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I don't know yet. Most likely in the Fall, should NV stay on schedule. I do have some contacts at Clearwire. But they are much more inconsistent. They also don't seem to have much info on LTE yet. Clearwire has approx. 1,000 sites in its largest markets. 5,000 sites is approx 1/3 of their entire network. So, if they deploy completely in markets, it would be a minimum of 6 markets, but could be many more. However, I have a feeling they will not be deploying 100% on every Clearwire site in these markets in the first round of TD-LTE. So I'm thinking its going to be more like 12 -15+ markets in the initial 5,000. But that is just a guess on my part. Why do you hope not? That is the entire Sprint network! Were you hoping it would be less than all of it? Yes. Although I wouldn't use the word overlay. It is a complete teardown and rebuilding of every "native" Sprint site into a multi-modal base station that supports new 4G LTE technology as well. They do have 1x/3G native service agreements. They just do not have 4G LTE native service agreements. Because these companies don't have LTE service. Although it would be great to have additional rural LTE coverage, it is not reasonable to think that Network Vision/LTE goes beyond Sprint's own sites. Verizon also has these types of deals with many little wireless companies. Not all of them have worked on LTE 700MHz Rural Alliance sharing deals. Agreed. I think Sprint is having these discussions now to encourage these partners to either install Network Vision type base stations, or at the least, incorporate a LTE G-Block hosting deal. Although I don't know of any specific talks. Robert

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The blue areas are referring to general voice and data roaming, not LTE roaming. Although Sprint may one day include in its line up devices that can support roaming on Verizon 700MHz LTE, it will not happen in the next few years. Heck, they aren't even releasing devices yet that will run on all of its own LTE frequencies yet. Robert

I'm not sure it has to be that way. I use Broadvoice VOIP at home and often run 200ms pings and it works great. You would think that if someone had WiFi in the 200ms ping range or better, they would be able to devise something that worked well with that. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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At CES, there were several reporters who were told not to photo the back of the device. Interesting. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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Do you guys remember me posting in the initial Chicago article about forced WiMax offload? Well, this is it. Nailed it!!! http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-11-sprint%e2%80%99s-network-vision-and-lte-deployment-details-emerge-for-chicago/ Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Friday, March 30, 2012 - 1:46 AM MDT What about Phoenix? What about Phoenix? What about Phoenix??? I get asked that every day. Sometimes several times per day! On social media, our forum pages and our chat rooms are filled with Phoenicians and Arizonans who feel they have been more than patient with Sprint awaiting for first 4G WiMax and now just even to hear an announcement on 4G LTE. And here we are, S4GRU.com has announced all of the markets that Sprint has planned for the First Two rounds of Network Vision/LTE deployment. There was no mention of Phoenix in any of those continual announcements. What gives? Officially, Phoenix and its market neighbor Tucson/Yuma are in the Third Round. However, S4GRU.com can reveal to you that the dates for RF Design and backhaul dates for these two markets are significantly earlier than other 3rd Round markets. Additionally, in a Network Vision schedule update S4GRU obtained a few weeks ago, both the Phoenix and Tucson/Yuma markets engineering schedules moved up from previous schedules. Now with the latest schedule updates, the Phoenix and Tucson/Yuma markets engineering and design are only 30 days later than what is shown for the last 2nd Round markets. Whereas 3rd Round markets are typically 4 to 5 months later. However, even with the improved dates, Alcatel/Lucent still shows these two markets being in the 3rd Round. Photo of Downtown Phoenix provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Are these markets being moved up to the Second Round? Will they be in a no man's land schedule wise between the 2nd and 3rd round? Did someone realize that it would be crazy to do this work in Arizona at the hottest part of the year in 2013, so it should be moved up to Winter? We cannot say with certainty at this time. It appears that something is a foot. We will continue to monitor schedule progress and let all of you in Arizona know if there are any more changes. I am now cautiously optimistic for you Phoenicians. If I were a betting man, I would wager that you will start seeing sites come live before the end of the 2nd Round. Photo of Tucson provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. We will also be announcing two more markets in the same boat in an article on Monday morning. Then, the market announcements will stop for awhile. I can't think of why we would announce 3rd Round markets so early. There is way too much variability to what can happen with their schedules. We may repeat this exercise again with 3rd and 4th Round markets later in the year. Source: Undisclosed internal source

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Yeah, it was rather crappy. But the photo was taken live at the RCA Global Expo conference today. It's legit. Robert

I can see why at turnover from legacy to NV, people would definitely get dropped calls and data connections. But only at one time. However, that could feel like it is all over the city when it is one tower here, then another tower there. Repeating itself over a thousand times for each tower in the market. Also, the Chicago market will not be anywhere near done in June. So they are going to have to extend that deadline much farther out. Robert

This is not correct. And not physically possible. The WiMax antenna runs on 2500MHz. Sprint's LTE is at 1900MHz. It's impossible. Please stop posting nonsense and confusing people. This is a warning. Robert

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They have not even mobilized to Puerto Rico yet to start Network Vision. I confirmed this a week ago. I am planning an update article soon. I have the start date now. Robert

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Memory whore? I have an ex-girlfriend who still screws with my memory! So I can relate about the anguish you must feel, just by channeling that. Robert

Be that as it may, Ergen is so shrewd that he will always make Sprint and Tmo think that a deal with AT&T is imminent to get the best deal that Dish can get from them. He is in the middle of a great bargaining position. And he knows it. If Sprint ever gets a deal with Dish, it will not be lucrative. But I like your point that a Sprint/Dish deal, even if not financially lucrative, is a huge win just if ATT or Verizon cannot get it. It would be the reverse of the Alltel deal. Only more valuable as Dish spectrum is nationwide. Robert

All iDEN customers will be forced migrated. They can move to Sprint CDMA or they can go to another carrier. That's about it for options. Robert