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Link to a summary of Reddit Q&A today with Günther Ottendorfer COO

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/52hswh/guenther_ama_summary/?st=IT0RR3VN&sh=61d3da3b

Count me as really excited about possible consumer-purchaseable LTE femtocells.

 

Other than that, mostly stuff we already knew. Which makes sense since I'm sure he had a lawyer-moderator sitting next to him the whole time.

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Count me as really excited about possible consumer-purchaseable LTE femtocells.

 

Other than that, mostly stuff we already knew. Which makes sense since I'm sure he had a lawyer-moderator sitting next to him the whole time.

 

It's about the par for an AMA really but 40 something responses over a hour and a half is very, very respectable.

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Other than that, mostly stuff we already knew. Which makes sense since I'm sure he had a lawyer-moderator sitting next to him the whole time.

It's about the par for an AMA really but 40 something responses over a hour and a half is very, very respectable.

 

Too many local market questions crowded the AMA.  "When is Sprint going to convert remaining 3G sites or expand native coverage around West Timbuktu, Pennsylzona?"  It does not matter even if it is a major market.  Gunther is not in position to answer those minor local concerns, especially with specific dates.

 

The real missed opportunity, in my opinion, was not pressing him about CDMA2000 utilization, particularly eHRPD/EV-DO.  Sprint seems to be holding on to too much legacy bandwidth rather than ripping off the bandage.

 

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Too many local market questions crowded the AMA. "When is Sprint going to convert remaining 3G sites or expand native coverage around West Timbuktu, Pennsylzona?" It does not matter even if it is a major market. Gunther is not in position to answer those minor local concerns, especially with specific dates.

 

The real missed opportunity, in my opinion, was not pressing him about CDMA2000 utilization, particularly eHRPD/EV-DO. Sprint seems to be holding on to too much legacy bandwidth rather than ripping off the bandage.

 

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Is this tied to standing up VoLTE? (For which he said: "VoLTE is on our roadmap and we'll make the move as soon as we can ensure that our customers have an even superior voice experience than today. It is tied to our densification and optimization strategy.")

 

I was glad he readily acknowledged the GMO issue when asked about it: "We have a specific program to deal with ground mounts in our Densification and Optimization program."

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Is this tied to standing up VoLTE? (For which he said: "VoLTE is on our roadmap and we'll make the move as soon as we can ensure that our customers have an even superior voice experience than today. It is tied to our densification and optimization strategy.")

 

I was glad he readily acknowledged the GMO issue when asked about it: "We have a specific program to deal with ground mounts in our Densification and Optimization program."

It sounds like this densification and optimization project is bigger than they've spoken about and just gave us the basic rundown without too much detail. People just think it's just small cells.

 

 

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It sounds like this densification and optimization project is bigger than they've spoken about and just gave us the basic rundown without too much detail. People just think it's just small cells.

 

 

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I took it as the right answer for any network question he didn't have an exact answer too.

How about cells over here - "densification and optimization"

That plan/program will be going on for years it's seems. The way he used threw it around it just about includes everything sprint is doing for the network.

 

I do agree a lot of questions were so market specific he wouldn't know about them off the top of his head.

 

But you are probably right- and I hope you are.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-music-streaming-service-tidal-accused-of-not-paying-its-bills-2016-9?r=UK&IR=T

 

For the tens of people paying for Tidal high fidelity on Sprint that are concerned about Sprint's new unlimited plan capping music streaming at 500Kbps.  Tidal has its own issues.

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This is very encouraging news:

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-pre-orders-of-iphone-7-and-iphone-7-plus-increase-nearly-four-times.htm

 

Sounds like Sprint is firing on all cylinders. That Unlimited Freedom plan is a real draw, along with the promotions associated for new and existing customers.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-music-streaming-service-tidal-accused-of-not-paying-its-bills-2016-9?r=UK&IR=T

 

For the tens of people paying for Tidal high fidelity on Sprint that are concerned about Sprint's new unlimited plan capping music streaming at 500Kbps.  Tidal has its own issues.

Tidal is currently headed out to sea. I give it 6 months tops, before it closes shop or is acquired.

 

I just don't see this company making any inroads against the likes of Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-music-streaming-service-tidal-accused-of-not-paying-its-bills-2016-9?r=UK&IR=T

 

For the tens of people paying for Tidal high fidelity on Sprint that are concerned about Sprint's new unlimited plan capping music streaming at 500Kbps. Tidal has its own issues.

Geeze 107 unpaid bills. I think Tidal was written off by millions when they press conference had all those millionaires on stage complaining that they aren't being paid enough for their work. They kept saying Tidal is about the artist who are up and coming. A better approach would have been to have some indie artists on the stage to convey that message that Tidal is about the artist. People would have been more receptive of that. Then the $20 plan was over kill. The damage has been done.

 

 

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This is very encouraging news:

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-pre-orders-of-iphone-7-and-iphone-7-plus-increase-nearly-four-times.htm

 

Sounds like Sprint is firing on all cylinders.

 

That seems pretty good and similar to T-Mobile (T-Mobile says up nearly 4x from last year).

 

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/iphone-7-and-7-plus-shatter-records-at-t-mobile.htm

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That seems pretty good and similar to T-Mobile (T-Mobile says up nearly 4x from last year).

 

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/iphone-7-and-7-plus-shatter-records-at-t-mobile.htm

Glad they're keeping pace with the competition on this.

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i don't completely understand the possibilities and scope but it's seems pretty important position!

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This is very encouraging news:

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-pre-orders-of-iphone-7-and-iphone-7-plus-increase-nearly-four-times.htm

 

Sounds like Sprint is firing on all cylinders. That Unlimited Freedom plan is a real draw, along with the promotions associated for new and existing customers.

 

I know its semantic but Sprint is touting a 375% increase in sales of the iphone 7 compared to last year...iphone 7 wasn't available last year. So yeah...there will be a big uptick in sales kinda like how there will be a 100% increase in rain when there is a hurricane.

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I know its semantic but Sprint is touting a 375% increase in sales of the iphone 7 compared to last year...iphone 7 wasn't available last year. So yeah...there will be a big uptick in sales kinda like how there will be a 100% increase in rain when there is a hurricane.

Not sure what you mean, iphone 6s and 6s+ were released this time last year.

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The article didn't mention that they were comparing sales to the iphone 6. It just said iphone 7 sales compared to last year.

 

 

It's a very reasonable inference to conclude Sprint was comparing its current iPhone pre-order sales to last year's iPhone pre-order sales.

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The article didn't mention that they were comparing sales to the iphone 6. It just said iphone 7 sales compared to last year.

To be completely literal then the math would never work. To say there was any percentage of increase would be impossible since zero times any number would only result in zero. Therefore common sense implies a comparison to the sale of iPhones last year (AKA 6s/6s Plus)

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To be completely literal then the math would never work. To say there was any percentage of increase would be impossible since zero times any number would only result in zero. Therefore common sense implies a comparison to the sale of iPhones last year (AKA 6s/6s Plus)

 

Percentage increase = 100[(v₂ - v₁) ÷ v₁]%

 

If v₁ = 0, then percentage increase is ∞.

 

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This is a silly discussion.

 

Many people are silly -- because they cannot write properly.  They do not know how to construct apples to apples comparisons.  To be correct, comparisons must be both logical and literal.

 

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Percentage increase = 100[(v₂ - v₁) ÷ v₁]%

 

If v₁ = 0, then percentage increase is ∞.

 

AJ

I stand corrected. My simplification to using multiplication and addition to calculate a percentage increase wasn't the actual standard formula for percent increase. There is a more complex and literal interpretation that also implies that the original assumption of comparing to the sale of the iPhone 7 from 2015 is absurd.

 

 

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This is a silly discussion.

 

 

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Of course it is :)

But by reading critically you can pick up on marketing spin...and people trying to mislead you.

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Of course it is :)

But by reading critically you can pick up on marketing spin...and people trying to mislead you.

So your saying that both him and Legere are just blowing smoke and not comparing it to previous iPhone releases.

 

Sounds like you are big on conspiracy theories.

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