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    Why didn't Sprint jump for "5G"?

    in General Topics

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    Simple, I dont have 4 billion dollars, you folks don't get 5G.

     

    I don't need any of that $ for myself.

     

    In all honesty, 5th generation back haul is not really in place. 5th generation backhaul does exist, but won't be mature until 2020ish. Then for consumer side the spectrum is lacking, there will not be 100mhz wide channels, likely aggregates of 20mhz, which is still in testing.

    Sad changes at work

    in General Topics

    Posted

    At least everyone else's speeds will increase lol.

    For them slow data hasn't been the biggest deal killer. Even tethering (with a plan) my mother uses her laptop and iPad for email/webpages on the go as a realtor. Its the dropped calls and inability to place calls from inside brick homes that has sank the ship.

     

    I don't think they could be convinced to stay even if the service was Free at this point....

     

    We all know 800 MHz is just around the corner, but I think they had a sour taste from Sprint as their cell provider.

    Sprint Wireline Discussion

    in General Topics

    Posted

    He always goes off-topic.  I'm down to see these larger network speeds delivered to cities for their use to all of it's residents.  This level of speed could easily be utilized by a large city, or maybe by a small consortium of people at greater distance to the hub.

     

     

    You can fix that by blackmailing the local government officials with pictures of them holding a cat by it's tail.  That'll learns them.  But no really, your best bet to change the oligopoly is to inform the locals that your elected officials are not looking to save them money and allow competition.  My HOA is doing the same thing right now.

     

    Hmmmm, exactly my plan ;)

     

    Not so much "speed", but to bring large data center bandwidth into the cities.  It equates back to speed however, as this is BROADband we are talking about. 

     

    According to the person at the AT&T store across the street from my house, Comcast owns all the fiber in this area and has an aggressive ad campaign that has buried any reason for AT&T to invest in putting fiber down to support u-verse and their high speed Internet. As far as Verizon, they made a deal to offer Verizon wireless as a part of comcast's bundled services for a quadruple play home phone, cable, Internet and wireless deal to increase market dominance for Verizon wireless and Comcast both but as part of that, they can't compete with their own FiOS services. It seems besides cell service, there is little competition in the telco business overall.

    basically bull$hit..

    At that point, you yourself are more knowledgeable then the staff and their information is null.

    If you have found your way to the S4gru forum, you know more than anyone inside the retail store. 

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    NV Network Hand-offs LTE->eHRPD and eHRPD->LTE is it really seamless?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    For me, the success rate is about 50% for seamless handoff to eHRPD from LTE.  On both Verizon and Sprint.  It also seems to vary from vendor and device.  For instance, my Note 2 seems the worst at seamless handoffs.  The LGOG seemed to have a higher success rate.  Also, it seems Ericsson markets in Texas/Oklahoma/Missouri/Kansas were better for handoffs than Samsung was for me in Colorado.

     

    It's not an exact science.  It also depends on the application you are running during the handoff.  Some are more forgiving than others.

     

    So eHRPD allows seamless handoffs, it doesn't create an exacting condition to always have seamless handoffs.  It's much better than going straight to EVDO from LTE.  But it is a painful migration going from EVDO to LTE, and eHRPD only slightly lessens the pain.

     

    Soon with Triband and the onset of LTE 800, the drops to eHRPD are going to be less and less of an issue.  LTE 800 should have a slight propagation improvement over the best CDMA 1900.  So this problem will slowly go away.

     

    I do notice that transition from LTE to WCDMA on AT&T and Tmo has a higher success rate.  But it is not perfect either.  And don't ask me about a transition from LTE to EDGE.   :frantic:

     

    Robert

     

    The LTE to EDGE hand-off

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    Everything 800mhz (1xA, LTE, coverage, timeline, etc)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    There are all kinds of weird magical inconsistencies like this in the NV roll out - the only people who might know are the people doing the actual installs.

     

    Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4

     

    It isn't so much an inconsistency, it is chaotic however.  The only folks that have up to the minute answers are the executives of the company contracted to do installation.  Even then there is NO single person that has all answers even within a given market as so many variables exist, backhaul, permits, crew availability. If i called James or Brian up neither would give me a specific date as to when they would be out on it, the crews themselves may not even know where to report until 10 PM the night before. 

    You'd think that the markets would at least communicate about small details. Or do they not talk at all with each other?

    Markets don't communicate on the contractor level, Unless you have a contractor that has crews deployed over several markets.  

    Sprint Wireline Discussion

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Everyone. I can guarantee where I live that will never happen the road I live on is 2.5 mile's long with 3 house's and i'm at the far end the phone line on this road was put in around 1945.

     

    It may not be anytime soon.  One day though the fiber infrastructure will be available to EVERYBODY.

    Sprint Wireline Discussion

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    It is a lot easier to split nodes in a FTTH deployment than fixed wireless.

     

    If we had a big piece of spectrum south of 5 GHz, we could compete a lot better with cable.

     

    Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

     

    Do you have any 3GHZ licenses? 

    Sprint Wireline Discussion

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Well yeah that makes sense because isn't fixed LTE supposed to be capable of 1 Gbps? Also I meant your comment about FTTH being around the corner (hence why I bolded it).

     

    I have 2 mass deployment FTTH methods to test this year.  One of them is going to get picked. 

     

    Wireless speeds are capable of Gbps rates if you have the spectrum to do so.  My initial deployments will probably be between 80-140mbps. I should note however that even in 2 separate 20mhz TDD channels a heavy load will still drop the speeds for everyone on the sector. 

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