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    Network Vision/LTE - Swiftel Market (Sioux Falls/Sioux City/Brookings)

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    Also' date=' keep in mind that Brookings Municipal Utilities d/b/a Swiftel became a Sprint affiliate in 1998-1999. At that time, the Cellular 850 MHz competitors in South Dakota were WWC (Western Wireless) and AirTouch. And both may have been AMPS only. So, Swiftel may have seen that as prime opportunity to bring Sprint's CDMA based PCS 1900 MHz service to South Dakota. VZW did not even exist yet, as the VZW merger did not occur until 1999-2000, so nobody knew that there would be a VZW nor an AT&T that would go on to become such anti competitive asshats and try to buy up or drive out of business all other wireless carriers.

     

    AJ[/quote']

     

    Anti competitve Asshats?

     

    I like that. It was a shame that Verizon got most of Alltel's spectrum. It gave them too much control in Nevada, except of course rural Central Nevada. Pahrump is double covered and the FCC didn't make them sell off Alltel's network in Pahrump.

     

    By the way AJ, you wouldn't happen to have a map showing Alltel's spectrum ownings prior to the Verizon takeover, would you?

     

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    WiMax and network stress

    in WiMax

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    Sprint's T1's do not provide enough bandwidth to help a Clearwire WiMax site one iota. Most Sprint T1's are limited to 1.5Mbps. Some ILEC's give them faster T1's...but not many.

     

    Robert

     

    So i guess Clearwire is starting to prepare some areas for the LTE upgrades.

     

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    WiMax and network stress

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    Visalia is a primary Clear market with many Clear customers. Most of my speedtests lately for 4g here have been 2 to 4 mbps. In fact, my iSpot from Clear won't go over 2.5 now.

     

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    WiMax and network stress

    in WiMax

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    I think that Clearwire's WiMax is starting to feel the heat of network stress in some areas. I just did 4 or 5 speedtests a few minutes ago and the best download speed i got with max WiMax signal was 7.2 Mbps. The strange thing is that my upload speeds were 1.5 Mbps with peaks up to 2Mbps.

     

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    T-Mobile, Leap agree to swap AWS spectrum

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Spectrum transactions happen all the time' date=' Josh. But unless you really follow the wireless industry closely, you hear about only the most significant deals.

     

    AJ[/quote']

     

    That must be why I only hear of a few. I'm still learning about spectrum and the underlying components of the telecommunications industry. Up until this site, i've only ever concentrated on the phones themselves. Thanks AJ

     

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    HTC EVO 4G LTE

    in HTC

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    Do they have real, live, fully functioning and activated phones on display? This is how I tell if its a true Sprint Corporate store. Every Sprint corporate store I've been to has every phone on display live, and activated. Every non-Sprint store does not.. they might have one or two.. but not all.

     

    Ben, In Vegas there is a non Corporate store that has all their phones as live and activated. So some stores can really be deceptive if they are corporate or not.

     

    As for me, I paid $270.24 for my phone with a $100 mail-in-rebate and the $125 port in credit.

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    ATT trying to copy Sprint

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    No, that's the second time att copied Sprint. The first time was when att started offering any mobile any time.

     

    Actually, this is the third. 1st was the any mobile any time, 2nd was the new loyalty program, and 3rd is the Network Enhancements page. Hopefully at&stinks won't lower their prices to below Sprint's level. That would be a disaster.

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