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I read on another website a comment on the article that said, "and the flames of hell grew a little higher and burned a little hotter after this announcement." Ouch. Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

Sprint has corralled unlimited to smartphone data only for a reason. Because they can support unlimited data usage on smartphones. Their network cannot support unlimited tethering usage. Sprint does not support unlimited tethering. They don't encourage tethering usage. And if you choose to use their allowed tethering usages, it is limited in the amount of GB's you can use per month. Because even the new network cannot support unlimited tethering. Its just a fact of wireless life. Peoples dreams of an unlimited wireless ISP are not reality. No matter how nifty it would be. And Sprint offers the most generous offerings and the least lax security. And people who use tethering sparingly will likely fly under the radar. As Fraydog points out, Verizon is now going to allow customers to tether legally within their data allotment. If you have a VZW 5GB data plan, you will be able to tether against that allotment. However, Sprint cant offer something like this. How do you allow tethering against an unlimited allotment? You cant. Sprint cant offer unlimited tethering, especially on LTE. LTE is going to be faster than 75% of their customers homes ISPs. Many customers will just start dropping their ISPs and use Sprint via tethering. Their network can't support that. Actually, no American LTE network yet released could. We all need to just accept reality and understand the best Sprint can offer is unlimited smartphone data. These other forms of unlimited for our personal gross consumption can not be sustained. It would be a good idea for Sprint to include 1GB of tethering every month in their unlimited plan. And maybe offer an a la carte option of adding 1, 2 or 5GB packages you can purchase should you need more. But please note with Sprint's new network, they have the ability to quickly identify tetherers. Expect some push back from Sprint. The old days are coming to an end. Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

People who rely on WiMax should not upgrade until LTE is available in their area. Good call. Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

4GHoward is correct. The Louisiana market will not begin until 2013. Robert

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Negative. It's my understanding that eHRPD is a software upgrade once the 4G core is ready to start receiving connections from sites in that market. eHRPD is being added as an overlay over an entire market ahead of LTE. Since active data sessions at LTE sites will hand off to eHRPD, every site around an active LTE site must be eHRPD ready. That's why a whole market gets eHRPD deployment in advance of LTE going live. Seeing live eHRPD sites though is a good sign toward the day in the future of having LTE service. Robert

Not the closest tower, the tower with the least amount of traffic that is within range. The network is designed to balance the load. Your device looks for the site within range with the lowest Ec/Io ratio. Robert

Yes, being between two sectors could do that too. Net Monitor will help him to establish that also. Each sector will likely have its own BSID. Robert

You need to get an app like Net Monitor, your device could be changing "towers". The lower signal is likely a site farther away. I know in my personal experience, that is the case when this anomaly occurs. Robert

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Here is a good article of a request to Apple to focus on battery technology: http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57450603-276/dear-apple-please-spend-your-billions-on-radical-battery-tech/ Now this is the type of things Apple could be doing. And they can patent a battery technology. That would make a lot of sense. Robert

Yeah, me too. Hmmmm... Robert

About it anywhere??? I bet we have talked about Baltimore in dozens of forum posts, news articles, Facebook posts, Tweets, etc. Baltimore is still a launch city. Sprint has not passed the deadline for Baltimore launch. Network Vision is well under way in Baltimore including improvements to 3G. But Network Vision is not an overnight thing. It is a huge undertaking rebuilding the entire network, and every site in every market. And Baltimore will get LTE before 92 other Sprint markets. I think most Sprint customers are quite envious of your position. Especially me, being in one of the last NV markets of all. I will likely have 3 or 4 LTE devices before I get service. Robert

And that's where we disagree. Intuitive gestures should not be able to be patented. To me, that's like saying all computers can have a power button, but Apple patented pushing the button, so everyone else needs to do something else with that button. And another one slides the button, the other does a swirly motion to the button. If you think about it, all those things on a screen are virtual buttons. Slide it, press it, it doesn't matter, it's a button. And pinch and zoom is just replicating actions you do with a scrolling mouse that you cannot do on a tablet. This kind of patent logic is Draconian, and it would box everyone into a corner of the technological dungeon. But I think Apple is OK with doing exactly that. Robert

IMO, you cannot patent a gesture. Anything that people do naturally, like slide their finger, wave, tap, etc., these are functions of people's bodies that they do to use a function. NO WAY that Apple can patent what I do with my body when it interacts with a device. Robert

S4GRU will post an update article on these markets soon. Stay tuned. Robert

I like what Apple is doing, as far as products go. Apple takes ideas and makes them better...ala iPad. However, they then think that their expansion of ideas should be the end of the road. That's the problem. I think someone should be allowed to make a better iPad. And the Apple can make a better replacement to that replacement. It's kind of the spirit of mankind. To show each other up! And consumers win. Robert

Under the Apple patent philosophy, the original Microsoft PC Tablets should have been patented and there never could have been iPads or Android tablets, because the whole tablet concept would have been taken. We could all just live with whatever Microsoft could have come up with over the years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC In my opinion, you should not be able to patent a shape, a type of equipment, software, ideas, etc. when it comes to electronics. You should be only to patent code, and a specific manufacturing process. If someone can create a new widget with a similar or better function without using the same exact methods and materials to get there, more power to them. Apple would love to push out all competition so it can dictate to the masses what we want and then charge us more than top dollar for it. And they are pushing consumers to madness. I believe It's starting to back fire on them. Robert