The Huawei premia was suppose to be the last cdma phone out but then again the s4 appear with cdma radio I guess with the deal finalize that might change
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The Huawei premia was suppose to be the last cdma phone out but then again the s4 appear with cdma radio I guess with the deal finalize that might change
a samsung device went through the fcc destined for metro. doesnt mean its teh s4, especially since all the other variants have been announced and metro isnt on the cool kids list
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Well and they could have just submitted it to the FCC in case the merger fell through. I'm sure they had to work out the details with Samsung long before hand to get the S4 and at that point I'm sure the merger was even less likely. I doubt the submission to the FCC really cost them that much and was just Metro hedging their bets, but now since the merger has gone through and there's still no mention of Metro getting the S4 I doubt a Metro CDMA S4 is going to appear.
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the amount of money it costs to have samsung make a seperate backing, all new software, testing, shipping and advertisements. metro isnt going to pay all of that only to say oh hey the merger went through nevermind guys.
im willing to bet it is going to be a new samsung device that may have a snapdragon 400 or a lower specced device.
im willing to bet it is going to be a new samsung device that may have a snapdragon 400 or a lower specced device.
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Yea it will be Samsung galaxy admire s2 lol running dount
But if I remember correctly, Samsung was in development of a new os
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Oh, I know absolutely nothing. I'm just guessing & hoping that we see "some" changes by then. Since I'm in Metro's home area, I'll probably see any changes before you do.
Just my thoughts lol
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Hurray! Lookin forward to the note 3 then towards years end! Hopefully i can keep my plan and use both carriers towers!
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nah they wanna keep 2 companies seperate like lexus and toyota the go mobile plan from t-mo will be there version the prepaid plan so if ya want the high end phones ya will have to buy either on contract or unlocked for a full retail price take your pick.
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Not sure what you just said.
They have already said metro will be going GSM and all CDMA towers will be retrofited by 2015.
They will do it in small stages so all customers can switch phones to gsm before they turn them off.
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He's talking bout phone selection we probably won't be carrying the same phones as tmobile so you may have to go and buy one from tmobile at full price.
Not sure what you just said.
They have already said metro will be going GSM and all CDMA towers will be retrofited by 2015.
They will do it in small stages so all customers can switch phones to gsm before they turn them off.
Doesn't have to be unlocked though.
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I hope they don't treat us like Sprint does Boost/Virgin in phone selection. News articles are saying this is a reverse merger where MetroPCS will eventually be running TMobile so I hope we see good phones. But as long as we can get GSM phones I wouldn't care what phones they they offer at Metro stores vs what Tmo has in their stores. With new Google Nexus and Motorola X phones on the horizon I'll just buy from the Play Store or even another GSM phone that may not be officially for sale in this country.
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see it doesnt matter if officially tmo trats us like sprint does virgin. we will be gsm and we can get what ever gsm phone from whatever gsm company and use it on metro! 
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The only reason they're doing a reverse merger is so they already have the PCS stock on the market. Its basically like tmobile buying us though because most of the top execs from current tmobile will have the same position in NewCo.
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Will grab my wife an nexus 4 but I still want to stay with metro since my plan is cheaper than tmobile just want to make sure that it will run fine I'm a little confused need a little more clarification if I get let's say any gsm phone and run it with metro that just means It will run hspa since metro only has lte can someone break it down in simple terms
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True but Tmo's parent corp Deutsche Telekom wanted out of the US market so they could focus on Europe. But now they can't sell any stock for 18 months so they're being very aggressive here now with the new no contract and iPhone deal. My hope is they wont want to alienate metro customers like Sprint did with Nextel. And who knows what will happen if Sprint chooses Softbank over Dish. Dish network has a lot of cash and, more importantly, they have spectrum. The combined TMo/Metro company may be their next target.
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That would be terrible
Also the DoJ isnt for anymore mergers in the US wireless market so they're likely to block the deal like they did with AT&T/T-Mobile
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Hey Miguel, you will not need to drop, change, or mess with your, or your wife's plan. After they get the merge going and metro is officially running on t mo's gsm towers (while still operating their cdma towers) You can get a sim card from metro put it into the nexus 4 and have it run. At first it will just run on tmo's network but after they retrofit all the towers the combined company towers will put out the same thing.Will grab my wife an nexus 4 but I still want to stay with metro since my plan is cheaper than tmobile just want to make sure that it will run fine I'm a little confused need a little more clarification if I get let's say any gsm phone and run it with metro that just means It will run hspa since metro only has lte can someone break it down in simple terms
I hope that was clearer.
The only foreseeable problems I can tell will be getting faster LTE here in Florida because tmo has not yet got around to rolling out lte.
However your metro account will still get/use the available metro LTE, T-mo subscribers will not get to use that metro LTE until later in the process.
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Will grab my wife an nexus 4 but I still want to stay with metro since my plan is cheaper than tmobile just want to make sure that it will run fine I'm a little confused need a little more clarification if I get let's say any gsm phone and run it with metro that just means It will run hspa since metro only has lte can someone break it down in simple terms
Let me take a crack at this question. If the phone supports T-Mobiles bands, then it should run on both of the networks fine. Check what bands the phone supports before you get the phone. Also no GSM phones will work on metro just yet as metro aren't selling any GSM capable phones at the moment. As soon as that happens you should be good to go.
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Thanks kid very straight forward answer don't know what my head was thinking thanks again changes are coming in July
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Thanks kid very straight forward answer don't know what my head was thinking thanks again changes are coming in July
No problem Mike. The merger news have everyone excited.
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No problem Mike. The merger news have everyone excited.
Yes sir it's a win win
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Yeah I agree it would be terrible. But Neither Softbank nor Dish network are current wireless phone networks here in the US. Bottom line is 1 of those 2 companies are going to buy Sprint and Sprint is bigger than Tmo. So if the DoJ doesn't block the Sprint deal to the eventual winner, I don't see them blocking a Tmo deal with the loser. If either company were to lose out on buying Sprint, they may try to buy the new Tmo/Metro and I'm not sure the DoJ will block it.
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