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The neat thing about this threshold is that it'll continue going up as data demand increases. Thus, it'll be more "truly unlimited" as time progresses. I wonder if Sprint/AT&T will follow up. They both claim that the cap represents 97% of users, but I think they just look up the competition's sheets and either match or 1-Up them.

Honest question, and I'd love to ask this to other investors that are rating the stock poorly... Sprint's spectrum position right now is worth more than the company, itself. Why is the stock so heavily undervalued? Sprint can literally sell off their B41 assets to pay off close to the company's entire debt (if not all of it.)

As a cardinals fan, myself. I am disappointed with how things turned out. We dropped the ball (literally) too many times. That one punt where Panthers recovered basically cost us the game. Palmer wasn't on his A-Game, neither was Fitzgerald. Both missed great opportunities. But, I have no grudge against Carolina. They are good and I can see them winning the Superbowl. Sent from my Nexus 5X

I think both are equally important, but it's best for Sprint to take the T-Mobile approach. Focus on Metros for growth, then set sights on rural expansion.

Stock back down 12%. I don't understand investors. EDIT: Nevermind, guess I was looking at a cached page. Up 9% as of now.

The issue is the other stock holders read it and panic. That is why the stock is down another 12% today. Sent from my Nexus 5X

Honestly, if they're influencing the stock price, they can get some seriously jail time, if they're benefiting from it.

Well then, TIL. Does that mean there isn't a simultaneous connection on both the downlink/uplink since it's time based?

Ah, I believe you're right.

What I mean is that for TDD configuration, they take a certain portion of their 20Mhz to uplink, I think it is a 3/2 configuration? So roughly 12Mhz on the download and 8Mhz on the upload? Which means in 20+20 CA, it'd be 24Mhz on the download, and 16 Mhz on the upload, whereas B4 is often 20x20, where 20 is dedicated to the downlink and 20 is dedicated to the uplink. EDIT: Since they are prioritizing downlink (which is more important, anyways.) they technically have more bandwidth available for users due to the TDD configuration so they can actually boast about having the fastest network, given the technologies for both carriers are the same. (ie: 4x2MIMO, etc.)

They cite Ookla speedtests as their third partner. I look at them and Sprint tends to be last in most cases there. At least, according to http://www.speedtest.net/awards/us/. Is there that much of a variation from RootMetric's median ratings to Ookla's crowd-sourced average speeds? Interesting to see Neilson's report on T-Mobile's data speeds from November to present. BingeOn and that unlimited data promo seems to really be doing a number on their network.

Poor choice of words, I agree. I meant to say it's not quite as fast as the competition because they don't allocate a dedicated up to 20Mhz bandwidth on the uplink.

Actually, it'll be good for the investors to know that costs are going down, in my opinion.

3xCA, and 4x4 MIMO is probably more than capable. Sprint mentioned late last year they plan on experimenting with up to 5xCA soon, so we'll see what happens as it gets closer. If it's as simple as adjust backhaul and installing a carrier card, it may be an easy transition, especially if they have NGN going full throttle.

The only thing they really can do is refarm Edge to B2 LTE for additional capacity. I'd have to look up how much PCS T-Mobile has in NYC, though. I agree that Sprint's capacity plans are golden for now. I would personally like Sprint to announce their 5G plans soon.

Funding for the actual installs. AT&T had major network plans either last year or the year before and stopped half way through because the cost of upgrading was much higher than anticipated. Sent from my Nexus 5X

I read a vendors post on the Sprint subreddit. Sprint usually has an SLA now for two weeks from when the permit is approved. I would say this supports my observations near me. A local legacy site got upgraded near me and it was up and running B25 after a week when the permit was approved. Sent from my Nexus 5X

Only if they created a map of sites they're going to upgrade in the next few months. Similar to how they had the roadmap for Nextel removals. AT&T was following the map and sending ads to former Nextel subs. That was dumb, however, I feel like reassuring the consumer has more beneficial impact on Sprint than staying quiet. Something broad like this post today is good. It emphasizes that their consumers experiences are important, and that they are working on it. People are skeptical, after the whole WiMax/Network Vision fiasco. I think the unlimited data for all users until March is what's hurting the network the most. Once that ends, I fully expect speeds to pick back up.

The video answered a lot of questions but they still want to stay quiet on the network upgrades so the competition does not know? You can say broad things like "X markets will see over 5,000 new sites, macro and small cells by the end of 2016." Meh, I am glad they finally answered the service disruption question. That was what most people were concerned about in regards to the site relocations. Sent from my Nexus 5X

I'd say it's CA. What does your debug menu show? Sent from my Nexus 5X

You obviously haven't been on Fierce wireless recently. [emoji57] Sent from my Nexus 5X

What Sprint needs is someone like Dish attempting to buy them out, then failing due to FCC disapproval, then Dish dispersing $3B cash infusion into Sprint and Sprint inheriting their AWS spectrum. Then they can have a good chance at coming back like T-Mobile did.

The fastest on Sprint I've experienced has been I believe 87mbps down, 12mbps up. That's on an LTE Plus site. Upload is always poor on Sprint devices because the TDD configuration limits the amount of spectrum allocated to upload. FDD configurations tend to be better on the upload.

This isn't going to look good for Sprint, either. https://www.metropcs.com/break-up-with-sprint.html MetroPCS offering to cut Sprint rates by up to 50%.

Maybe the execs will buy the stock in large sums when it gets really low. T-Mobile having 3x the market cap is ridiculous for such a similar sized company.