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  1. mozamcrew
    So it looks like the Fargo area is pretty much 3G complete, any inside skinny on when LTE will be turned on? Are they waiting on Centurylink for the backhaul?
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    I have a simlar attitude. Sprint should take an incremental approach to expanding their coverage footprint, and not moving to cover vast new swaths of territory (They have enough expansion to do in MT and SD/ND to cover their PCS G buildout requirements). They should try to fill in gaps in their existing coverage areas and move slowly outward from them based which areas will provide the biggest reductions in roaming costs.
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    I thought the amateur radio guys killed it because of interference?
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    I'd guess another 5x5 of LTE first, then some EVDO or 1x carriers with the leftovers?
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    Yeah, I thought of that right after I asked the question.
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    I'm glad you got some coverage there! Did they add a site there, or is the coverage a result of improved range from NV?
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    Where is this one at?
  8. mozamcrew
    The frustrating part is being in a market where there just AREN'T any corporate stores unless you want to drive for 2 or more hours.
  9. mozamcrew
    You're right! My bad.
  10. mozamcrew
    Have you been involved in this tower work by chance?
  11. mozamcrew
    I plan on being up the Fargo area on Sept 7th and 8th. Hopefully it will all be working swimmingly by then!
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    I guess the question is how much benefit you get from going from 3 to 4 non overlapping channels. Surely there would be SOME benefit to having an additional channel. Maybe it's not the money (how much would that additional channel help with congestion at the cost of billions of dollars). But it would make our unlicenced band more like other countries, and it has the advantage of being usable by existing devices with a simple software update. Perhaps a spectrum swap is in order?
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    I thought channels 1,6, 11, and 14 were not overlapping using 20 Mhz channels (which is what 802.11g uses) N adds the option of doing 40 Mhz channels, but most of those are on the 5Ghz band since most multiband routers use 20Mhz channels on 2.4 for compatibility with older gear. So doing this would give you one more non overlapping channel (And most gear supports this since in most countries those channels are part of the unlicensed spectrum)
  14. mozamcrew
    How about the FCC buy back the spectum currently licensed for chanels 12-14 so we can use that spectrum like everyone else?
  15. mozamcrew
    Naturally, it's the loose customers they have the best chance of picking up .
  16. mozamcrew
    That's true, but Verizon and ATT have much farther to fall. If Sprint can have a competitive network and competative pricing, they will gain more customers than they loose.
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    Or you can steal customers from other carriers over time....
  18. mozamcrew
    Once Sprint is able to use the spectrum that USCC sold it (after USCC's network in the area gets shut down) its spectrum situation will improve dramatically in Chicago.
  19. mozamcrew
    No, the point is that comparing the speed of Sprint's LTE rollout to T-Mobile's LTE rollout isn't an apples to apples comparison. Sprint is doing it on nearly EVERY site (even their rural ones unlike TMO which is still 2G EDGE in like half of their territory), and they aren't just adding LTE, they are upgrading their 3G equipment as part of the process and running proper backhaul.
  20. mozamcrew
    On one hand I'm with you about the unlocking in general. But I also see why Sprint would want to force them onto Sprint devices. Sprint wants customers to buy devices that support all of its bands both because it's better for Sprint's network, and because it will improve the experience for the customer. There are plenty of cheep/free dumbphones they can get at no cost, and USCC hadn't rolled out LTE in those markets because they didn't have enough spectrum to do so. USCC customers shouldn't have to pay anything for their phones, unless they are upgrading from a dumb phone to something that now will be able to use LTE on Sprint.
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    I think that might be more of an artifact of some sites being legacy 1900 and the 800 sites all being network vision. The problem isn't with the frequencies themselves, but with the coordination between the basestations.
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    I wonder what the buildout requirements for WCS are?
  23. mozamcrew
    But as more 800 coverage rolls out, phones will tend to park on 800 since it's first in on the list and has equal priority to PCS. Once your phone starts parking on 800, it will keep doing it until you hit an area, like the IBEZ, where you don't have any 800 coverage, then it will look for PCS or roaming of some kind.
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    I don't think 800 is on a higher priority, It's just listed first on the PRL. So it's not going to jump from 1900 to 800 unless the 1900 signal gets too weak or it is forced in some other way to start from the top of the PRL and work down. Once you park on one frequency natively you will tend to stay on it until you are forced to jump back. If you are roaming it will periodically keep looking for a native signal, or at least a nonnative signal with a higher priority than your current one. My guess is eventually most Sprint phones will park on 800 to preserve battery, but will utilize PCS and BRS/EBS when they actually need a channel if the signal is strong enough.
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    I has it in MOST markets now with that purchase. You will see a giant hole in West Texas and also in the WY,MT, ND, SD area as well, though admittedly those areas probably don't have many areas where VZW is spectrum constrained to begin with. They could probably use Cell and PCS in those areas for LTE offload. I was trying to point out that the other carriers don't have 3 and 4 bands they can put LTE on yet. They have 1 (TMO) or two (ATT and VZW in most markets).
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