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  1. Nickel
    Ah, I see. Back on topic, if the Leap deal goes through, hopefully AT&T will go back to AWS LTE.
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    Dallas.
  3. Nickel
    Wasn't OKC where the supposed AT&T AWS LTE was that you debunked? In any case, OKC seems a little odd that it would be the highest and not it's home market
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    If they seriously did this without Verizon's permission, there could be serious repercussions.
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    Whoa, I can't imagine what would happen if this were to be true. Also, who signed off on that? wouldn't you make sure that you had some kind of lease in place before even considering doing an event like that?
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    AJ, what's the market that has 40 Mhz of combined spectrum?
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    Yes.
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    There's not many non-mvno's left in the wireless game if this goes through. Now the question is what will happen to USCC? I hope Sprint could get them, seems like a would be a good addition.
  9. Nickel
    Hmmm? what spectrum are you referring to? The one where Verizon and T-Mobile swapped AWS about a year ago or is this something much older?
  10. Nickel
    I think you could have a mobile telephony history section where you could go over some regional carrier/operator that would inevitably be bought by ATT or Verizon. Or maybe have a "market of the [however often you record]" where you would go over who's hoarding spectrum in that market and so on.
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    It doesn't have to be weekly or even very long and heck it doesn't even have to be Robert. I understand that he has a busy life and wasn't trying to make it seem like he could just hop on an hour and a half podcast, but this IS the funding ideas thread and I thought that it was at least worthy of consideration. And really the time thing is just how much time you want to put into it. Some people just record and post without even editing, some spend hours trying make sure everything is as perfect as possible, it really just depends on whose doing it.
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    I haven't read the whole thread, so please forgive me if this has been brought up before but what if Robert and other contributing authors make a podcast and put in the sponsors section. I think it might get some members and non-renewals to take the plunge. I think it would probably be both entertaining and informative.
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    You are correct on the screen size. I thought it was either 4.5 or 4.6 but according to sprint.com both phones are 4.7 inches. On the ac point, I have to believe that they made a performance based decision because otherwise it makes no sense at all to add another chip.
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    You also need to take into account the bigger screen that has a higher resolution with the One. Also Brian Klug told me that Qualcomm offers an ac chip but that HTC and Samsung opted for the Broadcom version instead.
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    Just gave a small donation to help out the site. Hopefully i'll be able to give more when I get out of college.
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    I think it's not a big deal because if was i doubt Qualcomm would do it because it's in their best interest for the phones they power to have good battery life. I do however believe that is some kind of battery impact but it could be that it's so small that you would never notice it in day to day operations.
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    I feel like it's important to point out to the people who don't know that the latest crop of high end phones (SGS4 and HTC ONE) actually don't have the modem built into the SoC and is on a separate chip and are part of the APQ 8064 family. Now the next crop of high ends that will likely include the MSM 8974 will have the modem integrated.
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    GSM, the way I used it, is referring to the 3GPP family of 3G technology. AT&T and T-Mobile are the two "GSM" carriers (or operators, for the people who try to avoid confusion) while Sprint and Verizon are using the 3GPP2's CDMA2000. Also if you someone say CDMA they are likely referring to CDMA2000 in the same way that if you see someone say GSM they are likely referring to UMTS (the HSPA family). Although you could argue that none of this really matters any more because, as far as I know, the 3GPP2 is dead, joining forces with the 3GPP.
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    I can't speak for Omaha but in Lincoln, I actually think that AT&T might be fourth behind USCC. The GSM family doesn't have a very good build out in Nebraska, from what i've seen, so being able to have native coverage or roam on either Sprint or Verizon would be a big deal. As much is it might make GSM fanboys mad, Nebraska is CDMA2000 territory.
  20. Nickel
    Clearwire uses TD-LTE but i don't know how much they've actually started. They were the ones who rolled out WiMAX and from reports that seems to be hit and miss, mainly because of a lack of funding. Also the difference between EVDO and eHRPD is purely a software based update. As for the tri-band part I think you can only be connected to one band at a time and I don't know what the priority will be but I would guess: 2500 MHz (band 41) > 1900 MHz (band 25) > 800 MHz (band 26).
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    I wish I did, I based that off what Neal (Det_Conan_Kudo) said in a twitter conservation. I could dig up the tweet but that seems a little silly, especially since he posts here.
  22. Nickel
    The WCS band, last I heard, is expected to be released by the 3gpp this fall while unless things have changed they haven't even decided how their going to use 600 MHz and even when all that is finished they still have to wait for TV stations to voluntarily give up that spectrum. What I'm trying to say is, I would expect to see WCS before 600 MHz.
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    I kind of doubt that, i think the phone that sprint was talking about from samsung that was Tri-band will end up being the Note III. Of course, it is samsung so you know they're not shy about releasing more devices.
  24. Nickel
    Sprint does not have any AWS that I am aware of. Sprint itself has SMR (800) and PCS (1900) and should it finally succeed in buying ClearWire it will have BRS + EBS (2.6 GHz). It also has a tiny amount of WCS (2.3 Ghz) that it will likely sell to AT&T.
  25. Nickel
    Since band 14 is for public safety there wouldn't be much point in that, but if 12 (with 17 support) and 13 with 4 and 25 that would take care of US LTE for next couple years, and that sounds pretty good to me. This could change in the future with sprint and softbank plus last i heard one of china's telecoms was considering using 41, so that would seem to me like a pretty good ecosystem.
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