WiWavelength

I cannot help but pick at the incongruity in your post. This guy is not a moron; he is really the square peg, intellectual sidekick on the sports talk radio show. But, as you say, laypersons do not understand the signaling differences among voice, SMS, and data. So, we can hardly fault him (or almost anyone else) in that regard. Rather, I was just commenting on a phenomenon. Also, I realize that Twitter was founded on SMS, but I know of no one that uses SMS any longer to tweet. Myself, I have never used anything but a dedicated Twitter client or a web browser to tweet. AJ

Well, if the issue is cost vs price, this is nothing new. The retail and service industries are basically founded on excessive markup. And as much as I think the $.20 price of an SMS is ridiculous, I can understand the carriers' motivation. Take me, for example. If I could, I would happily pay $1 per minute for voice and $20 for 1 GB of data per month, as I would come out way ahead. Voice is not the cash cow that it once was -- SMS and data have replaced a lot of voice usage. Consequently, carriers not willing to take a hit in revenue while they pursue supremely expensive network upgrades try to coerce subs into flat rate SMS and data packages. AJ

Here is the VZW style coverage tool map for the state of Colorado... AJ

All of your time is spent in training? Yet, somehow, you managed to carve out some time to come here and post a bunch of inaccurate crap today. AJ

To follow up, since this has not spurred any discussion, a tweet is typically sent out as data traffic, while a text is sent out as CDMA1X access channel traffic. That is why when voice and data are overloaded in a specific location, SMS may still get in and out. AJ

Some members are historically problematic and are responded to as such... AJ

How is my statement not accurate? Yes, we know that there are two license protection sites in the Colorado Springs area. Robert has mapped both of them. The locations are known to S4RU sponsors. The question then is: why are you not an S4GRU sponsor? AJ

Watch what you say. You might reveal yourself to be an "idiot." Long story short, if contributing to Sensorly and/or other crowd sourced data is important to you, do not use an iPhone. Apple is making choices regarding data gathering reportedly to protect you. If you disagree with those choices, blame Apple, not the messenger who points out those limitations. AJ

I like to listen to a lot of sports talk radio. Today, I heard a statement from a local radio personality who was mystified that he could easily "text" but not "tweet" at a popular downtown location while watching a recent NCAA Tournament basketball game involving a highly successful college basketball team. I am not the least bit surprised, but I will throw this out there for discussion fodder... AJ

Robert has already done a ton of work to map the BRS 2600 MHz WiMAX license protection sites. Geez, pony up at least $40 to become an S4GRU sponsor. Give the man some credit for the massive unpaid work that he has done. Then, the information that you gain is practically priceless. AJ

Total 10 MHz (i.e. 5 MHz FDD) is limited to three CDMA2000 carriers -- likely, two CDMA1X carriers and one EV-DO carrier. The remaining 1.25 MHz is set aside for guard bands at both extremes of the uplink and downlink. AJ

Correct, marklars marklar and marklar or marklar... AJ

Yep, prior to Network Vision, Fort Wayne was basically living on sketti and roadkill. AJ

Nope. Baton Rouge is a PCS A block 20 MHz market. Only 10 MHz of the original 30 MHz has been partitioned and disaggregated away. So, 20 MHz remains, that makes a big difference compared to only 10 MHz. AJ

T-Mobile will not go bankrupt. Too many people misunderstand bankruptcy, think it the same as financial difficulty. But bankruptcy is reserved for those individuals and companies that cannot pay off their debts. T-Mobile, on the other hand, has billions of dollars in revenue and billions of dollars in assets that it can use to pay down any debts. T-Mobile is in no danger of bankruptcy. AJ

Yes, Deval, but you live in the NYC metro. This is Fort Wayne we are talking about. The poor in Fort Wayne really are abjectly poor. You, on the other hand, could probably live it up on your salary if you were to move to the home of Harry Baals... AJ

You know what it means to be poor, right? Well, if spectrum were money, Sprint in Fort Wayne would have been working a minimum wage job, riding the bus because it has no car, and living in a crappy apartment. AJ

Yes, all iPhone 5 variants use the same Qualcomm MDM9615 baseband, which supports all 3GPP and 3GPP2 airlinks. Now, you need to produce some documentation that Apple pays more for the same chipset but with 3GPP2 (CDMA2000) airlinks activated. Honestly, that sounds like a bunch of bunk, as airlink and band capabilities can easily be added/subtracted after the fact via firmware. The binning of processor cores/chips is not a particularly relevant parallel. But if you can muster some support to the contrary, you would further your case. And I would be willing to stand corrected. However, you still would lack evidence, as both LTE and W-CDMA are 3GPP airlinks. Thus, you would need to show that Qualcomm can somehow bill vendors and/or buyers down the road for using capabilities that are already built in to the baseband. AJ

Qualcomm royalties have nothing to do with it. OEMs purchase parts from Qualcomm (or other vendors), and any/all royalties are already built in to the prices paid for those parts. You really seem to be stretching and contorting to avoid placing blame where it lies with your beloved Apple and with AT&T, Apple's partner in crime. Apple and AT&T conspired to keep the iPhone as incompatible as possible with T-Mobile until T-Mobile yielded and agreed to offer the iPhone itself. AJ

In this case, we may hold opposite perspectives because I would expect the US to yield on most matters. But not on this matter. Eurasian interests have specifically screwed the US at least twice now. A decade and a half ago, the IMT 2100+1900 MHz band (i.e. W-CDMA/LTE band 1) could not be accommodated in the US because the uplink overlapped with the PCS 1900 MHz band set up here five years earlier. Now, the EU "Digital Dividend" 800 MHz band (i.e. LTE band 20) is not possible in the US because the uplink overlaps with the Cellular 850 MHz band set up here 30 years earlier, not to mention, the downlink would wipe out public safety 800 MHz rebanding, including part of our very own Sprint SMR 800 MHz spectrum. As far as band configuration and airlink technology selection go, the 3GPP and EU act in a protectionist fashion and can kiss my ass. AJ

Nope. Blame the rest of the world that seemingly tries to stick it to the US. Like it or not, the US is still the most important country/market on the planet. AJ

Boneless, skinless, baked, right? AJ

Probably not. The EU's "Digital Dividend" 800 MHz (band 20) and Sprint's SMR 800 MHz (band 26) sound similar but are very different. The frequency ranges do not significantly overlap, and the EU uplink/downlink duplex is inverted. So, there will be little, if any synergy between the two 800 MHz allocations. AJ

A lot of PF Chang's, eh? You guys in training to challenge Randy Marsh's record for the world's biggest crap? http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/1112biz-buzz1113.html?nclick_check=1 AJ

No writing down. My motto: if you want to "have it your way," you can order it yourself. AJ