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Correct. If CA is instituted, but a device is not CA capable, it will just see two separate carriers. No harm, no foul. The device just doesn't get to experience faster speeds of CA. Which I am not sure are all that necessary. However, what is the benefit on the carrier end if there are no devices to use it? That I cannot quite wrap my mind around. I guess there will be some devices that could, like hotspots and tablets. But it would be a big challenge in something the size of a smartphone. Robert

CA may require antenna diversity of four antennas. If you need two MIMO to each different carrier, that makes four. You could have less than four, but that would reduce performance. And that would defeat the purpose. I don't see CA as a miraculous panacea for LTE in smartphones. Not while trying to cram in a whole bunch of other LTE bands, too. Robert

Surely, you're joking. Right? It would almost be impossible to live in a place like New Bedford and never been to Cape Cod. Unless you are a new transplant to Massachusetts. Robert

Very little difference actually. The difference in number of users per sectors and throughput speeds is theoretically the same, but likely some mild actual loss with CA. However, devices using Carrier Aggregation suffer larger battery drain according to internal Sprint documents I have read. Robert

I was just wondering where you have been recently. I enjoy your posts. Glad things are back to OK with your family. Here is the S4GRU Mission Statement: "To provide a forum for discussion and education about wireless spectrum, networks, and Sprint Network Vision, in particular, in an online community that is mature, intelligent, and free from uncritical negativity. Do you feel that S4GRU Staff and Moderators failed in maintaining/protecting our core mission with this thread? Even to use your definition of our mission, do you think we failed in that regard too? Robert

I remember Beta lasting in the corner of the video store for years too. Those crazy cults. Robert

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I agree that the release does not say anything about launches, or defines what under way means. However, I have done so in the comments section. And that was what I was referring to in my initial response to you. I didn't take your comments as criticisizing me. However, I do take the opportunity to try to inform everyone of what is actually going on, when I can. I can see why you would believe that. To not be convinced until there is concrete evidence of work being under way in San Diego is understandable. It will start soon. Robert

I love Cape Cod this time of year. Wish I was going! Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

I live next to a Sprint site. I will likely get 30Mbps+ speeds when LTE arrives. This will be far in excess of my Windstream DSL at 12Mbps (which only reaches that speed at midday and after midnight). However, I will still use my WiFi at home on my smartphone. Because my WiFi more than meets my needs for smartphone usage, even though Sprint LTE will be faster. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

I think it's a great idea. And if you guys pay for the airfare, ill even join you. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

I actually think Sprint doesn't need 10x10 LTE at all. But I'm often in a minority with that opinion. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

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Look how Apple is falling behind on innovation already, and they are in a competitive environment. Just imagine how they would fall behind on innovation without competition? It scares me, actually. The only thing innovative of note in the new iPhone is antenna design. And that is not a competition with others thing, as it was an Apple desire to minimize parts across one device and possibly reduce costs in the long run. It wasn't done as a feature enhancement to better compete in the marketplace. Far from it. In fact, this may be the biggest cause why the CDMA versions do not support simultaneous voice/data. So I'm not sure it is an innovation step at all. It may be a step backwards. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

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If they just go around adding one 5x5 LTE carrier in H block, then you are probably right. They will just add them where additional LTE 1900 capacity is needed. Unless they had build out requirements from the FCC. Then you might see it appear in some wacky and unnecessary locations. But if small towns in rural MN are sufficiently served by the one carrier in G block, why add another? I only have one EVDO carrier on my rural site. I have no need for a second. The first one is more than enough. However, they might want to go with one 10x10 LTE 1900 carrier, instead of two 5x5's. Having G and H block would give them this possibility. So, if they did go this route, they may deploy it in every place they presently had a PCS 5x5 LTE carrier. But this poses problems with all the 5MHz only LTE devices out there. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

Network Vision upgrades have no direct impact on WiMax. WiMax is deployed on Clearwire's network on their own sites. Where Sprint CDMA and Clearwire WiMax are on the same site, it is just conicidental. Their equipment is completely separate and they are connected to separate networks. None of the Network Vision upgrades will be done to WiMax equipment or the WiMax network. Clearwire will continue to maintain that network themselves separately. So anything you notice occurring with WiMax performance cannot be directly related to Network Vision deployment. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

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If you removed all the people who could offload from the network, the network performance is better for everyone when you use it. Our goal should not be able to use as much network resources as possible. Because if everyone did that, there wouldn't be much network left when you need it. Even for yourself. It's kind of like this. I tell my kids they can use as much electricity as they want. I tell them I don't have a problem with the electricity they consume, its the electricity that's wasted. My kids get in trouble when they leave the lights on in rooms they are not in and leave the TV/Xbox on and go outside and play. But they can use as much electricity as they want, as long as they do not waste it. I see data usage the same way. On unlimited data, use as much as you need. And I can even understand the privacy issues of using a public wifi and why you may choose to use LTE in that instance. However, at home, if you have WiFi, and the speed of your WiFi meets the needs of what you are doing on your smartphone, you should use it. Because there could be dozens of people in your sector also parking on LTE. Its the aggregate effect of all the people who do it. Any one offender is not the issue. Its a matter of educating everyone so that all the burden of people who just want to park on LTE at home is minimized. And to quote Russell Peters dad, "Be a man! Doo duh rite ting!" Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner