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If you remove the GMO sites, Sprint is pretty far along and certainly can be complete with Band 25 build out on Non GMO sites this year.  When you consider how long it took Tmo to do its backhaul upgr

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Given Sprint's LTE maps knack for over statement of coverage, it will look more like this on Sprint maps:     Robert

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I now have all four carriers. Sprint, Tmo, Verizon and AT&T. I can tell you that none of them are very good everywhere. Every one of them has places on their network that is pathetic. It's nice to

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Why would they sell the network to Sprint and the customer to AT&T? Seems like they would be much more valuable to Sprint.

 

Sprint cannot service their current customers really, anyway.  Why pay money for them?  AT&T didn't buy their customers either.  AT&T is just giving them offers to attract them, like a $100 credit and waiving fees.  AT&T really just bought the spectrum.  Which Sprint doesn't even need.  And AT&T doesn't need the towers and networks.  This is a good deal for Sprint.

 

Sprint shouldn't sell service in Montana until the sites are upgraded to NV and LTE is on B25/26 together and optimized.

 

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That's a  pretty large area and I'm sure Verizon and AT&T aren't too happy about this.

 

Given Sprint's LTE maps knack for over statement of coverage, it will look more like this on Sprint maps:

 

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Will sprint really be able to pull off band 41? With its current site configuration? Or will it be "sparse" due its shorter travel?

 

Things are looking better but how many more sitrs /small cells will sprint need to bring us to the promise land?

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Will sprint really be able to pull off band 41? With its current site configuration? Or will it be "sparse" due its shorter travel?

 

Things are looking better but how many more sitrs /small cells will sprint need to bring us to the promise land?

 

B41 is not meant to be a perfectly cohesive overlay with seamless wall to wall coverage over a city.  Where that is achieved, then great.  Verizon is not trying to make its Band 4 (XLTE) be perfect wall to wall either.  What it is trying to do is cover most customers and relieve the other bands where they perform much better for customers who cannot connect to the wideband relief cells.

 

Verizon is adding some XLTE Band 4 only sites where needed as infill, where the experience in between is insufficient for Band 13 alone.  They have added one recently in my city.  Sprint will do the same thing with Band 41 Spark.  They announced they will be adding infill sites in areas as needed.

 

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Will sprint really be able to pull off band 41? With its current site configuration? Or will it be "sparse" due its shorter travel?

 

Things are looking better but how many more sitrs /small cells will sprint need to bring us to the promise land?

 

I like to look at it like this -- the best umpires in baseball are the ones you never see. What I'm driving at with that tortured analogy is that Joe Consumer shouldn't care if he's connecting to B25, B26, or B41; but rather that there is a data connection with very low latency that allows him to send/receive messages/photos/videos/Facebook/Twitter/Porn seamlessly.

 

I don't care what band my phone is on... I just want the dumb pipe to quickly get me what I'm requesting, and honestly, 3-5Mbps with a low latency is probably fast enough. B41 for capacity is great, in that if Joe Consumer fired up his favorite pr0n site, the network is able to cope with his ... addiction and not be saddled by his data consumption.

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I like to look at it like this -- the best umpires in baseball are the ones you never see. What I'm driving at with that tortured analogy is that Joe Consumer shouldn't care if he's connecting to B25, B26, or B41; but rather that there is a data connection with very low latency that allows him to send/receive messages/photos/videos/Facebook/Twitter/Porn seamlessly.

 

I don't care what band my phone is on... I just want the dumb pipe to quickly get me what I'm requesting, and honestly, 3-5Mbps with a low latency is probably fast enough. B41 for capacity is great, in that if Joe Consumer fired up his favorite pr0n site, the network is able to cope with his ... addiction and not be saddled by his data consumption.

I can't agree with this more. Seamless is the goal. Right now it's anything but in most places....I keep reminding myself about my little visit to KC when I start feeling Sprint is hopeless...

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Verizon is adding some XLTE Band 4 only sites where needed as infill, where the experience in between is insufficient for Band 13 alone.  They have added one recently in my city.  Sprint will do the same thing with Band 41 Spark.  They announced they will be adding infill sites in areas as needed.

 

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VZ is actually putting AWS antennas on top of their retail stores around here. Any chance of Sprint doing that?

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Remember when the Galaxy S3 came out and Sprint sold more than any other carrier in the U.S.? It seems like he's trying to be the one to do that this time around with the iPhone. I can't wait to hear what he has to say next week. He doesn't seem to be faltered by T-Mobile's tactics.

 

One thing he is accomplishing from the get-go is getting rid of that loser mindset that's always stuck with Sprint. He seems very optimistic and way more proactive than Dan Hesse.

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The idiot CEO strikes

 

From twitter...@JohnLegere: To paraphrase @Sprint CEO's 1st employee meeting today:"Our network is terrible, so we're going to have to slash prices" #didthatjusthappen?

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The idiot CEO strikes

 

From twitter...@JohnLegere: To paraphrase @Sprint CEO's 1st employee meeting today:"Our network is terrible, so we're going to have to slash prices" #didthatjusthappen?

Good or bad it is free marketing

 

Real question is did john just open Pandora box?

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The idiot CEO strikes

 

From twitter...@JohnLegere: To paraphrase @Sprint CEO's 1st employee meeting today:"Our network is terrible, so we're going to have to slash prices" #didthatjusthappen?

 

Which CEO is the idiot?

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The idiot CEO strikes

 

From twitter...@JohnLegere: To paraphrase @Sprint CEO's 1st employee meeting today:"Our network is terrible, so we're going to have to slash prices" #didthatjusthappen?

The pot calling the kettle black

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