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I am not aware of any roaming agreements between T-Mobile and ATT. I have been trying to get onto the ATT network here in NY for about a year now - no success.
It is true that ATT signal strength used to overpower the T-Mobile signal here where i live. When I spoke to a T-Mobile rep (an educated one, for a change), he revealed that ATT and T-Mobile indeed shared the towers - it lowers their operating expenses, but that ATT was blasting their antennas wtih full power because their network was not live and they could test the full signal strength without any users on the network.
Lo and behold, after ATT went live in NY, the strength of both signals pretty much equalized.
When international roamin is concerned, I am wondering why is T-Mobile offering the same flat rate for all operators in the UK or Germany. It would be better for both them and us to induce us to roam on other T-Mobile networks by offering lower rates for them and adding them to our preferred networks list. Who knows.
By the way, T-Mobile never built its network from ground up - they simply bought the failed Sprint Spectrum network and made it live. An unofficial Sprint comment: "We made a great deal by selling them this junk. They will never make it work".
Go figure.
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Posted: 2003-06-18 17:21:02
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On 2003-06-18 17:21:02, moodswinger wrote:
I am not aware of any roaming agreements between T-Mobile and ATT. I have been trying to get onto the ATT network here in NY for about a year now - no success.
It is true that ATT signal strength used to overpower the T-Mobile signal here where i live. When I spoke to a T-Mobile rep (an educated one, for a change), he revealed that ATT and T-Mobile indeed shared the towers - it lowers their operating expenses, but that ATT was blasting their antennas wtih full power because their network was not live and they could test the full signal strength without any users on the network.
Lo and behold, after ATT went live in NY, the strength of both signals pretty much equalized.
When international roamin is concerned, I am wondering why is T-Mobile offering the same flat rate for all operators in the UK or Germany. It would be better for both them and us to induce us to roam on other T-Mobile networks by offering lower rates for them and adding them to our preferred networks list. Who knows.
By the way, T-Mobile never built its network from ground up - they simply bought the failed Sprint Spectrum network and made it live. An unofficial Sprint comment: "We made a great deal by selling them this junk. They will never make it work".
Go figure.
Check the press releases on T-Mobile's website for info on their roaming agreements. As far as using the AT&T network my experience has been that whenever there is a T-Mobile network signal in the area, you are forced to use that. I agree with you that T-Mobile should offer lower rates on T-mobile branded international networks.
Thanks for the info T-Mobile's network construction. So the original VoiceStream network was based on old Sprint equipment? And then T-Mobile purchased VoiceStream?
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Posted: 2003-06-18 21:21:21
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