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    Please note that S4GRU does not endorse the use of the site linked above or other similar sites. There may be risk associated with using a collective Framily site. We have neither evaluated or vetted these types of services. Use of them is at your risk. Sorry to have to be a lawyer. Robert
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    When you are able to move up to the Premier level, you will get some great Spark (Band 41 LTE) site maps. Robert
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    Man, do I love that thread. I go back and read it on days that AT&T pisses me off. It makes me feel warm inside and full of hope. Robert
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    NOW THAT IS FUNNY!!! Robert
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    And that makes sense. It will be resold as a refurbishment. It would be completely wiped clean of any installs and started with a fresh install. Robert
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    Based on what you've said, if you are on the fringe of two CDMA 1900 sites now, you will likely get LTE 800, but not likely get LTE 1900 when these are deployed to your adjacent sites. There are too many factors to say with any certainty. Robert
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    That is what he said, though. He said that the FCC will heed the wishes of AT&T and Verizon because they agree with each other. That is to say that even if the FCC finds that a contrary opinion is better for the public, he believes the FCC will go with what the big two want. I disagree with that thinking. But there is something to his point. If no one in the wireless industry is arguing for TDD, then it probably will not be framed properly for the FCC to consider that as a viable option. Leaving only FDD likely to be approved. I just want to make a clear point though that merely because AT&T and Verizon agree on a matter before the FCC does not make it the only outcome the FCC can take. Or even worse still, the FCC wants to know what their opinion is foremost and strive to make them happy. I wanted to help him get to his main point, and saw myself as helping him get there. And I also wanted him to point out the fallacy in thinking that whatever AT&T and VZW wants, there goes the FCC. It was more about his thought being incomplete and not fully explained than it was about him being in gross error. Robert
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    It really depends on how much they win, where they win it and the spectrum screens applied. It is not a simple to answer question. Robert
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    Likely they will install just one carrier card. Installing a second and a third carrier card is a pretty easy thing to do and is done at the base station. No need to climb the tower again to add additional carriers. No sense in wasting money on equipment sitting at a site getting old until it is needed at a site. Especially if the current backhaul couldn't support two carriers yet. Robert
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    I will give you the basic synopsis: Sprint LTE on 800MHz will be vastly superior in coverage indoors and outdoors over the existing Sprint LTE on 1900MHz. It will even extend a little further than the existing 3G network. Robert
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    In most, if not all. Three will be capable in most, too. There will only be a very small handful that will struggle with less than 3 20MHz carriers. There are some markets that may be able to support 5 or 6 20MHz TD-LTE carriers. Robert
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    I don't have any inside info on that. But I would guess in early Spring. Robert
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    So you are suggesting that anything that AT&T or Verizon would want separately would not be heeded by the FCC, but if they join forces on anything before the FCC then they automatically are compelled to do it? Robert
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    Yes. The Lehigh Valley seems a little farther along. Otherwise I would say the same thing about your market. Robert
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    You mean like how they made AT&T happy with the Tmo purchase? Robert
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    I still don't know what you mean. Are you having problems understanding what I posted above? I can clarify if there is something that you are having issues with. Robert
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    Verizon isn't deploying more than one 10MHz carrier in rural areas. And they are not even filling up with more than double the customers. I'm not concerned about Sprint's rural play with two 5MHz carriers as far as capacity. One would probably be enough capacity for 90% of rural sites for many years. Robert
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    Probably. But it is not decided, yet. The industry does not determine, it is the FCC. There is no decision yet, only opinion. Robert
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    I'm used to the market classifications of primary, secondary, tertiary and rural. They breakdown accordingly in my own personal index: Primary is a metro of more than 1 Million People (The Top 100 markets is pretty close to this) Secondary is 250,000 to 1 Million (The Top 250 markets roughly equates to this) Tertiary is 50,000 to 250,000 Rural is anything under 50,000 I use the same with cell providers. Rural is any community under 50,000 people and the areas in between communities. Remember, these are serving market sizes, not populations within the City Limits. As an example, Walla Walla has a municipal population of 31,000, but a market population of 61,000. Walla Walla would be a Tertiary market and not rural However, Port Angeles has a municipal and market population under 50,000. So it is a rural market. However, every company uses slightly different metrics. Robert
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    Yep, you got it! Robert
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    Oh my Gawd, not the Oh-muh-HAW!! I find his screaming Omaha so obnoxious. Robert
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    Yeah, I hear that the final stumbling block in the details of the Sprint purchase of Tmo, is that Legere is insisting that the new company be headquartered in Denver. Tmo execs that stay onboard insist on experiencing that Mile High experience. Robert
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    Or us folks in the Upper Plains, with our Northern overExposure. Robert
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    CDMA 800 is not going anywhere. Did you get a new PRL recently? Robert
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    Giving out bad information is worse than giving out no information at all, IMO. This is where Sprint customer service really needs an overhaul. This is systemic and pervasive. The amount of misinformation that comes from official Sprint customer service channels is staggering. It is true of all providers, but it would be exceptionally uncarrier of Sprint to tackle it. And do it before Tmo does. Robert
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