cdk

Exactly. T-Mobile is okay with having their customers completely disconnected from their service in rough locations, whereas Sprint goes above and beyond with their roaming agreements to ensure you're always connected. The issue is Sprint should focus on adding service, even if it's 3g only in rural locations, just to get people off Verizon roaming.

 

Sent from my Nexus 5X

And that's my point with the future of the company. The focus needs to be to make the macro as dense as possible in urban areas, and spread outwards afterwards.

It really needs to be a both and strategy. In fact the information about the NGN plans suggest just that (at least to me). The areas that will be built out I would suspect are primarily areas with excessive roaming cost. The other areas that could be considered a build out will probably the former Nextel sites (outside of the current footprint) that are mentioned in the plan and any other locations where Sprint adds sites to meet license's requirements.

air travel

I don't think I saw this posted yet.

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-expands-direct-2-you-from-coast-to-coast.htm

We are fostering new friendships.

 

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Good to hear.

Lake Superior

Hopefully the densification has been extremely well thought out. I am not yet sold on this bringing sprint over the top. I do believe it will help especially in urban areas. Do they plan on putting some real power into 800?

 

Sprint may also plan on some of their partners buying 600 and then buying them, but that would be dangerous at best. I believe son has a plan..... Didn't sprint just buy some 700??

In Memphis yes, part of a deal with C-Spire. The popular opinion is they will turn around and sell it. I am not completely convinced. There is enough lower 700 out there that could be for sale. Buy those licenses and it can most likely be deployed before the 600 MHz spectrum and many Sprint devices already support it. It won't be nationwide but it would hurt a competitor and give some more capacity in those areas.

Luke makes a good point in the Fierce comments. If Verizon makes a deal with Dish, which personally I think is more and more likely, that leaves AT&T and T-Mobile as participants. AT&T could just decide that they'd be better off purchasing USCC and other CCA carriers to fill their spectrum holes in the middle of America over 600 MHz participation. Then what's going to happen? Broadcasters back out. T-Mobile is left with scraps at best.

 

I agree that, on the surface, this looks bad, however, there might be a different calculus at play here.

AT&T could buy USCC, but they sure don't look like they are interested in selling. If they are interested in selling I am sure they will be open to looking at multiple suitors and I would mostly likely suspect some concessions will be made that could provide other opportunities.

One step closer:  https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/premerger-notification-program/early-termination-notices/20151591

 

FTC won't block it.  (Not that it would have been expected.)

 

- Trip

Right Face

fried chicken

Two threads were discussing the same thing. The threads were merged. Unfortunately only one title lives, but has been edited.

 

Sent from my LG G4

Did you put that donation toward one of the handset raffles?  If not, you should have.  You can double dip.

 

AJ

That would be a yes I did. I am not sure if I am ready to buy a Moto X, but I won't pass the chance to win one.

I will need to fix that this weekend.

Let see if that donation helps...

Updated today.  ....and bumped cdk off the bottom.

I will need to fix that this weekend.

Those people are up in arms and need to R-E-L-A-X.

 

AJ

Sorry didn't know where to put this, but it made me laugh. 

 

 

Ice Cube

This thread is way off the rails now.

It's a forum within a forum inside a thread.

 

Threadception.

Totals are updated thru 8/13.

I got to think they are getting close to the end of Project Ocean at this point....

Is the eastern shore of MD mostly B25? What kind of bureaucracy has to be carried out in order to lite up B26?  

I can't say that every site on the ES has B26 on the shore, but I have seen a fair share of it while driving around.

The new DAS at BWI goes a long way to improving Sprint service there!!! I was impressed (and surprised when I flew out of there last week) by how much better my experience was there. It would still be a good idea to add another macro or perhaps a few small or pico cells around the airport, but I can no longer call the terminal a black hole.