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You need to post engineering screen caps with PN offsets to demonstrate. Otherwise, that could have been your CDMA1X 800 RSSI at significant distance. AJ

Bingo! And, folks, please stop referring to "3G." Other than WiMAX and LTE, everything on Sprint is 3G. So, refer to CDMA1X and EV-DO AJ

Hey, The Honorable Sen. Orrin Hatch ® of Utah has wisely warned us that all Asians are "hostile powers." AJ

The Joe guy looks like a punk kid just seeking attention. AJ

I love how the TmoNews article uses speed tests that are several hours apart, including one at 6pm compared to one at 12am. Hmm... http://www.tmonews.com/2013/05/hacked-t-mobile-carrier-update-boosts-speed-for-iphone-5-1900mhz-refarmed-users/ I posted this once already today, but it warrants being posted again in this case: correlation ≠ causation. AJ

Sprint is headquartered in Overland Park, KS. Central Time should be the baseline for all Sprint actions. Viva CST/CDT! AJ

Ask T-Mobile. AJ

It is the same pair of guys who are releasing these "hacks" for iPhone 5 on various operators around the world. AJ

The vague claim that these guys are making for both EV-DO Rev B and W-CDMA Release 9 version hacks, namely that "the device itself becomes more open to an increased amount of bandwidth thus allowing for better throughput of data and data connection," is not founded on the actual workings of the airlinks in question. And they provide no technical documentation to substantiate it. Plus, I have seen the Joe guy on Twitter, and he comes across as an insufferable blowhard. AJ

Nope. PCS W-CDMA deployment is still spotty. AJ

They are likely seeing higher speeds not because of any upgrade but because their hack puts them on the less burdened PCS W-CDMA carrier(s) instead of the long standing AWS W-CDMA carrier(s). Correlation ≠ causation. AJ

I should probably be more appropriately called AJ WWAN. AJ

What of innovative litigation? Or litigious innovation? AJ

I guess John and Robert should have a contest to see which one pulls his own pork better. AJ

digiblur, I edited the title of this thread earlier today. In this new PRL series, are we dealing with 56015 or 55015? AJ

"The day is mine!" AJ

Come out West. We have 2000 foot masts, 10,000 foot mountain peak transmitters, and huge service contours. From experience, I have used rabbit ears through adobe in Santa Fe to pick up Albuquerque stations off the top of Sandia Peak, which is 40 miles distant. And I bet that Robert can corroborate (or cor-robert-ate) that experience. AJ

If the incentive auction bears fruit, then DT channel 51 will be the first to go, turned into a guard band or part of the 600 MHz uplink -- depending upon the band plan rulemaking. AJ

We shall see. I am not sure that any special offers will come to fruition for WiMAX device users. If Sprint stops offering any WiMAX capable devices this year -- and that is almost assured -- then any device buyers will be eligible for a subsidized upgrade anyway by the time that the WiMAX network is decommissioned. AJ

You seem to value competition. But in the mobile space, Apple is trying to squelch competition or litigate it into submission. What do you think of that? I miss the mobile industry before the iPhone. Too many Joe Blows who do not need smartphones have them now because of the paradigm shift brought on by the iPhone, and that has caused lots of problems for wireless networks. AJ

So, can we start calling CDMA1X 1900 "the iPhone ghetto"? AJ

Your math is off. Even with a DT channel 51 transmitter operating at 100,000 W (80 dBm), free space path loss alone at only 25 km distance is 117 dB. So, that 80 dBm signal has already diminished to -37 dBm, at best. Meanwhile, nearby Lower 700 MHz A block mobiles could be transmitting at 23 dBm in the adjacent channel. That presents a 60 dB difference and a big filtering problem. Plus, you cannot assume where the DT antennas are located. At only 25 km distance and still likely inside the metro area, plenty of people use indoor antennas. Regardless, DT channel 51 was there first and is entitled to significant protection until it is retired. That is the key fact. AJ

Not in this case. It is the uplink from the handsets that causes much of the DT channel 51 issue because it is the Lower 700 MHz A block uplink that is adjacent to DT channel 51. Handsets go everywhere, and just as the uplink of an AWS-4 handset could interfere with reception of the PCS G and AWS-2/PCS H downlinks, the uplink of a Lower 700 MHz A block device could interfere with the reception of an OTA receiver tuned to DT channel 51. AJ

CDMA1X and EV-DO are both 3G. So, 3G is not a very descriptive generic term. It could even be referring to W-CDMA. For our purposes, call the Sprint relevant airlinks what they are: CDMA1X, EV-DO, LTE, TD-LTE, and WiMAX. If nothing else, you will likely have CDMA1X 800 voice and data (but not simultaneously) inside. CDMA1X 800 data will still be in the 100 kbps range. This is one advantage that Sprint will still lack compared to VZW and AT&T. In most markets, the duopoly has fallback to EV-DO 850 and W-CDMA 850, respectively. AJ

Naw, not really. As info from LightSquared opponents and LightSquared "savior" Javad showed, we are still talking some discrete components. AJ