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I imagine that all 6 of the current 1x and EVDO carriers in the market will be moved into the B block spectrum. They can also fit one more carrier into the B block so I imagine that sites near capacity will get this 7th carrier. Probably add a second LTE carrier in the E block, but that requires a second LTE card in the base station, if it's not already installed, so that might take longer than simply moving the existing CDMA carriers.
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The only reason I can see to buy them is for the customers. They must know that a combined company will be required to make spectrum concessions, and as you said, I don't think Sprint wants to maintain two separate networks. Thus the only possible reason I see for acquiring TMUS is for the customers. IMHO it might be less expensive, although much slower, to grow organically, but I think that is the main motivation. I think Softbank would like a Sprint that is closer in size to the big two. If nothing else, it would mean better leverage when negotiating site leases, backhaul, and equipment. I'm sure there are also efficiencies to be gained by eliminating redundant site locations.
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Sprint currently can run 6 1xA/EVDO channels (3 each in the D and E blocks they currently have). Once the USCC network is shut down, Sprint can put up to 7 CDMA carriers (1xA or EVDO) into the B block spectrum formerly occupied by USCC. They gain an extra carrier by being able to straddle adjoining 5Mhz spectrum slices. I like an even swap of the D block for the F block, it's a win-win for both parties so their is no reason it should cost either party any money. Once that is done Sprint will have a 10x10 availble in the E & F blocks available for LTE. I'm not keen on paying Verizon to move out of the B block though, because it doesn't gain Sprint much of anything. If they merge with TMUS, then you just divest the B block eventually anyhow.
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Sprint announces 40 more cites for LTE
mozamcrew replied to ab30494's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
True, I just meant that the bakken formation that is getting all the attention right now is almost all in ND and MT. -
Sprint announces 40 more cites for LTE
mozamcrew replied to ab30494's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
Wrong Dakota! -
rain man
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That's what I did. I was on the Everything Data 450, moved to My Way since it was the same price but with unlimited minutes. Now I moved to Framily to save myself the $5 /month. I lose the phone subsidy, but I assumed that it would be going away before I was eligible for my upgrade next January anyhow. I'm planning to purchase a 32GB Nexus 5 this spring/summer once I start to see band 26 or band 41 in my market.
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Number of EVDO carriers per sector in the Chicago market?
mozamcrew replied to briank101's topic in General Topics
With LTE, the network can tell your phone to move to a different carrier so it can balance the load that way. In this way adding another carrier will improve network speeds. Simply moving users from a very congested carrier to a less congested one will improve the speeds for the users. Their THEORHETICAL top speed won't improve, but simply dividing up the load (not through aggregation, just moving some users to the other 5x5 carrier) will improve their real life performance. -
Wouldn't MIMO mean higher download speeds, relative to upload speeds, than the 3:2 time allocation (or spectrum allocation on FDD) might suggest?
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AFAIK, almost everything in the market that doesn't have LTE is waiting on backhaul. All the equipment is in because they are all 3G accepted, lots of places have 800Mhz too. I think GF is just far enough south that they should get 800?? It's close.
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To me there is little sense in divesting the EBS spectrum because it WON'T satisfy the FCC (there's a reason it's not included in the spectrum screen). If I thought that divesting down to about 100Mhz of EBS/BRS (from as much as 200Mhz in some markets) would allow them to keep 40-60Mhz more midband spectrum then it might be worth contemplating. IMHO, the relative value of higher frequency spectrum will increase over time as cell networks become more dense. Low frequency spectrum is important for economically covering large areas and in building signal. Frankly, Sprint only needs more of it because they don't have a full 7x7 of 800 or a 6x6 700Mhz block in every market nation wide. As cell networks get denser to deal with increasing data usage, the things that make 2.6Ghz spectrum less valuable (propagation) are suddenly an advantage, not a disadvantage.
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So share some of your savings with him....
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I certainly hope not! Sprint doesn't have the cash/spectrum to just give out like ATT.
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This is what I mean, the Carlson Family that owns most of it hasn't been interested in selling in the past. Maybe they will change their mind?
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I'd agree with you about them opening up to all phones in general, but we know that all Nexus 5 phones of this model are identical in their capabilities and should work just fine on the Sprint network. Google should give them a comprehensive list of all the MEIDs and let Sprint import them all into it's database.
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They are privately owned and they haven't been interested in selling.
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I don't get why everyone thinks they will divest the EBS spectrum. The CEO of Softbank has been Clear how important that band 41 is for him, both because of its urban capacity advantages and because it's a common band between Softbank and Sprint plus the Chinese carriers (and potentially those using the global band 38 as well). Also, doing so won't win them any points with the FCC since it was never counted against them in the spectrum screen. They aren't giving up their 800 Mhz spectrum either (or any of the 700Mhz spectrum TMoblie bought) for obvious reasons. Mark my words, they will end up divesting some combination AWS and PCS spectrum.
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Band 26 is a superset of band 5, so any Spint devices with band 26 should be able to use the USCC network just fine.
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There is no such thing as a 3G or 4G ping. Latency varies by the distance between the endpoints and the quality/congestion of the network between them.
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I know USCC has a bunch of 700Mhz A block spectrum, but I think they rolled out their LTE on band 26 (using their existing Cell spetrum). The combination of the lack of band 12 device support and the channel 51 interferance issues seem to be the cause.
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Verizon owns the upper 700Mhz C block nationwide (also called the 750Mhz band). They sold their Lower 700 Mhz spectrum to TMobile. Lower 700 is owned by a variety of carriers.
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You said you aren't getting any error messages when you try to connect to the network?
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I assume you are able to see the SSID of the library wireless? Does the wireless actually not connect, or do you simply not have internet access after you connect to the wifi? Also, is the access point open, or using some kind of authentication like WPA2/WPA/WEP? I'd bet the wireless access point is actually separate hardware from the router.
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This won't happen since Deutsche Telecom owns the T-Mobile brand. If Sprint bought them out they'd have to give up the use of the trademark eventually.
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There are lots of other MVNOs that use the Sprint network that aren't owned by Sprint. Also, they pay money for the use of the Virgin brand, so I can see why they might want to combine Boost and Virgin. Either they can kill the Virgin brand and move them all to Boost, or kill both of them and convert them to some new brand.
