Deval

How many total 1st or 2nd place finishes does Sprint have in rootmetrics results? Now once you answer that, then you will see that Sprint idoesn't beat att or vzw the majority of the time. The majority of the time Sprint is in 3rd or 4th place.

In what ranking? If you're comparing a 2-5 basis point difference then that's just splitting hairs. 

Something 10-15 points is viable. 

So why couldn't Sprint do the same?

Because it would have left the legacy network to rot, and cost 2x per cell site to run.

CapEx vs. OpEx.

Would you pay two monthly car payments just to have a weekend car as well as a work car?

Here is a simplified question for you:

Will the building have WIFI with specific ports open for guests/employees to use? What network bandwidth are you looking to install in said building?

The problem is that Sprint is known as the worst provider (between att, vzw, and sprint).

 

Take for example a baseball analogy. A team is 90-63 playing a team that is 63-90. What team is deemed better and which one is deemed worse?

 

If the 90-63 team loses one or two games to the 63-90 team does that mean the better team now sucks and the worse team is now the best? No, people still think the better record is the better team. Root metrics constantly has vzw and att at 1 and 2.

 

Too many places sprint is behind the other two. Yes, sprint is better or as good as the other 2 in some places. However, the majority of places, they are not. From experience, western Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska are brutal. Look at that coverage map. Roaming in 90% of those areas.

Eh, what constitutes majority? 

For example, those areas you mention have less of a population than NYC, with 8 million local and 20 million in the market. 

How did Verizon do it?

lilotimz beat me to it, but like this: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6319-marcelo-claure-town-hall-meetings-new-family-share-pack-plan-unlimited-individual-plan-discussion-thread/page-819?p=490146&do=findComment&comment=490146

No more rip and replace. It was too ambitious an effort for a cash strapped carrier and very disruptive to customers. It should have been done as an LTE overlay like everybody else.

Impossible with the legacy equipment.

B25 2nd carrier is running strong downtown in the subway, was at Wall Street last night and parked on the second B25 carrier and completely open.

I'm not sure what is confusing about it. When I log into my account online I click lease/agreement details and it lists the buyout price, remaining lease payments, and total payoff if I want to own the device right now.

People complaining for the sake of complaining.

I can't believe towers are that much of an eyesore. I like the look of cold steel and power. I think there is beauty in some of them. Idk why but I love the ones that are in the middle of fields and brand new. Just something majestic. [emoji851]

 

 

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NIMBYs buddy, lots and lots of them.

Just had a call between two phones on Sprint Wi-Fi calling w/iOS 10.0.1 and the HD voice was perfect. So that's working! 

Can you test SMS over WIFI as well?

Not to derail any current discussions but in rememberance of 9/11 can any of you New York guys that were there during that terrible day recall your experiences with using the cellular networks that day?

 

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My Sprint phone was pretty much useless from overloaded voice traffic, data wasn't really much of a thing back then. I was in college at the time so getting home without a car and all roads and mass transit shutdown was insane.

B25 is live on parts of the Metro Red Line. It seems like it's live between Union Station and just past 7th/Metro.

 

This was taken while on the northbound Red Line train leaving 7th St. / Metro Center station.

That's on PCS A Block, rather than G-Block.

I guess we'll see with next week's OS10 release.

Sprint has adopted the Wifi Calling standard that apple uses which is pretty much mostly based on the well known and adopted 3GPP standards. That's why recent android devices could not do SMS over WiFi as they don't use the old proprietary IMS core. 

 

The new wifi calling implementation will allow WiFi calling to CDMA soft handoffs. 

Really? Has that been verified yet? 

I'm on LTE almost 100% of the time as well, mostly drop to 3G when leaving my apartment building or going through elevators within Manhattan. 

It looks like the Sprint/Verizon model would have the necessary GSM roaming, but not vice-versa.

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I feel like an idiot, looked at your snip post and figured the phone supported B41+B25 CA.

Unless someone made a mistake, big miss by Apple today.

2 SKUs, one CDMA and one GSM, for each of the iPhone 7/7 Plus models. No more universal phone.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

First device supporting B41+B25 CA?

In a typical Sprint market, band 41 utilization almost certainly will be greater than 256-QAM utilization.  Band 41 may have a "short umbrella" in the macro environment compared to that of band 25 and band 26.  However, the 256-QAM umbrella will be even shorter, significantly so.

 

AJ

Won't stop people from standing next to a cell site and upload screenshots of speedtests.

I wonder what would happen if someone who owns a Note 7 decided not to return their Note 7, and it explodes while charging, just as the recall is set to prevent from happening by having these potentially dangerous devices returned to Samsung. The Note 7 explodes while charging in a shared dwelling building, like an apartment or condominium, or even perhaps a hotel. The fire spreads, damaging the property, injuring/killing other people.

 

Hopefully this won't happen, but if it does, who is responsible? Samsung has issued a recall, so they've taken necessary measures, yet its still their product. The owner isn't at fault for making the device and causing the device to explode, yet they knew about the recall but didn't return the device. If the person is leasing it from the carrier instead of owning it outright, could the carrier be responsible for the official ownership. I'm thinking in terms of potential lawsuits.

Choosing to ignore a recall puts the ownership on the end customer. Every Sprint customer will be getting a text message related to the recall. 

I think for those like myself who are on annual upgrade leases will jump all over it, but others will sit tight.

It makes no sense to ignore the new device if you're already leasing though.

More than half.

 

The entire nokia footprint is capable immediately. Ericsson needs a bit of retrofitting via 4x4 capable air32/ rrus32.

 

If anything it's att and Verizon who has the lack of 4x4 mimo capable equipment since they primarily have 2x4 or 2x2 equipment.

 

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Interesting, so Verizon and AT&T have more work ahead of them.

The T-Mobile 4x2 MIMO sites always have been 4x4 MIMO capable.  Both it and higher order modulation are just software upgrades, hardly heavy lifting.  T-Mobile simply was waiting for compatible devices.  How beneficial 4x4 MIMO and higher order modulation will be, though, is questionable.  We need to see stats on real world utilization rates.

 

AJ

So my question still stands.

How many of their sites are 4x2 MIMO? 

My understanding is they cover less area. If the area is smaller they have less users.

 

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They aren't made to replace macro coverage, just supplement it. So in NYC for example, every user that parks on a small cell and surfs the web takes off the load from the macro cell, which frees up capacity for inbuilding coverage.