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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    5 minutes ago, tyroned3222 said:

    Not yet, these upgrades are very recent the sites have not gone live yet with b41... Sprint is doing 5 upgrades less then a week that's pretty impressive

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    wow that's not bad at all. They might be doing a cluster launch. I'm just glad to hear that Sprint is full steam ahead as if the merger wasn't on the table. 

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    4 minutes ago, greenbastard said:

    I know $200 miilion was chump change in the grand scheme of Capital Expenditure costs, but that money could have prevented some of the layoffs Sprint saw at HQ.

    The worst part about the Sprint+Tidal cross promotion was that it was a huge missed opportunity by Sprint. Sprint gave away 6 months free at one point to anyone who used the code "Sprint". And the Jay-Z album release promotion was even worse. I remember reading the T-Mobile Reddit and people were gloating about getting the album for free without being a Sprint customer. Considering T-Mobile locks down their T-Mobile Tuesday giveaways, this was a bit infuriating. It was a botched opportunity by Sprint to reward its loyal customers. Sprint buying up all those album copies was the only reason Jay-Z broke digital album sale records those first few weeks.

    Just a huge SMH moment at Sprint.

    Are you shocked the T-Mobile Reddit was going crazy about getting a free album? They love free handouts.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    41 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

    Honestly, Sprint’s Tidal investment was a waste of $200 Million with very limited upside. I don’t understand why they did this. There’s too much competition in Music steaming and Tidal isn’t even on the radar vs Apple Music, etc.

     

    I see this as Sprint was getting on board with the low hanging fruit in the music streaming world. I have to wonder how many people kept Tidal after the 6 month trial.  From the looks of things, not too many. The service has about 1 million subs. To this day, I still feel as though Tidal wrote so many people off with their press conference with all those millionaire artists on stage practically crying about they aren’t making the money they should from streaming services.  Then they tried to clean it up saying Tidal is about the indie artist as well. If they would’ve kept the message of the indie artist, they would’ve have more subs to this day. Sprint please bring back Spotify they had a good thing with them. 

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    6 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

    Marcelo just confirmed that Capex guidance will continue as planned. No cut backs due to merger.

    Well that’s nice to hear. Working on Plan B in case A falls through. Let’s just hope that statement with still working on the network with the stated amount isn’t just bluff. I guess next quarter after this quarter is up we will see how much they’ve spent thus far and if they lower spending. 

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    29 minutes ago, dnicekid said:

    Son just wanted out.  I keep hearing about debt, if Sprint has 34billion and vzw $120bil in debt what’s the problem? Sprint has the spectrum to get better whereas vzw can only buy more then deploy.  My point is in comparison they all have about the same amount of debt in relation to the size of their companies. -Son just wanted out because it’s a long term investment not a quick turnaround in the American market like he thought.

    I think Son wanted in the US market and got the long hanging fruit. I don’t think he did enough research into what he was buying into. 

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    5 minutes ago, Swordfish said:

    I have sprint. Will I eventually be able to buy a one plus phone and use it on the new network? What happens to people with unlimited data plans on sprint? 

    Either we get to keep our plans or we’ll have to convert over to whatever plan that T-Mobile offers. However, there’s no reason for the new company not offer unlimited. They’ll have more spectrum than what they need. 

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    5 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

    Well I really hope it produces some type of tangible results in terms of the actual merger. Like I want to see a network that can keep up with Verizon let alone AT&T.

    Hell it better. That I can agree on. 

     

    3 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

    Even with the merger, the resulting company only will have 59M postpaid customers out of 127M. The new company will still have to compete on price for a while to snitch some postpaid customers.

    Wow! 

    Network Mapping

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    1 minute ago, RedSpark said:

    Seems like it. I’m seeing many more speed tested hexes for T-Mobile vs Sprint in the Rootmetrics App.

    Is this Map Layer updated as part of Rootmetrics drive testing?

    It is like the hardcore TMO users hang onto how fast something is to validate their decision as to why they are on T-mobile.

    The Map Layer? That I'm not sure of.

    Network Mapping

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    On 4/24/2018 at 10:39 AM, RedSpark said:

    No one seems to be using Sensorly for Speed Tests in DC. Seems like a ghost town. I used it for a while, but now I’ve been mapping a bunch using the Rootmetrics App.

    I am amazed at the huge Map difference between T-Mobile and Sprint on the “Fastest Speed Found” Map Layer in the Rootmetrics App.

    What explains the difference? Does T-Mobile send out people to Speed Test? Do T-Mobile users Speed Test more frequently in the Rootmetrics App? I always thought that Legere didn’t like Rootmetrics.

    From what I noticed, TMO subs well the ones who bleed magenta are constantly mashing away at the button on whatever speedtest app. 

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    12 minutes ago, tyroned3222 said:

    Verizon uses these same panels in my area at higher populated Venus's. I was told those are sector splits for Verizon .. each sector pointing/ a serving a different area.

    That's for the bottom site .. middle looks like a TMO set up with band 4, 2,12 .. top I can't tell

     

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    The top is Sprint. 

    That tower is a cross the street from a mall. There’s a crap load of other things in the area including a IKEA and a Top Golf that’s going to open in the fall. 

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