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If your area is covered by a recommended or ordered stay at home/quarantine and/or school closures/spring break it could be overloaded by more gamers and work at home folks. Switching to Spectrum business might then be the answer. Typically you get higher priority and quicker service (not true with other business offerings such as wowway).Spectrum business rates have fallen a lot in recent times.

Spectrum could say it is the modem if you own it. (Likely not since you did not include logs which modem owners typically get.) Power levels are too high upstream generally speaking, but need the modem model to be certain. However lack of correctables points to network overload. Typically a new cable run to your house is the best solution if more than a few years old. Alternate best solution is to trim a few inches of the end af each cable. Alternatively a newer modem may sometimes solve the issue since they typically cover more of the less used frequencies.

During the spring and summer T-Mobile was increasing site amperage in preparation of the merger. My sources were later confirmed by permits and their completion.

The court decision said Boost Mobile was the most profitable part of Sprint.

For areas with only T-Mobile or Sprint signal you are correct. The question is more for areas with both carriers. My assumption is they basically want to keep Sprint users in a holding pattern where both networks are workable until market is merged. Do basically emergency site upgrades for broken Sprint markets that are far down their market merging list to retain customers. Goal one was more spectrum closely followed by goal two of retaining customers needed for better economies of scale.

They will want to avoid the quagmire of supporting two networks longer than they have too. Do low hanging fruit improvements to Sprint only where needed and convert Sprint Markets as rapidly as possible. The real question for us is which ones get converted first? Many ways to choose. T-Mobile has more of an eye for ROI/cash flow.

Dish's strategy is to just go after 70% of the county, which works for many people who rarely step out of the urban areas. Those who valve cell service more want coverage everywhere hence AT&T and Verizon. The new T-Mobile aims to close that gap. In today's bi-polar political world, each area under appreciates the other.

Why divide it by states? Metro areas subzidize most rural areas, at least for things likes roads and cell service.

In the Columbus OH market Sprint has more macro sites than T-Mobile. T-Mobile has just a handful of small cells versus hundreds for Sprint. T-Mobile likely has many more indoor sites. T-Mobile does test better on root metrics, likely do to better backhaul.

T-Mobile also needs to reserve money for the upcoming unused 2.5GHz spectrum auction. The duo would likely continue their shill practices and buy up key parts like AT&T did in San Francisco.

In theory you can end up with the best service this way.

Good work. Here are the numbers that were origanally thrown around: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/a-merged-sprint-t-mobile-will-shutter-25-000-towers-and-crown-castle-will-suffer-most

I am not certain this number is still true. With Dish getting the sites they abandon, the inclination would likely be to retain more Sprint sites. FCC may have forced more rural coverage given 1x800 coverage compared to VoLTE. We know T-Mobile went through several revisions after those numbers were made public. Might be better numbers in the merger court decision.

How does that compare to the announced merger ratio?

Low hanging fruit first. Update firmware to VoLTE on most popular models that Sprint has not already done. Maybe convert markets that are not VoLTE compatible first. Then special deals for remaing phones that must have CDMA? The issue would then be the MVNOs.

The main merger focus would be on getting to the new T-Mobile network on a market by market basis, but Sprint must be kept alive in other areas. Quickly doing mutual roaming of some sort is a certainty. If this merger were to follow the Shentel-nTelos merger (to which it has a lot of technical advancement similarities), T-Mobile might accelerate Sprint VoLTE in terms of what was in progress but not complete along with any other software changes that do not require core hardware improvements. Continued site work would be possible but would have to pass more scrunity (ie only allow in places in markets that really need it until they are consolidated).

Agree with almost all, but T-Mobile may never release their plan. They have always been more cash flow/ ROI focused, so likely urban first. The could also go to where Sprint is losing the most money or their sites are the most congested, or places with the most marketing value in terms of improvement overall (shameless plug for Ohio, especially Columbus.)

T-Mobile has been try to pick off the more profitable areas of WV with new sites.

The impression from reading the national report is you have Verizon in the lead with AT&T trailing while T-Mobile and Sprint are grouped togther significantly further back. Individual state reports often show Sprint in third or even 2nd (Shentel).

Agree that the major factors are VoLTE and data performance. In the past the formulas was rigged against TDD (and still are), but Sprint has allowed the B41 upload speeds to drop to the point they are strangling performance. B25/ B41 CA or full n41 needed ASAP, along with increased backhaul.

Unions are certainly a factor. Attempting to get a better deal for your state was another, such as Texas (Republican) etc. General views on enforcement of merger deals is another. Rewarding a firm (Dish) that skirts the rules is yet additional factor. Basically a urban/rural divide both in search of lower prices. The rural areas often only have two real carrier choices while the urban have four. The irony is the FCC decision on 2.5 licenses no longer having to set aside a small percentage of the usage for non-profit use and in fact being saleable will have a much greater impact on prices in urban areas over time. Yet this seems uncontested. Bringing politics into this forum? Not needed and against the rules.

The negative press on Sprint in the merger process should be a significant factor in churn. Converting former Clear sites to triband should have had a significant performance impact yet has not dramatically appeared in Rootmetrics results. The rarity of B25 + B41 + B41 CA is a factor since that would solve band 41 upload congestion (5g would be even better). In my market attention is shifting to software updates. VoLTE came to Magic Boxes last week. Overall network improvements might just be a multistep process yet to be completed. The competition does not stand still for Sprint.

What was padding your set as?

The untouched areas where the judge could step in are likley the coverage distance/ building penetration between 1x800 and VoLTE, the handling of customers CDMA phones, billing transition, and a few areas where the new T-Mobile would totally dominate the spectrum licenses. These were all basically dictated in the Shentel nTelos merger.

Closing arguments in January, likely set to encourage a deal.