WiWavelength

Have you actually been to the Kansas City metro? Because I have been to the Houston metro multiple times. Both cities have a lot in common. Both are sprawling metropolises with airports on the perimeter and extensive freeway systems. Well, actually, that is a slight difference. In Kansas City, the freeways are freeways, not tollways. But both metros are of similar shape and geographic size -- about 40 miles in diameter. Kansas City just has a smaller population, so population density and freeway congestion are less. The weather in Kansas City is more moderate. I have been to Houston in August, and it is insufferable. You sweat like a pig outside, then suck dry our fossil fuel supply with full blast air conditioning inside. Plus, you have hurricanes that wreck and flood your entire city. Summers in Kansas City can be hot and humid -- but not hot and humid as a crotch like in Houston. Yes, Kansas City does experience winter. Snowfall varies from year to year, but each infrequent event is rarely more than a few inches and is typically melted within a day or two. While winters are very different between the two cities, they both avoid the "ice belt" that afflicts Dallas and Oklahoma City -- because they are too far north for rain but too far south for snow. So, Houston and Kansas City have that in common, too. AJ

By the way, here is what other people think of Houston as a destination... http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2015-houston-texans-1724117994 The "no zoning laws" and "titty bar inside an elementary school" could not be more spot on. You can go from wealth to trash within a block in Houston. Is the sex shop with the huge sign still open right by The Galleria, your most upscale shopping center? So, you can take that, greenbastard and Houston_Texas. AJ

No. AC is unavailable. He is still driving the white Ford Bronco ahead of the police chase. AJ

Yes, you would. See the EARFCN logging thread and its included links for instructions. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5454-network-vision-and-spark-earfcn-logging-thread/ AJ

For whatever reason, HTC handsets have been mostly flaky performers on Sprint LTE. On other operators, similar HTC variants have been fine. But the shoe is on the other foot with different OEMs or handsets. Some have performed very well on Sprint but not so much for other networks. For now, anyway, I would look to other options besides HTC for top RF performance on Sprint. And this is coming from someone who really likes the design and firmware of recent HTC handsets. AJ

Exactly. The path loss is exponential/logarithmic. Even with direct line of sight, a 20 W signal, for example, has already been attenuated to milliwatts just 100 m from the antenna. AJ

Yes. A -88 dBm signal is almost four times stronger than a -93 dBm signal. Other factors besides RSRP -- such as RSRQ, SINR, and MIMO -- may have changed in that distance. For a 5 MHz FDD band 25 carrier at 3 miles distance from the serving site, that should be cell edge, and 5 Mbps would be great speeds, honestly. AJ

Okay, so that was in Normal, IL. But your previous post that you wiped, I believe, indicated an I-70 mile marker. Is one or both accurate? AJ

That is not lack of optimization. That is always going to happen -- it is the nature of wireless. Speeds will decline with distance. You cannot, for example, have adequate signal to support 64QAM on the downlink everywhere. For another example, you probably have a Wi-Fi router at home. Walk around your house or property with SignalCheck Pro active, and watch how negotiated link speeds decline with distance and obstructions. It is simply physics. AJ

What was the duplicate? AJ

Name just about any market. It cannot do 10 MHz FDD until CDMA2000 is pared down significantly or shut down completely. AJ

You are talking about the PCS G block carrier? Yes, an expansion to 10 MHz FDD has already happened in some markets (e.g. Columbus). But those are few and far between. It cannot happen in the vast majority of markets. AJ

Either way, does not really matter. Those are run of the mill band 41 EARFCNs across numerous markets. So, they do not really tell us anything new, though it is nice to know that New Orleans has two band 41 carriers running, probably 2x CA, too. AJ

Full PCS A/B block 30 MHz (15 MHz FDD) markets have sufficient spectrum for a 5 MHz FDD band 25 second carrier in the near future, if not already (e.g. Phoenix). AJ

The XOHM branding was interesting but short lived. And the logo was cool. Pronunciation could have been a question mark for many consumers. But they would have learned. I remember talking to an average consumer 15 years ago during the early days of VZW -- she pronounced it "Vair-e-zahn." AJ

Yes, densify, probably. Baltimore, for example, is not getting a band 25 second carrier anytime soon -- because it is a PCS A block 20 MHz (10 MHz FDD) market. Washington still has the full PCS A block 30 MHz (15 MHz FDD) license. What Baltimore does have going for it is that it was the Sprint XOHM test market -- before the WiMAX initiative got consolidated with and transferred over to Clearwire. So, Baltimore should have decent density of Clearwire sites. AJ

Yes, but the spectrum and sites acquired from USCC in Chicago have at least partly enabled Sprint's aggressive approach there. That is a big reason why Chicago is one of Sprint's leading markets. Sprint has no such luxury in the Washington-Baltimore metro. AJ

Thanks for telling the future. I guess then those five Fortune 500 companies in Omaha -- Berkshire Hathaway, ConAgra Foods, Union Pacific, Peter Kiewit Sons', and Mutual of Omaha -- and the smaller Fortune 1000 companies that MrNuke mentioned are all going under because they will not be able to hire future graduates of AAU universities. By the way, the University of Kansas, Iowa State University, University of Iowa, University of Missouri, and University of Minnesota are all AAU universities reasonably proximate to Omaha with students from there and graduates who go there. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is also a former AAU member. AJ

Even with full Google Voice integration, I had month or so this summer when voicemail ended up on my various handsets, not in the Google Voice system. Fortunately, SMS distribution was never affected -- it functioned properly across all of my handsets and devices. And, at least as of today, a voicemail I received was through the Google Voice system again. AJ

This sketch, by the way, dates from 2005. The irony now is that Goliath Extra-Large Cellular Phones probably would be doing well. AJ

"Most of these companies are now bankrupt. Others have been exposed as fronts for a variety of criminal enterprises. Every single one of them has lost staggering amounts of money for our investors. But at Grayson Moorhead, we have always felt -- and we like to think our clients would agree -- that when you lose your life savings because you believed in something greater than yourself, you haven't really lost it all. For when it comes to investing, there are more important things than making money. If you don't understand that, maybe we're not the company for you." Grayson Moorhead. Losing our clients' money with dignity and pride since 1926. AJ

Enron. Yes, I remember my broker at Grayson Moorhead Securities said I should invest in it. Crocodile Dundee Smoked Dingo Sausage Excelsior She-Male Escort Services The President Lyndon B. Johnson Commemorative Wristwatch Company Goliath Extra-Large Cellular Phones Rosie Magazine Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans for Men Enron He said, "These are important companies doing important things." AJ

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S…H…I…T…Should've Had It Toasted. AJ

Wow, would you look at that?! Jimmy Buffett and Paul McCartney together. That must have been one great concert. AJ