WiWavelength

I doubt that this is an issue of strained capacity on the LTEiRA partners. Rather, it likely is an issue of contractual obligations to and/or roaming charges paid to the LTEiRA partners. AJ

I am unsure if VZW is doing this wilfully -- or contractually at the behest of its LTEiRA partners. Too many users -- such as ggore in Oklahoma -- who do not live inside truly native VZW footprint sign up with VZW because it has better plans, neato phones, larger brand name, etc. They then proceed to perma quasi roam on an LTEiRA partner nearly 100 percent of the time. That becomes an unfair, awful arrangement for the LTEiRA partner, which gets to serve up "unlimited" data to subs who are paying VZW, not the partner. AJ

Nextel International (NII Holdings) is/was a separate company. AJ

SpectrumCo AJ

Guys, let us not discuss greenbastard in his absence. He is not available currently to respond. And, to be fair, he was a basic sponsor at an earlier time. AJ

What would SoftBank buy in Canada? Not Bell, Telus, or Rogers. AJ

Overuse or underuse. AJ

Grade: Incomplete AJ

The federal government does not issue many interstate hamburger or coffee licenses. AJ

Most homeowners and local utilities are not interstate commercial enterprises. AJ

Hence, why all the corporate service and repair stores have Assyrian employees. AJ

I cracked the screen on my tablet. AJ

Are the insurance claim forms written in cuneiform? AJ

S4GRU. Costing millions in lost productivity since 2012. AJ

No, but .ca is the top level domain for Canada. AJ

Making public threats -- whether idle or real -- about leaving Sprint qualifies as bitching. Leave or stay, do not post that you are thinking of porting out unless Sprint does this or that. Nobody wants to read that crap. And if you do decide to leave, definitely do not post that you are dropping Sprint, then tack on some trite addendum that you "still really want Sprint to succeed." Nothing could be further from the truth -- because you are voting with your wallet against Sprint success. This goes for OhioCalling and everybody else. AJ

Naysayers gonna nay. Nay, nay, Wilbur. AJ

No, not really. Without going into excessive detail, each Cellular 850 MHz A/B block originally was 10 MHz FDD, later expanded in a necessarily convoluted way to 12.5 MHz FDD. But both origin and expansion were decades ago in the 1980s, long before the wireless iterations AT&T and VZW came into being. As such, the Cellular A/B blocks were not partitioned between AT&T and VZW. Rather, they were awarded in each market to an incumbent wireline provider and, in beauty contest fashion, to a new entrant. Fast forward to recent times, Cellular A/B licensees include USCC, C Spire, Viaero, Commnet, et al., even T-Mobile in a single market, not just AT&T and VZW. In fact, AT&T, VZW, or both are shut out in a few markets, though AT&T and VZW do hold the vast majority nationwide of Cellular A/B licenses, and in some markets, either AT&T or VZW holds both Cellular A/B blocks. AJ

And VZW has approximately twice the subscriber base that Sprint has, so VZW needs approximately twice the bandwidth that Sprint does. That puts VZW Upper 700 MHz on parity with Sprint SMR 800 MHz, both in bandwidth and nationwide licensed coverage. Tell that to Texas and Florida -- which, if you have not noticed, are two of our largest states, where VZW holds barely any Cellular 850 MHz spectrum. Yet, VZW did not bother to purchase 600 MHz licenses to supplement low band spectrum in those areas or any others. Thus, if money is not the only reason, then some operators had other, strategic reasons for not acquiring 600 MHz spectrum. No. Wrong. Not exactly. You need to stop complaining to staff about other posters and work on improving your knowledge/analysis. AJ

So, by your rationale, no matter what VZW says to the contrary, it did not participate in the 600 MHz auction because of money, correct? AJ

No, the sword cuts both ways. If you cannot confirm if/when HPUE has been active, then you cannot conclude that it has caused no difference. AJ

Yeah, maybe. But unless you can confirm that HPUE was active at the time, you cannot conclude that it was responsible for not dropping band 41 and holding it down to -125 dBm. The Galaxy S8 just could be a better RF performer, among many other variables. AJ

I guess that we have to say it again and again. HPUE is not increasing your band 41 downlink speeds. AJ

GSM antennas are not necessarily interoperable with CDMA2000 or LTE. GSM cannot reuse the same frequencies in adjacent sectors. CDMA2000 and LTE almost inherently do, thus utilize narrower beam widths. AJ

A carrier is overloaded for all carriers??? This is why we say operator or provider, not carrier. AJ