Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

[Rawvega]

Some Shentel info: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3625856-shenandoahs-shen-ceo-christopher-french-on-q3-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

 

Network stats are summarized on slide 23, 93% of our 548 cell sites have a second LTE carrier at 800 megahertz, 187 of the sites have three LTE carriers, including a second 1900 carrier using 10 megahertz we’ve harvested from our original 30 megahertz in 1900 spectrum.

 

We’ve been able to harvest spectrum for 4G due to the dramatic shift of data usage from 3G to 4G. 89% of our data traffic is on LTE, with 33% on 800 megahertz. Data usage grew 11% in the quarter. Due to not having yet launched the 2.5 spectrum, our average speed is 4 megabits. With the launch of up 32.5 sites in some of the busiest parts of our network for year end, we expect that the average speed to significantly increase. 40% of the voice traffic is on 800 megahertz.

 

We continue to have excellent dropped in block percentages. We have built fiber build out to 213 cell sites, 170 to Shentel sites and 43 to others. 17 sites are in planning or under construction.

 

[jamesinclair]

I thought that The Verge was a more intellectual site, above the "click bait" headlines of BGR, etc.  I guess not.

 

And writer Nick Statt may not be an idiot.  But he was wearing his idiot cap today, also grinding his axe against Sprint.

 

AJ

 

Not anymore. Theyve transitioned to clickbait and even feature articles about pop singers.

 

Their Microsoft Fitness Band 2 article is stuffed with 300+ comments complaining about what a poor job the reviewer did. As a tech review, the article is garbage.

 

Its sad but its the internet cycle. Quality niche reporting -> Expand to more mainstream reporting -> lose quality -> clickbait -> delete bookmark.

[JThorson]

 

 

 

[WiWavelength]

JThorson, this clip is more appropriate…

 

 

Everything turns into shit.

 

AJ

[Ascertion]

Looks like Sprint is utilizing some Radioshack stores to handle C/S support?  I messaged them about an account issue on Twitter and they called me from a Radioshack near me.

[EvanA]

USCC still silent on LTE roaming partner

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/us-cellular-begin-volte-trials-stays-mum-lte-roaming-partner/2015-10-30

 

T-Mobile fans still are convinced it will be with T-Mobile.

[EvanA]

New Sprint commercial for Halloween

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60I6wuWqMMI

[RedSpark]

USCC still silent on LTE roaming partner

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/us-cellular-begin-volte-trials-stays-mum-lte-roaming-partner/2015-10-30

 

T-Mobile fans still are convinced it will be with T-Mobile.

 

It's got to be Sprint. US Cellular is only trialing VoLTE in a few markets at this point.

[EvanA]

It's got to be Sprint. US Cellular is only trialing VoLTE in a few markets at this point.

Yep.  Other indicators are USCC & Sprint's device synergy and the recent addition of EVDO roaming.

[RedSpark]

New Sprint commercial for Halloween

 

Love it!

[RedSpark]

Yep.  Other indicators are USCC & Sprint's device synergy and the recent addition of EVDO roaming.

 

Makes sense. So what's the point of USCC being mum about it?

 

In this article, Sprint didn't name all of its LTE Roaming Partners. Perhaps USCC was one of the unnamed ones?

[clbowens]

Makes sense. So what's the point of USCC being mum about it?

 

In this article, Sprint didn't name all of its LTE Roaming Partners. Perhaps USCC was one of the unnamed ones?

Yeah, that's what I don't get.  Why the secrecy, on both sides, if it is Sprint/USCC?

[Ascertion]

Man, I wish my Sprint speeds were like this.

Picture is not embedded because it's huge!

 

This is from a Sprint user on Reddit.

[AgathosAnthropos]

Man, I wish my Sprint speeds were like this.

Picture is not embedded because it's huge!

 

This is from a Sprint user on Reddit.

The max or the variability?

 

[Ascertion]

The max or the variability?

 

Something that doesn't dip below 3mbps!

 

Sent from my Nexus 5X

[Arysyn]

Even though I really do not like USCC, for various reasons I won't get into here, I do hope they are working with Sprint. I'd love to see this deal lead to Sprint eventually acquiring USCC.

[NYC126]

Chairman Son buys Kansas City home near CEO Claure http://m.seekingalpha.com/news/2880016?source=ansh $S

 

Looks to me he will be more involved now since he will spend time at Sprint headquarters.

[AgathosAnthropos]

Something that doesn't dip below 3mbps!

 

Sent from my Nexus 5X

 

Usability, even during peak hours (also, assuming all from same location), would have been my third option...

 

But anything under 100M is hardly usable.

[WiWavelength]

Chairman Son buys Kansas City home near CEO Claure http://m.seekingalpha.com/news/2880016?source=ansh $S

 

Looks to me he will be more involved now since he will spend time at Sprint headquarters.

 

Good move, Son.

 

 

AJ

[WiWavelength]

Chairman Son buys Kansas City home near CEO Claure http://m.seekingalpha.com/news/2880016?source=ansh $S

 

Looks to me he will be more involved now since he will spend time at Sprint headquarters.

 

And I have a house 30 miles away, my girlfriend has an apartment 10 miles away, so we are in the area.  Let Son know that we will be happy to housesit in Mission Hills anytime Son is back in Japan or California.

 

AJ

[JosefTor]

New Sprint commercial for Halloween

 

 

Not that big a fan... People won't believe their statements at the end. Heck, I'm a sprint user and I know those statements aren't near true unless they are comparing themselves to sprint of a few years ago. Plus, that map of the US acts like they are pretending to have massive coverage when in fact, they now have the least coverage of the National carriers (or close to it since it sounds they are doing a metroPCS strategy). Sorry this sounds negative but I would have focused on things that are true such as number one in multiple markets, international roaming, talk about the open world plan, take about no overages, etc.

[Sprke]

It's got to be Sprint. US Cellular is only trialing VoLTE in a few markets at this point.

I can see both sides. Does US Cellular have to have VoLTE deployed before Tmobile could use their network for VoLTE? None of VZW's LTEiRA partners have VoLTE yet a VZW subscriber can make a VoLTE call on their networks. Isn't it the natives carrier's core/back end that needs to be upgraded for VoLTE? If so then they just use the roaming carriers for data transport.. I'm sure somebody more knowledgeable then me will chime in [emoji3]

 

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[maxsilver]

Plus, that map of the US acts like they are pretending to have massive coverage when in fact, they now have the least coverage of the National carriers 

 

I love the dots on that map. Not only are many of them nowhere near Sprint coverage areas, some of them aren't even places at all -- they literally don't exist.

 

It's like the marketing team got bored and started inventing fake towns just for fun.

[Paynefanbro]

I love the dots on that map. Not only are many of them nowhere near Sprint coverage areas, some of them aren't even places at all -- they literally don't exist.

 

It's like the marketing team got bored and started inventing fake towns just for fun.

 

It says "Map does not depict actual coverage" in not so small font under it.

[kct1975]

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My apologies...