Sgt. Slaughter

could Sprint afford to even be involved in an auction? Thought Sprint would be cash strapped to even bid on anything with the whole NV rollouts underway and helping Clear too. Also the whole LS failing not helping their cash status too doesn't help.

couldn't give me an amazon kindle fire for free if you wanted too. My wife has one she snaged in a haste before one of her company training trips she was taking so she'd have something to read on and do stuff.

I will say it suits her to an extent but no way I'd touch this thing after messing with it.

They get around the cheapness by not having it be an actual google product, hence no google apps like all other android devices. Also the overlay is more intense and restricted than anything ive ever seen.(signs of Apple like control)

The fact that they have things on there labeled as "Apps" when they are as far from being an "app" as possible really irks me. Example the "Facebook" and "twitter" apps on there are absolutely nothing more than an internet shortcut directing you to the mobile site for each. when I saw that I could not contain the laugh over the whole thing.

Yes Amazon KindleFire has its market just like the Nook Color has its, as they are the same market imho. They are after those Book Store going women that know very little about tech more than anything.

Just to shed light on this theory, I was leaving Barns and Nobel the other week and as I was walking out I over herd a conversation between two women in their late 40s-50s that went like this:

Women1: Is that the Nook?

Women2: Yes I love it!

Women1: So you can read books, AND get on the internet on that??

Women2: yes its amazing!

I stopped listening at this point and realized there is just that big of a tech difference between generations of people as I could not believe how shocked/excited they sounded when going over the fact it could do internet & Books. lol

There is a market for those devices for sure.

Sarge, unfortunately the source of the documents was not close enough to the situation to know the reasoning behind the FIT's, so I could only go by the information contained in the docs. And they did not disclose any reasoning regarding the FIT's location or scope.- Robert....

Yeah just trying to wrap my head around the reasoning for NOT putting LTE on all sites when doing the tests....

BUT with NV the LTE is actually "there" just not "turned on" correct? Or are you saying they rolled out the NV tower upgrade there and didn't even include the LTE hardware on those FIT's?

If its my first guess then I can see that and them just wanting to do more tests on the 3G network w/o LTE turned on in that area for a little bit. If its the later of what I said then I dunno why they'd do it that way less they are contemplating changing something big hardware wise on the LTE side...no?

very nice write up there!

Found it very interesting that they did a FIT with no LTE while the others are being deployed with it.

Did I miss reading the reason why this was done exactly?

WiWavelength,

Yeah I came across it as it was one of few things that has some info in it.

This article just made me want to know more exactly as to what areas they own what exact spectrum and how much of it. Like me not seeing Raleigh(my home, lol) in the spreadsheet just makes me want to know more at the least about their holdings here and else where to try to get a grasp on their possibilities.

When i was doing the looking around the info was so sporadic and even conflicting at times it made it seem like getting the real info would take forever to piece together.

LTE wise though I just wanna see them pump Clearwire full of $$ and allow that spectrum to be used like it could if done right. too much bandwidth there to let sit around. There is a solution to be found to help the building penetration/coverage issues they have with current WiMax config. Solve that riddle and bandwidth issues are a thing of the past no?

solid article. Do you by chance have a map/spreadsheet showing all of sprints spectrum holdings exactly detailed out?

Been looking for one for awhile and always seem to get old info with them or just bits of it, not showing exactly all the details.