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All these things are multiple visits. We have a tendency to think of things from a single crew showing up and doing everything. When in reality, the NV OEM's are subcontracting out different components to different firms. The companies that install the microwave, are different than the ones who install the cabinets, who are different from the ones who install all the tower hardware/coax, who are different from those who configure, etc., etc. There are very few people who have the skills to do all this work from beginning to end at a site. Each subcontractor has specialized techs who know their portion of work. Robert

Great post!!!

Some of the reports I have heard from the field (which are just anecdotal at this point) is that even in places where Microwave backhaul gets installed by a subcontractor at a NV site in advance of NV deployment beginning, it is just sitting there waiting for NV contractors to arrive. They apparently are not getting connected to legacy systems. But before we all get in a tizzy about this, enhanced NV backhaul doesn't appear to be all that much ahead of NV contractors. In some places, they are not ahead at all. Robert

In some sense that is a rational and thoughtful idea. But the biggest motivator why Sprint is decommissioning iDEN ASAP is cost. Operation cost and site leases. Sprint is counting on their improved cash flow from iDEN decommissioning to fund the tail end of Network Vision in 2013. There really is no option for Sprint at this time but to ditch iDEN once and for all. This thinning in advance is a means for Sprint to reduce costs now and help get iDEN customers to understand the end is near, and to help motivate them to move on. Although Sprint wants as many of these cuistomers to migrate to CDMA as possible, they are prepared to lose millions of them.

I prefer 7" tablets myself for most things I do. Thanks for the write up, Scott! Robert

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I hope it is sooner than that. I have big LTE roaming plans, and I won't be set back by mere physical limitations! Don't they know who I think I am? Robert

4rings...yes you have definitely posted that before. I appreciate your info, even if you are an overly direct communicator. Robert

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