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    As requested by many members, I am creating a Site Acceptance Report Update thread that will be closed for comment. That way members can subscribe/follow this thread and not be inundated with notifications from members, and only get notifications when I post an update. I also decided to open this thread to non-sponsors, so they can see generically what is happening in their market every day. Hopefully, it will encourage more sponsorship for these standard members to access the additional details about these updates. The comments section about this thread will remain in the Sponsor section, as well as coordinating maps. Here are some important links for Sponsors: Sponsor Member Comments regarding the NV Sites Complete Map & Acceptance Reports: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1120-comments-related-to-nv-sites-complete-thread//?view=getnewpost Sponsor NV Sites Complete Maps: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/517-nv-sites-complete/ For Non-Sponsor Members: For more information about how to become a S4GRU Sponsor, visit this link: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/ Robert
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    Dish will have to monetize a Clearwire deal, or a Sprint/Clearwire deal, in order to pay for the large debt being incurred. He will have to increase revenues dramatically. He is not buying these companies for Billions to give free services to their current Dish customers. He has to make a lot of money off of it. What I hypothesize will happen is that Ergen will offer people to use streaming on the Dish/Clearwire/Sprint network for a flat monthly fee. Or, so many hours per price point. Then scrap all the free streaming currently offered. The fees may not be so noticed, because they may be part of a bundle with home internet and cell phone service, but he will charge for it. He has to. Dish has no interest in making Sprint/Clearwire a competitor to AT&T and VZW. He will use these spectrum assets and network for his own ambitious plans. As a result, AT&T and VZW get more powerful, and huge amounts of spectrum resources will be wasted on ISP and video traffic...with a really small customer base to utilize it. In my opinion, it's a disastrous scenario for consumers in the long run. It will cause the duopoly to take a larger share of the pie, allowing them to raise rates. SoftBank plans to compete directly with the duopoly, keeping competition and rates in check for years. Robert
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    I don't have a problem with Dish's existence. Someone needs to compete with DirecTV. And everyone has a choice to be Dish customers and support Charlie Ergen, or not. That's a great thing. But we should not want Charlie Ergen to buy Sprint or Clearwire. Robert
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    True, true. It's all true. Robert
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    First LTE site accepted in the Albuquerque market yesterday. It's in El Paso, though. On Montana Ave, near Mcrae. Over by the airport. Now to convince my wife she wants to spend her birthday weekend in El Paso. She isn't moved by my pleas that it is not mapped on Sensorly, yet!!! Robert
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    It is perfectly fine to call them panels. A panel is the whole assembly housing. There are multiple antennas within the panel. It depends how you use it whether it is right or wrong. It would be proper to say, "I see a panel up there." It would be improper to say, "The panel broadcasts a signal." It would be improper to say, "I see an antenna up there." But it would be proper to say, "I received the signal from the antenna." It's pretty semantical in many ways. It's not like the tower/site argument. Because not every site is on a tower. But every Sprint antenna is inside a panel. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    I turned mine off. I get all my notifications via email. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    And Charlie would monetize the Hopper mobile service. Expect to have that be an additional fee on top of what you already pay. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    phone jack Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    Good read. And to close with the parallel of AOL/Time Warner was very powerful imagery of the doom of a future combined Sprint/Dish. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    It is the ultimate example of free markets when the consumer has a choice to decide where they prefer to purchase their goods from. If an individual consumer wants to purchase products Made in America, then that's great! I used to laugh at my grandparents for their exclusionary Made in America consumption. Now, I see things differently as I get older. I see that my consumption has helped people stay gainfully employed overseas. As factories and people have been laid off here. As a result, we don't even have a choice to purchase items made here in many product categories. I applaud Motorola for attempting to make a phone in the U.S. If they can make a high quality phone for a competitive price, I can see it being a success. If I have a choice of two equal products, but one is Made in America, I will definitely support the American made product. And in no terms would I not want someone who prefers a foreign made object to lose their choice, either. American companies and workers need to compete. And this example from Motorola is a free market competition. It's too bad Apple didn't try this. Something I've asked for a long time. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    Perhaps pricing will stagnate, but drop? No way. But they are trumpeting price drops by saying the average consumer used 300MB of data two years ago, and now uses 3GB. Since monthly costs for these plans have not risen, or have slightly, the cost per MB consumed has plummeted! So we all can be happy that prices are dropping, but none of us see any discount in our monthly bill. Once these companies stop expanding LTE and get in a maintenance mode, their LTE networks will deliver GB's and TB's at much cheaper rates than their old 3G networks. Even more savings to be realized by the wireless companies. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    So worst case scenario, what happens to Clearwire's spectrum if they are forced to file bankruptcy? Or will Sprint just continue to fund them to keep them from liquidating? In don't see bankruptcy in the cards. Sprint is in a better position to keep serving CLWR's debts than to lose most of its investment in bankruptcy. CLWR will be sold within 12 months. It's just a matter of to whom. And no matter who it is, it will take Sprint's blessing. Sprint owns 54% of Clearwire and has the ability to block any deal for control. Dish cannot be more than a minority holder without Sprint stock. Also, Clearwire cannot issue more shares without Sprint approval, either. We are essentially currently in a stalemate. So the status quo will be maintained for the time being. And come December, Sprint can purchase Clearwire via simple majority vote. Of which, Sprint already has 54%. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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    Work is starting in the Lower Central Valley Market now. There are already a few Network Vision sites accepted with GMO upgrades in the LCV market. In the Sponsor section of the site, we include maps and daily updates of sites accepted as complete. Robert
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    It will embed automatically. However, I don't think it liked your extra code at the end to skip to a certain scene. Robert
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    To clarify, I am shocked that the microwave backhaul has taken so long in the Chicago market. I don't see why these sites wouldn't have been first. Typically, MW is faster to deploy than waiting on fiber. The MW sites went first in the Texas markets. Robert
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    I never knew you could FF to a specific time on a YouTube clip. That's neat. Thanks! Robert
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    Clearwire doesn't count. Everyone knows that. Just like everyone knows mules have great senses of humor! Get back to that hotel bar!!! Robert
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    Only in California would they require a permit to remove something. Robert
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    You said Sprint's speeds will decline and will be slower than AT&T and VZW. I just proved that is not true now, and the future looks better for Sprint than its competitors with available spectrum to serve its customers. You cavalierly say that AT&T and VZW are better. However, to millions of people your statement would not be true. You claim we need to use facts in our forum posts, but you try to use blanket statements that cannot be proven to support your points. If you agree to the premise that Sprint is better in many places and an acceptable carrier to millions of people, then your entire initial argument is out the window. You have basically painted yourself into a corner to now say that AT&T and VZW are better for many people in many places, but not better to everyone, and not better for most Sprint customers. Which is what we have always said, and what you did not say in the beginning. So essentially, you now agree with us. See, that wasn't so hard after all. Welcome to S4GRU. Robert
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    I don't drink, so no need to worry about me. I have about 2-3 beers and 2-3 glasses of wine per year, on average. Robeert
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    I just proved this fallacy false. I was in a place where Sprint hasn't even upgraded its network and its 3G was faster than Verizon LTE and T-Mobile 4G. So you cannot say that every place Sprint will always be slower, even when upgraded. In Wichita Falls, Texas recently, Sprint LTE was faster than Verizon LTE and T-Mobile 4G in 80% of the places I went. This is a place where Sprint has had LTE for almost a year. It is extremely short sighted to make such sweeping claims. Sprint has half the capacity of Verizon's LTE network, but also has half the customers. Verizon can add one AWS LTE carrier nationwide, and some places two. Sprint can add an LTE 800 carrier almost nationwide, can add several TD-LTE 2600 carriers nationwide and an additional PCS LTE carrier in most markets. Sprint is in a much better spectrum position over time to keep their speeds up than any other American carrier. Are we not supposed to say these things, just because you think AT&T and Verizon are better? These are also facts. Robert
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    Nextel is the caterpillar. On June 30th it climbs up into it's cocoon. And as each LTE 800 site goes live, it's like a butterfly emerging into markets all around the country. I think Sprint could even make a commercial of it. A caterpillar with the Nextel logo on it inching along, making the PTT chirp with each inch. Then after metamorphosis, the LTE 800 butterflies erupt from their cocoons all over the country. Over Philadelphia, over Denver, over San Francisco, over...heck, even over Detroit! Then a voice over announces that LTE 800 is coming to the Sprint network, providing better and deeper coverage. The butterfly flies deep into buildings and basements touching people's smartphones in their hands and they sparkle and get faster. Well, maybe I should just stick to my day job... Robert
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    I have a vivid imagination, and I instantly go to a scene in my mind where Perry Mason is trying to get me off on a DUI charge, when all of a sudden the prosecutor gets out my Sensorly tracks and enters them into evidence proving my guilt! Robert
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