Prasad

I read this article and was wondering what everyone here thought about it? http://gigaom.com/2013/02/17/lte-advanced-is-the-new-buzzword-hype/

I noticed that my phone goes to roaming when I am at home for the last couple of days. I used to have a very good signal while I was at home. May be they are upgrading the towers nearby. I live in Reston near the Reston town center. Waiting for the market to go live to upgrade to an LTE device.

Forgive me if I am repeating something that has already been answered, I thought they were deploying LTE-Advanced on the 800MHz spectrum they had? That's what I remember reading a year ago when they first talked about Network Vision after that disastrous October 2011 investors meeting. Did that change, since everyone here seems to talk about LTE 800, or is it understood by default that LTE 800 is LTE-A 800?

Great Post AJ. I have a few question regarding the spectrum. You said Sprint will get 30 MHz contiguous swath of PCS spectrum with the purchase from USCC in Chicago. How about the other Midwest markets? Will it be contiguous too? How will this effect LTE deployments in these specific Midwest markets compared to around East Coast and West Coast markets? Will any future handsets need to have extra / different chipsets to accomodate the new spectrum to take advantage of this spectrum assuming that these spectrum will be available to sprint customers and will be limited to these Mid west markets?