T-Mobile Says C Spire Made False Claims About Talks, Decommissioning CDMA
It’s false for C Spire to claim T-Mobile refused to meet to discuss roaming and wholesale agreements, or that the combined company plans to accelerate the timeline to decommission Sprint’s CDMA network, T-Mobile wrote the FCC, posted Tuesday in docket…
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18-197. C Spire opposed the deal (see 1811080062). The companies have a “successful existing roaming agreement,” and had talks about future agreements with C Spire before and after T-Mobile/Sprint's unveiling, the buyer responded. C Spire is a top-five T-Mobile roaming customer by traffic, confirming "T-Mobile offers fair and competitive rates,” the bigger company said: C Spire may choose T-Mobile or Sprint rates post-transaction. The new company’s CDMA transition “provides a substantially longer transition" than Verizon,” T-Mobile said. C Spire didn't "make false or misleading statements," but "T-Mobile once again twisted the truth," emailed a C Spire spokesperson. T-Mobile has refused to meet since the smaller firm filed in opposition and "refuses to agree to reasonable, enforceable roaming and MVNO commitments" or "commit to a CDMA transition that will not harm rural customers," he said.