XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: scharf.steven@geemail.com   
      
   On 8/3/2020 2:21 PM, JF Mezei wrote:   
   > Someone mentioned that with the combined coverage of Sprint/T-Mobile,   
   > coverage ius much better.   
      
   Wow, who mentioned that?   
      
   Sprint and T-Mobile pretty much both had the same very limited non-urban   
   coverage, so combining coverage wouldn't have helped much.   
      
   What Sprint had (and still has for now according to their map) is   
   extensive Verizon roaming, at least for voice, SMS, and 3G data, as well   
   as some LTE data.   
      
   If you look at Sprint's maps, you still see a lot of cross-hatched   
   yellow areas with coverage, where T-Mobile's maps show none, but that's   
   for postpaid Sprint, "Extended 4G LTE These roaming areas are included   
   in your plan. Some services may not be available." If you switch the map   
   to "voice" the Verizon roaming expands dramatically, for now, but once   
   CDMA is gone, probably that roaming will be gone.   
      
   In the less populated parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sprint still   
   offers (according to their map) a great deal of Verizon roaming for   
   voice and SMS. These are not areas "in the middle of nowhere," they're   
   often just a few miles outside of urban areas, where neither Sprint nor   
   T-Mobile have their own coverage.   
      
   I can't imagine that T-Mobile will retain all of Sprint's Verizon   
   roaming going forward When Verizon's CDMA network is shut down they'll   
   automatically lose vast areas of voice coverage where T-Mobile has no   
   native coverage.   
      
   If you're a Sprint subscriber that was okay with Sprint's limited native   
   coverage, because Verizon roaming compensated for it, then you're   
   probably going to be very unhappy when that roaming is no longer available.   
      
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