WiWavelength

Ordered.  Pixel 2 XL.  Black.  64 GB.

AJ

4 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

As soon as the merger is approved they will open up roaming on each other's networks.

But not prior.  Because once any ill fated merger attempt inevitably and rightly were to fall apart, putting the toothpaste back in the tube would be difficult.

AJ

3 hours ago, jonathanm1978 said:

Realistically, I'm curious about how soon after a merger is announced will we see them make it where TMO LTE is native for Sprint and vice versa

2 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

Pretty much right away.

Right after an announcement?  Not likely.  The FCC, FTC, and DOJ would have a field day.

Soon after a consent order?  Okay.

AJ

12 hours ago, dro1984 said:

What a combined T-Mobile and Sprint network would look like from BGR:

What a combined Network of T-Mobile and Sprint would look like

"I believe that some of those figures may be in-ock-urate."

AJ

Essential to only 5000 people.  Not Essential to everyone else.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/essential-has-sold-just-5-000-phones-since-launch-baystreet

AJ

How about Expletive Skinny Jeans Dancing Millennial Effeminate Color Mobile?

Oh, wait, T-Mobile by itself already has all that covered.

AJ

1 hour ago, radem said:

Keep 1 CDMA voice carrier and 1 GSM voice carrier and re-farm everything else to voLTE.

GSM is dead, Jim.

Not everything T-Mobile is GSM.  People need to drop that misconception years ago.

AJ

37 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

I can't imagine Legere as CEO and Masa Son wanting a say in day to day business as what's being reported!   The two of them go together like oil and water???  I can hear the expletives fly already...most of it coming out of Legere's mouth!   

From the creators of "The Office," coming to NBC this fall...

"Mo & Bill"

Starring Steve Buscemi as John Legere and Joe Pesci as Masayoshi Son.

AJ

2 minutes ago, jonathanm1978 said:

a bill from ²ⁿⁿ⅞

= 1.75n²

AJ

Wrong quote, Tim.  Or you misconstrue my meaning.  The Magic Box receiving CA is not the same as the Magic Box transmitting CA.

AJ

Ask Tim.  In some markets, Sprint may be running Magic Box specific band 41 relay carriers on the macro network that are not accessible to other devices.

AJ

Just now, RedSpark said:

I'm curious how much headroom the technology has going forward.

Not much on the spectrum side.  For anything greater, users need to be supplying the backhaul, not relying on relay backhaul.

AJ

On 9/15/2017 at 2:22 AM, RedSpark said:

2.2M Magic Boxes? That's a serious production run. Perhaps we'll see models which transmit more than single carrier of Band 41 as a clean signal?

Why?  What advantage would be gained by having a Magic Box locally transmit 2x CA, for example?

The relay back to the donor cell is not CA.  And the Magic Box needs to avoid interference with the macro network.  Adding another Magic Box carrier could cause spectrum management issues.

AJ

1 minute ago, dnwk said:

I think that LTEiRA partner in Washington County does not sell services directly. It just builds and operate the network for Verizon 

That already has been noted.  Read the thread.

AJ

8 hours ago, chamb said:

I understand why the upload looks poor and I understand why that are doing it that way.  But the optics of it looks bad.  Just too bad that they can not somehow improve the upload even if it is not really needed. Most of us S4GRU users have it figured out, but the average non-educated cell phone user just looks at the figures and thinks something is wrong with Sprint.

Does the average, non educated user conclude that about his/her home broadband Internet, which almost always is skewed heavily toward downlink? By the above rationale, I should conclude that something is wrong with my 30/5 Mbps home broadband.  But I do not.  And maybe average, non educated users do not either.

AJ

5 hours ago, swintec said:

there was only about 2,000 customers effected by this up this way so i do not think it would be far fetched to think many of these people were signed up under similar circumstances.

And that may be why VZW is willing to throw under the bus this Maine LTEiRA partner.  While VZW may have promised the partner only roaming revenue from VZW's transient subs traveling in the area, the partner intentionally helped permanent residents of the area sign up for VZW service.

AJ

2 hours ago, Steve Dean said:

Heck, since I have been butchering the English language, even with spell check, we can substitute gimped with gumped in this case since you do not know what modem you will receive in the phone:

The Gimp got gumped at the 1994 Academy Awards.

AJ

9 minutes ago, swintec said:

At least for the maine problem, the LTE roaming partner did not provide end user service to begin (which makes it even stranger verizon got into this deal with them)...

Not so strange.  VZW wanted the LTEiRA coverage for its own transient roamers passing through the area, not for permanent resident of the area.

AJ

Gimped.  The word is gimped.  Apple gimped the Qualcomm baseband modem to maintain parity with the Intel baseband modem.

Bring out the gimped modem.  Gimped modem's sleeping.  Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake it up now, won't you?

AJ

I could care less about your problems, Robert.

AJ

9 hours ago, Steve Dean said:

So "irregardless" could be an epidemic?

"Irregardless" has been a problem regardless of medium, long before the Web existed.

AJ

3 hours ago, SeanK_ said:

You have anymore information about this S1000?

It is his older brother.

AJ

2 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

SMS and MMS have been running over LTE since devices switched to the single transmit radio design. 

On Android devices.  iOS devices are/were SRLTE for SMS.  That is why they were unaffected by the early e/CSFB issue.

AJ

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/verizon-kicks-8500-rural-customers-off-network-for-using-roaming-data/

Unfortunately, Ars comments in general have declined in quality from their higher standards of a few years ago.  Too many people spout off about subject matter on which they are not knowledgeable.

AJ

16 minutes ago, though said:

do people watch 1080p videos on their watch?

Duh, why else would it be called a watch?

AJ