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There really is not a way to handle it with the macro network. The macro network cannot feasibly be designed with enough carriers to handle point loads of thousands of users in a single sector. Now that it's been explained above how the airlink works, you can see why more than a couple hundred people cannot share a sector together. The queue for your data to get to the network just gets longer and longer as more and more people hop on, severely limiting performance. Small cells, DAS systems, and WiFi help to relieve the burdens off the macro network with varying success. However, they are expensive and can be difficult to coordinate locating with property owners and feeding with sufficient backhaul at all locations. It's probably not reasonable to be able to deliver data to the level of audio and video streaming to thousands of customers in a few acres. If people were content with texting, uploading statuses and still pictures and perhaps audio streaming, then those things are probably enough that could be accommodated with small cells and DAS. However, you get a dozen people streaming video of the game to their phone in your sector, and you can forget it. We just can't really handle that kind of stuff right now. Verizon and AT&T handle those things by data caps. People on Verizon LTE won't run their devices like a TV during the game because it uses too much data. But a Sprint LTE customer will feel like it's their God given right to waste so much bandwidth because they paid for unlimited. And then be pissed while their device buffers the whole game. Because 850 other Sprint customers feel exactly the same way at the game. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Just to clarify something posted farther up. When ping time starts to worsen, that is definitely a sign that the sector is starting to congest. Ping time is the measure in milliseconds it takes to travel from your device to a point on the internet and back. When you're on Sprint LTE, even on an unburdened site, the part of the trip that adds the most to ping is the airlink section. The point from your device to the base station at the cell site. In an ideal situations, this will add 10-12 ms both ways. So even if you have a tower with a fiber connection that has a 3-5 ms ping, and the Sprint network is running top efficiency and adds 2-5 ms ping, the best theoretical Sprint LTE ping you can have is around 25-30ms ping. That's screaming fast over an airlink. You need to understand the airlink. The airlink is a shared resource to everyone in the same LTE sector as you. So, when no one is on the sector, but you, it takes 10 ms for your data to get through the air, the panel and to the base station. That's unimaginably fast. The airlink has only so much capacity, every second. So what happens when the airlink starts to fill up? It slows down. No, the airlink itself doesn't actually slow down, but now the network is receiving so much data over the airlink, that the airlink cannot support it all instantaneously and starts to queue the data from the devices. This slows down the ping. Because the second your device decides to send, the network may need another 10-50ms longer to process it. And it will need to do the same thing on the return trip if the reverse link is also saturated. So if you have a higher ping than normal, but speeds are unaffected, it likely means your sector airlink is more saturated than normal, but the backhaul bandwidth is sufficient to support it. If you have unaffected ping, but speeds have dropped, then the backhaul does not have the bandwidth to support the current load. If you have both ping and backhaul performance reduction, it can be either or, or a combination of both. If you have catastrophically bad performance, it can be either over saturated airlink, or can be severely undersized backhaul for the load (like what was happening with the old T1's). If the airlink gets overloaded to the point of catastrophic failure, then they need to add additional carriers to support the airlink traffic. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

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I get "access denied" when I click on the link. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Based on reports, we banned the recent ranter. It was a blatant posting violation and not even accurate. It almost seemed like he was selling another service. His posts have been removed and he has been reported to IP Board as a potential spammer. Everyone is free to use whatever service they want. We advocate people getting what is best for them. But posting still has to be within our posting guidelines. This guy obviously didn't know there is already one LTE site accepted in SC. Sheesh. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

I've heard this rumor before, but it has never been substantiated. I think a lot of Virgin customers assume that because of the poor network. Also, you can get a Sprint customer and Virgin customer side by side and see different results. But you can do that with two Sprint customers too. Because of different channels, sectors and towers. It's hard to get identical results side by side in an urban/suburban location. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Sprint's backhaul contracts are scalable. They can add backhaul incrementally as needed. It's rather genius, actually. Everyone who signed on the dotted line for backhaul had to agree to the increased capacity in the future as needed. It's already prearranaged. And it's the beauty of AAV backhaul that's fiber backed. You pay for 90Mbps now. But since it is fiber backed, it can easily be increased to 500Mbps in many places. And up to 1Gbps in some others. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

There is no way to stay connected to one site. Your devices can move around from site to site. You likely either sometimes get a site that hasn't been upgraded, of doesn't have upgraded backhaul yet. It will get better. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Because they needed to for some reason. This is not uncommon in unlaunched markets. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

In Brooklyn and Queens, 1,000 feet separation is probably average. In Manhattan, it's much tighter. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

I don't think Sprint ever actually got to the bid phase with those vendors, so I don't think anyone knows what the price difference would be. So, the savings from the Chinese vendors are just assumptions. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

The latency over the airlink portion has more to do with channel/sector saturation and quality of signal. Distance is not really a factor. Although distance can affect quality. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

No 800 for Yuma initially Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

If this is indeed the long term plan, an eventual merger with Tmo, then I can see why your position is reasonable. I just don't think it's a good idea to make a spectrum reduction now in hopes of a potential merger in the future. Preserve your spectrum assets now to the maximum the FCC allows. And when merging with Tmo, get rid of EBS. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

In a place like NYC, that's a great example of where Sprint will skip a lot of sites. Unless they need the capacity. Does it matter if your CDMA 800 or LTE 800 signal comes from one block or three? No. The difference in signal will be negligible. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Sprint is deploying roughly 80% 800MHz for budget reasons. They think it's a waste of money to deploy on 100% of sites with 800 as it is more than capable to serve two PCS cells in many urban places. And they will go back and fill in 800 in these 20% when and if extra capacity is needed. So the goal is 100% 800 coverage in urban areas, but not 100% sites having it. It's not an interference issue, as they can downtilt and reduce power to mitigate interference in most instances. In some places they are deploying near 100%. Like in Chicago. They desperately need the capacity there. And in other markets, more 800 can be added for capacity as needed. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

It will not be done in that time, but there will be some live by that time for certain. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

The difference in cost between deploying half the carriers on EBS/BRS and all of them is not that large. Carriers cards and the power to run them is pretty negligible, all things considered. I don't go along with the "it's too expensive to have all the spectrum" position you quoted. And whartver that burden is, it's nothing compared to the burden the debt load that a combined Sprint/Dish would have. Even if Dish gets Sprint/Clearwire, it's not going to be using all that spectrum out of the gate. If they sell all the EBS leases to VZW, even they won't need it for years. They would just set up protection sites. We know what Softbank would do with it. It would be used to compete with the duopoly directly with unlimited high speed mobile data. They will keep adding carriers of very wide bandwidth to offer superior speeds to VZW and AT&T for less cost and unlimited. You may not like that from an investment standpoint, but consumers want that. And they want it much more than a triple play with DISH. If you are concerned about wasted spectrum, nothing is more wasteful than a stupid Hopper on demand video service parked on a huge amount of spectrum. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

They are shown on Sponsor NV Sites Complete Map: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/517-nv-sites-complete/ Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

There was another Madison area site accepted on Friday. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Did you know that neither Verizon, nor AT&T, nor T-Mobile have a market with 100% conversion to LTE yet? Oh, come on!!! You aren't understanding the metrics here. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

First LTE site accepted in The Panhandle market today. It's out in the middle of nowhere, west of Lake City. But it's a start. It will be posted on the NV Sites Complete map in the Sponsor section in an hour or so. Robert

First LTE site accepted in Missouri market in the Lake of the Ozarks region. Just SE of Warsaw. It will appear on the NV Sites Complete map tonight in the Sponsor section. Robert

First LTE site accepted in the Long Island market today in Port Jefferson. It will be posted to the NV Sites Complete Map tonight in the Sponsor area. Woohoo! Robert

5 new LTE sites accepted today in Las Vegas. They will be added to the Sponsor maps in a few hours. Woot! Robert