Gman9831
I'm no Senior
You will not be "pushed" customers will be migrated over annual upgrades, those who do not upgrade will be given incentives to entice upgrading to T-Mobile handsets. The merger is not about consumer base only, MetroPCS has invested in LTE technology the way T-Mobile has not.
To an extent yes. But we will not be able to squeeze out those peak LTE on even our S3 handsets with out a good radio upgrade if T-Mobile chooses to support the MetroPCS S3's that way.
Who knows if Sprint will even play nice if this Metro and T-Mo merger is approved.
The MetroPCS LTE towers will not be shut down. They will be upgraded though. It's too expensive to shut down those towers for new ones when simply tweaking them is more efficient.
T-Mobile has said they'll be shutting of the metropcs LTE in areas which they overlap. Then moving those customers onto the newer T-Mobile LTE network. They'll be moving people of the CDMA network through a phone upgrade. But with LTE they simply stop broadcasting metropcs LTE signal then let you authenticate on T-Mobile LTE signal.
Peak is 73mbps with overhead already included so you could likely see in the 50's on a 10x10MHz network. Then much higher when the 20x20MHz network goes live speeds would be faster than all the other current 4G by double.
Sprint's a corporation that wants money. Dont think they would see metropcs's limited access CDMA network as a threat especially since it'll only have about 2 years of life left. Also since T-Mobile wont be letting new customers on it.
Where have you been? They have even said they're eventually gonna decommission about 90% of metro's cell sites.