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Can we stop reposting (quoting) that humongous screenshot. Any more reposts and T-Mobile won't be the only one coming to a crawl.

 

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A baby certainly can crawl faster than those T-Mobile speeds. However, a baby still can't cry as loudly as John Legere, especially when free spectrum is at stake. They sure need that extra spectrum though at those speeds. Wow, that's slow!

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I was searching online for wireless news, and I discovered this very interesting bit of news in an article about a unique company selling unlimited MVNO services :

 

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20151130/carriers/sprint-unlimited-lte-data-remains-an-option-tag2

 

 

and the company's website, here :

 

http://www.unlimitedville.com

 

 

Note : The rates for their supposedly unlimited and unthrottled 4G LTE service, is $42.99 monthly using the Sprint network, and $198 monthly using the Verizon network.

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According to this Milan guy it is an issue with oakla servers and no tmobile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3uyhos/are_you_sure_your_cell_site_is_congested_bingeon/

 

Right....  I bet the test is even worse with Sensorly... 

 

I have an idea, let suse a TMUS app to measure data speed so TMUS can show the "true" speed of their network.  I bet Dr. Legere would not manipulate any of the data that the customer receives....  :o

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Sprint parent SoftBank considered a potential suitor for Yahoo's Internet business

 

Link: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-parent-softbank-considered-potential-suitor-yahoos-internet-business/2015-12-02

 

There's a reason Yahoo is falling like a rock... Last thing SoftBank needs is this albatross.

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Sprint parent SoftBank considered a potential suitor for Yahoo's Internet business

 

Link: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-parent-softbank-considered-potential-suitor-yahoos-internet-business/2015-12-02

 

There's a reason Yahoo is falling like a rock... Last thing SoftBank needs is this albatross.

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I was searching online for wireless news, and I discovered this very interesting bit of news in an article about a unique company selling unlimited MVNO services :

 

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20151130/carriers/sprint-unlimited-lte-data-remains-an-option-tag2

 

 

and the company's website, here :

 

http://www.unlimitedville.com

 

 

Note : The rates for their supposedly unlimited and unthrottled 4G LTE service, is $42.99 monthly using the Sprint network, and $198 monthly using the Verizon network.

 

Anyone try this yet?  Cheaper then Karma and getting a little roaming.

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http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/atts-lurie-replaces-crickets-van-buskirk-john-dwyer-brands-new-prepaid-chie/2015-12-02

 

The misogyny on these comments by the Magentans. Good Lord almighty. :td:  :td:  :td:  

 

Not going into politics, but there seems to be a common theme with magentans. And ironically, they'll turn around and be SJWs. 

 

Not only do they believe in an entire dogmatic complex from their carrier politics alone, but this group are bigots too.

 

Must be pleasant people. 

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Sprint needs to get the stores/reps aligned on the same terminology and messaging.

 

Sometimes Sprint needs to save itself from itself. The change to LTE Plus is adding another layer of content, and unless mentions of Spark are quickly removed and deprecated in all existing content, reps and customers could be confused.

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Sprint needs to get the stores/reps aligned on the same terminology and messaging.

 

Sometimes Sprint needs to save itself from itself. The change to LTE Plus is adding another layer of content, and unless mentions of Spark are quickly removed and deprecated in all existing content, reps and customers could be confused.

 

Spark hasn't been mentioned for a very long time and the tradition to this LTE plus moniker has been going on for months before the announcement with several of the new Sprint devices not having any Spark logo or anything of the sort in the software.

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Spark hasn't been mentioned for a very long time and the tradition to this LTE plus moniker has been going on for months before the announcement with several of the new Sprint devices not having any Spark logo or anything of the sort in the software.

True, but "Sprint Spark" is still used on the Coverage Map, under the Data Tab.

 

https://coverage.sprint.com

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True, but "Sprint Spark" is still used on the Coverage Map, under the Data Tab.

 

https://coverage.sprint.com

 

That's the one thing that I am confused as to why they haven't fixed yet. Maybe they're trying to figure out a way to differ between non-CA and CA areas on the map and market them.

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That's the one thing that I am confused as to why they haven't fixed yet. Maybe they're trying to figure out a way to differ between non-CA and CA areas on the map and market them.

Agreed. Hopefully that coverage map page gets a total makeover. IMHO, Sprint should have ensured this was sorted out before it launched "LTE Plus" as a replacement for Spark.

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They need band 41 in every tower and more. It is simple as that. The 120mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum is their only advantage over the others and they need to go further with it. If you have a city with 1000 towers and you put band 41 only 500 towers that won't cut it.

 

 

They have to over match and over power the others three. They have the spectrum to do it.

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They need band 41 in every tower and more. It is simple as that. The 120mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum is their only advantage over the others and they need to go further with it. If you have a city with 1000 towers and you put band 41 only 500 towers that won't cut it.

They have to over match and over power the others three. They have the spectrum to do it.

They have the Spectrum, but even with SoftBank's backing, Sprint doesn't have the gobs of money that AT&T/Verizon do, so it can't just throw money shotgun style at its network. It has to be smart. I trust Marcelo and his new team will get it done right this time. Sprint needs to touch every tower, but it needs to target the most important ones first.
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That's the one thing that I am confused as to why they haven't fixed yet. Maybe they're trying to figure out a way to differ between non-CA and CA areas on the map and market them.

 

I still can't stress how they need to also figure out how to make a new map. They can keep the old one available for people who like it so much. But I hope they're working a whole new bigger, cleaner map besides differentiation.

 

That needs to be Sprint's 2016 resolution: Clean up the site UI, clean up old links and areas of site. Please

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I still can't stress how they need to also figure out how to make a new map. They can keep the old one available for people who like it so much. But I hope they're working a whole new bigger, cleaner map besides differentiation.

 

That needs to be Sprint's 2016 resolution: Clean up the site UI, clean up old links and areas of site. Please!

*ahem*

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/7337-ultimate-sprint-coverage-map/

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The 120mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum is their only advantage over the others and they need to go further with it.

It's really not as big of an advantage as they make it out to be. Verizon has 90 MHz of LTE on the air *today* across three carriers on almost every site in my city, with a site density high enough that they use narrow-beam antennas everywhere, and they haven't even started their AWS-3 overlay yet. AT&T has 50-70 MHZ on the air across 2-3 LTE carriers with an even higher site density and is overlaying another carrier right now (and this is actually a spectrum-constrained market for them as they have no AWS here). Everyone but Sprint is already running 4x2 MIMO on their high-band spectrum (although Sprint has at least upgraded to hardware capable of it now).

 

Sprint isn't planning to do more than 3x20 MHz of band 41 on most sites, putting them at 80 MHz (plus any additional band 25 carriers) on most tri-band sites in the *future*. And with the lowest average site density of the top 4 carriers, you can see why small cells are so important to them.

 

Now, before I get responses from people who think I just called band 41 worthless, please re-read the first sentence of my post. All I'm saying is that the amount doesn't necessarily make it the acclaimed treasure trove.

 

The biggest advantage that spectrum will probably offer is its ability to be shifted to downlink-only (thanks to TDD) for carrier aggregation.

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The Spark logo and name will linger for a bit. I still have it on my phone when it boots up.  I keep up on things and can't tell you what the new name means.  Does that mean carrier aggregation and if so how much of the market.   Beam... 8T8R ?   A lot of knowledge to have to sell because their technology had to be sold.    People just need to experience it working.  

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