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Network tech is just one of those niches that the "mainstream" tech press has always really struggled to cover. It's too complicated and too obscure to justify spending time researching. Of you want reliably correct and in-depth journalism, you're pretty much limited to trade publications.

 

But it does really suck when someone tries to cover it and ends up spreading misinformation.

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And that has always been sprint's weakness.

 

And indignation long has been many current or former Sprint users' weakness?

 

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im in nyc this week and will be around world trade with my new bolt (3x CA)...what should i look for in the engineering screens to confirm i am utilizing 3xCA?

 

Ideally there would be 3 EARFCNs (DL channels) displayed. I do not know if the Bolt engineering screen shows enough information to confirm 3xCA at this point.

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Ideally there would be 3 EARFCNs (DL channels) displayed. I do not know if the Bolt engineering screen shows enough information to confirm 3xCA at this point.

 

is this related to serving cell and secondary serving cell?  ive been seeing a lot of that, but even on band 25.

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is this related to serving cell and secondary serving cell? ive been seeing a lot of that, but even on band 25.

Wait you've seen secondary serving cell on Band 25?

Most likely stale data. Seems to be an issue on HTC and LG devices. The SCC field will fill in while connected to 2xCA on B41, but when dropped back to B25 or B26 the SCC field doesn't clear. You can tell it's stale though because the RSRP SCC values stop updating.

 

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And indignation long has been many current or former Sprint users' weakness?

 

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You read indignation into that? That is running along way from the words. Has or has not sprint has an awful record, both in a relative sense (compare vzw) and in an absolute sense (missing their own dead lines)?

 

I think there is an objective case that sprint has historically struggled to execute network plans.

 

 

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I believe merger between Sprint and tmobile might happen sooner than people think.  Fcc Wheeler will step down on Jan 20.  After Wheeler steps down, there will be 4 republicans to 1 democrat on Fcc committee.  Very likely, merger will be approved.

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I believe merger between Sprint and tmobile might happen sooner than people think.  Fcc Wheeler will step down on Jan 20.  After Wheeler steps down, there will be 4 republicans to 1 democrat on Fcc committee.  Very likely, merger will be approved.

 

Aren't the commissioners always split 3-2? So even after Trump makes his appointment for commissioner it would still be 3-2 R. 

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I believe merger between Sprint and tmobile might happen sooner than people think.  Fcc Wheeler will step down on Jan 20.  After Wheeler steps down, there will be 4 republicans to 1 democrat on Fcc committee.  Very likely, merger will be approved.

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/fcc-chair-tom-wheeler-wont-resign-for-now-as-fcc-enters-2-2-deadlock/

 

They explain it a lot better than I could. :)

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Aren't the commissioners always split 3-2? So even after Trump makes his appointment for commissioner it would still be 3-2 R.

No, 3 members of the FCC come from the Presidents party and 2 from the opposition party.

 

 

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I believe merger between Sprint and tmobile might happen sooner than people think. Fcc Wheeler will step down on Jan 20. After Wheeler steps down, there will be 4 republicans to 1 democrat on Fcc committee. Very likely, merger will be approved.

T-mobile is valued at 98.4 billion for a purchase. Sprint wouldn't be a buyer they would become the seller and T-mobile would buy

 

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I believe merger between Sprint and tmobile might happen sooner than people think.  Fcc Wheeler will step down on Jan 20.  After Wheeler steps down, there will be 4 republicans to 1 democrat on Fcc committee.  Very likely, merger will be approved.

As far as the merger is concerned, Trump is very sensitive on the subject of jobs. As you well know, mergers result in loss of jobs. Will the investment fund that Softbank is putting together and the 10,000 jobs it promised be enough to counteract the loss of jobs? Don't know. I thought the time to merge was before both of them spent an ungodly amount of money to deploy LTE. Sprint's Net Debt is around $31B, where as T-Mobile's is $22.4B. 

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T-mobile is valued at 98.4 billion for a purchase. Sprint wouldn't be a buyer they would become the seller and T-mobile would buy

 

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T-Mobile can't afford Sprint but Softbank can afford to buy both of them.

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Sprint's band 41 spectrum had been valued at over $100 billion by itself. Which is why sprint is able to basically do what they are doing with the lease back option borrowing off itself.

 

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Sprint's band 41 spectrum had been valued at over $100 billion by itself. Which is why sprint is able to basically do what they are doing with the lease back option borrowing off itself.

 

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That is true, but would Softbank have 100 billion to purchase T-MOBILE

 

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If the companies do merge I hope that doesnt delay the densification plans. I need sprint to be on fleek next year

 

I don't know what that means but it sounds good so I'll agree!

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If the companies do merge I hope that doesnt delay the densification plans. I need sprint to be on fleek next year

If they did Merge densificatioñ could happen fast if all LTE bands are added to all towers.

 

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