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[Sgt. Slaughter]

MacinJosh, on 11 April 2012 - 09:46 PM, said:

And Verizon, since they finished frying at&t over the T-Mobile merger, lol.

Yes! One can dream.....oh what's that? VZ must forfit half its spectrum holdings....LOL
Dream big. Hehe


Then maybe they can go after Apple? Jkjkjkjk

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[WiWavelength]

S4GRU, on 11 April 2012 - 09:24 PM, said:

I always wondered if the FCC would care about T1's being used in protection sites.

MacinJosh, on 11 April 2012 - 09:39 PM, said:

That is a good point. Maybe the FCC didn't care as long as the protection sites were just operational, let alone fast enough to support high speed data. Just hopefully when they upgrade to LTE they upgrade the backhaul on those sites.

Sgt. Slaughter, on 11 April 2012 - 09:41 PM, said:

Or they just have bigger fish to fry....ie lightsquared. Lol

I have long thought that the FCC needs a Spectrum Czar -- namely, me.

AJ

[MacinJosh]

WiWavelength, on 11 April 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

I have long thought that the FCC needs a Spectrum Czar -- namely, me.

AJ

I vote for AJ as Spectrum Czar! Who's with me?

[Sgt. Slaughter]

WiWavelength, on 11 April 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

I have long thought that the FCC needs a Spectrum Czar -- namely, me.

AJ

So.......how do we make that happen? Lol

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[Sgt. Slaughter]

MacinJosh, on 11 April 2012 - 10:01 PM, said:

I vote for AJ as Spectrum Czar! Who's with me?

Seconded............



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[MacinJosh]

Sgt. Slaughter, on 11 April 2012 - 09:48 PM, said:

Yes! One can dream.....oh what's that? VZ must forfit half its spectrum holdings....LOL
Dream big. Hehe


Then maybe they can go after Apple? Jkjkjkjk

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You wish that Verizon would have to forfeit half their spectrum, lol. I don't ever see that happening.

[pyroscott]

Sgt. Slaughter, on 11 April 2012 - 09:48 PM, said:

Yes! One can dream.....oh what's that? VZ must forfit half its spectrum holdings....LOL
Dream big. Hehe


Then maybe they can go after Apple? Jkjkjkjk

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DOJ is going after apple. For ebook contracts and pricing

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[Sgt. Slaughter]

pyroscott, on 12 April 2012 - 05:49 AM, said:

DOJ is going after apple. For ebook contracts and pricing

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Saw that. almost posted it in General but didn't have time yesterday...thought it was funny how some of the others have already settled in the suit...

[pyroscott]

Sgt. Slaughter, on 12 April 2012 - 05:58 AM, said:

Saw that. almost posted it in General but didn't have time yesterday...thought it was funny how some of the others have already settled in the suit...

I think it's sad when you can buy a physical book for less than an e book. Then you have to buy a reader to boot. E books should be priced to pay the author and publisher. The delivery outlet gets a cut, and the customer saves a little. Just another example of apple gouging customers just because they can. E books would catch on big time if they were priced in the $5-8 range that they could be priced.

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[pyroscott]

This should be broken off as I have steered this convo way into the weeds

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[pyroscott]

I am away from the computer today. Can another mod start a new thread with the DOJ Apple conversation?

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[jdiddywray]

Any idea when this will come to Little Rock, Arkansas?

[S4GRU]

jdiddywray, on 17 April 2012 - 06:44 PM, said:

Any idea when this will come to Little Rock, Arkansas?

This thread is about WiMax Protection Sites. There are already 6 active WiMax Protection Sites in the Little Rock metro area. See the map below.

However, Sprint will not be getting to Little Rock with 4G LTE deployment for awhile still. Some time in 2013.

Robert

[jdiddywray]

@Robert, thanks for the info but that really sucks. Sprint promised 4G, or better 3G, this year and it never happened. Sprint shot its wad with the iPhone and kicked the small markets to the curb. I feel Sprint CEO's are the ones hurting them not their customer service persons. On Little Rock AFB, the kiosk vendors do not even carry Sprint products. I feel Sprint really needs to do better in all of its markets.

[pyroscott]

jdiddywray, on 18 April 2012 - 07:06 PM, said:

@Robert, thanks for the info but that really sucks. Sprint promised 4G, or better 3G, this year and it never happened. Sprint shot its wad with the iPhone and kicked the small markets to the curb. I feel Sprint CEO's are the ones hurting them not their customer service persons. On Little Rock AFB, the kiosk vendors do not even carry Sprint products. I feel Sprint really needs to do better in all of its markets.

I think you'll notice by looking around this site that sprint is aggressively improving 3G and rolling out 4G. That is what we are focused on here.

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[S4GRU]

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@Robert, thanks for the info but that really sucks. Sprint promised 4G, or better 3G, this year and it never happened. Sprint shot its wad with the iPhone and kicked the small markets to the curb. I feel Sprint CEO's are the ones hurting them not their customer service persons. On Little Rock AFB, the kiosk vendors do not even carry Sprint products. I feel Sprint really needs to do better in all of its markets.

It is frustrating. And Sprint's Network Vision is going to improve every market and every site in the country. It is also bringing LTE over its entire coverage area. It's under way now and will be completed in less than 2 years.

However, Sprint nor its executives ever gave dates for Little Rock. The places where Sprint actually announced do indeed have service.

Store personnel would often take guesses of when it seemed plausible that their area would get 4G WiMax service. Because it makes it difficult to sell a 4G phone without network dates, so many just made them up for the sale. I was told Albuquerque would have it before the end of 2010 by a sales person, even though Sprint never had plans to. These were the people propagating that WiMax was coming soon.

Sprint was very concerned about Clearwire's cash position by Mid 2010 and knew there was going to be deployment problems. That is why they explicitly did not announce cities, not knowing what Clearwire was going to be able to pull off.

In some ways, Sprint is a victim in all this. And Sprint learned many lessons that they are not repeating this time with NV/LTE. This time they are deploying 4G LTE themselves on their own spectrum and are already on their way. With WiMax, they never planned to go network wide. But with LTE deployment, they are planning to go across the whole network.

Robert

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[bgguy]

The following cities in Kentucky have some WiMax protections sites that are working that I can confirm:

Bowling Green, Glasgow, Franklin and Owensboro and they have native Sprint coverage.

Mayfield, KY has a Wimax protection site but only iDEN coverage. It is a CDMA Sprint Roaming Alliance area.

[Hypeo]

Very strange but looks like the WiMax signal in foothills Yuma is not being broadcasted anymore. I haven't been able to connect for over a month.

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[gr8nuguy]

Kansas > Salina. Confirmed at Sensorly. Do you have any performance data?

**i got a solid 4-6mbps download while driving 70-75mph through salina on i-135 on my way home**

[k0nane]

I'm late to the party, but Alabama > Auburn is confirmed! Service extends through downtown area up to Dean Road. Speeds ~4-6mbit down, 2-3mbit up. Nice little bonus. Has been around for about a year, I believe.