Why T-Mobile Selling Their Towers is not a Big Deal

Everyone has been up in arms the last few days because of a report of T-Mobile USA thinking about selling their towers.  If they do, so what, nothing will change.  Not all carriers own their towers.  Towers are expensive to own and maintain.  Outside of the physical maintenance of the tower, there is a lot of FCC regulations that need to be met and paperwork filed annually showing those regulations are being met. By selling the towers and then leasing them from the company they sell them to they 1) get capital money for the sale of the towers and equipment and 2) they can eliminate the tower maintenance staff that they employ, thus having more money freed up for capital expenditures.
In no way will this sale, if it happens, affect their service.  It will affect the people they employ but not their customers.

Mobile Data Speeds or Lack Of

     We have all seen our data speeds go up and down depending on the time of day. But do you know why?  The tower has a predefined amount of bandwidth. The more users the less each user can get. So during peak times you get a lot slower speed than on non-peak times.  Sometimes less than half of what you are capable of getting.  All mobile carriers do it and we put up with it.  Let's use 3G as an example. In most cases it maxes out at around 3Mbps. Have you ever seen it? I haven't, and it's what you pay for.
      Now let's take your ISP, if you pay for 15Mbps down what will you do if you only get 7 Mbps down? You will call your ISP and tell them your data service isn't working correctly. You will continue to complain until you get the 15Mbps that you are paying for.
      Unfortunately we have allowed the mobile carriers to get away with doing this for way too long and I don't think we will ever get the speeds we pay for.