WiWavelength

You actually didn't answer his question, AJ.

That was the nice answer, using humor to deflect from the situation.  Would you prefer the answer be that staff impose strict moderation on you again?  Because that is a distinct possibility.

AJ

Can admin please consider limiting the # of posts someone can post in one day? One particular user is making this forum very painful to read/be involved in. Should it be allowed to continue?

I believe the excessive number to be a case of PWM -- Posting While Medicated.

"Sir, I am going to need you to put down the handset and/or step away from the keyboard."

AJ

You have monkeys in your colon, AJ? You might want to get a colonic to get rid of that. If the practioner notices bananas, be worried!

If you do not know the "monkeys might fly out of my butt" reference, then you are too young or lacking in pop culture literacy.

As for your other posts, you offered nothing but what may happen based upon idle speculation.  The point remains: nobody knows.

Sprint absorbed Clearwire without any spectrum loss -- and that was under the Obama administration -- so divestment hardly would be a given.  Above all, though, a merger may not occur.  Even if it were to happen, a consent decree and any fallout from it would be many moons from now.

People, this is a discussion forum, but that does not mean any and all topics are ripe for discussion ad nauseam.

AJ

isnt it true that the two companies may have to divest network infrastructure and spectrum?

Isn't it true that monkeys may fly out of my butt?  I mean, it could happen, hypothetically.

The point is that nobody knows anything certain, not now, not anytime in the near future.  Any potential merger combination is literally a year or more away. So, perhaps, stop yammering about what may or might happen.

AJ

The whole Sprint/T-Mobile merger is becoming a tired topic in this thread. I think it would be best best for you to create a separate thread to continue that discussion there.

Are you crazy?!  Do not encourage him to create a new thread.

AJ

No need to apologize . I do wish people would make more of an effort to use proper grammar, though…

Like who?

And in a stunning display of non coincidence, the correct grammar is "Like whom?"

AJ

Yeah I get that, tells me nothing about numbers.

Do not worry about it.  Think percentage.  Almost any percentage of 15 Mbps is a small number.  Trading 3 Mbps (20 percent) of a 15 Mbps max TDD uplink, for example, is not returning an additional 3 Mbps on a 90 Mbps max TDD downlink.  No, it is netting about an additional 18 Mbps (20 percent), a substantial difference.

Those are hypothetical examples, not actual values.  But do you get the point?  The uplink will be affected minimally.  What is lost will not be missed.

AJ

Only if you put a pipe arm on the side. :-)

In Washington, DC, more likely a crack pipe.

AJ

This information leads me to think the unlock version will work with Sprint 4G, but I am not too sure about 3G:

You are "not too sure"?  Try just "not" -- as in no, negatory, not gonna work.

AJ

And looking at the Rootmetrics (a source you often quote) for other major Northeastern cities, they are, almost always, in last place. There is a lot of room for improvement. SprintNYC is 110% correct.

People fixate on placement, especially first or last place.  But that is flawed human thinking.

With four major networks, one always is going to be last, you know.  Even if a massive merger consolidates all four down to three, one still will be last, be that nationwide or somewhere, someplace.

Fourth place in the 100 m at the Olympics, for example, is not slow.  Similarly, last place in RootMetrics does not mean slow, unusable, or poor.  It could mean last by fractions of points.

AJ

do u get any b41 at ur house?

who was phone?

AJ

if you have wifi at the house, why would you want this??

To be a good wireless citizen, to help improve LTE signal for other users within a several hundred foot radius.

AJ

On a side note, I'm really hoping that Sprint signs a roaming agreement with CellularOne in northeast Arizona/northwestern New Mexico...

Oh, you mean Smith Bagley.

AJ

Not really.

Ask Robert.

AJ

People, stop the excessive quoting.  A few of you are holding a conversation basically among yourselves.  You need not quote each other at every turn.  All of you already understand the context of the reply.

AJ

make it so, Number One.

AJ

For our next article on The Wall, we are considering this headline...

"BGR is a trashy tech news site, but here is S4GRU's RF look at the Samsung Galaxy S8"

AJ

I think we can all agree that a lot of the trashing of Sprint is the frustration that Sprint hasn't gone bottom up like they want.

BGR is more likely to go tits up than Sprint is.

AJ

"Yes, you can actually get worse cell service than Sprint"

That is the headline, yet the article is not even about Sprint.  Knuckleheads.

http://bgr.com/2017/05/09/best-wireless-network-2017-t-mobile-vs-verizon-avoid-straight-talk/

AJ

S4GRU do you ever seen Sprint roaming on T-Mobile in the future to?

I've seen fire, and I've seen rain.

I've seen strong signals that I thought would never end.

I've seen lonely times when I could not find a roaming friend.

But I always thought that I'd see Sprint again.

AJ

That Magic Box is the same/ similar concept to what T-Mobile was giving its users to help with coverage but the only difference was it fed off the users Wifi?

Not exactly.  But if you are going to look at it that way, why bring up T-Mobile?  Just compare it to the Airave, which Sprint has offered for more than a decade.

AJ

...technogly that helps improve the area .

TechNogly.  Hey, that is my podcast, in which I drink eggnog and talk tech.

AJ

As I said before ALL B12 devices support B17.

No.  Here are two devices that support band 12 but not band 17.  Some other CCA/RRPP handsets are in the same boat.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-393-even-more-guardians-of-the-samsung-galaxy/

AJ

AT&T roaming is real. It appears devices are now allowed to connect to different networks for 1x and LTE.

Devices capable of SRLTE or SVLTE can juggle separate LTE and CDMA1X networks.  Devices that are limited to e/CSFB, as far as I know, cannot.

AJ

Not a fan of the recent proliferation of these navel gazing, retrospective threads...

AJ