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Ka-ching! Ka-ching! AJ

Speed tiers will not fly with the networks nor the public. Wireless network speeds in the real world are always variable. People will run too many speed tests "to ensure that they are getting what they paid for." When poor signal and/or network congestion gives them slower speeds than their contracted tiers, they will not understand and will complain. And your made up prices -- in this thread and others -- seemingly have no foundation in reality. Instead, Arysyn, they are what you think is fair or what you wish to pay. Well, what if I wish to pay only $1 per gallon for gas. That seems fair to me. But maybe it does not cover the costs of drilling and refining nor distribution and retail. Plus, maybe it discourages moderation and encourages overconsumption that leads to supply depletion. AJ

1-800-VOLTE??? AJ

Your conception of data usage here and in an earlier post is overly simplistic. Say there were only one or two users in any market frequently running speed tests and consuming significantly greater than average "unlimited" data. And those one or two users were not camping on one sector but moving around almost all of the time. RootMetrics is a great example of this. Then, yes, your argument would have weight. But that is not even close to the real world. With tens of millions of users nationwide broken down into thousands or millions of users per market broken down into hundreds or thousands of users per sector, think the law of large numbers. On a given sector, user A runs a speed test. It affects the sector for those 10 seconds. Odds are good that shortly after or even before those 10 seconds have elapsed, user B initiates a speed test. And the pattern continues with other speed tests ad infinitum. To put it in simple terms, if you are performing a certain data activity, chances are that someone else is doing so around the same time. That is with an emphasis on temporal distribution. The same holds true for spatial distribution. User X is a significantly above average consumer of data. He enters a given sector and increases its loading for a few minutes but then leaves. Ah, but user Y, who is also a significantly above average consumer of data, has already entered the sector before user X left -- or she enters five minutes later. And the pattern continues with other significantly above average users ad infinitum. Again, to put it in simple terms, if you are performing a certain data activity, chances are that someone else is doing so in the same area. All of the above reduce average speeds for all users on the network. AJ

RLTE. Really Long Term Evolution. AJ

I rarely run speed tests, let alone multiple speed tests. But in the interest of science, I ran two band 41 speed tests at an MLS match about six weeks ago. Band 41 appeared to have been added to the Sporting Park DAS, and the park Wi-Fi was either greatly congested or on the fritz. One band 41 speed test was 9/5 Mbps, the other 40/13 Mbps. Just those two tests alone consumed 150 MB. The speed tests were also solely responsible for pushing me over the Republic Wireless average cellular data usage figure that month. So, Republic probably hates me for running them. AJ

A completely different 2x, but people should start checking/posting how much data these 2x CA band 41 speed tests are consuming. The results should be sobering. AJ

What would be the "Next Carrier"? And are we sure that manual network selection is not available in the Settings menu? I am all for dialer codes, if necessary, but standard menu selections are better. Activity based home screen shortcuts are best, though, so maybe those are possible. AJ

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Keep in mind that basically the only way to max out a 5 MHz FDD carrier at 37 Mbps for any significant period of time is if just a handful of users, all with excellent signal, are on the sector. That is not a real world scenario -- outside of maybe 3am on some sectors. Due to serving users with average to poor signal, too, the real world sustained max is reduced to the range of about 15-20 Mbps. AJ

No, there is no need for anyone to do that. Just post your engineering screenshots, and we will do the analysis. AJ

Maybe but not likely. A 15 MHz FDD carrier occupies at least 13.5 MHz FDD -- double that for uplink and downlink to a total of 27 MHz. A CDMA1X carrier occupies at least 1.25 MHz FDD -- double that for uplink and downlink to a total of 2.5 MHz. That would leave a remaining 500 kHz for guard bands, which would have to be divided six ways. Probably not sufficient guard bands. Plus, squeezing a lone CDMA1X 1900 carrier into the LTE carrier internal guard bands would require new PRLs for all devices. Any device that did not get a new PRL would lose all CDMA1X 1900 access. AJ

The patent troll is suing the other major operators, too. But suing T-Mobile in the same court district in Nebraska is a bad idea. T-Mobile could claim that it is not subject to the court's jurisdiction -- because T-Mobile does not conduct business in Nebraska. I say that both seriously and tongue in cheek... AJ

About 200 MHz. 30 MHz PCS in a 15 MHz FDD configuration. And the rest in BRS/EBS in a TDD or supplemental downlink configuration. However, that is not even worthy of speculation at this point. That is years away -- if it ever happens. It requires a full CDMA2000 shutdown, and circumstances can change between now and then. LTE might not even be the dominant airlink by then. Regardless, no current LTE baseband can aggregate greater than three carriers for greater than 60 MHz of total downlink bandwidth. Even in a purely lab setting, Sprint presently would have to choose between 3x CA 20+20+20 MHz TDD -- or 3x CA 15 MHz FDD + 20+20 MHz TDD. Those are the limits. They probably will increase as time goes on. Maybe even carrier bandwidths will be standardized at 40 MHz FDD/TDD or greater. But we do not know how much or how soon. So, let us try not to get wrapped up in pie in the sky ideas. AJ

You misunderstand Qualcomm chipsets. Some are just a processor. Others have processor and modem on the same die. The Snapdragon 805 is the former -- it has no cellular modem. So, Qualcomm certainly did not state that the Snapdragon 805 has any LTE support. Instead, the Snapdragon 805 must be paired with a separate baseband modem chipset, such as the category 4 MDM9625 or category 6 MDM9635. Only the latter can do band 41 carrier aggregation in the configuration that Sprint is running. AJ

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California. The Golden State. The 31st state admitted to the Union. AJ

The Robert M. Herron Museum of Modern Cellphones finds the idea of leasing and returning historic devices to be abhorrent. AJ

More importantly, COZisBack no here. Where he when we need him? That the problem. AJ

The interesting piece to this is that plenty of users here at S4GRU, TmoNews, FierceWireless, etc., will tell you that 21 GB is "not that much," that it is "easy to use that much data." Well, that shows the significant disconnect between wireless users and wireless network realities. Because data is so abstract and ephemeral, people have little concept of what is fair and acceptable use of "unlimited" data for management of shared resources. T-Mobile has just drawn that line in the sand. AJ

And never pet a barking dog. AJ

Cosmo Kramer! That is the beauty of the quote and the question. Regardless, you win the Internet today. AJ

As the Bible said, "Thou who cureth can maketh ill." Now, bonus points for who said it. AJ

Responding to your posts is not the same as messaging to you. Rather, those responses are messages about your points to the entire community. So, no, S4GRU will not grant your request. This is a community forum. We like that you are part of the community, but if you do not wish to receive some member responses to your posts, then you should not post. AJ

Are you saying that John Legere and Mike Sievert go over the top? No, that cannot be. Both of those fine gentlemen are role models of restraint and professionalism. AJ