roaming

tehowennathe — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:08:58 GMT

With T-Mobile merging with Sprint sometime by the end of the year wonder how that will bother our roaming. Heard they are keeping T-mobile name but moving to Sprint network. Sprint is CDMA not GSM like PM. Will that mean in future will only get AT&T? Would be bad if that happens. Area in US I visit often doesn't have AT&T service only t-mobile. Hope the merger doesn't mean we lose a roaming partner.

Re: US Roaming

anya — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:49:55 GMT

@tehowennathe Where are you hearing that they will migrate to the Sprint network? From this it looks like they plan to do the opposite;

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-the-t-mobile-and-sprint-merger-could-affect-customers/

Re: US Roaming

tehowennathe — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:55:40 GMT

Heard it from a family member in US who swiched to a carrier that uses both Sprint and T-mobile. She asked their customer service to why their new phones only came with Sprint som cards and bring own phone Tmobile. They told her t-mobile network will be no more which is why they stopped offering new GSM phones. Maybe they where wrong .

Re: US Roaming

will13am — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 01:12:38 GMT

I think it's time for US carriers using CDMA to get on board the GSM train.

Re: US Roaming

anya — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 02:37:56 GMT

@tehowennathe wrote:
Heard it from a family member in US who swiched to a carrier that uses both Sprint and T-mobile. She asked their customer service to why their new phones only came with Sprint som cards and bring own phone Tmobile. They told her t-mobile network will be no more which is why they stopped offering new GSM phones. Maybe they where wrong .

Well the good news is that you probably won’t need to worry about coverage 😁.

Re: US Roaming

JL9 — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 04:56:56 GMT

Hopefully it falls on the fence more likely to benefit us PMers 🤞

Re: US Roaming

srlawren — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:44:11 GMT

I really think using T-mo's network going forward makes much more sense for the combined entity. Just about everywhere else in the world sits on an LTE + UMTS/HSPA [+ GSM optionally] stack, so it offers up more handset availability, probably more network equipment for ongoing expansion and maintenance, etc etc.