by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 8:25 AM MST
I decided to break from my Thanksgiving merriment to bring you breaking news that AT&T has decided to withdraw it's Application to the FCC for it's merger with T-Mobile. However, even though technically the merger is off with this change, AT&T says they are not giving up completely.
They have announced that they are still proceeding with the lawsuit in February with the Dept. of Justice
NEW SERVICE ALERT : Fanning Springs/Old Town, Florida
A new Sprint/Clear 4G WiMax tower is now active in the remote rural towns of Fanning Springs and Old Town in Levy County. This Protection Site offers good service around Old Town and very spotty service in Fanning. Turn on your 4G antennas, scan for service and start surfin'!
EXPANDED SERVICE ALERT : Phoenix, Arizona
An additional protection site has gone live in Phoenix!!! The new 4G tower is located in the West Side of the City along I-10 and 67th Avenue. hanks to Anthony Adair for bringing this to my attention. I have been out of the loop for the holiday. Good catch!!!
There are conspiracy theorists who still are holding on to hope that Sprint is going to announce on Friday an iPhone 5. I'm just flabbergasted trying to argue reason into these folks. Am I crazy for thinking that's so fantastical that it can't possibly happen? Maybe I'm just too jaded? I want to hear thoughts from our 500+ fans. Is this crazy? Or do you think this is plausible? Weigh in, now...
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NEW SERVICE ALERT : Clarion, Pennsylvania
A new Sprint/Clear 4G WiMax tower is now active in the Northwestern Pennsylvania town of Clarion. This Protection Site offers fair service in the center and southern parts of town. Turn on your 4G antennas, scan for service and start surfin'!
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Sunday, November 13, 2011
I've been having this discussion a lot lately with fellow wireless dorks. About HTML5. How it's going to transform the mobile computing experience. On smartphones and tablets.
In the current scheme of things, most of us use apps on our smartphones and tablets. In fact, one of the most important things that most people consider before selecting a mobile operating system is the app selection available. Most shopp
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 2:45 PM MST
In an article on the Seeking Alpha website today, the writer posts many reasons why investors should invest in Clearwire. Lots of good and valid points. But given the press', and most specifically the financial press', overt dislike of Clearwire, I was very surprised by the report.
Take a read of the article by clicking on the link or the image at left. Feel free to add your thoughts below.
NEW SERVICE ALERT : Whitesburg, Kentucky
A new Sprint/Clear 4G WiMax tower is now active in the Eastern Kentucky town of Whitesburg. Talk about a place in the middle of nowhere Appalachia. You guys will have a field day with this!
This is roaming territory for Sprint customers, which means that older generation WiMax devices may have problems connecting to this site.
Here's a shocker! A NEW 4G WIMAX PROTECTION SITE went live in Frostburg, Maryland. You won't be seeing many more WiMax deployment announcements any more. Looking forward to some LTE love from the Now Network!
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 4:19 PM MST
According to an article on Barron’s website today, Jennifer Fritzsche of Wells Fargo is becoming bullish on Sprint Nextel. Her upbeat attitude on the third largest wireless company in America came after a meeting with Sprint CEO Dan Hesse yesterday. “We walked away from the meeting feeling continued confidence in the company’s turnaround strategy,” wrote Fritzsche.
“While this story admittedly
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Friday, December 16, 2011 - 12:42 PM MST
Today, Sprint announced that it is no longer collecting information using Carrier IQ. It has also been rumored through Geek.com that Sprint has requested OEM's to strip Carrier IQ from new devices.
Sprint has had to take these steps due to consumers crying foul since the Carrier IQ debate began a few weeks ago.
NEW SERVICE ALERT : Asbury Park, New Jersey
A new Sprint/Clear 4G WiMax tower is now active along the Jersey Shore near Asbury Park. It showed up on Clear's website today, so it's no longer a Phantom Site!
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 8:20 AM MST
This morning Clearwire has come out with a Press Release stating that they have come to an agreement with Sprint on new funding. Up to $1.6 Billion in additional funding in total. This is significantly more than analysts were anticipating if Sprint were to come to the rescue.
The deal, as reported from Clearwire on Thursday morning, would include keeping the existing WiMax network operating throu
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Yesterday, we told you about new Lithium-Ion Graphene batteries that will last 10 times longer than current smartphone and tablet batteries. Today we bring to you Interferometric Modulator Displays (IMOD).
Qualcomm is now finishing up their product of IMOD's branded as Mirasol. And these displays are promising battery consumption efficiency increases approximately ten times over current LCD's. Mirasol displ
RUMOR CONFIRMED - NEW SERVICE ALERT: Keokuk, Iowa
Back on July 20th, we told you that a WiMax Protection Site was bound for Keokuk. And today it went live. Hopefully, it's not like it's downriver brethren in Quincy and Hannibal which our fans have been unable to connect to. Let us know if you can connect in Keokuk!
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 2:35 PM MST
BREAKING NEWS: The FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is now reported to believe that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is not in the public interest and will call for an agency judge to set up a hearing on the anti-competitive nature of the deal.
This is different from the Dept, of Justice who filed a lawsuit earlier this year in opposition. The fact that the FCC is now taking this position does not bod
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Tuesday, November 15, 2011
This is a product development that all dorks will unite and embrace for. Longer lasting device batteries!
There have not been any significant efficiency improvements on the battery side for many years. The improvements to battery life in smartphones and tablets the past few years have been largely only related to bigger batteries and smarter and more battery efficient devices and operating systems.
And wi
NEW SERVICE ALERT : Thermopolis, Wyoming
A new Sprint/Clear 4G WiMax tower is now active in the North Central Wyoming town of Thermopolis. Several happy steer right about now.
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates October 21, 2011
This is an exciting article about new System-on-Chip (SoC) chipsets coming out for LTE that will run on all frequencies between 700MHz and 3.5GHz. If Sprint used something like this, it would allow for a lot of LTE flexibility in the future.
Currently, Sprint has only announced LTE on 1900 only. However, Sprint can be running LTE on as many as 8 different frequencies in the next few years (700, 800, 900, 1500, 1600, 190
NEW SERVICE ALERT : Kane, Pennsylvania
A new Sprint/Clear 4G WiMax tower is now active in the remote Northwest Pennsylvania town of Kane. This is roaming territory for Sprint customers, which means that older generation WiMax devices may have problems connecting to this site.
For those of you who use Twitter, we have now added a page there. FOLLOW US on Twitter! I did it just for you, Keith!
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by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Thursday, November 10, 2011
If you are here reading this, you now are experiencing Beta Version 1.0 of the S4GRU Community.
It's designed to be a full community, including unique sign-in and forums. THIS IS ONLY A BETA. In the beginning, I am only looking for serious testers. Everyone is open to peruse the site. However, I only want people who regularly participate to register for membership.
The first trial is limited to just 50
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 3:26 PM MST
Can you believe it? The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet just came out and there is already talk of a smartphone offering from Amazon. But you can't let grass grow under your feet in this business. Everyone saw how quickly RIM fell from grace by waiting around and not jumping in and taking risks.
Amazon is reportedly working with mega Chinese phone/tablet manufacturer Foxconn for a release in the fourt
Normally the licenses with the overlapping geographic service areas "split the football" by straight line of the intersection area of the two radius circle areas for just the shared frequencies. However private deals between the parties are also possible, and have been encouraged by the FCC in some situations when the service areas overlap by more than 50%. The special conditions section on the admin page of the NW Spectrum leases can be said to support this: "This spectrum lease does not incl
My only question is what happens when EBS licenses overlap? Do we know how it's determined who uses what and where? For example in NYC, NW Spectrum (NextWave) has two leases that apply to 2624-2640.5MHz covering all of NYC but T-Mobile also leases that same slice of EBS from someone else that covers most of NYC, but not all.
Check it out here:
NW Spectrum: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=4113406&parentKey=null
NW Spectrum: https://wireless2.fc
Have you seen any good speeds on b13 last time I tested it it was super slow only b25 and b41 got some speed and I wasn't in a urban area so it shouldn't be as congested but each time I connected to b13 the speedtest wouldn't run
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In Montgomery, AL and the channels here and surrounding areas are really thin (40mhz). This'll change everything
