[ece]

It's funny that US Cellular is listed here, and Dish/Boost isn't. Neither is Sprint, but it's LTE network is still relatively separate and something most T-Mobile customers can't access yet. Pretty useless map. Maybe comparing this with how much spectrum these companies have in an area might give more incentive to build where there's demand.

[jsjohnst]

> Dish/Boost

Boost is an MVNO. Look at the T-Mobile map and you are effectively looking at Boost’s map. It’s the same reason Cricket (AT&T), GoogleFi (T-Mobile/US Cellular), Metro/Mint (T-Mobile), Republic (T-Mobile), Spectrum (Verizon), Visible (Verizon), Xfinity (Verizon), etc aren’t listed.

> Neither is Sprint

Sprint is effectively T-Mobile now. Yes, they haven’t fully merged in all areas, but breaking Sprint only out wouldn’t be very useful for very long.

[ece]

The point I was trying to make is Dish has spectrum, MVNOs do not. Dish has artificially increased the cost of spectrum by holding on to it and not building their own network, and in the process also increased the cost of building a network for others.