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Is that a good thing? Now, she can nag you from far away in full HD. AJ

Yeah, here will be the general experience of a VoLTE call... "Wow, you sound so clear. This is…" followed by a click and half second of silence, then "Hey, are you still there? Yeah? Okay. But this is weird. Now, it just sounds like a normal phone call. Wonder what happened." AJ

You may be confusing sample rate and bit rate. AJ

No, I will not do it. I have at least a little bit of a reputation to uphold as a solid researcher and technical writer in this industry. Telling off Mike Sievert would just make me look bad -- even though he is one who should look bad with his slanted taunts. So, no, I am not chicken, and I do not appreciate the insinuation. Rather, I am just smart. AJ

That is hardly customer care's fault. That is Mike Sievert's fault for acting like an obnoxious jackass. And the way that T-Mobile likes to use Manhattan, KS as some comical comparison is beyond the pale. Besides, Sprint has had LTE in Manhattan, KS for nearly two years. T-Mobile just added LTE to a few sites four months ago and still is not finished. I am tempted to tweet at Mike Sievert and tell him to grow up and stop acting like an insufferable jerk. But maybe it is hard for him to be serious when facing the reality that T-Mobile's network is awful across greater than 90 percent of the land area of this country. Pathetic. AJ

Your computer misses you. Spend more time with it, less time with your phone. AJ

Patient: My elbow hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then, stop doing that. Get it? AJ

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No, nothing was wrong with the Tx power readout. The handset was not transmitting at the time. Anyone with a decent familiarity with binary numbers would recognize that -3276.8 dBm is not random. Strip away the decimal point, and -32,768 is the minimum signed 16 bit integer value. AJ

Do you not know that you should never write "airplane" and "crash" in the same paragraph? Or are you that guy who, as joke, says "bomb" in the airport? AJ

Please do not refer to it as "unused." That is a rural distortion, making Sprint look bad. Rather, if Sprint has met the FCC population based construction requirements for a given market, then Sprint is "using" its spectrum in that market -- even if Sprint's coverage does not reach every square mile of geographic area in that market. Now, Sprint does have "unused" PCS G block spectrum in some of its BEA based markets. It will have to meet construction requirements in those markets, but I have already posted extensively on that topic. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3703-potential-sprint-rural-buildout-by-2016/ Just a point of clarification... AJ

I think the issue is a bit more than semantics. I do not mean to be rude, just forthright, but plenty of people who work regularly with PRLs do not understand them as well as do several of us here at S4GRU. Updating your PRL has almost zero effect on Sprint native service in any market -- unless Sprint has divested spectrum or relocated all deployed CDMA2000 carriers. That has rarely happened. For example, as long as the PRL contains the F1 CDMA1X channel assignment in a given market, that is sufficient for system acquisition. The channel list message and hashing algorithm take care of the rest. The PRL does not even need to contain all deployed CDMA1X carriers. Along those same lines, PRLs are not granular enough to detail "surrounding towers." PRLs cover entire markets -- typically, huge MTA markets for Sprint. Now, if you want to discuss spectrum, handoffs, neighbors, subcarriers, etc., do not hesitate. Many of us are more than educated enough to participate in or even lead the discussion. AJ

Well, this may be an issue of semantics, but your characterization of PRL operation is inaccurate. AJ

There is no such thing as "40x40." AJ

Nexus tablet or bust. AJ

Plateau is a rural telecom cooperative, so the ownership structure is probably quite fractured. Sadly, many of these coops have already sold off or will soon sell off their wireless assets -- likely because of the expense of acquiring new spectrum for LTE and/or deploying LTE. Keep in mind that Plateau is licensed for half the state of New Mexico but has only 40,000 wireless subs across which to spread and justify CAPEX. For perspective, during the university academic year, Sprint may approach 40,000 wireless subs in my county alone. AJ

Dave is checking out Beavis. "I like what I see…" AJ

The spectrum details in the Fierce Wireless article are incomplete. Though Plateau holds the Cellular B block license in the CMA for Santa Fe, it is a partitioned license. Santa Fe County, the only even moderately urban county in that CMA, has long been partitioned to VZW. Plateau is not licensed the Cellular B block in Santa Fe County. From a site that I maintain for historical purposes, see the license maps below: AJ

I am certain we had a discussion that day the VZW transaction affected only the CMA for Roswell, etc. Your memory must be slipping now in your dotage. AJ

Guys, SVDO, SVLTE, e/CSFB, etc., are irrelevant. Think back to 2005. Original EV-DO handsets were single RF path, yet they could camp simultaneously on CDMA1X and EV-DO. That was the standard for years -- until SVDO became commonplace for a short period of time. AJ

Does Karl Bode like anything in the real world? AJ

Sarah Reedy could be Miss June on the Women of Wireless calendar. AJ

Read up on slot cycle index. AJ

Who knew? Do a query on my username and "Plateau." I have been saying for years that this would happen. AJ