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I just received an update of completed sites from Sprint, and it includes the site off Jumpers Hole. It's on top of a water tower at 39.08386 -76.58459. It says 4G is live there. Sometimes, water tower panels are so far out from the sides that you don't get much of a signal underneath them. If you drive away a few blocks and the signal gets stronger in all directions, then this is the site. That site 723 above is not a Sprint site where it is showing. It probably is connected to the Jumpers Hole site, but NetMonitor is not accurate. Robert

Sprint is not just going around and smacking up LTE on towers. It is completely replacing every piece of equipment at every site and their entire network from top to bottom. The Network Vision program replaces the entire Sprint network and adds LTE functionality. It will take over two years to complete it all. But it will create a state of the art network for us to enjoy for years to come. In comparison, Verizon is neither converting everyone of their sites, nor putting LTE on every tower. They are also using 700MHz spectrum. This allows for a much faster deployment. Verizon's deployment also is taking over two years to complete. They just had a head start on LTE. Given that Sprint's network upgrade is going to take as much time to deploy as Verizon's, but has much more scope of work being completed, it is quite an impressive feat. We here at S4GRU are watching and tracking the entire deployment. Robert

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This site off Harbin Road, about a 1/4 mile north of Landrum.

All third and fourth round markets are in various stages of completing RF design and moving on to planning/zoning/permitting and then scheduling. Robert

Perfect sense. I know it may be hard to believe, but I did not know this. Thanks. Robert

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Yeah, that fake pine tree tower is less than a 1/4 mile NE of you off Harbin Road. You should have great LTE service around your house. Robert

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Hmm. This is a concept I am unfamiliar with. Maybe you can expand a little on that for us when you get a chance. Robert

This is not Sprint LTE. The Columbus market design was just recently completed. They are just beginning planning and permitting for this market. They will not start deployment before the end of the year. Robert

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I agree. Sprint doesn't need to change its deployment plans. They just need to get on schedule and stay on schedule. Their schedule is aggressive but doable. And then they need to well communicate that schedule to everyone. Robert

I get your points. But I don't think Samsung profited from what they did copy, and in fact, largely had to reject them and do something else in later models because it wasn't successful. However, the things they did do on their own and innovate have been successful. Robert

And when you consider that Sprint thought it was going to be able to offload a lot of their data tonnage onto the WiMax network, and did not see data usage to grow by double its most liberal projections, it doesn't seem like such a bad idea for Sprint to try to plan to coast into Network Vision. Now with the luxury of hindsight, we can see that Clearwire stalled on the WiMax deployment and data usage exceeded all estimates, the EVO was a larger success than projected and then add the iPhone to the mix, we can see that it was a bad call. And it probably cost Sprint more in lost subscribers than it did in capex costs. Thankfully, that bad decision is over and they are on to much better decisions now. Robert

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This makes sense in Chicago. Since Chicago is a spectrum constrained market, they need the extra carrier for offload. However, they will likely have it be different in other markets as they start adding them to the PRL's. And eventually they will have to make the adjustment for Chicago too. Otherwise, people in basements and edge of service will not be able to get on an 800 carrier because it will be already full of people who are well within 1900 coverage, but hogging the 800. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

I love your 'a few feet away in the dark' description. I can get a Bentley Continental and a Chrysler 300 confused a few feet away in the dark. However, your main point stays in tact. Samsung ripped off icons. That is obvious. Icons were not Apple's case, they just used that as evidence. Are icons worth 1 billion? Please. For them to be worth one billion bucks in my mind, it would have to mean that Samsung had to have taken in one billion dollars in sales from people who mistakenly bought Samsung products over Apple products because they were confused by how the icons look similar. Did anyone in the world buy a Samsung thinking it was an Apple product because of the icon similarity? If so, we are talking about a couple of million bucks, not a billion. In my opinion, the icons were the only issue that had merit in this case. Samsung was stupid to essentially rip those off. But the value at the end of the day of the icons is pretty small. And since they were replaced in newer OS'es, the problem even has been corrected. During the period that Samsung was copying icons from Apple, Apple lost far more sales to exclusivity deals with carriers than it did from icons. In fact, Samsung hardly sold any devices at carriers that carried iPhones. Samsung was only a contingent at carriers where Apple refused to sell devices. In my opinion, Apple was creating an environment where they were not even a direct competitor to Samsung in the smartphone business at the time of icon infringement. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

I find this ironic since as I write this, neither Microsoft nor Apple have brought a LTE device to market after two years. Yet Google's Android was the very first OS to support it and Samsung was an early adopter too. Just sayin'. Robert via CM9 Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

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I think you're right. His screen shot is showing SVDO (that's what happens when the notification bar turns green). It sure looks like a GS3 screen to me. Robert