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With AT&T planning to use T-Mobile’s existing 1700 MHz spectrum for future LTE rollouts, AT&T execs are saying that T-Mobile customers will have to replace their current 3G/4G phones once the merger is completed. This will be a mandatory upgrade unless of course you want your phone to work on edge only.
Told ya, Spectrum War. T-mobile has good spectrum for mobility use and can penetrate walls as well receive packet data efficiently over vast lands combine that with ATT spectrum its a blanket of airwaves that will never disconnect when you sign-on or even sign-off. ATT Is making a smart move, this is not about having the most customers, its about having enough spectrum to deploy wireless internet technology for future wireless products and rural areas where people still use 56k modems for internet. However negative effects crazy interference with gps technology and noise-cancelation technology and so on etc....Every mobile Spectrum we have now will be soon be converted into LTE spectrum.