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  1. WiWavelength
    What? You mean like it was all a dream? S4GRU never existed, and everyone here was actually a VZW sub in real life? AJ
  2. WiWavelength
    Practically guaranteed, anyone worth a billion dollars has stepped on quite a few heads and sold out countless folks on the way up. Is that really worthy of admiration? A "camel" and an "eye of a needle" come to mind. AJ
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    In general, I strongly disagree. Sprint has more than appropriate site density throughout most of the KC metro. Where specifically are you located? Honestly, I think that you bailed just before the getting got good. Even with the EVO LTE, coverage is now very solid. Sure, there are still gaps of EV-DO, but those are getting fewer and smaller by the week. This week alone, my travels have taken me to KCK, Grandview, and Gladstone. Nearly wall to wall LTE. AJ
  4. WiWavelength
    T-Mobile is an odd duck. Some of its coverage choices make little sense. For example, in your neck of the woods, Robert, T-Mobile has recently extended W-CDMA only coverage to Roy, Mosquero, and Logan -- there is reportedly no native GSM underlying that footprint. On the other hand, T-Mobile has let languish its GSM only coverage along the I-25 and I-40 corridors. I do think that T-Mobile will work to upgrade as much GSM only coverage as it can, but that will be a lengthy process. Sprint will have deployed LTE on nearly every site, urban or rural, years before T-Mobile will have deployed even W-CDMA on nearly every site, urban or rural. AJ
  5. WiWavelength
    Yes, but that is standalone PCS spectrum throughout most of the state. In Miami, for example, VZW holds no Cellular 850 MHz license, hence my point about PCS overlapping Cellular spectrum. AJ
  6. WiWavelength
    Outside of NYC, VZW does not hold that much PCS 1900 MHz spectrum overlapping its Cellular 850 MHz licenses. In many markets, VZW has only 10-20 MHz PCS. So, no, it is not this great repository of PCS spectrum. AJ
  7. WiWavelength
    I had the same question, but the deal announcement does not specify. I would have to guess BRS, not EBS. Do not pay billions to acquire only leased spectrum. And 24% would be reasonably close to the percentage of Clearwire's BRS holdings out of its total BRS/EBS bandwidth. AJ
  8. WiWavelength
    11.4 billion MHz·POPs (i.e. 24% of Clearwire's spectrum assets) AJ
  9. WiWavelength
    Not necessarily. Ergen could be trying to extract better hosting terms from Sprint in exchange for dropping the unsolicited bid for Clearwire. AJ
  10. WiWavelength
    The map linked above is of the entire Chicago MTA because the license being transferred is a PCS B block MTA based license. However, the license being assigned is a partition and disaggregation derived from the original PrimeCo license, which VZW still holds. So, for example, Rockford and Peoria are included within the Chicago MTA, but those are USCC Cellular 850 MHz markets and are not being transferred to Sprint. Reportedly, USCC has deployed LTE thus far only in Lower 700 MHz spectrum. Why do you suspect that? The markets being transferred to Sprint are USCC CDMA1X/EV-DO 1900 only markets. No Cellular 850 MHz are affected. From my research, the coverage differences between USCC and Sprint in these PCS 1900 MHz only markets are minimal. AJ
  11. WiWavelength
    What? Nobody like this? Wendy's...Sensorly...plotting a quick path to the bathroom. That is comedy gold. What are all of you, Wendy's fans? Fine, go enjoy your Frostys. AJ
  12. WiWavelength
    My point with the 6-7 necessary OTA channels per market proposal is that it should allow for the number of VHF/UHF to be contracted down to roughly 40 and still employ a viable frequency reuse plan -- yep, just like GSM, OTA DTV requires frequency reuse planning to mitigate co-channel and adjacent channel interference in and among TV markets. That said, ironically, I do not support auctioning off additional UHF TV spectrum for mobile use. We are getting far too auction happy. We are just throwing any and all spectrum at the mobile space and seeing what sticks. The result is outrageous mobile spectrum fragmentation and balkanization, both of which work to keep the dysfunctional contract-subsidy system in place. Instead, we really need to force similar band consolidation (e.g. SMR/Cellular, PCS A-F/PCS G) and better utilize the spectrum that we already have. (And I really need to finish the research and write up my Cellular 850 MHz band reformation article.) AJ
  13. WiWavelength
    Hmm, none of my devices, including my EVO LTE, take "forever" to charge. But I use this... ...the charger for my long since forgotten HP TouchPad. Reportedly, the charger is quite powerful. AJ
  14. WiWavelength
    Very true. My allegiance is to information more than it is to people. That is both one of my greatest strengths and deepest weaknesses. AJ
  15. WiWavelength
    Nah, for several reasons, the FCC is not at fault. First, ATSC, not the FCC, set the standards. Second, the run up to these types of conversions takes years. Once MPEG2 was selected and broadcasters started to prepare accordingly, that was it. AJ
  16. WiWavelength
    I still do not get it. I did this guy a favor by running down the hotspot quotas and prices: 3 GB ($34.99), 6 GB ($49.99), 12 GB ($79.99). Unless you are a very low data transfer user, those packages are not even remotely comparable to those of cable broadband, which this guy wanted to replace with a hotspot. When I pointed that out, he was evasive about knowing his "needs." Why be so evasive? It is suspicious. If you have to ask a question, then be prepared to answer one in return. AJ
  17. WiWavelength
    Guys, this is all wishful thinking. MPEG4 was not even a pipe dream when ATSC standards were formulated back in the early 1990s. AJ
  18. WiWavelength
    That is an overreaction. Most TV markets do not need greater than 6-7 OTA channels. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and PBS affiliates, maybe an independent or two. Although, really, outside of the major affiliates, most OTA is cheap crap not worthy of a 6 MHz swath of spectrum. AJ
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    Hey, if a fanny pack is good enough for Chuck Norris... Oh, and Chuck Norris does not license wireless spectrum. He lassoes it. AJ
  20. WiWavelength
    It probably would have plotted a quick path to the bathroom. AJ
  21. WiWavelength
    This is a start... http://www.anandtech.com/show/6568/qualcomm-krait-400-krait-300-snapdragon-800 AJ
  22. WiWavelength
    I am having it made into a quilt... AJ
  23. WiWavelength
    That is correct. And back in the 1980s, SMR 800 MHz and Cellular 850 MHz also emerged from recycled UHF TV spectrum. The UHF TV band used to extend way up there and contain many more channels. AJ
  24. WiWavelength
    http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/spectrum_wall_chart_aug2011.pdf Warning, it is frickin' huge... AJ
  25. WiWavelength
    Post CES 2013 comments? Is it already over? I thought that it had just started. AJ
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