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    Net or gross? Do not neglect the roaming revenue that Sprint booked. As long as roaming costs and roaming revenue strike a reasonable balance, Sprint has little need to expand its footprint. And I would wager a strong bet that acquisition of USCC's footprint would make barely a dent in Sprint's roaming costs. Plus, all of the roaming revenue garnered from USCC would suddenly go away. AJ
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    Softbank hopes to close the 75 percent acquisition deal on December 7. AJ
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    On what grounds? This would be an equity investment, not an acquisition. And it would have no effect on competition in the US market. AJ
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    This is the South that we are talking about. That would be Lipton Sweet-T-Mobile. AJ
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    Are you a wireless enthusiast or an investor? Can we stop with the "acquire the regional carriers" broken record? Sprint does not need native coverage in rural Nebraska. AJ
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    To expand on this, maybe more random corporations should buy into wireless. Chrysler Cellular? Frito-Lay Mobility? Before you know it, even some electrical utility company in the South would have its own wireless division. AJ
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    I should hope not. Softbank Mobile has one of the most absurd names in wireless, the equivalent of something like Bank of America Wireless or US Bank Mobile. AJ
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    Fierce Wireless published an article about the author of the study. The guy is a former Sprint employee and seems, just maybe, a bit disgruntled. http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/sprint-critic-defends-his-research-lte-coverage/2012-10-08 AJ
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    Once upon a time, there was the prospect of CDMA2000 Rev D, otherwise known as EV-DV. Like W-CDMA/HSPA, EV-DV would have conveyed both voice (circuit switched) and data (packet switched) over the same carrier -- no SVDO necessary. Channel configurations would have included 1xEV-DV, 2xEV-DV, and 3xEV-DV. Sprint could have deployed 3xEV-DV in even its most spectrum limited 10 MHz markets (e.g. Fort Wayne) because EV-DV maintained full backward compatibility with existing cdmaOne and CDMA2000 devices. What happened to EV-DV? To some extent, VZW killed it. VZW decided to go ahead with EV-DO because the EV-DV standard had not been finalized. Sprint intended to wait for EV-DV but then found VZW gaining too much head start, so Sprint jumped over to EV-DO. And the rest is history. AJ
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    Not exactly, guys. UMB was OFDMA based, just like WiMAX and LTE. AJ
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    If this is addressing me, let me be clear that I am not defending the EVO LTE. That I own the thing is irrelevant to me. But I am taking you to task for bad science (e.g. poorly representative sample) and for telling others that they are in "denial." Dkoellerwx is on record saying that he "didn't have any problems like that in my area of Kansas City." That is his experience, and no one can effectively refute it. AJ
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    Come on, you used the EVO LTE for a few days in one market that has not lived up to projections. Your observations are not the equal of those who use the handset day in, day out in far more mature LTE markets. I am not taking a side in this taffy pull. But I damn well know flawed logic when I see it. And your data, digiblur, is not up to snuff to make the sort of strong conclusions that you have. AJ
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    digiblur, the "LTE" in the EVO LTE is far from perfect. But you are posting from a position of ignorance. You need to defer to members who have used the handset extensively in active deployment markets, especially those markets, such as KC, that are maturing quickly. AJ
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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57529361-94/samsung-exec-confirms-galaxy-s3-mini-is-on-the-way/ Skinny jeans and carnies rejoice. AJ
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    LG sub forum?

    WiWavelength replied to jefbal99's topic in LG

    Are you suggesting that Lucky-Goldstar lovers have their own separate sub forum, attend separate schools, etc.? I completely agree. AJ
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    Maybe you and Josh could set up an LG play date. AJ
  17. WiWavelength
    One of the disadvantages of the CDMA1X airlink is that the network does not always "know" exactly when an inter frequency hard handoff needs to be made. From the handset Ec/Io reports, the network can see that the traffic channel is fading and soon to drop. The inter frequency hard handoff is a last resort -- a break before make and hope for the best leap between traffic channels on different CDMA1X carriers. AJ
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    Sure. I will try to keep the explanation brief in this post. If you would like a more detailed explanation, though, let me know. An idle state handset hashes to a particular CDMA1X carrier (e.g. PCS 0050, CEL 0283, SMR 476, etc.), then sleeps and monitors the paging channel every few seconds on the PN (i.e. sector) with the best Ec/Io. This typically requires no network intervention, other than the initial registration and periodic registrations thereafter. A traffic state handset has a traffic channel set up on a particular CDMA1X carrier. The network selects the CDMA1X carrier based upon loading. While in traffic state on that CDMA1X carrier, the handset can measure the Ec/Io of other PNs, but only on that CDMA1X carrier. If a certain PN meets established Ec/Io criteria, then the handset can request that it be added to its active set (i.e. soft/softer handoff). What is relevant to this 800/1900 MHz discussion, however, is inter frequency handoff (i.e. hard handoff). Since CDMA1X is a continuously transmitted (i.e not time slotted) airlink, a traffic state handset has no downtime in which to measure the Ec/Io of PNs on other CDMA1X carriers. So, just as the network chose the CDMA1X carrier on which to set up the traffic channel, only the network can dictate an inter frequency hard handoff to a traffic channel on a different CDMA1X carrier (e.g. PCS 0050 to SMR 476). AJ
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    Not to denigrate snowtrooper, but he paid cash. No corporate nor third party store is going to keep (or admit to keeping) $1500 accessible cash on hand at anytime. For security reasons, businesses often pay big cash refunds by check. And, honestly, I cannot blame them. AJ
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    Psychology. Sprint could even use the slogan "More Bars in More Places." AJ
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    No, handsets control only idle state handoffs. The network directs traffic state handoffs. AJ
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    I would not count on that, Ryan. I know that we are focusing solely on NYC to the exclusion of other affected markets, but NYC really is a poster child. And the way that the spectrum holdings lay out in NYC, I am not at all confident that a voluntary spectrum swap could be worked out. To explain, T-Mobile in NYC holds 20 MHz of contiguous PCS spectrum, split between the PCS A and D blocks. The only two carriers that could offer T-Mobile an additional 10 MHz contiguous to its current 20 MHz are AT&T (PCS A block) and Sprint (PCS B block). As I listed in my response to Milan, though, both AT&T and Sprint have 30 MHz of PCS A-F block spectrum in NYC, and neither would be likely to reduce its holdings to only 20 MHz. So, as before, that would leave only VZW as a potential spectrum swap partner and would raise a few issues, namely that the rich kid, VZW, would get even richer in another market, such as Atlanta, where it holds only 10 MHz of PCS spectrum but 25 MHz of Cellular 850 MHz, 22 MHz of Upper 700 MHz, 12 MHz of Lower 700 MHz, and 40 MHz of AWS 2100+1700 MHz spectrum. Yes, that would be a problem if the problem were to actually exist. It does not. Even though T-Mobile started offering DC-HSPA+ devices before it publicly announced plans to refarm PCS spectrum for W-CDMA, all of its DC-HSPA+ devices are already dual band AWS/PCS. AJ
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    I thought that your *professional* team was the LSU Tigers. AJ
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    Yes, that is correct, friends, VZW's secret is poop... AJ
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    I am shocked! I have never ever posited that idea myself, certainly not many months ago. AJ
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