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If anyone in Tulsa is near the Woodland hills mall, grab a pic of the site next to the 71st street fire station west of Memorial. My 14 year old brother reported to me that it has received NV upgrades but a picture & adult validity would help get it put on the map. 

-Will

You don't understand my question. Read carefully. A Sprint and Clearwire site is on the same tower. This tower right now is a Wimax protection site that is likely to get a TD LTE upgrade because of the deal sprint made to take down the old equipment. There is another part of the tower where Sprint has already done a LTE upgrade. Since clearwire sites will likely be upgraded to TD LTE sites and Sprint sites will also get LTE sites this means that technically there will be 2 clearwire parts each on a 20 mhz frequency. My question was will sprint upgrade both with the 2 separate 20mhz frequencies or will Sprint only upgrade the protection site part of the tower and only put 800 and 1900 LTE on the sprint part of the tower since the protection site is already broadcasting TD LTE on 20mhz?

My answer stands.

-Will

So that tower would get 2 different carriers of 20 mhz td lte?

-Will

Believe me it won't all be done by then.  There will be delays.  You are way underestimating the scale of LTE 2600.  I don't get why this is such a big deal to you.  If Sprint finished everything by Dec 31, 2015 is that a big deal?  It doesn't need to be 100% complete to be able to be the main band but given that NV 1.0 is scheduled to be complete by mid year 2014 even at that point its a bit aggressive to complete the nationwide LTE 2600 network in half a year.  Right now the ALU, Ericcson and Samsung teams are focusing on building NV 1.0 sites and launching CDMA 800/LTE 800.  It doesn't work in the ideal way you are imagining for a NV site where inspection teams come in and approve the launch of LTE 800, CDMA 800, LTE 1900, CDMA 1900, LTE 2600 all at once.  The reality is that a NV site is approved in pieces.

 

We are straying away from the topic of PCS H block so lets get back to that.

No it isn't, Once Sprint has backhaul everywhere, watch out.  

-Will

In some markets but not all.  Its still going to take some time.  I am thinking more like 2015.  If Sprint had all 39K sites completed with NV equipment and fiber backhaul supplied each tower...then yes its a possibility but still very unlikely.  Remember its going to take way more than the 39K sites to provide nationwide LTE 2600.  That is why they hinted 39K sites + Clearwire sites + additional sites to fill in gaps.   I highlighted that its more than just a flip of a switch to install LTE 2600 on non co-located Sprint sites.

 

You will see LTE 800 deployed more widely deployed in 2014 than you will with LTE 2600.

By year 2015 January 1 it had better be done & on the way with a few new bands.

-Will

Well we will have to see what Sprint ultimately does.  I highly doubt that not too long ago Dan Hesse was begging the FCC to hurry up and set up an auction for the H block only to have Dish Network take over.  I think we are just assuming that Dish is only out for blood to get revenge at Softbank for outbidding them for both Sprint and Clearwire which I think is very childish.  Other than that do we honestly believe that Dish has any real need for the H block?  Dish has to worry about deploying their S-band spectrum as well as their 700 MHz E-block spectrum and they are probably going to be bidding on the 600 MHz spectrum anyways.  With Dish I have no idea what their LTE deployment plan is for the next 2-3 years and as much as AT&T/Verizon buy up spectrum; at least I know that AT&T/Verizon have the means to deploy it.  I mean sure Sprint may or may not need the H block but I think we can all agree that Sprint can make use of the H block to add an additional 5x5 LTE carrier.  I wouldn't call spending money to get 10 MHz of spectrum that is contiguous with the G block a waste of money.  Softbank and Sprint have already announced huge capex spending of 16 billion for the next 2 years and ever after the next 2 years the capex spending will still be about 6 billion a year.  Softbank is not in the mood to save money because they know that time is money and they have a long long road to catch up to Big 2.

 

Also I think you are underestimating how quickly LTE 2600 will be deployed.  Yes it will be faster to overlay LTE 2600 once backhaul is in place for the majority of the 39K Sprint sites since that is the largest bottleneck in NV 1.0, but it will still take a long time to do this on a nationwide scale because of permits and new equipment need to be installed at the top of towers.  For non co-located Sprint/Clearwire sites, Sprint will need to install a 2500 MHz panel and 2500 MHz RRU for each sector.  I wouldn't count on LTE 2600 as being the main Sprint LTE band for many years to come.

Wrong, Sprint will have 2600 MHz as a main band this time next year. 

-Will

I have a good question. If I have a Wimax protection site that just so happens to be on a sprint nv tower and lets say they converted it to TD LTE. Would they skip the network vision 2600 on the nv tower and just put it one the clearwire part or will both get it?

Your site will get band 25,26&41. 

-Will

Are you rolling your eyes at me?  I am the Grand Wizard of the white power LG G2 wireless nerd klan.  We will put a burning cell tower in your yard. AJ

As long as my TD- LTE is burning hot in 40MHz flavor I will not object, and I make no disrespect in the way of Grand Master.

-Will

I think some may need a photo to catch my drift...

 

 

AJ

-Will

The surprising part is that Dan likes to sharpshoot from the perimeter, while Son likes to dominate in the low post.  You think it would be just the opposite.

 

AJ

No, I always eyed Dan as the sharpshooter.

-Will

Hand in marriage...AJ

-Will

Does this have anything to do with PCS H or will Sprint not going to need PCS H after they talk to you?

Nothing to do with PCS, but they may not. Their response is an unknown.

-Will

And who would be knocking on the door?

-Will

Sprint is going to get a knock on the door in the next few weeks. 

-Will

And just before HTC sells out they can promise that 3rd Time is the charm for the HTCthree 

I wouldn't let the lack of split screen run you off from this device, If you wear some Gigantor jeans & can fit this in your pocket you may be a suitable candidate to carry the max. 

-Will

The Grand Dragon is also the Grand Wizard. You do not question -- unless you are one if those who supports phone miscegenation.

 

AJ

I did not question your skills Master AJ-WWAN, I do not discriminate against phone co-mingling.

However, once you go black you come running back (finger prints).

-Will 

You do not question the "purity" of the Grand Dragon.

 

AJ

When we met I saw no fire.

-Will

I bought out my Sprint contract for early upgrade eligibility, then used my Best Buy Reward Zone Premier Silver certificates to go with the klan of white G2 pre orders.  White power!

 

 

AJ

Are you pure enough for the White one? 

Next month my Verizon contract is up so it's decision time.

I was hopeful of ditching dual service and going only with Sprint to save money.

Unfortunately Sprint just isn't good enough yet, an LTE/800MHz voice tower (SE 44th & Sooner Rd. in Del City) just a mile away from my gym is unusable inside.  Verizon works well. 

Since the mobile isn't allowed in the office it's real important to me that I catch up on things while in the gym during lunch.

Maybe 800 MHz LTE (which we should get in a couple of years?) will help and I can kick the Verizon habit. 

We better have 800MHz LTE in Oklahoma within 90 days. 

You can have the Model G2 in any color -- so long as it is black.

 

AJ

AJ Ford

Am i the "crazy" guy that will be satisfied with the Quick window case mine comes with?

SoftBank? NSN? Ericsson? One of those three, I guess. 

Softbank+Eon could deploy VoLTE for Sprint.  As for NSN or Ericsson it could be either of the two, or neither. 

-Will

The future here is voice over IP standards like VoLTE. Sprint and SoftBank can standardize on those... though, to be fair, if Sprint can accelerate VoLTE deployment, they can free up enough bandwidth that they could later add UMTS channels if they wished. 

 

It would send the CDMA network to hell but them's the breaks. If SoftBank wants to do it, then it's going to happen. The CDMA forever crowd will be sad, as will the lockdown hawks, but oh well. 

Oh but who could deploy a VoLTE network for Sprint 

-Will

The headphone jack is going to be on the top.  Pow!

 

I'm psyched!

 

All I'm saying is that they should have a priority line for people who already have the HTC One.

 

AJ

This is Phablet of the year, especially if you are going to use it on Sprint.  

-Will

But are you pure enough to use a white phone?

 

 

AJ

No, but I don't want another black phone.