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http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/envy-jealousy/ AJ

Have you not seen the photo of Dan and Deval? He has Sprint connections all the way to the top. Who knows, maybe Deval is moving into Son's guesthouse in Woodside? AJ

Woodside? I guess Deval is moving cross country and taking up residence next to Son. AJ

Milan, the New York City metro is not representative of "America." If anything, it is an anomaly. So, your example is of limited relevance. Get out of the city more often. Travel the country, both urban and rural. In most places, the wired broadband speeds you cite are not available. In many cases, the best options available are not evenly remotely comparable. AJ

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It is a possibility. To the PCS E block 10 MHz license, the adjacent license holders are VZW with the PCS B5 block 10 MHz disaggregation and AT&T with the PCS F block 10 MHz license. VZW holds no other PCS spectrum in Chicago, while AT&T also has the PCS A block 30 MHz license. So, VZW might be interested, while I think AT&T is already full up. On the other hand, Sprint might want to send its PCS D block 10 MHz license to AT&T in exchange for the PCS F block. That would give Sprint two separate 20 MHz contiguous swaths, while AT&T would end up with one 40 MHz contiguous segment. The third option is that Sprint keeps it all. And CDMA2000 operations are eventually shunted to just the PCS E block so that the adjacent combo of the PCS D block and PCS B3/B4 block 20 MHz disaggregation can run LTE at 15 MHz FDD. The band plan graphic that I created for the Sprint-USCC transaction article can be a helpful reference: AJ

Thanks for the idea. Hey everybody, we should go egg Josh's house. AJ

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We saw the FCC OET filing yesterday and had a staff discussion about it. We probably will not cover this handset unless Josh wants to do the write up. AJ

You will be dead within six months. May you rest and digest in peace. AJ

You miss his point. You have to compare that to the "hate" the other providers receive. And they all get "hate." Another point to be made is that people do not go online to sing praises. Anymore, they generally go online to bitch. However, that does not necessarily represent the population as a whole -- just that subset who want to go online to complain. AJ

Actually, the issue is not so much subcarriers as it is time slots. The number of subcarriers that can be allocated to each user can never drop below 12 because that is one Resource Block. A 5 MHz FDD carrier, for example, then has 25 RBs. If greater than 25 users are present in a sector, they share the 25 RBs via alternating time slots. And to a degree, that can increase latency. AJ

Hi Vince... Yes, the uplink EARFCN for TDD appears to be an error. Why it is even there, I cannot explain it. So, I should probably edit my instructions to indicate that you should report only the downlink EARFCN. If it is TDD, the downlink EARFCN is accurate. If it is FDD, I can calculate the uplink EARFCN from the reported downlink EARFCN. Also, I did not have a chance yet to thank you for supplying the official documentation of the secondary band 25 LTE 1900 carrier in Chicago. But I added the new EARFCNs shortly after your post and PM. The secondary band 25 LTE 1900 carrier is just as I expected at the high end of the former USCC license. That is wise spectrum management. AJ

This is not Sprint's doing; it rests with Softbank. If anybody gets smacked here, it is the short Japanese guy. AJ

Just combine both names, then tack on the requisite "e" for high tech. eSpriT And keep the magenta color. We can all prance around like girls. AJ

I could make a patently obvious "sticky keyboard" joke, but alas, I will refrain. Instead, I will offer you this advice. Two words: diet soda. No sugar equals no sticky keyboard. AJ

LTE uses "hard handoff." TDD and FDD are irrelevant. AJ

Even if this is a "white listed" Sprint device -- and that is doubtful -- there is no current benefit to swapping SIMs among Sprint devices. You still must activate online or over the phone. And if anything, swapping SIMs can lead to complications. So, for any new Sprint device, get a new SIM dedicated to that device. Plain and simple. I thought all of this had been well covered in other threads, but I guess not... AJ

Hindsight is always 20/20. But, yes, in retrospect, Sprint should have shut down at least iDEN 800 and deployed CDMA1X 800, probably even EV-DO 800, a good five years earlier than it did. AJ

So, they really are Magentans. AJ

I do not necessarily disagree, as I would have liked for Sprint to have secured Alltel before VZW did. But acquiring both Nextel and Alltel would have been nearly impossible for Sprint to pull off. So, here is the counterargument why Nextel was still the right choice. Low band spectrum. Let me say it again. Low band spectrum. Yes, Alltel would have brought on board a lot of its own rural Cellular 850 MHz in the South and, from its WWC acquisition, vast rural Cellular 850 MHz in the West. That would have swelled the Sprint footprint impressively on the coverage map. But what about the major markets? Okay, acquiring Alltel would have been great for Albuquerque, Charlotte, Cleveland, El Paso, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Phoenix, and Tampa, but that is about it. Alltel held Cellular 850 MHz licenses for few top 100 markets. And like it or not, that is where the hay is made. So, by acquiring Nextel -- if for nothing else than its massive SMR 800 MHz holdings -- Sprint on the whole got more low band spectrum in far more places. That effectively addressed the historic knock against Sprint -- lack of low band spectrum. And Sprint obtained enough spectrum to deploy both CDMA1X and LTE. That was a win win. On that last count, the contention that Sprint-Alltel could have won equivalent spectrum in the Upper/Lower 700 MHz auction is specious. VZW was not coming out of that auction without the Upper 700 MHz C block nationwide. And AT&T prior to the auction already held numerous Lower 700 MHz C block licenses, thus was going to grab as many Lower 700 MHz B block licenses as it could. No way would Sprint have been able to fight off the Twin Bells and come away with a national 700 MHz footprint. If anything, Sprint would have been relegated to the Lower 700 MHz A block ghetto, which to this day is still unusable in many major markets. Plus, it never would have supported CDMA1X. While getting all of the ducks in a row for public safety rebanding, SMR 800 MHz broadband operation, and iDEN shutdown has been a disappointingly protracted process, Sprint is finally starting to see the payoff. And the Sprint network is really starting to shine -- because of low band spectrum nearly everywhere. That would not have been possible with Alltel instead of Nextel. AJ

That comparison does not work. Shop for any consumer electronics in Europe, for example, and prices tend to be significantly higher than in the US because of exchange rates, tariffs, VAT, and other market differences. AJ

I guess that makes you this guy... AJ

This is not a knock on you -- and you will pardon the pun later on -- but people seem to enjoy ripping on Sprint, WiMAX being one of their favorite targets as a so called bad decision. Kick a dog when it is down. I still think that the WiMAX failure to gain traction was possibly a 3GPP conspiracy against it, but definitely a lost opportunity. Had WiMAX become the prevailing standard, then IEEE would have run the show. We would have gotten out from under the thumb of the 3GPP cartel. For example, look at the ubiquity of another IEEE standard: Wi-Fi. It is now in nearly every piece of consumer electronics. Just a MAC address. No SIM card nonsense. The same could have happened with WiMAX. No $100 extra for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model or netbook with contract baloney. Everything would have had WiMAX built in, just like Wi-Fi. And consumers could have decided when, where, or even if to activate WiMAX with the operators of their choice. Maybe that will still happen with LTE. But I guarantee that it would have happened more quickly with WiMAX. AJ