Metropcs: Wireless For The Recession

The economy is crashing. Homes are being repossessed. Credit is frozen. It’s a great time for MetroPCS and Cricket.
The nation’s #6 wireless carrier with 4.6 million subscribers, MetroPCS attracts people by offering unlimited calling at low rates. Right now, they’re available in nine states, but they’re spreading; most notably, they’re starting service in the New York and Boston metro areas soon. Major Metro markets (so to speak) include Wilmington-Philadelphia-Trenton, DE-PA-NJ, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, Orlando and southern Florida.
MetroPCS’s expansion comes because they bought new spectrum two years ago. Like T-Mobile and like Cricket, another smaller carrier, MetroPCS is expanding on the new 1700 Mhz band. So while Metro uses CDMA and BREW technologies just like Verizon Wireless does, they have a different set of phones to support their unusual network frequency.

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