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  1. On 5/24/2020 at 1:41 AM, belusnecropolis said:

    I utilized all of the scrap furniture in my lab and amalgamated it onto a frankenpole until I get my fresh new one built. Say hello to the TrashMonster™ 5G Edition.

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    TrashMonster™ works hard, TrashMonster™ plays hard. 

    I am still working with the Quectel RM500Q-GL. I have been on midband(1.7-2.7 antenna for the last few weeks since getting stuff is a pain right now, so no 5G quite yet at the homestead . .  hopefully until today :) I just got my 2kUSD order of 4x MiMo wideband antennas and routers in today! 

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    Super pumped to get this going. 

    I have an Fibocom 5G card coming around Wednesday, and a pile of Quectel radios coming in June.

    So far the only routers capable of taking this thicc 5G form factor modem are the ZBT WG1608 which I will also have a few of in June. It is basically a beefed up WG3526.  

    The H721 m2m v3 that I am working with is good so far, really good for a prototype. I am hoping that one gets into production soon since I like the modular mPCIe slots for adding or removing WIFi, and it also supports dual sim/dual radios. I have yet to explore this but I intend to soon. Waiting for my pile of TelitLM960's to get here.

    Anyhoo, I have a busy month of building stuffs ahead. I hope everyone here has a great weekend and gets a good laugh out of my developer edition pole. Stay 🇺🇸 free 🇺🇸 out there folks!

    Nice! :o 

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  2. 8 hours ago, IrwinshereAgain said:

    TMobile updated my LG G7 ThinQ to Android 10 today.  Pretty large update, but it downloaded and updated pretty fast.

    Looks good so far.

    Hopefully the update comes to Sprint soon.

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  3. SoftBank is selling part of its T-Mobile stake in a secondary offering

    • SoftBank is selling part of its stake in T-Mobile through a secondary offering
    • Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs will underwrite the offering
    • The secondary offering is in addition to the sale to T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/softbank-is-selling-part-of-its-t-mobile-stake-in-a-secondary-offering.html

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  4. 2 hours ago, dro1984 said:

    Rather than all the "could have been.... should have been"  talk ... guys... .... It's over.  We can vent and take our frustrations out on Masa and his side kick Marcelo until the cows come home.   It's a waste of energy.    

       Welcome to the New T-Mobile! 

    What I want to know if the S4GRU members in New York City and Philadelphia, are you guys seeing more sites come on line?     The deployment was scattered, but are you seeing things fill in?         Wonder when all the old Sprint cell sites will be relabeled "T-Mobile" on our phones?   

    False.  There are entire schools and programs dedicated to studying and discussing the past so that the same mistakes are not repeated in business, management, and technology.

    We can then take those lessons learned when we have future decisions to make as a consumer or possibly as a leader when we see similar situations down the road.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

    I hope there is no significant delay (again) by DISH.  The Federal Reserve and other central banks have pumped trillions of dollars into the markets this past month in order to provide liquidity.  My expectation as a tax-paying citizen is that the point of all that money is to ensure continuance of capital investments such as building out America's 5G infrastructure.

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  6. 28 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

    For people worried about Shentel with respect to this merger, I found an old article from when the merger was first proposed:

    "Specifically, the analysts at Macquarie Research wrote that the proposed Sprint and T-Mobile merger “could lead to one of several positive outcomes: 1) New T-Mobile could buy Shentel’s wireless business; 2) Shentel could buy T-Mobile’s subs in its footprint at 75% of their value with financing help from New T-Mobile (if needed); or 3) T-Mobile would have to turn off the competing network; with this, Shentel would get rid of a competitor and gain access to T-Mobile’s spectrum. For the right deal, including the purchase of T-Mobile’s subs, we expect management could take leverage up to 4.5x.”"

    https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/shentel-carrier-at-crossroads-sprint-and-t-mobile-merger

    Good.  I bought shares in Shentel (SHEN) and US Cellular (USM) a year or two ago when their stock prices went down.  Waiting for a business consolidation event that causes their value to double or more.

  7. 12 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

    Those people that think that T-Mobile does not need to offer attractive offers to upgrade the handsets just imagine what kind of offers AT&T and Verizon will start offering to Sprint customers. A brand new iPhone on us or an attractive trade-in offer if you bring your number to us and you won't have to worry about these integration pains. Oh and these attractive per month plans. They will try to poach each and every Sprint customers. So T-Mobile will have to fight for each and every customer. They better come prepared.

    Nice.  All three of my 4G Sprint phones are ready or near ready for upgrade.  I will wait until the "attractive offers" start.

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