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Posted by: enV9900

Hello,
I recently just found an article posted from AT&T, while I was reading it I became extremely confused. Now please correct me if I am mistaken because I am sure that I am because of the fact that I'm not exactly positive what this article was saying

but, I live in South Dakota, and when I read this article to me what it said was : AT&T will be buying out verizon in multiple areas (south dakota being one that is included), and within a few months, or a year verizon will change from CDMA to GSM and customers who have verizon in South Dakota will have AT&T's GSM service and will be able to obtain an iPhone?

Is any of this correct? please help me as I am extraordinarily confused!

thanks so much for your help!

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Posted by: silver6054

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Originally Posted by enV9900

Hello,
I recently just found an article posted from AT&T, while I was reading it I became extremely confused. Now please correct me if I am mistaken because I am sure that I am because of the fact that I'm not exactly positive what this article was saying

The article is talking about divested Alltel properties. When VzW bought Alltel, they were required, for anti-monopoly reasons, to sell some of the Alltel cell sites (and a few others, as it says in the article) to other carriers. AT&T was the biggest buyer of the divested properties.

Since AT&T is a GSM carrier, they cannot use the CDMA properties as is, and will change (really replace) them to GSM.

And, once that is done, customers in those areas will be GSM AT&T customers, and can thus get the iPhone.

Note this applies to a small section of the Verizon Wireless customers, Verizon as a whole isn't switching to GSM. Well, it is going to LTE, but that is another thread.