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  1. WiWavelength
    No, "800 MHz" is the same in name only. SMR 800 MHz and refarmed Euro "Digital Dividend" 800 MHz are different and incompatible. AJ
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    I am sure that the state you are referring to is Montana. But that court challenge was predicated on a citation due to the ambiguity of what is "reasonable." So, my point holds: human nature requires stated limits to know what is reasonable. AJ
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    Joe, you seem like just the guy to buy my oceanfront property in Arizona. I will give you a great deal... AJ
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    Honestly, digiblur, I find that attitude disgusting. Some of you refuse to accept that a shared resource has to be managed and that maybe, just maybe providers institute caps to manage supply and demand, not to soak your wallet. You guys should find an all you can eat restaurant. Then, when closing time hits before you have pigged out enough, you should burn down the restaurant out of revenge. AJ
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    You can neither buy nor sell infinity. AJ
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    Upon further reflection, Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" should be the theme song for Sensorly. Open up the mapping app, and you get that guitar riff over and over again. DUN-DUN-DUN...DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN. The music also should not be user defeatable. AJ
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    No kidding. If you wanted to make a "purple" reference joke, you should have gone with this... AJ
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    A single CDMA1X 800 carrier channel is an addition to most but not all sites. It is not a "changeover." At least one CDMA1X 1900 carrier channel will remain in operation for years to come. We have written several articles on SMR 800 MHz (see below) and several threads are already discussing 800 MHz issues, so do not take offense, but we are going to close this thread. http://s4gru.com/ind...band-operation/ http://s4gru.com/ind...-sids-revealed/ AJ
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    Yes, I would adjust those estimates. If we take Sprint's 55 million aggregate subs, then divide by 95,000 sectors (i.e. 38,000 sites multiplied by an average of 2.5 sectors per site), we get a result of about 600 subs per sector. Now, that assumes an even dispersal of subs over all sites. But that is hardly the case. Sprint has thousands of rural highway sites that see mostly/only transient use. So, at least 600 subs per urban PCS sector would be a conservative estimate and 1000 subs per sector would not be out of the question. Also, 25 Mbps seems a bit on the high side for average 5 MHz FDD LTE sector capacity. Remember, 37 Mbps is the maximum throughput, but that assumes 64-QAM and 2x2 MIMO for all connections. Subs within a sector are generally so spread out that path loss (thus dynamic rate control) probably follows some sort of normal distribution. For that reason, I would assume the average throughput to be no greater than 50 percent of the maximum, hence 18 Mbps. AJ
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    Spork? Robert, have you been slumming with KFC? AJ
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    A few years/decades ago, I was a highly intelligent 15 year old -- by both measurable and outward characteristics. But I am thankful that the Internet did not exist then in the accessibility that it does now. I have enough culpability living down my 18-19 year old opinions immortalized once I set foot on a college campus and got reliable online access. Isaiah probably cannot be convinced of that now, but he has been forewarned... AJ
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    People in the US have also come to expect wireless data coverage essentially everywhere. SoftBank in Japan (which is similar in size and population to the state of California) is not an appropriate comparison in area nor population density. Countries in Europe and Asia generally do not provide effective measuring sticks in this regard. Had we established years ago that broadband services would be public works, we might have headed off this problem. But now we are stuck with what the capitalist/oligopolist providers deem sufficiently profitable. Absent nationalization -- oh, how I wish -- we have to make the best policy out of the current reality. AJ
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    Isaiah, I have been cordial and have tried to offer some useful feedback, but I am done playing around with you. Your writing is atrocious. Your relevant knowledge is lacking. Age 15 or not, I see nothing from your contributions here to indicate that you possess anything greater than average intelligence. You have a lot of work to do. You may be capable of significant improvement -- but I do not know. As you say, I do not know you. So, here is your challenge: show everyone what you can do. AJ
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    Lynyrd, if I have not expressed so yet, I did appreciate your previous, well thought out response with varied options. But I do not believe that speed tiers would be any more tenable than are data tiers. Have you heard of the "long tail" in sales? This is almost assuredly not my unique idea, but let me at least suggest the similar "slow trickle" of wireless data. Unauthorized tethering is problematic, but of late, even more problematic is the constant use of low bit rate streaming services. Several dozen subs streaming Pandora (or similar) several hours a day is enough to take down a 5 MHz FDD LTE sector to little more than minimal service during that time. Those users primarily want to stream low bit rate 64-128 kbps content. They would not be affected by speed tiers. Yet, in sheer numbers, they would affect the capacity of the network. So, what would you do about that? What is your solution? AJ
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    For currently realistic wireless networks, unlimited data is not sustainable with our "human nature," has not been for several years now, though not as long ago as Michael Jackson sang about it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmbYALa0no AJ
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    Isaiah, no one has called you "stupid." Those are your words -- you jumped to that self deprecating conclusion. But you have to realize that, at age 15, you are not as "smart," relatively speaking, as people who have a few more years on you, people who are even twice as old as you are. Heck, you, yourself are not even remotely as "smart" as you will be a year or two from now. You also should realize that many of the assumptions you make at age 15 are not sound assumptions, so do not be surprised when adults with quite a bit more experience than you have call you out on those assumptions. That is part of the learning process for most teenagers. AJ
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    No, it is a perfectly apt parallel, and you are not equipped to judge it -- you do not even know what it is until I have elaborated it. But you refuse to answer the question, so I guess I will have to turn it into a rhetorical question and answer it myself. The reason why states that have tried to abolish highway speed limits have always reversed course is simple: human nature (or, at least, American human nature). Too many people have wild notions about what are "reasonable" speeds to drive and will travel at excessive speeds to the detriment of other drivers on the road. Human nature requires limits; otherwise, many of us will go to harmful extremes. Wireless data usage is actually a quite similar situation. Given unlimited data, some think that 5 GB/month is unsustainable, while others see the word "unlimited" and think that 25 GB/month is perfectly "reasonable." And if anything, what is "reasonable" is even harder for people to judge because data usage is so intangible. AJ
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    The FCC OET authorization test results that I wrote up the same day they were released last week? http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-342-all-for-htc-one-htc-one-for-all/ AJ
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    You are dodging the question. You do not get to undermine my analogy until you actually understand it. AJ
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    If unlimited data is not sustainable on Sprint, then it likely will not be on T-Mobile either. So, you may not have a choice, and that is really the way it should be. Having one carrier sell something unsustainable just to keep its dwindling share of the marketplace is recipe for further consolidation. AJ
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    Really? But what if like the concept of the film "Children of Men," in which new babies mysteriously stop being born, all new phones mysteriously stop being manufactured? Pretty soon, the world's "youngest" phone would be several years old. AJ
  22. WiWavelength
    I see. By your own admission, you do not follow the wireless industry. Still, you are claiming to tell us what Sprint's average LTE speeds will be. But in order to know that type of information, you would have to follow the wireless industry. It seems that you have gotten yourself into a bit of a paradox. So, do you or do you not follow the wireless industry? Which is it? If you do not, then you really should not be making assertions that you cannot reliably support. AJ
  23. WiWavelength
    If you claim to state my position, please do not misrepresent it. Thanks. Folks, try thinking about this parallel. At various times, several states have tried unlimited speed limits on certain highways. But those unlimited speed limits have never lasted very long. Now, why not? AJ
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    Let us hope that this evolves into a consumer plan offering, too. Unlimited data served a purpose in the past, but now it has grown dangerous due to advancing device capabilities that invite abuse and, ironically, "limited" because people increasingly want to use their data across multiple devices. http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/sprint-shared-data-business AJ
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    Isaiah, I mean no offense, but you are, what, 15-17 years old and still in high school? Nerd or not, you know jack squat at this point in your life. Nothing that I stated is that obscure for anyone who follows the wireless industry. You just have a lot of learning yet to do over the next 5-10 years. Hopefully, you will take that to heart. As for the experience of your friend in Atlanta, if you ever study statistics or logic, you will learn about representative samples. One or two consistent data points does not necessarily indicate a trend. For a counter to your example, imagine if we were to select a few members here at S4GRU who have LTE coverage but only 1 Mbps speeds because they are located away from the closest live LTE site. By your line of reasoning, we should be able to predict then that Sprint's average LTE speeds will be only 1 Mbps. Do you see the problem with that? AJ
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