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FirstNet designs it's RFP towards Verizon.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/analysts-still-backing-firstnetverizon-partnership-conspiracy-theory/2015-10-22

It is? Where did you see that?

On the Interactive Map in this forum.

Wait Washington public safety still has to reband? I thought we were just waiting for Canada now!

I think rebanding is the issue. Canada is almost cleared. 1X 800 is showing up in Seattle.

Washington has 800Mhz Rebanding problem. Public Safety 800 rebanding is way to slow in WA.   WADOT and Department of Correction are the offending agencies.

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/partners/region43/Default.htm

There next meeting just couple days away.

• Meeting date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
• Meeting time: 10 a.m. or Immediately following the 700 MHz RPC meeting.
• Meeting location: Sparling. Directions are available here.

The article clearly stated that it  "aimed at connected home devices", which mean low throughput is good enough. Using 900Mhz because low power consumption, I guess.

WiMax is still running nicely in my area but I noticed that FreedomPOP is not able to see the data being used, so essential it's FREE!.

 

I wish Sprint would have created a program for Clear brand customers to continue their service on LTE, limiting the speeds for a fixed monthly price.

That's what "karma go" here for. $50 unlimited LTE cap at 5Mbps

they also dropped the high speed data on the base plan from 2.5 gig to 1 gig. (not sure is this is new or not, i know it was 2.5 a few months ago)

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/data-messaging-plans/overview/

 

boost is still a better deal, so long as you pay your bill every month with auto pay, and don't stream alot of music.

http://www.boostmobile.com/shop/plans/monthly-phone-plans/

This change essentially raise the price of the plan

https://t.co/JNNU589Sfa looks like Tmo music freedom style plan comes to Virgin mobile

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Does Sprint has SMR buildout requirement in Alaska? I think they met the requirement in Nextel age.

Oops:  http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/judge-orders-sprint-not-shut-down-parts-wimax-network-90-days/2015-11-05

Judge orders Sprint not to shut down parts of WiMAX network for 90 days

Maybe you can reset the clock.

Maybe Sprint will also be an Internet Transit provider there.

Is there any carrier in the World is using DO Advanced?

I think that's pretty dope it that becomes to be true. With thy being said, I wonder how much scaling back (johns colorful personality) will the head make him do since it's no fire sale of the carrier?

 

 

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It does not need to be fire sale. If there are potential buyers, it would be easier for them to get a loan.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-dt-might-sell-t-mobile-netherlands-fund-t-mobile-us-600-mhz-purchase/2015-10-21

Report: DT might sell T-Mobile Netherlands to fund T-Mobile US' 600 MHz purchases

So, DT changed their mind and decided to focus on US?

dwnk,

 

Did you read the SEC filing?  The only parties they would have issue are the six that are mentioned on the filing that are executing licensees.  Mobile Citizen is not mentioned anywhere in the filing nor did the execute the filing.  Mobile Citizen does not have a basis to stand on.

 

I am willing to bet that Sprint has come to an agreement with the executing parties before the decision was made to shut down WiMax so again, Sprint is not breaking any leases.

Mobile Citizen/Voqal is just a d.b.a. owned by those foundations on the lease. The lawsuit is filled by those on the lease not mobile citizen.

Sprint does not have to assume responsibility for Clearwire's contracts and keep WiMax running.  What Clearwire signed for independently from Sprint and what Sprint accepted for terms with their contracts with Clearwire are two different items.  You see this happen in the corporate world all of the time when companies merge, are bought out or fail.

 

With the FCC, Sprint is replacing WiMax with b41 which is an alternative and in reality, a better system.  If Sprint were to shutdown WiMax without any replacement, there may be an argument with the FCC but that is not the case.  All Mobile Citizen is looking for is unlimited data that is not throttled.  Today, that is not going to happen.

 

I agree with S4GRU.  Mobile Citizen is grasping for anything to keep themselves viable.  Unfortunately, they will become a distant memory like Blockbuster, Circuit City and others...

A lease is a lease. Sprint has the option of either to break the lease and return the spectrum or assume the liability/privilege under the lease. 

I am not interested in the game. Best option for Sprint may be to break the lease. I have not figure out if there are any penalties associate with termination. Additional question will be if that will create trouble for other EBS lease renewal negotiation in areas Sprint does not have BRS.

I saw some of Mobile Citizen's reseller already start to sell T-mobile's product.

Sprint may have to give certain access for education use. But they can tell Mobile Citizen to go straight to hell and offer service directly to those required. And the harder Mobile Citizen pushes, the more likely Sprint will work out a solution without them. Sprint will work this out, as required. But Mobile Citizen may not like the result.

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I think Sprint is referring to those T1 backhauls.

And this is where it gets interesting because Clearwire and Wimax are 1) no longer a company and 2) soon to be a non-operating technology in the ....

You really need to read the origional lease aggreement between Clear and the spectrum license holder http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1285551/000089102007000003/v25599a1exv10w59.txt

When Sprint purchase Clearwire, it must assume the liability. So, Clearwire no longer a company doesn't matter. And the origional offering to license holder only says "free account". It is not specifically tie to WiMax. It also specify how much capacity they will get down to each sector. However, I don't think Clearwire really enforce those capacity limit. 

If you know how Mobile Citizen sell its service, they require you to purchase modem at almost full price. I don't think money for new moden is at the issue. They are going after unlimited data.

"In addition, Sprint should stop throttling their Internet service. America’s students cannot succeed if they are in the slow lane."

 

And the students and these group of people are using it for "Educational purposes" right? not Streaming Netflix and playing CoD

 

What's holding back Sprint from providing Unlimited B41 data?

The data provided in the lawsuit says majority of user were around 35G per month. That amount of data for whole school wasn't huge.  The 6G limit mean they could only issue the service to individuals not for an organization. It is reasonable that a school would easily hit that limit pretty soon even without Netflix.

I have post some excerpt of their spectrum leasing agreement with Clear earlier on the post.

What's holding back Sprint from providing unlimited B41 data is money. Sprint is contractual obligated to provide them cost-free educational account. By limited the data they could use, it served as a cost saving measure.

I would like to see the terms of the contract.

 

One, it was probably inked by Clearwire, not Sprint.  Two, it was ostensibly a charitable act by Clearwire.  Three, it sounds as if Clearwire gave away a certain number of incredibly low cost, maybe even free accounts to these non profit middlemen to redistribute through charitable organizations.  Four, the accounts may be for "unlimited" WiMAX data and cost users only around $10 per month.

 

If accurate and the non profit middlemen or charitable organizations think that they should get the same low cost or even free accounts on "unlimited" LTE data, that is not happening.  They can go jump in any one of the 10,000 lakes in Minnesota.

 

AJ

In the case of Mobile Citizen, they own some EBS spectrum and it was leasing the spectrum to Sprint. FCC rule requires 5% reservation on EBS for educational purpose. So Clearwire is giving them educational free accounts to comply that 5% reservation rule.

And Mobile Citizen is asking FCC to intervene http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001300834

Here are some experts from the leasing agreement filed by Clear to SEC:

"

          ( Initially, Clearwire shall provide Licensees [***] Cost-FreeEducational Account per Cell Site per Market Area (each a "Basic Cost-FreeEducation Account"). The number of Cost-Free Educational Accounts shall beadjusted upward every [***] proportionate to the growth of the overall datacapacity of Clearwire's network in the Market Area where the EBS system islocated. The growth (if any) in the overall data capacity shall be determined asset forth in Section 8.02(c) hereof.

[...]

 (ii) Educational End Users. Cost-Free Educational Accounts shallbe exclusively for Educational End Users and not for resale, assignment ortransfer by a Licensee outside of its Educational End User environment or topersons who cease to be officially associated with such Educational End User.(By way of example, a university may resell the service to its students,faculty, administrators and staff, while such persons are involved with theuniversity, but shall cease to provide the service if a member of the facultyterminates employment or a student graduates and ceases to be involved inuniversity matters.)

[...]

 Section 3.05. Licensee MVNO.          (a) In addition to the right to Cost-Free Educational Accounts,Licensees shall have the right to resell the Clearwire service in the form ofMVNO Educational Accounts to additional Educational End Users in each MarketArea for use on the Clearwire National Platform. An "MVNO Educational Account"shall have the identical characteristics as a Cost-Free Educational Accountunder Section 3.02(, except that there shall be a charge to Licensee asdetermined pursuant to this Section 3.05. Clearwire shall sell to Licensees suchservices, at a cost equal to [***] provided by Clearwire to an arms-length thirdparty in[*** Confidential Treatment Requested]such Market Area or other comparable market pursuant to any applicableagreement. However, the number of MVNO Educational Accounts is limited in eachMarket Area to [***] the number of Cost-Free Educational Accounts for thatMarket Area.

"

I am using my Nexus 5 with RingPlus, the MVNO. I notice a wired sitution. I was never be able to get on eHRDP. However, I could get LTE without problem.  Each time, when I drop off LTE, phone will try to connect to eHRDP and failed back to EV-DO. Where is the problem?

For the simple explanation, the Airave makes an IP connection to your MSC (i.e. "switch"), which is likely within ~100 miles of your billing address. Your MSC, not your handset, is the home location of your phone number. No matter where you are in the world, all incoming calls to your phone number are originally directed to your MSC.

 

AJ

I think that's relative to your area code not billing address.

Correction. That is rel 11

 

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So, you can have different release for different band? Is there a list of what version each carrier use? How do we know if they upgraded? Any way to verify on the handset?

Which LTE version is on B41? They was able to do CA on B41