How much does it cost to be a cell phone carrier?

I am looking into either buying a tower or buying space on one and am wondering if anyone can point me to a reliable place to find costs associated with running a cell phone company or with being a cell phone carrier. Thank you.

Answer by Jay
I know this is lacking details, but…

Running a cell phone company will require millions (tens or hundreds, potentially) is capital.

There’s a reason that there are so few cell phone carriers. And a reason that several of them are actually just buying service from the others (e.g., Virgin is really Sprint, I believe).

Unless you have access to several million dollars, I’m not sure what your business plan is.

As far as places to get more information, I’d try the Wireless Carrier Association.

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Young Mother on a Cell Phone


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She was sitting there for about 15 minutes. She seemed agitated as though someone was supposed to meet her there but had not shown up.

My dad is moving to Nigeria and is looking for a cell phone plan that would be the cheapest for him to make calls to the U.S. What would be the best carrier?
Also, if anyone has other suggestions, I’m open to other ideas as well.

Thanks

Answer by sporty political mr.
It will have to be a Nigerian cell-phone company..

or an unlocked phone..

other than that..he can’t get sign with a carrier from the U.S or Canada or any other place out of Nigeria.

Answer by Nasir
MTN Nigeria has the cheapest long distance call rates.

Answer by Obama4America
Its by far Stacomms, which is #12 per min. I had both Stacomms and MTN and Stacomms was the cheapest, also if you call him from US its cheaper for you to call stacomms (which is a land line in the body of a cell phone) than MTN or any other one. Now he might want to use MTN within Nigeria (they have better network)

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