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They definitely don't want Sprint Spark near those labs!!

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http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/bent_flyvbjerg.html For those that are wondering what utiz is talking about...

Frankly I'd rather they focus on battery life, camera quality, display quality and price before they even thing about a 4k display. I'd take a really good quality 720p display over a mediocre 1080p display, at least on phone-sized screens.

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Starting at about 5" screens and larger, you do notice a quality improvement going from 720p to 1080p, when viewed from a typical distance for a mobile device. For screens smaller than that, 720p is sufficient IMHO. Frankly, given the typical viewing distance for TV, MOST people won't be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4k (UHD), unless they have one of the larger 55-60" displays.

Alright! Another fellow EconTalk podcast listener.

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I think this is just an error with their system. As you said, up until recently this showed as roaming and not native coverage. It appears the billing/accounting system hasn't caught up to the fact that inland cellular is no longer roaming.

The time for a merger was before TMUS made all their upgrades and bought AWS3 spectrum. I just can't see it making financial sense now, even if the political winds change. The window for that has passed for the next 4-5 years. Frankly, unless Dish decides to enter the market as a 5th carrier (or does it in combination with Google), I don't see the FCC letting any of the big 4 merge. The only way we get to three will be if one goes bankrupt. I predict Sprint WILL participate in the 600 Mhz auctions with its partners (Shentel, RRPP), unless the FCC decides to completely neuter the reserved spectrum requirements. I think this talk from big E is just Sprint making it clear that it can't and won't pay the "arm and a leg" prices you just saw in the AWS3 auctions. The more expensive the 600Mhz spectrum becomes, the less it becomes economically advantageous versus increasing your site density. The economics of this will vary from market to market. In places where the RRPP partner has the 700Mhz A block license, plus the 5x5 band 26 spectrum from Sprint, I can actually see them not willing to pay much at all.

Probably because you've disabled the GPS?

It makes perfect sense to me. The selling point of being a Sprint customer, or any carrier that isn't an MVNO, is basically two things, the availability of off network roaming and the price/GB of additional data. The logical niche for MVNOs is to have lower upfront costs, but make up the balance by making their money on marking up the data that their customers DO use.

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Well, hopefully they will soon have native coverage in Billings....

If you are using wifi calling on an android device, your text messages will also be sent over the wifi link. In fact, when in wifi calling, my phone completely disables the cellular radio, probably to save battery. This is not the case on iPhones however. I'm not sure why this is, but that seems to be the consensus. The iPhone implementation of wifi calling is different somehow.