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

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    Cool. Correct me if I am wrong but this will be the first massive network plan under Marcelo?

     

    And people said that SoftBank is not standing behind sprint.

     

     

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    I do believe so. I mean Marcelo came in during the NV upgrade but he has been the one to finish it, not start and implement it. I see good things with this.

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

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    Why are we talking about Sprint not bidding on 600? Because their CFO said they might not. AT&T and VZW said they might not also. Each one of them is throwing a tantrum regarding FCC rules and trying to exert some pressure. Masa will donwhat he wants to do with his money. He has the money to bid in 600 if he so chooses.

     

    My guess is Sprint will hunt down a 5x5 600 piece in markets that one 5x5 B26 carrier will not be enough for VoLTE and fallback data. And that's the minimum of what they need.

     

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    While I hope they do the minimum and am expecting them too, I also hope they would consider a 10X10 chunk for helping in the future expansion of the network.

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

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    They're not budging on the rules because the current owners of the 600Mhz spectrum want as much as they can get out of it.  If they limit a chunk of it to smaller competitors, there's no way they'll get as much. 

     

    AT&T no doubt will gobble up as much as they can.  T-Mobile is very dependent on this auction to sustain their growth for the long run.  Verizon will likely just purchase extra in areas that need a bit more bandwidth and I have no idea what Sprint's going to do.

    I agree AT&T will buy as much as they can. I also think Verizon will do the same. The other entity that may be interesting is if Dish is allowed to bid in this auction. They would definitely buy as much as they can. 

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

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    This is not good news...

     

    Sprint CEO says unlimited data plans won't stay around forever

     

     

    http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/27/8675159/sprint-unlimited-data-plans-not-forever-ceo-says

     

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    I'm okay with that. Unlimited can tend to congest the network with heavy data users. As long as they have good data plans I think everything would work out fine, say like a 50gb plan for X amount.

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