WiWavelength

Actually, I was going to "Rickroll" this thread just like I did to the guy looking for the non existent T-Mobile version of S4GRU. But I will refrain. AJ

Not a YouTube clip, but I thought I encapsulated the love hate relationship fairly well this time last year with an imaginary blurb... http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1308-s4gu-spectrum-article-referenced-to-underscore-all-the-wireless-technologies-on-pcs-around-the-world/?p=26221 AJ

I would not get too excited. If you could not see this coming, then you should not cross the street by yourself. AJ

If my memory serves me correctly -- and it usually does -- everywhere but five markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston. But those Lower 700 MHz E block 6 MHz unpaired licenses are, well, *unpaired*. And there is no current business case for TD-LTE nor for downlink carrier aggregation without an existing LTE network. AJ

Is it a "series of tubes"? AJ

Unless I am mistaken, Wind has only 10-20 MHz of AWS spectrum per market. That is tied up in W-CDMA and is not getting converted to LTE anytime soon. AJ

Oddly enough, the timing might be right this time. Before the rise of the smartphone, the common people did not see the point of watching video on their tiny cellphone screens. They also did not see the point of mobile data -- oh, how I miss those days. AJ

A "connection" is both reception and transmission. If either fails, then there is no "connection." So, a current mobile device future proofed for PCS/AWS-2 H block would have to receive 1995-2000 MHz. No problem. The FCC does not regulate receivers. But the same mobile device would also have to transmit 1915-1920 MHz. And that has not yet been licensed nor standardized. Big problem. AJ

You are missing out if you have not yet watched this video while thinking of these guys as potentially being Sensorly mappers filling in the gaps between city streets about which one recent poster complained. The idea cracks me up -- I laugh and laugh... AJ

How hard? Try illegal. Neither infrastructure nor devices are allowed to transmit in spectrum that has yet to be licensed. Furthermore, the PCS/AWS-2 H block rules and regulations released last week are more stringent in order to mitigate downlink interference with the AWS-4 A block uplink and uplink interference with the PCS A block downlink. Like it or not, that potentially relegates the PCS/AWS-2 H block to a new band unto itself. Some of you want devices to be more future proof than they are ever going to be. If you want to stay current, get used to buying a new device at least once per year. Those are the breaks. AJ

PRL FIGHT! AJ

Any active electronics will have to be replaced or supplemented. Passive electronics may be reusable. In other words, new RRUs and new devices. Maybe new panels. AJ

Eric, I started my WiMAX center frequency vs carrier bandwidth data dump into a spreadsheet. Egads, man! There in Southern California, you are like a WiMAX porn star. You have been with way too many different sites. You are damaged goods now. AJ

Welcome to the flashlight thread, everyone. AJ

To quote an old VZW commercial, "There's a map for that." We have maps of all Sprint sites and their Network Vision upgrade statuses. If you would like to view the maps, please consider becoming an S4GRU Sponsor. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/ AJ

The issue that I was responding to was not about Wind; it was about Bell and Telus. Too many people think that Bell and Telus have switched to W-CDMA. No, they rolled out some W-CDMA overlay for three reasons: They had spectrum to burn. They wanted the iPhone. They wanted roaming revenue from the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Other than excess spectrum, which is a constant "problem" for Bell, Telus, and Rogers, the other two reasons are now ancient history. Furthermore, their CDMA2000 networks are still in place -- in fact, I roamed on Telus two months ago -- and they still offer greater coverage area than the W-CDMA overlays. AJ

The FCC just put forth the PCS/AWS-2 H block rules at the end of last week. No current devices support those standards, nor could they have anticipated those standards. AJ

digiblur, are you really not recognizing the shape of that Sensorly track? 8===D AJ

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet..." These days, everything is AWS or WCS. PCS is so 1990s now. Plus, this block was labeled AWS-2 roughly a decade ago. And the just adopted service rules put it much more in line with other AWS bands than with PCS. AJ

Thanks, Eric. I have never before seen the Motorola Photon WiMAX engineering screen, but it may be the best of the bunch. When I get a chance, I will drop the center frequency and bandwidth data into a spreadsheet, then cross reference against the BRS/EBS band plan. This could be interesting. AJ

It also coincides with T-Mobile's massive AWS W-CDMA overlay push following the 2006 AWS-1 FCC auction. Hmm, that is worthy of investigation. AJ

Bingo! You saved me a lengthy explanation. Thanks, Rawvega. To add to that, neither Bell nor Telus has deployed any GSM, only W-CDMA. AJ

Again, if there is any double counting or "fuzzy math" going on, all the king's horses and all the king's men can be saying the same thing. But that does not make it the "fact" that we are interested in knowing. I honestly cannot understand how you fail to get this. You just want to repeat the same sources over and over again but not question the methodology of those sources. Actually, I would say that I know it is true. You are fond of calling the 51,000 site figure a "fact," while any counter is just an "opinion." See above. Quoting publicly released documents does not give us the verification that we seek, especially when the data in those documents does not exactly jive with circumstantial evidence. No, it is not an argument. It is an admonition. Trolling for other carriers will not be tolerated at S4GRU. Regardless, the report does not come from me, but it comes from other S4GRU staff. I have no idea who you are. I have never heard of you before. And you have probably never heard of me. But I have been researching and writing about the wireless industry for the last dozen years. Additionally, I have a responsibility as a staff member to help keep order, and you seem intent on stirring the pot about an entirely non Sprint related issue. AJ

You seemingly consider anything that fits your world view a "fact." Anything that runs counter to that view is an "opinion." This needs to stop. Everything is open to question. FYI, we have openly questioned Sprint's PR department about its launch of LTE markets and depiction of LTE coverage. We have more solid, accurate info than Sprint PR does. So, you might want to take note of that when you put so much credence in the info from T-Mobile PR. No, we used internal Sprint engineering documents to construct a full accounting of native Sprint cell sites. Your T-Mobile press releases do not present the same level of info. Do not equate the two. Look, reportedly, you are quite the T-Mobile shill at other sites. If you are here largely to troll for T-Mobile, you will not last. Consider yourself warned. AJ

Listen, pal, you need to get off your high horse. Repeating press releases is not the same as verifying facts. The latter is what we are actually trying to do. That T-Mobile has 51,000 discrete cell sites is not yet a proven fact. AJ