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I think it is generally pretty fair to rank sprint down at the bottom of lte coverage and speeds in a great many markets. The key to sprint having a competitive network has always been the deployment of lte across all three bands (adding more cells would help too) and they are not even close to completing this. Until then sprint's network will continue to under perform the competition.

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So I'm listening to the webcast and marcelo said they posted a net positive in post paid this quarter (Q4) and they were short of a million.

 

He also said this was the best quarter the company had in years.

 

 

That's what I heard I have to re listen to it to make sure haha

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So I'm listening to the webcast and marcelo said they posted a net positive in post paid this quarter (Q4) and they were short of a million.

 

He also said this was the best quarter the company had in years.

 

 

That's what I heard I have to re listen to it to make sure haha

Please do!!

 

 

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I'm still listening and he did say their was net positive add for prepaid, POSTPAID!!! and enterprise.

 

 

 

He also mentioned about monetizing the 2.5 spectrum

Well that's good to reach almost 1 million I guess sprint can keep their position as number three for another quarter.

 

Let's see what kind a impact Marcelo can make in a year. So good so far though.

 

 

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Isn't it weird that Dan Hesse said Sprint will report a net positive in Q4 2014 ?!? Lol makes me feel all of this was pre-planned

That I do remember him saying. But how was it pre-planned? You mean based on the current rate of redoing the network at that time last year?

 

 

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That I do remember him saying. But how was it pre-planned? You mean based on the current rate of redoing the network at that time last year?

 

 

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I meant how it's crazy how they called that earlier on. Just seemed like everything somehow fell into place.

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So they're selling the 2.5 ghz? Selling to TMObile would result in least pain for sprint.

 

He was quite clear it was VERY early and they may not actually sell any but are reviewing the feasibility and what they require.

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So they're selling the 2.5 ghz? Selling to TMObile would result in least pain for sprint.

They are looking at different opportunities but nothing is official. I actually hope they sell it to Dish since Dish wanted that spectrum and I'm still hoping they form a partnership

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Speaking of Dish they have been awfully quiet. I'm kind of surprised they haven't made an offer to tmobile yet

Dish doesn't actually want a carrier. They just wanna up everyone else's portfolio's value so that it would indirectly up the value of their spectrum portfolio. The only reason they bidded on Clearwire to start was to increase the value of AWS 4, it's the same case with AWS 3 now. They have no interest of being a carrier or having a real spectrum potfolio, all about resale value come the day everyone needs more capacity.
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Ideally, they wouldn't have to sell any spectrum. They can monetize anything extra for fixed wireless. Long-term profits from an ISP business may outweigh any short-term cash they can get from a spectrum sale.

 

However, if SoftBank is not willing to chip in some of the tens of billions that will likely be necessary to purchase 600 MHz nationwide next year, then they could start by divesting or terminating the leases on the EBS they don't own, especially in markets where they have more than 120 MHz of combined BRS+EBS. Using more than that would require yet more equipment (a second 8T8R antenna+RRU set) anyway.

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The network deployment has met targets for Q4 which is something that Sprint had serious issues with under Hesse. 

 

http://www.prweb.com/releases/JeffKAGAN-IndustryAnalyst/Sprint-progress-2014-2015/prweb12405655.htm

 

Here's a word or two from Jeff Kagan, who said that Sprint showed significant improvement. Also of note is that in the Ting GSM conference call, Ting also stated that Sprint was making significant progress  and that the Sprint network was working much better.

 

https://ting.com/hangout

 

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Was hoping to see more post paid net adds but anything positive is excellent and I imagine next quarter will be huge! Nearly a million adds total is awesome! A little confused why they are referring to this as the 3rd fiscal quarter? I would have thought we'd be at Q4 by now no?

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