JohnHovah

MC2 hasn't been too bad in San Diego, although LTE connectivity seems to be less apt to take without several forced airplane mode toggles, but I would attribute that more to the testing and upgrades occurring countywide with the whole signal/site up, signal/site down ever so fickle jekyll and hyde connectivity I've been seeing.

time shift

comedy roast

door bell

Thanks, Fray. I knew the big Apple 'fail' at a map app wasn't some big 'Shutter Island' drama that was only in my head.

 

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To bring it slightly back on topic.... maybe Ergen is in bed with Cook to ensure that Sprint does not meet its iPhone sales quota.

short bus

I certainly hope that we do not keep falling back to 3g when 4g is available across the entire network (other than SMR bands)

You've got your Japanese networks mixed up. au by KDDI has CDMA 850/2100 with LTE 850/2100. SoftBank has UMTS 900/2100 and LTE 1800/2100. NTT docomo has a pretty screwed up configuration with UMTS 850/900/1500/2100 and LTE 1500/2100. Historically, SoftBank has aimed towards global compatibility (as Vodafone K.K., also known as Vodafone Japan, did). Thusly, it uses 3GPP technologies, just as Vodafone Japan did. I have absolutely every reason to believe that SoftBank sees the CDMA2000 network as dead weight, since it is of little use to them.

Correct me if I am wrong, but Softbank received 30mhz of 2.5ghz from Willcom in 2010 and as such, plans to deploy TD-LTE in that band with Speeds of 110mbps (up to 1gbps to fixed locations) coming to Japan shortly. Seeing as Sprint/Clearwire, Softbank and China Mobile are all in the market for making the 2.5ghz spectrum a viable 4g space, there are many synergies here and economies of scale that will bring overall costs down.

Here's how to get around TWC's douchery regarding youtube... credit to folks over at reddit for bringing it to attention.

 

http://mitchribar.co...-windows-guide/

Now we just need one for all other ISP's.

What I have found interesting as well is that many ISP's regularly have DNS resolving issues making internet access slow and sometimes unmanageable. I normally alter my DNS settings to point to a public DNS to bypass their sniffing filtering unreliable dogs.

homemade beer

prospecting diamonds

From gigaom (with Tim Farrar as guest columnist)

 

http://gigaom.com/20...ing-for-sprint/

 

..........

 

 

 

The greater flexibility DISH has in realizing its mobile video plans vs its fixed broadband ones suggests it may be far more important for it to acquire some of Clearwire’s spectrum than to buy all of Sprint right now. After all, if Deutsche Telekom is willing to strike a deal with DISH after completing its merger with MetroPCS, then Ergen could deploy the 2.5GHz Clearwire spectrum on T-Mobile’s network.

So the question is, might SoftBank agree to sell part of Clearwire’s spectrum to DISH, in exchange for DISH agreeing to withdraw its bid for Sprint? That would certainly be logical, but with two billionaires’ egos at stake, it’s never a given that the most rational outcome will prevail.

This would be best served in Sprint (through Clearwire) hosting dish network's network on the 2.5ghz spectrum as an MVNO or partner. Not as a wholly owned Dish subsidiary which could only take a bad situation(that has been improving) and set it back a decade.

Interesting...

 

"Multiple sources say Sprint has accepted an offer from Dish Network to acquire the wireless telecommunications giant for $25.5 billion, with $17.3 billion payable in cash and the remaining $8.2 billion in stock.

 

Sprint employees were informed of the agreement via non-disclosure paperwork earlier this afternoon, but the deal still is subject to FCC approval."

 

From http://motorsports-s...nt-accepts.html

 

I don't see anything else about Sprint accepting the DISH offer, though, anywhere else.

I certainly hope this is not the case!

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pay back

Ahh, good to know.

 

That's insane, using Netflix and Hulu would eat that up without batting an eye.

I have had found my softcap (gasp 400gb/mo) reached as well. they do tend to throttle on a basis of overall network usage. if you are a tech friendly family that enjoys streaming whether, amazon, vudu, hulu or netflix and also have many devices such as tablets and smartphones that are regularly wifi offloaded you can hit the soft cap (which usually varies by the tier of internet you pay for) pretty damn quick

peg bundy

I am only 35 miles away. I had my ringer silenced and must have missed the call to join the committee. Damn.

 

 

AJ

I'm still thinking we need to have that impromptu housewarming party at Masayoshi's new home.

political discourse

http://www.sensorly....nt#q=Auburndale

Looking like a protection site perhaps?

phone sex (I don't know where my mind came up with that one)

Anyone ready for some FUD?

This article made me laugh so hard that I had non-stop hiccups, belching fits and nearly sharted myself to death after having previously vomited in my mouth.

I invite Ergen to correlate his brain farts to the present ownership interests of the other big wireless carriers... As Katt Williams once said, "Don't worry, I'll wait..........."

Any reason why my Evo 3D will pick up 4 4G spots at my house, but my wife's Note 2 won't pick up any of the 4g spots in the same spot? We have no Wiimax anywhere near the house, and her phone doesn't detect any 4G coverage, so I'm assuming my phone is picking up signals from that tower showing it has 4G capabilities hooked up to it, but it's just not Sprint. I checked Verizon coverage and they have great 4G coverage, so maybe it's them.

 

http://www.antennase...est=pagehandler

 

That is the tower and if you zoom in from my house it says Nextel, but I'm not sure if that's accurate information anymore. It's not even 1/2 mile from my house, so it is pretty close. Seeing it say Nextel kind of got me excited and I had hopes it'll become a Sprint LTE tower, but I don't even know if Nextel uses it anymore, so I haven't gotten my hopes high. If I am asking these questions in the wrong thread I apologize, but I'm kind of excited to see 4G pop up in my small city. I'll go back to read the thread and hope I can answer some of my own questions.

First and foremost your Evo 3D and your wife's Note 2 run on two different technologies in relation to 4G. The Evo is a WIMAX device and the Note 2's 4G is provided via LTE.

WIMAX will eventually be phased out but the entire Sprint network will be covered with LTE in the next year or so.

bended knee

Negativity about Sprint is going to be the trend since Sprint cut POP's covered this year from 250 million to 200 million.

 

http://www.fiercewir...-end/2013-02-07

 

If you disagree with that, fine, but realize that's going to create an undertow of negativity.

 

I get tired of the "why isn't my town LTE" posts as well but if you go back and look at the big picture, some of that's just going to not be preventable.

This may be a point of various contention. We can hardly equate the piecemeal or overlay type network improvement/buildout of other networks (and their currently unsaturated and uncongested hardware) to what Sprint-uh-bank is hoping to accomplish by completely overhauling its network. The pops will come in time and probably much faster than expected if all goes according to plan merger-wise. This is why there are so many hands in the pot trying to prevent Sprint from a quick and clean merger. There exists a huge competitive threat in what most see as the bastard carrier (Sprint) once all is said and done.