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It says that pre-orders are past the point of no return for cancellation. But they will not be shipping until after the courts authorize it. It sounds like the earliest pre-orders could ship is Friday/Monday. There has been no mention of store sales availability, yet. Robert

Sounds like a marriage made...in Purgatory. Robert

Agreed. However, Sprint also knows that Clearwire is a definite, whereas PCS H Block or Dish spectrum are just possibilities. So they have to keep Clearwire in their back pocket for now. I would hold my nose and buy out Clearwire this year, if they can buy up remaining shares around a $1. It makes more sense than buying MetroPCS or Leap. Robert

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It's not so much that Sprint has been buying Clearwire debt, as much as Clearwire has in the past held its debt payments over Sprint to get Sprint to give them more money. This is what occurred back on December 1st. If Sprint is de facto responsible for Clearwire's debt, because they cannot allow Clearwire to default, then it makes a lot of sense for Sprint to buy out Clearwire, if and when it has the funds to do it. This was discussed in detail in a December article: http://s4gru.com/ind...lions-in-value/ Robert

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Orlando is still in Round 2. Work will be starting soon. We will have an update about the Orlando market in a series of articles that will start in the next few days. Stay tuned. Robert There are 26 LTE sites on-air in the San Antonio market as of yesterday morning. However, Sprint is blocking access to them. Occasionally, there is a site here and there that is mistakenly not being blocked. You must have found one. S4GRU Sponsors have access to the NV Sites Complete Map that will show you every active NV site in the country. Robert

Matt: Network Vision is not being scheduled neighborhood by neighborhood, but rather site by site. So one site in your neighborhood will likely be one month, another the month before, and the other one two months later. It's very difficult for me to give neighborhood schedule assessments. Sorry Robert

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As pointed out above by our astute members, the sitting on customs for a month comment from Reuters doesn't pass the smell test. They couldn't be held prior to April 19th. So we know if anything was held, it was after that. Also, if anything started to be held in April, it most likely was the One X. I don't think that significant EVO LTE shipments started showing up that early. The EVO wasn't even cleared from the lab until the end of April. Most likely customs issues were already starting to occur as EVO LTEs started to arrive state side the first week of May or so. But I don't go along with the assumption that EVOs have been sitting in warehouses stateside since Mid April based on the quotes. What may be a fair deduction is that Sprint knew about issues in customs that ATT was having with the One X some time after April 19th. But we shouldn't conclude at this point that the EVO has been held that long based on the quotes released thus far. Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

If June 10th turns out to be right, then it's just coincidence. Unless Sprint always was counting on there being a delay on the device because of the ITC issue, but later thought they would skate through and moved up the launch to the 18th. Although, that doesn't seem plausible to me. I published the docs where June 10th launch came from. And in the issues report, there is no mention of delays associated with customs or the ITC...only LTE Connectivity issues. However, my source in this instance is lab reports. I cant imagine lab reports ever mentioning something like Customs issues. If it is accurate that these devices have been sitting in a warehouse being held for over a month...well, it just seems crazy. If this drags out more than 2-3 weeks, this could kill Sprint. OG EVO customers will start coming off contract and bailing without their new EVO LTE's. This is a disaster. Steve Jobs must be laughing hysterically. Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

Sprint awards backhaul contracts based on regions within a market. Since the regions cover several ILECs in most cases, Sprint ends up using a backhaul vendor that is third party to the ILECs and arranges several types of backhaul, depending on the availability at each site within their contract area. The successful backhaul bidder in an area will most likely need to mix fiber, AAV and microwave over many site locations in order to get enhanced backhaul at each that meets the minimum backhaul requirements outlined in the contract. So if "Bidder A" wins the contract for the Northern part of the DFW market, they may have to provide the backhaul for every site between Carrollton and Sherman. In most cases, an ILEC wont bid on a backhaul region like that. Unless they already service most of that area. If an ILEC does bid, then they are agreeing to act as a third party to secure service of other backhaul vendors within their contract in the areas outside their service area. Or they may set up microwave links to serve the out of service areas. There are many options to skin the cat. However, there are many regions where the successful bidder is not an ILEC. Some are third party companies who just arrange and manage backhaul over their region and do not provide any direct backhaul service themselves. Also, many of the backhaul contract winners are cable companies. Its all very interesting and very complex. Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

Most of the sites between McKinney/Fairview and the Lake are in July/August. However, the one near McKinney Airport is scheduled for late June. And the one in Central McKinney is in September. Robert

Since Sprint LTE will initially be deployed on 1900MHz spectrum, the coverage will be nearly identical to 3G. So if you don't get a 3G signal now, you probably won't get a LTE signal either. That being said, Sprint Network Vision signals go approximately 20% farther than their legacy signals do now. So if you are currently right on the edge of service, you may get a slight improvement in signal. Maybe one bar more in your signal strength indicator. If you do currently get a poor 3G signal (like one bar), LTE may not be too bad for you. You won't get 30Mbps speeds with one bar LTE service, but you may get 3 to 4Mbps, and that would likely be a much better improvement than what you have now. S4GRU Sponsors do have the ability to pan around and zoom in on those maps (and many others too). S4GRU is a not for profit site and we count on the donations from our members to pay our expenses and keep us online. Robert

In DFW (and most markets), deployment is tower by tower, not neighborhood by neighborhood. Which post says the area west of DFW Airport will be deployed? Robert

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