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That's probably too low. I do like how Sprint is offering video streaming at 1Mbps on the guaranteed for life plans. In the case of a soft cap throttle scenario, I would like the option to continue at full speed for a fee. If I overrun my allotment and I'm only a day or two away, I may be able to just deal with being throttled for a short bit. Or I may have had to do a lot of travelling one month and have to exceed my allotment. I may be willing to pay another $20 than to live with throttled speeds for two weeks. In no case would I want to be stuck at throttled speeds until the end of the billing period with no options. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Totes Magotes! Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Arguably one of the worst affiliates of all. Although, the list is not full of sunshine and happiness. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

In some places, Sprint has fantastic density and Tmo is meh. It is also true vice versa. In some places Sprint purchased affiliate networks with God Awful spacing. Baton Rouge and Grand Rapids come to mind. Ive also been to VZW and ATT markets that have less than stellar spacing. But this is a less problem for them with most of their markets having Cellular 850 spectrum. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Yes, but if I didn't add that caveat, someone would come along and say, what about the 100 sites in Nebraska, Northern Indiana and NE Penn that never got EVDO. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

I don't live in a rural area. I live in a non coverage market. But you know what? I used to live in a rural area for 4 years in New Mexico. I had Sprint 3G which ran over 2Mbps. I had Tmo EDGE that ran at 100kbps. And this is how it is over Sprint's rural footprint. You get either 3G or LTE. And on Tmo, you get EDGE or GPRS. Occasionally I will find WCDMA without upgraded backhaul that runs at 200-400k. It's sad that Sprint's legacy 3G network in rural areas kicks Tmo's ass. Mile after mile after mile. And that's a fact, Jack. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

It's not the rural sites that took a lot of time or expense for Sprint. Those sites are easy. It's the urban sites that are killing Sprint. They started with the biggest and most urban markets first. And they still aren't done with them. Yet they have blown through smaller rural markets started much later. Besides, my point was in response to irev210's comments that Tmo has tons of money and doesn't have to worry about the outrageous cost of buying subs. If they have money to burn and now that they are largely complete with LTE, they should be announcing the final push into rural areas. Just complete their network. If Tmo did that, none of us would have anything left to complain about. It would relegate Sprint and AT&T to the bottom of wireless carriers for a decade. They don't need 700 to install LTE on non urban sites now. They have the spectrum. Add 700 when/if they can in the future. I don't buy Tmo will even add 700 outside urban areas anyway. Are they going to just add non urban coverage in the handful of markets they have 700 and just continue to neglect the rest of the country? If so, what kind of solution is that? They need upgraded backhaul to their entire network. Add at least WCDMA to each of those sites and preferrably LTE too. And when and if they get 700, overlay it. They seem to be really good at overlays anyway. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Yea, and this is the other part. Sprint has great roaming coverage. Including Verizon. Not on LTE, of course. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Oh stop it. We aren't comparing total footprint between Sprint and T-Mobile. They are very similar. What we are comparing is the fact that Tmo leaves its outside urban sites as 2G. They have stayed as EDGE or GPRS for a decade. They didn't get upgraded to 3G nor 4G nor LTE. Meanwhile Sprint upgraded all theirs to 3G (except for small amount of purchased sites), and Sprint is upgrading their entire network to LTE. Sprint already has thousands of rural sites already pumping out LTE. So I think it's funny that you can be a Tmo apologist now. Why don't you go get Tmo service and go EDGE yourself? I have, so I'm speaking from experience. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

The Sprint legacy network sucks. Yes, we get that. No one wants to hear or see your posts about it here. Please don't post anymore complaints and post slow speed tests. We don't want to see them. Robert

If no additional low frequency capacity was ever needed, then yes. But ideally, Sprint should have at least a 10MHz wide low frequency carrier. That can never happen on 800. Sprint needs to do the best it can to be competitive. It will survive without any 600. But if and when it comes to market, it should try to get it. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

VoLTE on 600 will provide decent coverage. It will be closer to closing the VoLTE coverage gap. Put it on 450 like Africa, and maybe close it all together. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

No. I believe they were personal vehicles. One was a blue pickup. One was a silver Volvo wagon. And one was a Ford Fusion. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Believe me, Google cares. They want Band 41 on their device. Otherwise, they could have skipped the Band all together. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

600 may propagate too well for something that works so well with a weak signal like CDMA. It almost couldn't be used in an urban environment at all. You will have lots of bars in your signal strength indicator, but the quality of the signal would get pretty crappy. It's almost too good on SMR. LTE on 600, especially given the fragile LTE airlink, could prove to be pretty good. Especially in rural areas allowing one boomer tower to cover a lot of distance. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I do have VZW Band 4 (AWS LTE) again tonight at home. It disappeared for a day. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I wondered what was going on there. Assumed it was just a pipeline or some sort of infrastructure. My office is 5 mins from there on base. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I agree with this too. Sprint is on borrowed time in this regard. But they are doing something about it. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I think you should do it. If I was experiencing what you claim, I would have left Sprint. Especially when Tmo is so good? It makes you sound foolish to stay with Sprint. You should go. But remember, if you get the magical Legere speeds, DON'T MOVE! Robert

No one gets 137Mbps. That is a theoretical maximum. You have to have the right backhaul there and it has to not be burdened by any other connected technologies and sectors to get even above 100Mbps on a 20MHz channel. And then you have to be staring at it. Robert

This is only true if you are the only person on the network. If the network is at capacity at Noon, and at 10% of capacity at 2:30AM, then using 1GB of data at Noon is going to stress the network. Otherwise I agree with the rest of your post. Caps do generate revenue. Not just in overage charges. But also in it causes people to buy larger plans than they may really need in fear that they go over and generate overage charges. I probably even have one data tier higher than I probably need with AT&T as a buffer for those months I may need more. I like the thought of peak/off-peak times. However, there is a huge variance in what is a peak time. It varies by site and by sector. A peak time may be during the day in business districts and schools, but it may be night in residential areas. Airports are consistently busy day and evening. There are probably dozens of peak scenarios out there. I think peak and off peak voice pricing was just a means of generating more money, and it never had any significant network performance ramifications. Robert

Even worse for AT&T. WCS is just an expensive to use capacity band. Robert

You know what's scary to think about? What if Legere would get off his asshat and committed to taking LTE across all of his EDGE/GPRS sites across the country? How uncarrier would that be?? Like you mention earlier, Tmo can piss off billions in cash to get customers, but why doesn't it do that too? It would cost another 2 Billion or so. So what? You said they can afford that. It would take AT&T's coverage argument away, and it would likely crush Sprint. And they can even do that without 700. But with 700 assets, they could really shine in many rural areas. I'm not even talking about new coverage. Just convert all their existing 2G sites. If Tmo converted their entire network AND densified their urban network, then they would be unstoppable. Why does he talk all the talk, but stop here? Put your magenta t-shirt where your mouth is Legere! He could shut us all up with a 30 minute board meeting. Even Dan Hesse had the courage to take the upgrade to the whole network. Robert

Yes. The WCS Band is only 15MHz wide, total. Remember C and D Blocks do not have a corresponding uplink and downlink like the A and B blocks do. The C block goes one way, the D block the other. You can put a 15MHz LTE carrier on three bands of WCS being used in one chuink. 10MHz is the max, because you have to have guard bands on each side of the carrier. You can only put a 5MHz carrier on a 10MHz block, and one 3MHz carrier on a 5MHz block. Robert

Heck, even I didn't know that. Robert