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As Cartman would say, medium spicy! AJ

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That basically settles it. All of the Kansas market has gone or is going NID 308. However, that does not mean the entire market is now on one MSC. Though all on the same NID, it could still be divided up into separate MSC zones -- at least, that is my understanding. AJ

My representative, Wayne Campbell, will release my statement on the matter: AJ

Here is another possibility... A-T-I-V. A turd in varnish. AJ

But with the permits they did use, they wrecked GPS. So, that has to count for something. AJ

Las Vegas was a LightSquared test bed. AJ

SMR 800 MHz is not going to make data speeds faster. But it will make CDMA1X voice, data, and SMS coverage more consistent around the metro and within buildings. AJ

Eat fewer other wireless operators. Eat more clams. (Trust me. Read the the rest of the thread.) http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/548-the-totally-off-topic-thread-for-the-hell-of-it/?p=160434 AJ

Or maybe I could win both with a perfectly placed reference to "vagina dentata." Bazinga! AJ

Thanks for the report, but this is largely a fait accompli now. Since the rural western portions of SID 4139 have now gone NID 308, even the rural northern portions of SID 4198 have now gone NID 308, there is little doubt that Sprint's entire Kansas market is going NID 308. No matter what, Spring Hill would have followed along. The only real question mark remaining is whether the Wichita metro will also be consolidated into NID 308. AJ

The original marklar in this marklar is marklaring a lot. And by marklaring, I mean... AJ

Now, with that science out of the way, back to our regularly scheduled programming here on S4GRU "Skinemax"... AJ

I am going to have so much fun with this thread. It is ripe and ready for off color jokes. Get ready for more. But, in the meantime, here is some science. Beavers are rodents -- of the order rodentia. Note the root word, "dent." It does not take a Latin scholar to recognize that as a reference to teeth. Rodents have incisors that grow continuously throughout their lives; they must gnaw to keep their incisors in check. Otherwise, the teeth will grow through their lips. So, you could hardly fault the beaver for gnawing on the fiber. AJ

Gee, I hope Ward was not too hard on the beaver... AJ

Oh, how you should have titled this thread "Offending repeaters." That would have been marvelous. AJ

Or a big man at Chicken Annie's... There, I fixed it. AJ

That is true, but when posters have to ask this question about higher frequency and greater capacity, I guarantee that they are not well versed in MIMO. They are physics newbies. So, we are talking about one spatial channel, which conforms to the Shannon capacity equation -- the entry image to all of my science/engineering focused articles. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-347-whats-the-frequency-kenneth-interpreting-your-engineering-screen-part-two/ AJ

No, I disagree. Most of the US population lives in urban areas with adequate breadth of native coverage. They rarely leave those urban areas, and even if they do, they are likely still within roaming coverage. So, they do not perceive T-Mobile as having poor coverage overall; they perceive T-Mobile as having poor coverage even within their own markets. So, the real problems that both T-Mobile and Sprint face are urban dead zones/RF shadows and in building coverage. This is why I find the 37,000/51,000 T-Mobile site count ludicrous. If that is accurate, then T-Mobile should have much better in building coverage than Sprint does. But, if anything, the opposite is true. T-Mobile has even worse in building coverage. Meanwhile, Sprint is about to knock those problems out of the park with SMR 800 MHz -- except for you sad saps living in the IBEZ. AJ

Yep, leave it to beaver... AJ

Send in the "wambulance." Honestly, this sounds very similar to the complaints that some of our more rural folk make about Sprint not using its large PCS 1900 MHz spectrum holdings to build out their potentially unprofitable areas. Rest assured, I will have a more mature, well reasoned response later today. But, with such an urgent situation, I had to get the "wambulance" out there right away. AJ

The writing is on the wall. SoftBank-Sprint-Clearwire will sail through with no required divestment of spectrum. Following the T-Mobile-MetroPCS link up that got a free pass on its mucho PCS spectrum, this comes as no surprise. The current FCC seems willing to let the underdogs amass big bandwidth to take on the duopoly. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-fcc-wont-force-sprint-clearwire-give-spectrum-part-mergers/2013-06-28 AJ

I am sorry, but I still do not buy it. The math just does not add up. Sprint and T-Mobile have similar native footprints -- give a little here, take a little there. But T-Mobile W-CDMA footprint is far smaller than Sprint overall footprint. So, if T-Mobile truly has fully 37,000 upgraded sites in its little "archipelago" (great geographic analogy, cletus) of W-CDMA footprint while Sprint has 38,000 sites total, then T-Mobile site density has to be at least 25-50 percent greater than that of Sprint. How can that be true? I sense some fuzzy math. And even if Neal says it is so, that does not make it so. He is just repeating what someone inside T-Mobile may have told him, while we have actual site counts and locations. I only wish such verification were available on the other three major carriers. AJ

To make it easier for you Internet folk, think of it like "obvious troll is obvious." AJ

No, I actually mean the H block is licensed the same geographically as the H block. It is a tautology. AJ