Sprint expands spectrum, grabs customers in a deal with U.S. Cellular
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Sprint is getting around 30 MHz within the 1,900 MHz bands in the states of Illinois, Indian, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. Additionally, Sprint will use the extra bands to expand its existing coverage.
The deal is expected to close around mid-2013 and until then, the new subscribers won’t be transferred to Sprint, but will rather remain on U.S. Cellular.
US Cellular on its part explained that it decided to sell those markets because "we aren’t reaching the rate of profitable customer growth we need to justify continuing to make investments." Still, that’s a pretty large sale accounting for nearly 10% of U.S. Cellular’s whole subscriber base.
And for Sprint, this is just one of what seems a future of many changes as the company gets acquired by Japanese Softbank.
source: Sprint via Engadget
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Dots represent Sprint's current LTE coverage |
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8 Comments
1. -box- posted on 07 Nov 2012, 08:08 1
I have a few acquaintances with USC. They won't be happy about this deal. Several moved to USC to get AWAY from sprint!
3. MartyK posted on 07 Nov 2012, 08:55 8
This is the new improved Sprint, the people who ran away will be pleasantly surprise how much Sprint has change (Customer Service to Services).
Sprint has learn a very major lesson (on the brink of going out of business) on how to treat their valuable customers.
2. ThatDudeMike posted on 07 Nov 2012, 08:30 4
Called this right after T-Mobile Made that deal with Metro PCS!!! Hopefully this should make 4G LTE roll out easier for sprint (Esp. In NY Cause that seems to lax)
4. emcdonald75 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 09:54 1
Now T-Mobile needs to buy U.S. Cellular's AWS-1 spectrum for the Mississippi Valley Region. And buy Cricket as well for more AWS spectrum.
5. mad5870 posted on 07 Nov 2012, 12:54 1
Just so you know the dots represent all of 4g not just LTE, like the legend says, because Pittsburgh only has WiMax.
6. bolaG posted on 07 Nov 2012, 13:26 1
Really disapointed at USCC to do this. They dropped this on their customer base and employess with almost no notice. They've always been pretty ethical when it comes to things like this, but this time they left a sour taste in my mouth.
7. littlefuzzy posted on 07 Nov 2012, 20:28 1
Best thing Uscellular can do is fire Mary Dillon before she completes her goal of destroying what is left of the company and ultimately selling the whole company to sprint.. They went from fifth largest under Jack and down to 8th and falling under her. Employess finding out this information on the internet before they're told at work is poor communication especially for a telecom company.Go back to Wispak/Mcdonalds and leave the telecommunications industry to people that know what the'yre doing. Sad that 600+ working people are getting axed while this joke of a ceo still makes the big bucks and probably nice bonuses for making one bad decision after another
8. CRICKETownz posted on 08 Nov 2012, 22:44 0
I guess that's curtains for the US Cellular customer guarantee lol...that brand new initiative lasted for all of 3 months. "AT&T and Verizon aren't doing anything like this..." & apparently neither is USCellular anymore.
