ChadBroChillz

Great article, but the comments made my head hurt.

With Sprint now owning 100% of clearwire, I do not believe they are going to put S-band on their phones. If they are going to add an outside band, then I believe it will be 750, so they can roam on Verizon's LTE network.

I could see sprint divesting some/most of its EBS. I doubt they will sell off any of their BRS though. 60Mhz of BRS nationwide would be plenty of capacity. Prior to ATT buying up WCS from Nextwave, I believe they would make a play at dish's spectrum, but I believe now that ATT will focus on their WCS. I doubt they would be able to get the equipment necessary to deploy AWS-4 faster than WCS, which would be the only reason to go after Dish's spectrum.

2.2 billion dollar price tag plus 5.5 billion in debt is where I got the 7.7 billion. I doubt they are going to sell the spectrum for a loss.

Why would sprint sell the spectrum? Sprint needs that spectrum. Sprint does not have boat loads of spectrum just laying around. And do you believe dish or directv is going to pay top dollar for that spectrum? Sprint would need at least 7.7 billion for the deal to remotely make any sense.

I am doing a happy dance at this news. So glad clearwire is gone. I wonder if this means that sprint will pass on the h block in areas where they have 30MHz of PCS A-F.

This news has me even more excited for Network Vision part deux. 20MHz TD-lte on every tower would be amazing. It would be awesome for sprint to go from slowest speeds to dusting ATT/Verizon in speeds. I bet that would whip the smug look off Randall Stephenson's face.

Telefonica execs warn tmobile over getting rid of subsidy. http://www.citeworld...onica-exec-says

I am going on a limb here, but what if they are bringing clear back inside to implement the original network vision plan. Maybe I interpreted the slides/video wrong, but it always seemed to me that sprint wanted to have 2.5Ghz on every site. 2.5Ghz would allow them to beat the competition on speed( which Son did mention in his Sprint/SoftBank merger presentation). Tmobile has gone on record saying they plan on deploying a 20x20 LTE network.

Data caps are inevitable. Unlimited data is on borrowed time. There are more people with the mentality of" I pay for it, so I am going to use it as much as I want" over people thinking of other people who are on the network. I doubt Sprint will let their network get to the crippling point as it did previously to keep unlimited data. They will cap data long before that become a problem. I just hope sprint is nicer with price and caps than ATT/Verizon.

You are missing the 8.405 million wholesale/affiliate accounts. http://investors.sprint.com/Cache/1001169639.PDF?D=&O=PDF&iid=4057219&Y=&T=&fid=1001169639

He was correct. Sprint has almost 56 million customers from all sources. 52.9 million from the Sprint brand and 3.1 million from the Nextel brand. Since they are already planning on turning off the network in june 2013, then I feel like it is worth it to try and keep as many of these customers are possible before shutoff date.

Even More were subsidized plans. You are thinking of the Even More Plus. I had one of those plans when I had a Mytouch 4G. I loved it since my bill never went up. Always paid 65.35 every month for 500min/unlimited txt/data(5gb full speed). I would probably still be a tmobile customer if they did not force me to have a contract with the value plan. iPhone plays a part, but they are losing more customers now than when they were in the middle of the ATT buyout with those old plans. I believe the combination of poorer customer service, heavily pushing value plans, and decreasing how much they subsidize their phones for Classic plans are causing people to leave. http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/08/t-mobile-usa-q3-2012-earnings-revenue-down-6-4-percent-to-4-9/

I wish tmobile good luck on this path, but I see them crashing and burning. They have been losing around half a million branded contract customers the past few quarters. I have a gut feeling this is only going to make this worse instead of better. The sticker shock of seeing phones at 500+ dollars is going to make people walk right out the door and into an ATT/Verizon/Sprint store.

ATT said they are deploying LTE-A, but did not say it will be 100Mbps. ATT( to my knowledge) do not currently have access to enough free spectrum to build an LTE-A network with speeds in the 100Mbps by 2013.

Blockbusters fall from grace was always puzzling to me. Even when Netflix became dominate, I believed they could have competed. They had infrastructure in place to beat netflix and redbox. Sign streaming deals with production companies, then expand your kiosks, while reducing the amount of stores you have, and finally combine all these services into one package. That could have easily taken down netflix and redbox a peg or two.

The whole switching to value plans only is dumb, and I actually am a fan of the idea of value plans. I used to switch my phones every few months, so saving money on my monthly bill was an awesome concept to me.( one of the reasons I was with Tmo back when they were called Even More Plus plans and had no ETF). I think tmobile is throwing in the towel on the postpaid game. They are switching to a prepaid company. Ever since they announced the value plans and started show casing them, it seems like they have been struggling to not lose postpaid customers. They said that 80% of the activations are value plan, but they did not mention that they lost 600k+ subscribers last quarter. Value plan is not working, and people are leaving tmobile.

Tmobile is moving to 100% value plans. They are getting the iPhone because now they do not have to subsidize the device. In one day tmobile gains my interest, then loses it the in an hour. Value plans are nice, but I refuse to sign a contract with an ETF when I am bringing my own device.

I do not buy the whole investing to get nationwide coverage. They do not even have Nationwide spectrum. Maybe spectrum sharing on CDMA. I am guess a box of Motorola ic902s fell of a truck 5+ years ago, and SouthernLinc has been saving them ever since.

If the Rumor is true, then I believe DT well settle this by selling some PCS. It would probably be cheaper than being forced to pay Metro an extra 20% of the new company.

I think it would be cool to see an icon that says 4G, but it was raised to the LTE power.

lol @ sprint you mad bro, when they shut down his whole operation for months. I wouldn't be talking crap if I was him. It is like when someone talks crap, then gets beat up, and still talks crap.

I believe 6ish mhz of unpaired 700mhz. I do not believe it is nationwide either. They also own 40mhz of S-band/AWS-4, which I believe is currently 2000-2020 to 2200-2220. However, that could be moved to 2005-2025 if sprint is able to convince the FCC to use the 2000-2005 as a buffer and sell off the PCS H block.

How are they going to get it rolling out by 2013, when Dish is not planning on starting their buildout until 2016?

If they want to rival ATT/Verizon, then relying on Dish is not the way to go.