Bob Newhart

I can 100% guarantee that the issues with TMo you were seeing in Espanola were due to insufficient backhaul. Sounds like TMo has two T1s powering that site.

yep, I have seen that too when I used Tmobile for a month. H+ was indicated on the phone, but no speed test ever went above 1Mbps, anytime of the day.

These cell companies can have all the spectrum in the world but if they don't have the towers correctly connected to a network, makes no difference.

I was in Royal City, WA the other day, where US Cellular has EVDO and LTE, and of course my phone only roamed '1x', such a shame.

In Felony Way I saw eHRPD on my phone, if that means anything.

One thing I miss from Gingerbread is the ability to turn off background data! I used to get nearly 3-5 days of battery life from my old Epic 4G Touch, but once it got its ICS update, my battery suffered greatly. I know you can turn off sync, but I'd still have to recharge nightly when before I didn't.

 

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You can disable background data in ICS/JB too.

You must enable a data limit, set it high if you want. Then select each application and disable background data for each application you want to.

Sent from my PC ---- sigs should be illegal, etc.

I had a LG G2x for a short while, completely buggy and LG never fixed it, that is why a lot of people stay away from LG, very poor support.

I wondered ... if we can we put a T-Mobile uSim that is using the $30 5GB pre-paid plan into a Nexus7-3G?

DirectTalk is a great feature of the iDen phones, maybe one day that will be on regular phones.

My guess is that the cell operators do not want that as a feature. It would be so handy for when we're not in the coverage area or on a cruse ship... or in the middle of nowhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOTO_Talk

I thought HSPA+ does both voice and data, where LTE currently only does data.

Does a HSPA+ signal have a better range than a LTE signal, like EVDO does?

What is the reason you have an airave if you have such good Sprint native signals?

This included in the Sero-P fee.

I'd use it for a few minutes before it got annoying and have to uninstall it.

I hate that WSJ makes you pay to view their articles....... and it still has ads

That is how printed newspapers are and how cable tv is, and why they're both dieing.

I do hope that this sprint-clear control buyout won't cause Sprint to go belly up.

Does anyone know why the cell phone market is a closed system in Japan? Is it forced by the government or a commercial reason.

When you go to Japan, you can't buy a SIM card like you can is most other countries, you have to rent one or rent a phone. Costs hundreds of dollars per week I hear. Norway is the same way, a little more open though.

I feel Nextel is a better than a name that sounds like a bank, a soft bank.

Okay. How many rural carriers do you seriously think are prepared to undertake that endeavor?

Who knows, some might. I just feel that large companies should be not be able to hang on to spectrum they might never use, ever.

Otherwise other carriers will never have a shot.

Even clearwire had to build the protection sites, which is a start.

Data itself is effectively unlimited. It can be created at will. But the means to convey that data is limited by physics and infrastructure.

 

I liken data to driving (if gasoline were free) and wireless data networks to highways. Highways can be continually built and widened only so much. At some point, the highway department has to say, "ENOUGH!"

The differences is that Sprint advertises unlimited, not limited. People should be free to use the phones as they see fit until their monthly plan changes.

The problem with the population growth being out of control, and highway usages. The road taxes started to be pilfered off for other none road uses.

I hope one day the US government says enough is enough on population growth instead of encouraging irresponsible reproduction by taxing the rest of us. People need to be educated more on many subjects.

We know with T-Mobile's network vision type project, they will be utilizing most all of their PCS and AWS spectrum in every market. Companies don't have to have the network built yesterday when they acquire spectrum. A company like T-Mobile will put any available spectrum they can to use as fast as possible.

 

I realize that NewCo will have some excess in certain markets like AJ's article shows, but I also expect them to have to sell that excess off to make for a much more fair and competitive spectrum landscape.

T-Mobile has nationwide licenses, real nationwide spectrum in every squ inch of the country. Look at their actual markets and coverage.

See this article here: http://www.tmonews.com/2012/10/what-will-a-t-mobile-metropcs-merger-look-like-on-a-spectrum-map/

See this image here: http://www.tmonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tmobilemetro3.png

Does T-Mobile actually serve even 35% of that area? No, they should be forced to release the spectrum to rural carriers, as should the other larger cell companies.

I really do hope that Sprint doesn't buy any company at all. They need to finish what they have started first.

I don't get the T-Mobile merger, neither company is actually using most of the spectrum they actually have. They should be forced to either use it or give it up.

I don't get why T-Mobile would buy (or merge) with MetroPCS, as it isn't even using the spectrum that is has allocated right now.

The same for Sprint's national licenses, they don't cover most over the areas they are allowed to.

The 'national' companies should be forces to return unused spectrum to the regional carriers. Grrrr

That is an exaggeration of my position, and you should know better. But many of you get rather defensive when I criticize constant, mindless use of cellular wireless data (streaming Pandora, etc.) because the shoe fits and, well, you are wearing it.

You do realise that a lot of us have a cell phone with a data plan specifically to stream mindless data such as pandora/spotify?

Speedtests use is for scientific purposes of course right?

I wonder what 'nationwide' actually means, as all the companies use that term.

Sprint does not have a xG nationwide coverage of any kind, no cell companies do.

Unless . . .

If I had a wifi AP in NY and another in LA, maybe I could advertise that I have a nationwide wifi network.

It would definitely be beneficial to both Sprint and Solinc if they cooperate on the buildout of an LTE network. They could also swap spectrum, Sprint's 900MHz for Solinc's 800Mhz.

What has Sprint done with their 900 Mhz spectrum? And how much do they have and where?

It is ok nocturnal, this forum is normal, its nice that it doesn't tolerate nastiness to each other and swearing.

Besides that, lots of good info here.

My non-SERO family plan with 25% discount for 2 phones was around $170... $54 per month is a huge difference when it comes to profit margins.

How does your plan come to that amount?

On a two line family plan, Everything Data Share 1500, with the 25% discount (off part of the first line), it is $122.49 before fees, taxes, pretend taxes.

The difference is $22.49, not huge. To be honest, T-Mobile will take up the Sprint drop offs if they raise their prices.

I have the SEROP-500 plans, not anything higher, most of my minutes are considered mobile to mobile, even though I know I call home/businesses, strange how they calculate minutes.

On top of that both Sprint and Verizon are projected to run out of spectrum in the next two years if they stand pat(and sprint has issues with clearwire). New spectrum cannot be manufactured. Once it is tapped out thats it.

As mentioned on this site, the spectrum isn't running out, its that the cell phone companies aren't building the cell towers close enough to each other. The more towers they have, the service area of each tower will be less. They point the radio antennas closer in. Look at Europe in the their large cities, they have cell towers in all manner of objects, people's house drain pipes, churches, lower power too.

I wonder how much data would be kept off the Sprint network if people stopped doing gigabytes of speedtests I wonder?