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So I'm from Tulsa which never got official Wimax. Our protection site gives me speeds of 1 to 3 mbps with bursts to 5 or 6. It never penetrated indoors and would only be receivable outdoors. I went to Atlanta for an engineering design competition. Since Atlanta is an official Wimax market I was excited to test it and man is it awesome. I got speeds of 4 to 8 mbps deep indoors (the hotel) and 10 to 15 mbps near the window! Now that is cool! Will post speed test screenies soon. Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe they have space to add more antennas on the sites, now. However the antennas they are already using support 800 (Cellular and SMR) and 1900 PCS. If the RCA deal pans out, RCA members will probably be able to use the network vision equipment to deploy 1900 PCS and 850 mhz Cellular.

Now I'm really confused. So are the 3G complete towers using the same old hardware and backhaul with the new antennae or is it just that the towers have no central switch to connect to (or both?)?

I really don't understand why Sprint would do a half job on a site like this. How much more work is it really to enable LTE?

That's one of the slowest VZW LTE speedtests I've seen.

It seems there's always something new around the corner but for me it seems the Galaxy S and Nexus series have the most staying power due to the dev support and beefy GPU's they usually include. I;m going to wait for the next Nexus or the Sprint Samsung Intergalactic SIII Epic 4G-LTE+ Ceramic Touch+Keyboard 4G-LTE+ with SuperAmoled-HD++.

I plan on cancelling once I get a new phone. Good Sprint phones (not even old ones) go for 200 and less on craigslist, so if the deductible is going to be that high, I might as well save the $11 a month and cancel TEP.

Is the LTE disabled (on the phone or network)? I havent heard a single case of anyone connecting to LTE. I thought I would given that it is supposed to be live in a couple cities and the GNex went for sale today Edit: Just found one This is posted by Bedo on Android Central from Kansas City

That's not physically possible. There is a finite electromagnetic spectrum, waves can only be real lengths. The FCC can only remove spectrum licenses used for frivolous applications to allow private users to bid for, then lease that section of the electromagnetic spectrum.

I think that if they use clearwire's spectrum right and deploy that spectrum in small cells, they will never have capacity issues. That 150mhz should really make the problem more of a backhaul issue than a spectrum issue. With 150 mhz, they can deploy seven 10x10 LTE channels and two 5x5 channels which along with its short range, (actually a strength for this purpose), essentially make spectrum constraints a non-issue. I just can't see that many people packed in such a small space that more carriers would be necessary. Even if they were, they could break up that spectrum into 53 1.4x1.4 channels. For less dense urban and rural areas the 1900 and 800 will fill the rest of the demand. All Sprint has to do is look at where today's hotspots are then deploy a 2.5ghz small cell to it. It would mean no more dropped calls at the Texas State fair, near theoretical maximum speeds at CES, and more importantly no more 250kbps "3G" speeds everywhere else.

They should give it to me and let me build out the network in rural oklahoma (in the pioneer area lol!)

just about tree fiddy

I just saw a map of what Verizon's network looked like prior to all the acquisitions. and after I think that this shows the potential radical change Sprint could orchestrate if it could get RCA members on board with network vision. However, instead of acquiring they will partner which will actually mean a better end result with the rural carriers continuing buildouts to satisfy underserved areas where giants like Verizon would simply ignore them.

Sprint Spectrum hosting would give them a good chance but they may not want to rely on other carrier's infrastructure to build out their network. That being said, they didn't mention Sprint as a competitor.

Tulsa is PCS as well. US Cellular got the 850 license here.

Yeah probably. Unless Samsung pulls a rabit out of a hat.

Galaxy S III? More likely but still unlikely, the successor to the Galaxy Nexus.

Hmm..... If I wait long enough that all they have is LTE devices I could get a viper or a GNEX in late 2012 then wait until 800/2500 devices are released to use my upgrade. muahahahaha!

So if I cracked the glass (already is, not fraud, I just decided to live with it rather than pay $100 to replace it) on my NS4G and pay the $100 for a replacement will I get a Viper or a Galaxy Nexus? Edit: I guess it could be a Photon or Galaxy SII but still better (: Edit 2: More likely an Epic or Design 4G (meh)

Cool. It will be awesome to see this happen.

It looked to me like they might try to do 700mhz uplink then 850 downlink as a carrier?

Now this is interesting

Ah right. Oh well, Sprint should still do it anyway. 5x5mhz LTE + 1.25x1.25mhz 1xAdvanced should be plenty for those areas.

One thing I noticed that is VERY interesting is that both VZW and AT&T only have 12.5x12.5 in the Cellular band (*except in a few areas) while Sprint has 14x14 (edit: 7x7) in most areas for the SMR. It will be extremely interesting to see if Sprints next big project after network vision is building out into rural areas with SMR 1x-Advanced/LTE-Advanced configured for maximum coverage, because it appears Sprint has an advantage on the spectrum front compared to VZ and AT&T! (until you look at VZ's 700mhz holdings) I would sure love to see Sprint steal away some rural customers from ATT and VZW and I think they can (inexpensively at that!) with this SMR spectrum. I saw this on spectrum omega. here EDIT: Mah bad Sprint as 7x7 not 14x14

So I have a question as well. I assume the Evo LTE will use 1x Advanced for HD Voice. If they are already advertising this now, does that mean they will be deploying 1x Advanced during the first round but maybe on a 1900mhz carrier (a through f) Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk