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Originally Posted by m419
YAY! I'm so glad! That means I will get much better reception on 3 if it goes ahead.
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Firstly, sorry to snip the quote!
In terms of your coverage on 3 if they merged/bought T-Mobile, sorry it's not that simple, Networks are engineered to a certain level and dumping 3 subscribers onto the T-Mobile infrastructure would probably cause enough problems to annoy both sets of customers so that's not likely to happen. I suspect the best you could hope from (eventually) would be that new subscribers get placed against the infrastructure that has the most spare capacity.
For T-Mobile subscribers on more expensive tarrifs that 3 offers - reductions won't happen. Why would 3 reduce the contract price when they can reap the profits from it?
Also, Virgin Mobile customers won't benefit from anything that's not in the contract between T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile. 3 aren't going to offer something for free that would benefit a competitor brand.
The instant improvement sounds nice from a subscriber perspective, but given most of the phones are locked down to the network they were bought on to try and protect revenue streams that's not likely to happen.