AT&T in Previous Discussions with Cricket/Leap

With AT&T seeking as much AWS spectrum as possible for its expanding LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) network and Cricket/Leap holding its own significant swath for its AWS CDMA network and future LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) network plans, any discussions related to a purchase would have primarily revolved around AT&T acquiring Leap/Cricket for its spectrum holdings during figuring out what to do with its network infrastructure, as Leap’s network is incompatible with AT&T and Leap’s clients would have had no immediate way to transition to AT&T without a transition plan in place.

With the news of the latest discussions now hitting as the industry shuffles out of New Orleans, this year’s CTIA will be best remembered for the industry attempting to address the issues of spectrum and networks in the aggregate going forward. The carriers that were once seen as disruptive forces with the capability to compete head on with the national carriers are now being targeted mainly for their spectrum, with the big 4 now competing against each other to see who wins, for the carrier that has the most spectrum to help its 4G network will end up benefiting the most, now and in the years to come.

The fact that these reports are coming out now say more about every carrier’s increasing sense of urgency regarding spectrum reserves than any real need to purchase another company, as one only need to look to Sprint’s purchase of Nextel to see what happens when two wholly incompatible networks are merged at the same time under the guise of improved service for all. It doesn’t work, and the rest of the industry attempting such purchases would do then to pay attention to those lessons, which are for all that being felt today.

I wish sprint would get out of the picture. I love my nextel heavy- duty walkie- talkie phone and its service provider. My phone and service meets and exceeds all my requirements for A cell phone. These new tech. garbage and “android” phones are cheap useless nonesense that do nothing for the “working person”. They are designed for people and kids who do NO work! You have computers at home, or your lap top. Sprint, please leave MY phone and service ALONE! I will not buy “smartphone” garbage. I would to put it more exactly drop the service, than pay for what NO one needs.