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  1. bigmachine
    Going from the M7 to the M8 was a much easier decision. For me it was all about B41.
  2. bigmachine
    SKYNETwork Vision.
  3. bigmachine
    It's nice isn't it? I live across the street from my B41 site.
  4. bigmachine
    That's some NSA level skill. Nice matching! Location for everyone else: Hollywood Way & Alameda. 91505.
  5. bigmachine
    I thought it might be one of the first sightings for Los Angeles, that's why I posted about it. I'll post pictures next week. I might have to PM you the address... not sure what rules apply to the T-Mobile section here. It looks like the crew finished the installation in one day. It was a small army of 6 techs plus several guys from AT&T to upgrade the fiber to the site. They took down one panel from each sector and put up one 700Mhz to replace each of those. The new panels have separate RRUs. UPDATE: Here's a bad image I took with my phone:
  6. bigmachine
    There was a recent map update that apparently improved accuracy in some markets, but for L.A. the update was completely unrealistic. I don't think this is intentional deception. It really seems like a mistake. Sprint keeps improving by the day in this market, so it's good that you're keeping an open mind for trying them in the future.
  7. bigmachine
    Especially since all pilots know it's really KDCA.
  8. bigmachine
    I walked up to my office in Burbank this morning to see a crew for TMO installing 700Mhz panels. It's cool to see the gear up close.
  9. bigmachine
    Also, for some reason, Clear never built many sites in Santa Monica. A lot of the B41 coverage in L.A. is from Clear site conversions. As the days go by more and more Sprint sites are getting B41 equipment. Some areas of Santa Monica may not have B41 upgrades yet.
  10. bigmachine
    Apparently. Maybe L.A. is a test market. That was the impetus for my original posting. I was trying to figure out if this was a regional or nationwide blast. There are also a lot of Metro PCS billboards around here too.
  11. bigmachine
    S4GRU moved markets yesterday. Congrats on some great reporting! http://www.bidnessetc.com/35659-2-reasons-why-sprint-corp-s-stock-rose-7-yesterday/
  12. bigmachine
    I should have been more specific. The ads are for the new Simply Prepaid Unlimited Talk, Text and 3G data with a small allocation of LTE data. The advertising here in the San Fernando Valley is prolific.
  13. bigmachine
    T-Mobile has gone advertising crazy here in Los Angeles for their $40 Unlimited Plan. It's almost impossible to look anywhere without seeing magenta on billboards, buses, buildings -- basically all OOH advertising. Has T-Mobile been as aggressive elsewhere?
  14. bigmachine
    There are still a few holes in SoCal. (Insert joke here.) In addition to expanding rural coverage, I think Sprint needs to make it a priority to have leading coverage/speed/capacity in key large markets like New York, L.A., San Francisco and Washington DC -- markets with high population density. Chicago is a good example of where things can go.
  15. bigmachine
    What... a small grid of phones on a table didn't convince you? I'd like this to work, but it's all in the details.
  16. bigmachine
    I may have misread the white paper, but it seems like handset location accuracy is critical to making this work. How much overhead is there to constantly report handset location?
  17. bigmachine
    Last weekend I drove a circuit from Encino to Downtown and back through Exposition Park and Culver City. I stayed mostly connected to B41. There's even B41 through most of the Sepulveda Pass on the 405! The only point where I noticed 3G was inside the California Science Center... and it was completely useable.
  18. bigmachine
    I just checked the updated maps for LA Metro. I'm of the opinion that something went very wrong with this map update. The last version that had Turbo depicted was actually very accurate. This latest update is like a Barnett Newman painting: http://www.wikiart.org/en/barnett-newman/yellow-painting-1949
  19. bigmachine
    Would this combo be used for a high capacity site, or is it something else?
  20. bigmachine
    RRUS31s instead of RRUS11s?
  21. bigmachine
    Explains why "Fidelio" wasn't taking me to the right place.
  22. bigmachine
    So far, so good! Just one minor observation -- is it really necessary to change the email subject line text color every version!
  23. bigmachine
    Take a look at the NV Sites Complete map for more info on the MCO DAS. That will probably explain a few things.
  24. bigmachine
    Marcelo strikes me as a smart guy. If RadioShack goes completely under then he's left with good retail space. If RadioShack survives then Sprint still has a better retail presence than it had before. As far as being associated with a failing brand like RadioShack, Sprint must figure that its overall effort to reestablish its own brand will be enough to overcome that -- or maybe, but less likely, a new brand will take the place of the Sprint name.
  25. bigmachine
    $1.9 Billion write-down for a reduction in value of the Sprint name. How does one even calculate that?
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