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AT&T wants 3.5 GHz band to promote small cell deployment


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http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/att-wants-35-ghz-band-divided-sub-bands-promote-small-cell-deployment/2014-05-23

 

I hope sprint participates in this auction as well.

 

Sprint is listed as a confirmed carrier for IWPC event June 17-20, 2014 that's attending 3.5ghz lte advance event

 

http://www.iwpc.org/workshops/2014-softbank-lte-advanced/agenda.html

 

And SoftBank has been testing 3.5ghz band for almost a year now

 

http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/09/13/softbanks-trial-lte-a-in-3-5ghz-band-achieves-770mbps/

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Looking forward to this, but I'm curious to see how the rest of the industry reacts to spectrum that can't be used within a couple hundred miles of the coastline. Wonderful for big cities like Chicago and Kansas City, but worthless for the "flagship" cities like NYC and Los Angeles.

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Part of me thinks that AT&T is trying to fracture 3.5 GHz into multiple bands based on flimsy engineering concerns. I've seen this song before.

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Yes, they can install small cells with most frequencies, but actually installing them is another thing.

Supposedly small cells will be part of NV 2.0.

 

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SoftBank is utilizing the 3.5 band in japan, so I'm sure sprint will obtain some as well

ok, I was wondering why in the world would sprint want 3.5 with all the 25/26 that hasn't even been fully deployed.....smh 

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