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The major cause of Meth Lab fires is  RF signals so lets supply them with as much RF radiation as possible, then the Meth problem is solved.

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

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It really is one of the best podcasts out there, especially if you have a background in economics.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/bent_flyvbjerg.html

 For those that are wondering what utiz is talking about...

I don't see it being common. Look at HTC and Apple, both opted for a 1080p display on their flagship phones instead of bumping it up. Both displays look amazing, higher resolution isn't necessarily better. Think of all that extra GPU power required to power that display, and the larger battery needed to accommodate the higher power requirements.

 

For some of the high power users, what are you doing to use that much mobile data? I'm not trying to call anyone out, but I just want to understand how you are using that much data in a manner that does not violate the terms of service. I still don't see it being possible to average that much data use unless you don't have a home ISP or travel for work (business, trucking etc).

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.

I just listen to a podcast that explains mega project often take longer, cost more and have fewer benefits than are forecasted. A mega project being one that cost more than 1 billion and effects more than one million people. I think Network Vision fell victim to over ambition and under delivering. This has cost sprint a lot in terms of brand and it is going to take years to recover.

Alright! Another fellow EconTalk podcast listener.

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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could explain this to me. Inland Cellular is a CCA partner with Sprint and for the six months when I was in their network area, my phone would say "3G Extended" and it would count against my roaming cap. I understand this. This weekend I was in their area again and now it says "3G Sprint". I was out most weekend and I received the text saying I was over my roaming cap. This is very underhanded to say "Sprint" even though I was roaming and it going against the cap. The sprint rep just said check the area. That is fine unless I am on a fringe area, of which we have many around here. Anyone have any other information on this?

Thanks, Doug

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?

Google has decided to use both Sprint's network and T-Mobile's network, yet they price the data so high, purposely aiming their service to people who mainly use wifi. So, it doesn't end up making much sense. Why bother using two wireless networks together to create one really awesome network system for Google's service, when they are trying to limit the usage of that system, in favor of using wifi? The per gb data pricing is more expensive than Verizon's promotional per gb data pricing together with the 1st line included overall. 

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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Nice that they snuck billings airport in there. Any other airport that they don't have native coverage in?

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

Does Wi-Fi help with text messaging?

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.