S4GRU

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There are going to be many secondary, tertiary and rural communities that deployment will start in 2012. Sprint has their native coverage area broken into 97 markets. Each market covers a geographic area. The Chicago Sprint market goes from Downtown Chicago, north to the Wisconsin border, west to only 30 miles short of the Iowa border, south to Kankakee and east to Michigan City, Indiana. There are more than a million people in this market outside of Chicago and its suburbs. This is going to repeated in every one of the 97 markets, lots of peripheral communities will be brought into the fold. But even beyond these peripheral communities of large primary cities. There are some secondary markets that will include 2012 deployment starts. I will say that the ones that will start before mid year are mostly mega markets, though.

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I'm not 100% certain. I hope to get NV deployment information for all markets, like we received for Chicago. That being said, the Dallas market for Sprint is actually called the DFW market. And given that the Sprint Chicago market's NV conversion included every single site in the market, I am assuming the same is true for all Sprint markets. Even the DFW Sprint market. Although I cannot say with absolute certainty that Ft. Worth is included in the Sprint NV Deployment for Dallas, I would be willing to put a lot of money down on a bet if Vegas Casinos were putting odds on it!!!

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Stay tuned. We're announcing another NV city late tonight!

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And furthermore, how much spectrum is being used inefficiently by wireless carriers? And how much is being sat on and not used at all???

I don't think these companies have exclusive deals with Foxconn the way Apple does. They are on this list if they have anything assembled by Foxconn. Most of my criticisms have been because Apple's profits are so high on its smartphones and tablets, they should consider making them in America, especially given the current economic climate. Pick any one of these devices, and trial making one of them here stateside. I'm certain it can still be more than profitable. And I think American consumers would reward them mightily for an assembled in America iPhone and/or iPad. It's more of a lost opportunity than anything. As for HTC or Samsung, they are a Taiwanese and Korean company. I don't think anyone could criticize them for building in China, except for perhaps the Taiwanese and the Koreans. But your general point about Foxconn is taken and accepted. - Robert, S4GRU

And that's because you are afraid to use your data with caps, my friend. If you had Verizon LTE, and it was unlimited, I bet you would be finding all kinds of new ways to exploit data usage on your device. Tiered data controls usage more psychologically than anything. I'm certainly not picking on you. You definitely couldn't use any of your unlimited Sprint data before. And there is no guarantee that we will be able to keep ours. Hopefully the Sprint network is going to be better and still unlimited when you come back at the end of your new Verizon contract.

Excellent point. I've been discussing in several forums these points since last year. Especially with the people who insist they will be able to convert their WiMax devices to LTE with a hacked firmware update only.

And when the LTE network crashes, should Sprint suffer the same problems Verizon has on their LTE network.

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Oops. I don't think you were on the last page.

I would like to see Sprint offer a 1GB roaming plan for data, where you pay their cost (with reasonable markup) to use more than 300MB roaming data. Maybe $10 or so. Although if they did that, they would have to stop calling their roaming data unlimited. It kind of ticks me off that my Sprint bill every month says I have unlimited roaming data, when in reality it's limited to 300MB. Of course, if they offered a 1GB roaming data plan, they would then also have to give us back 3G roaming data. Which I doubt they will do any time soon. Keeping us on 1x roaming data reduces cost because it deters us from using roaming data. Although I run the 11115 PRL and get 3G roaming data anyway. But I still have to keep it under 300MB.

In rural areas, there is no spectrum crunch. The ratio of available spectrum to users is definitely very good. This would be a very good ISP solution to residents who can be within servable distance from a cell site. In places like the rural Midwest, using LTE on White Spaces you could theoretically get 20MB+ download speeds up to 20 miles away from the tower using a stationery antenna on a house. This would be amazing for millions of rural Americans who have no broadband access or very limited broadband access (like 1MB DSL). The spectrum crunch really only exists in the Top 100 markets. There is so much unused spectrum in the rest of the country. In fact, so much of it is being sat on and squandered with no hope of ever being built out. This aspect is almost criminal.

The amount of data growth is just staggering. Thanks for the post.

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I feel that way when I am separated from my phone for more than 10 minutes!