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CDMA is not going to die soon. Sprint has just started marketing a 1xRTT only M2M solution in responce to Verizon and AT&T shutting down their 2G (or as AJ would say lower end 3G) technologies. GSM UMTS in the form of HSPA sounds nice from a standards perspective, 5 years ago. We are in a transitional period with Sprint moving to LTE, (the newest UMTS tech), for all of its data demands and in plurality with CDMA a solution to its voice needs. What would be nice to see is perhaps Google making a device that operates on LTE for Sprint and competitive carriers with LTE band 25, 26, 12 and 4 as well as CDMA and HSPA radios that will work for Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, C-Spire, and even AT&T out of the box. One topic that I feel hasn't been adequately addressed is the anti-competitive and anti-consumer nature of CDMA carriers only allowing whitelisted devices onto their networks. It has never made sense to me that Sprint refuses to activate a Verizon or US Cellular device and vice versa. I feel the FCC or whoever has the power to regulate this stuff should ban all carrier locks and pass new rules preventing carriers from creating barriers to prevent a cellular device from passing from one carrier to another. A device shouldn't need to be unlocked, ESN cloned, flashed or any of the other now illegal BS we have to hurdle through to get a device operating on a network it's technically compatible with otherwise. Sprint is not perfect and one of my beefs with them is shown most vividly in the US Cellular spectrum purchase. Current USCC customers will not be able to just continue using their compatible phones on the Sprint network because they're not Sprint devices. Thousands of devices are now almost worthless, how wasteful is that?! I think Sprint and all other CDMA carriers need a serious kick in the butt on their device policies. I also think all of Sprint and Verizon's GSM compatible devices should be unlockable to be used on other GSM carriers, locking them locally is also anti-competitive. Another thing. Before anyone makes the "Its a subsidized device so the carrier owns it until the end of your contract to recoup subsidy losses", NO! When Sprint or any of the carriers get you the customer to sign a contract with an early termination fee, you own the device. The device is essentially a loan with repurcussions for not paying the loan which can be levied against you by collection agencies, destroying your credit. Last I heard, you don't have to keep your home ordered according to what your mortgage lender preferred when he lent you the money to buy it or agree not to refinance under another lender.

I'm going to go for the wild card and say Verizon buys them out. Verizon is in a very dire situation for LTE spectrum right now. (all they have to expand into is AWS)

They're upgrading their servers and adding three new ones. So new points won't be posted until early next week. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Updated my ROM and changed the theme. MOAR 4.01 Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

My sister who now has my T-Mobile line would care but...... their HSPA+ is almost as fast as their LTE (I think they cap it at 20mbps and HSPA+ gets very close to that most of the time)........

Edit: or maybe not So Sprint may not be requesting a band 12 iPhone this year after all.

Its interesting to me that they are advocating for TDD on the 600 band. I wonder if their real intentions in doing that is to push the FCC into making FDD and TDD bands where the TDD bands would be much less likely to be bid on by anyone but themselves (lower price), securing a 600mhz TDD block to Sprint as their own proprietary band.

This is exciting! I could see them adding protection sites in relatively large towns then maybe later connecting them together with the major interstates to officially offer service there. Nice find!

You could probably get a used S3 for $250 or so if you post an ad and wait long enough.

Max downlink speed = 3.75* total bandwidth = 150mbps Advertised/Average downlink speed = 0.6 to 0.8 * total bandwidth = 24 - 32 mbps

Sometimes even that is insufficient. My US Cellular LTE hotspot sometimes struggles to get signal indoors even though it runs at 700mhz. What is needed is both site density and low band spectrum which is why Verizon might work so well there. As you may know Verizon has to run its 3G network in the 1900 band in Tulsa which forced them to build out a dense network. I have seen Verizon LTE panels on most of the VZW sites I drive past in Tulsa. So where Verizon would have used only a few 850 sites in other markets with some 700 LTE we have a vast number of Verizon 1900 sites with many having LTE. That means dense LTE coverage even deep in buldings. This, I think is a unique feature to VZW in our area. That being said, your friend may have had -74dbm of LTE, but I bet he had -109dbm or worse of eHRPD due to VZW's PCS 3G network which won't help for calls and texts either. I expect Sprint's 1x 800 network will give Sprint an edge over other providers in voice coverage due to its site density. However it seems less likely we will see these great SMR coverage gains with our Galaxy S 3's. Mine won't pick up a cellular 850 signal before a PCS signal ever. In areas everyone else sees decent US Cellular roaming signal I see "no service". At least I get better Sprint native PCS signal.

Never buy a phone unless you arrange to meet at a Sprint store. Tell them you wont buy it from them until its on your account working with your number. Have the Sprint employee handle all of the ESN programming. If the employee comes back and says there is a hold on the phone that means the ESN is bad. Don't buy it!

As you know I wasn't thrilled with it either. After seeing our LTE in Tulsa and how far sites can reach, I'm beginning to think what I saw in DFW was a product of their dense urbanization that we don't see as much in Tulsa. I moved in and out of coverage in DFW where there seemed to be cell sites on each block but in Tulsa I can catch a signal from a site almost 10 miles away with two closer legacy Sprint sites in-between. I have a feeling the deployment even with just 1900 will turn out to be much less spotty here than DFW. So, having been there and seen that dissappointment I'm still excited for NV in Tulsa.

It appears that after acquiring Clearwire, Sprint intends to make use of TD-LTE in a big way with two carrier aggregated 20Mhz TD-LTE channels. Source

Sure would be nice to see that happen on July 1.

I don't put much stock in benchmarks unless it is run in an apples to apples comparison that really demonstrates the hardware's true capability. In other words both devices need to be running the same exact builds of Android (CM10 or another AOSP rom) with no running apps to compare them properly. Regardless, benchmarks aren't really something I look for or need to run. I'm usually well informed on what hardware the phone has and don't need benchmarks to know how well it will work compared to other devices. I generally agree with Robert's post on what he wants in a device but I would move developer support to the top. with regards to my comparison of the HTC One and the S4 It's the HTC One hands down for me. If Sprint's model is anything like other carrier branded S4's with a locked and encrypted bootloader, then I want no part of it. Big mistake Samsung.

Scissor lift Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

The names are for their original intended purpose but to be true to their current use they would all be called AWS or Advanced Wireless Services bands. Cellular 850 was licensed for the original analogue AMPS cellular network but is now used for 3G and 2G all-digital services and can be used for 4G. PCS (Personal Communication Services) 1900 was licensed to add capacity for cellular carriers that needed more spectrum and for new competitors to offer wireless services. It is used for all-digital 2G, 3G and 4G services today. SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) 800 was licensed to be used with two-way radios in commercial application but could also be used for cellular service. Originally it could only be used with small channels (like two-way radios used) but the FCC ammended the rules to allow wide-band operations. Effectively this rule change made SMR into an Advanced Wireless Services band in that it now supports wide-band operations like 3G and 4G. AWS-1 (Advanced Wireless Services) (1700 Mhz uplink / 2100 downlink) - This band was specifically made for mobile broadband (3G, and 4G).

Finish? You mean they've started?

It will be interesting to see what they do with them. I hear most protection sites use Huawei gear and with Sprint agreeing to replace all Huawei gear with new non-chinese gear, it would make sense to go ahead and install TD-LTE on these sites.

BRS is pretty close to microwave frequencies (2.4ghz ISM band).

This seems absurd. Why anyone would go with this is beyond me. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

This may just be a rumor but i have heard that the reason for T-Mo's inbuilding issues is having to run AWS at a lower power than PCS. Some users have reported much higher signal strength with PCS HSPA vs AWS on the same Tmo site Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Whats always confused me are those plugs. Does each panel support 4 PCS sectors and 2 SMR sectors? LTE in my area seems to be one sector per panel. Is one cell sector radiated through all 4 PCS ports? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

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