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    Sprint stock

    in General Topics

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    The $1.4b loss included approx $680M in accelerated depreciation attributed to shutting down the Nextel portion of the operation. This charge reflects favorably on results from continuing operations. Sprint also revised its full year operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) guidance upward by $600 million to $900 million.

    HTC EVO 4G LTE

    in HTC

    Posted

    Wouldn't you think one of the "Big Boy" sites with access to their preview units would do some checking to see if it appears that the "647" patent was infringed?

    Efficient Use of Spectrum

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    The easiest way to objectively measure this is to look at how many subs each carrier has per MHz of bandwidth-- if you want to see an "average" or overall efficiency. I've done some math below that may shed light on this.

     

    AT&T has an average of 79 MHz serving about 100 M subscribers or 0.79 Hz/sub

    Verizon has an average of 88 MHz serving about 110 M subscribers or 0.8 Hz/sub

    Sprint/Nextel (alone) has an average of 53 MHz serving about 55 M subscribers or 1.03 Hz/sub

    Sprint + Clearwire has an average of 195 MHz serving about 68 M subscribers or 2.87 Hz/sub

     

    The source for the licence info is below. Using this average national licensed information and the most recent subscriber figures, it would appear Sprint is more of a spectrum hog than the big two-- this may seem counter-intuitive, but you have to consider the number of subs. I know in my market, Sprint has been sitting on 40 MHz of PCS and 14 MHz of ESMR and they run 2-3 TOTAL CDMA carriers (using about 5-7.5 MHz / 40 MHz PCS band) conversely Verizon runs 9 cellular and 3-4 PCS carriers along with their 10 x10 LTE here, so they use 55 MHz of their 97 MHz here.

     

    http://www.google.co...l8zvQgKt8xM051w

     

    Wow! The knowledge on this site amazes me. Thanks

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    Efficient Use of Spectrum

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Much has been written about Network Vision and its components. Multi Modal towers, 1x Advanced, DO Advanced, LTE etc. So Sprint isn't just rolling out LTE, in fact it has been stated that NV technology will make Sprint's network future proof. We know that Sprint will spend in excess of $7 billion on this massive project that will help maximize the efficient use of its spectrum holdings.

     

    Verizon and ATT are currently building out their LTE networks and while doing so they are touching almost every one of their towers. Does anyone know if they are doing anything to help maximize their current spectrum holdings?

     

    This question is a result of reading an article on Broadband Convergent. http://www.broadbandconvergent.com/news/mobile-operators-creating-artificial-demand-capacity

     

    Should a Wireless Network Operator show that the company is maximizing its efforts to use spectrum in a most efficient manner before being allowed to participate in future auctions?

     

    Denny

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    LOL does this look like a sprint tower? (img link)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Here is were the tower is supposedly according to the app but im not sure. its not showing on the google image but if you look at the pictures iv posted its clearly far enough back to be in that spot. i know though there is a tower in that area though because well what else did i connect to?

     

     

     

    It has been my experience that the tower location apps do not work well for cdma based networks. At least I have not found one that works.

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