mozamcrew

Selling AWS the 700Mhz licenses would make sense, but they definitely should keep the cellular licenses.

State Trooper

What would make more sense is for TMUS to try and get 10x10 nationwide. If they can't do that, then you give up the most expensive markets first (probably urban markets where they already have dense AWS plus 700Mhz anyhow). If you can get the rest of the reserve in the market for very cheep, due to low competition, then you go ahead and get it. Basically, You buy 600Mhz for coverage first. And anywhere you get 10x10 or greater in 600Mhz, you go ahead and offer to sell the 700Mhz license to Sprint at a profit. I could totally see Sprint buying 700Mhz licenses down the road in parts of the western US to build out interstate/highway coverage. I'm sure ATT, or other smaller carriers like Cellcom, USCC, C-Spire, et al would be willing to buy some of the remaining licenses.

Sprint has some serious spectrum swapping opportunities in Chicago. They have lots of spectrum, but it's not even in two pieces, it's broken in three. Sprint originally was stuck with block D, block E, and block G, which are not neighboring at all, but then it got upper 2/3rds of the B block as part of the USCC divestiture, which is adjacent to block D. I think they should go to ATT and tell them they want to do a Spectrum swap. I want to trade the D block for the F block and cash. If ATT won't pay, then Sprint simply threatens to sell Block E to Verizon as its 3G traffic dwindles. That would give VZW a contiguous 10x10 of PCS to deploy in CHI. Which I'm sure they would appreciate as many devices would already support it and they sure could use the capacity. When ATT caves and does the deal, maybe agreeing to do the transition at the end of 2016 as CDMA PCS traffic begins to drop off, Sprint can turn around later and do a deal with VZW to swap the lower part of block B for block E and newly acquired block F. Of course since Sprint is giving up 10 Mhz of PCS in that deal, They would also get some additional remuneration as part of that deal as well. Maybe they can use some of that cash to get Verizon's little orphan 5x5 PCS block in San Francisco, which happens to be adjacent to block G, as part of the compensation. I'm guessing that it is presently used for CDMA. Verizon has no other PCS spectrum in that market, so it's not as useful to them. Hopefully they could get it for a reasonable cost.

If only it didn't move those speakers to the bottom. If you are going to keep the "black bar" then leave the speakers up there.

Cell receptor

Place mat

Sprint really needs to take a hard look at how all of its locations perform in terms of customer satisfaction, retention, sales, and from what areas they draw customers. There seems to be a great deal of variation in the quality of service, even among just the corporate stores, let alone partners and resellers. Then they can take a more targeted approach to which stores to close. They really need to go through market by market and take a good look, and not just randomly close places. With all the new Sprint shacks, they probably have over-expanded in some areas. If the Sprint shack is the better performing store, maybe close a poorly performing store near it. This kind of exercise is which each market should have a manger that oversees customer service within that area. That manager should also have direct feedback on network work being done in that market.

Safe Harbor

I don't think we will see LTE airaves. Wifi routers like the one that is available now from Sprint are simpler to set up and the equipment is less costly.

I think the assumption is that these data bucket users are in same family, so there is really one unit paying all the bills. But I see a lot of adult kids staying on mom and dads plan too, when really they should be on their own. But I guess as long at the parents don't want to kick them off or make them pay extra...

Bread basket

That's not quite correct. They don't have to prefund the next 75 years of retirement. What they were forced to do is switch to pay-as-you-go system, similar to social security where current revenue pays for the current retirees, to a pension-style system, where you have a pension fund that is required to be kept solvent 75 years into the futures, based on actuarial projections. The issue is the transition. Since the postal service didn't start out with a pension system, it is way behind and is being forced to make large payments to get caught up to where it is supposed to be. Is the catch-up timeline unrealistic? Maybe or maybe not. That's a question where there isn't a clearly right answer. If you make the catch up period too short, then you are placing undue financial stress on the current postal service and its employees in order to make up for past mistakes. If you make the period too long, then you allow the high risks of the pay-go retirement system to linger on longer than they should.

Though I disagree that nationalizing and effectively monopolizing telecommunications would be a good idea, (If we WERE going to monopolize telecom, then at least only have local monopolies. Preserve some competition by having competition between different localities.) I have a real problem with telecom and content companies being owned by the same company. The real solution isn't net neutrality regulation, it's to get ISP/telecom out of the content business. The reason we have issues of "net neutrality", particularly with cable companies, as ISPs, is that they also are selling content in the form of television. If ISPs were only in the ISP business, they wouldn't have the incentive to throttle your traffic outside of normal network management (especially if they were metering your traffic so that heavy users paid more). But when they are also in the content business, they have the incentive to manage their ISP business so as to protect their content business. Can telecom support 50 different providers in a region, like maybe the restaurant business. No, but there is a benefit to having even limited competition. Just the ability of new companies to enter (building FTTP instead of using existing cable let's say), benefits existing and potential customers.

I don't think that's right. http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/sprint-using-technology-kineto-taqua-new-wi-fi-calling-service/2014-02-24

Head Case

Dirty Bird

bad medicine

Indian summer

record highs

Stinky cheese

County seat

musical number

shaved ice

As always, make sure the SIM is securely inserted. Also, dumb question, you don't have the network mode set to CDMA only, do you? Do a profile update. That has fixed one time my M8 got hincky. If that doesn't work, I'd go ahead and call Sprint service and try and have them re-provision the line. Just my opinion. These are relatively quick to try and shouldn't erase/reset your phone.