iansltx Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Original story: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8B20XC20121203?irpc=932 My opinion: Samsung is bidding lower than Ericsson on some projects and winning those bids...and deploying faster than Ericsson in some cases (e.g. NV). So Ericsson wants to stop looking slow and expensive...by slowing Samsung down and making them more expensive. I really hope that they can come to a reasonable resolution on this issue, since otherwise both Ericsson and Samsung NV builds could be slowed. And Ericsson in particular shouldn't get any slower than it already is. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascertion Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Why must I be in an Ericcson market?! Grrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCFKnight Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Why must I be in an Ericcson market?! Grrr It all comes down to which company won the bid for the contract, and in this case for the Southeast, it was Ericsson. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascertion Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 It all comes down to which company won the bid for the contract, and in this case for the Southeast, it was Ericsson. So it was actually possible that my market could've been handled by Samsung? Interesting. Did not know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpenceSouth Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I hate how companies how all of these companies want to sue and not compete. Very frustrating for everyone involved, and especially us as consumers. Would hate to see this impact NV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feech Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Seems like they had a agreement and this arguement is about the renewal terms of the same patents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellimel2212 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Im so glad I'm in Chicago.. A Samsung market lol Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Nexus Rockin 4.2.1 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pslee Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 what about NYC? samsung or ericsson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 what about NYC? samsung or ericsson? NYC is Alcatel-Lucent http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2120-listing-of-legacy-vendorsnetwork-vision-vendors-by-market/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Febby Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Im so glad I'm in Chicago.. A Samsung market lol Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Nexus Rockin 4.2.1 using Tapatalk 2 I wish L.A had been a Samsung market lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tybo31316 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Looks like Ericsson is pulling an apple type move. If you can't beat them sue them. Traditionally what I've seen as far as network build outs seems like Ericsson and Alcatel lucent had a duopoly type situation going on which those companies getting the majority of the work. Seems like Samsung has to beat them with price and faster rates of completion. Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas L. Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 This is a somewhat related but somewhat unrelated question as well: does anyone know exactly how the bidding process happened, that is to say, how the country ended up split between the three OEMs? Did they bid by region, or is there a maximum size each one could handle, or how did it come to be that they decided to split it up? Was maybe Sprint trying to see if, in the end, one provider was better than the other, kind of like testing each one, or...? I find it very interesting they way they did it. Tommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 This is a somewhat related but somewhat unrelated question as well: does anyone know exactly how the bidding process happened, that is to say, how the country ended up split between the three OEMs? Did they bid by region, or is there a maximum size each one could handle, or how did it come to be that they decided to split it up? Was maybe Sprint trying to see if, in the end, one provider was better than the other, kind of like testing each one, or...? I find it very interesting they way they did it. Tommy Probably like any other situation where a company wants something done. Sprint probably contacted several companies, told them what they want done, gave them a approx. time period, and how much they're willing to spend and then the companies responded with bids. Basically, the one that goes the lowest out of the numerous contacted companies get the contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halcyoncmdr Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Probably like any other situation where a company wants something done. Sprint probably contacted several companies, told them what they want done, gave them a approx. time period, and how much they're willing to spend and then the companies responded with bids. Basically, the one that goes the lowest out of the numerous contacted companies get the contract. I think they were asking more how it got split up geographically like it did. One would assume if it was as simple as each market getting an individual bid, the region split wouldn't be as even and in the chunks it is. Something along the lines of, whether Sprint split the country up into areas and then ask for bids on each area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealNaNa Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 This just came out today: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2023400/samsung-seeks-a-ban-on-sales-of-ericsson-products-in-the-us.html I was wondering if the Samsung and Ericsson patent issues may be effecting Ericsson's LTE deployment in the markets they are on slate to work on? Of course Ericsson is supposed to be handling my market (Kentucky). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaixor Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Who is handling San Francisco? D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkoellerwx Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Who is handling San Francisco? D: Samsung. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaixor Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) Ah I see... hopefully there won't be any interruptions in samsungs NV build from this Edited January 10, 2013 by Kaixor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyandrew Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Ah I see... hopefully there won't be any interruptions in samsungs NV build from this Trust me when I tell you the Samsung builds are anything but interrupted. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supert0nes Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Trust me when I tell you the Samsung builds are anything but interrupted. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 I never understood that saying. It's like a double negative. Does that mean you think they are interrupted? Sent from phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyandrew Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I never understood that saying. It's like a double negative. Does that mean you think they are interrupted? Sent from phone On the contrary, I happen to know they are very much in progress. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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