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mozamcrew

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  1. Sprint can't let TMUS get USCC. However, they could agree to divest USCC's 700Mhz spectrum if they bought them. That would certainly ease the financial pain. And the 700Mhz is owned by King Street anyhow, so it would be easy to separate that business out.
  2. Frankly, if you have decent wifi in the house, I think that is preferable over the AirRave. Of course, that only works with newish smartphones.
  3. Well, I'll be up in Mandan, ND this weekend. If anything has changed, I'll let you all know.
  4. Frankly, depending on what the spectrum costs, and the need to densify for capacity anyhow, it may make more sense to just densify the network rather than buying more and more spectrum. I get the impression that Sprint will only bid if the prices are right. They, unlike T-Mobile, have < 1Ghz spectrum in pretty much all markets.
  5. Can't answer the Georgia question, but true RRPP partners have to build out a Sprint compatible network. However, some CCA members than have opened up roaming to Sprint aren't a part of the RRPP per say, they just signed onto the CCA roaming hub. The roaming hub creates a market for roaming that doesn't require carriers to all do individual roaming deals with each other.
  6. Yeah, but you can add a lot of DSLAMs for the cost of ripping out existing copper lines and running fiber. Certainly if you were laying down new lines, then yes, fiber makes more sense, but we are talking about companies with lots of existing money spend on their infrastructure. The point is that you CAN provide decent speeds over DSL, you just need to have enough DSLAMs.
  7. Band 17 is just a subset of Band 12, and supporting band 17 means they can sell this model to ATT as well.
  8. SRT was mentioned in the initial presentation in march, which would be in the Minot area. But I haven't heard anything new on Sprint and ND coverage recently. I'll be out in the Bismarck area in mid August, so we'll see if anything is shaking then.
  9. Oh, I realize that CDMA on PCS won't be going away until the 2020s. But it's nice to think that we will be getting an improvement in cell edge performance, speed, and capacity once that happens.
  10. Once Sprint transitions PCS to LTE only, they should be able to do higher order MIMO then with the existing equipment then? If so, that would be a significant improvement in reception, speed, and capacity!
  11. Just because they SHOULDN'T doesn't mean they won't. Sacrificing usable coverage for some addition speed on a speed test seems like typical "Data Strong" marketing. Consistency is much more important than having the fasted peak speed, IMHO.
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