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Are u finding 3g roaming on stock prl's outside of the 3g roaming areas indicated on sprint's coverage maps?

Well people say things like "im starting my own" synonymous with announcing their departure from somewhere, if they are absent of any actual concrete plans of their magical new endeavour, it usually means they were sent packing

2 things: -NV just got accelerated on the site (s) serving this area And - Wonder if Son envisions spending lots of time in Overland Park, or if he will try to stay in CA?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2013/01/30/woodsides-117-5-million-estate-is-americas-most-expensive-home-sale-on-record/ Recently news broke that a Woodside, Calif. home has fetched an astounding $117.5 million. The nine-acre estate quietly traded hands in November, according to county records, and had never been officially listed for sale. The news had some, like myself, suspicious that a “fat finger” typo was behind the astronomically high number gracing public records. After all, how could this property yield a nine-figure windfall when even the prized 92-acre Flood Estatetotes a lower price tag of $85 million?After much digging, it looks like that $117.5 million price is correct, according to multiple sources. But the media outlets that ran with this story when it first broke got something slightly wrong: it’s not the second most expensive home sale in U.S. history. Technically, it’s the most expensive on record.The seller of the hilltop estate was Tully Friedman, chief executive of Friedman, Fleischer and Lowe, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. The buyer was SV Projects LLC, a so-called straw buyer entity tied to a Los Angeles law firm used to keep both the privacy and additional assets of the buyer safe. As of yet, the identity of that buyer is unconfirmed, though several Silicon Valley real estate sources suggest an Asian billionaire is behind the shockingly steep sale.Update: Affirming those suspicions, the Los Angeles Times alleges Japan‘s second-richest man, Masayoshi Son, is the super secretive buyer. Worth $7.2 billion by Forbes’estimate, the software scion is no stranger to Silicon Valley, having received both high school and university education in the area. He is the chief executive of telecom giant Softbank, which recently graced headlines after announcing in October plans to acquire 70% of Sprint Nextel for $20.1 billion.While the buyer identity remains unconfirmed, this much is: $117.5 million is the highest price on record ever paid for a single family home in the U.S., ever. It eclipses the $100 million forked over by venture capital billionaire Yuri Milner in 2011 for a Los Altos Hills mansion, which was believed to have been the highest single residential transaction ever recorded for a single family home stateside. It also tops the $103 million paid for an undeveloped 40-acre East Hampton, N.Y. land parcel by billionaire Ron Baron in 2007.

"Uncertainty surrounding the ownership of clearwire"? Whats uncertain? Nothing changes officially until sprint /softbank is approved and sprint consummates. This is just more pandering from Ergen, implying that sprints ownership is up in the air and corruption is afoot.

The FCC filing makes note in the end that 5% of the EBS spectrum should not be included in the review. It hilarious that Verizon starts the filing with "Verizon takes no opinion on the merits of the captioned" (the pending merger and acquisition) but then argues that Sprint's own statement of increased competitive offerings is validation that the spectrum theyre getting must be scrutinized the same way. They're essentially implying that an entity's belief in its ability to compete in the future must match the entity's current customers served, regardless of the non comparable burden to buildout sufficiently. It stinks of fear and despite their insistence this has nothing to do with the merit of the merger/acquisition, its hard to not call them out for hypocrisy. What are they afraid of? Sprint offering fixed, unlimited and cheap in home broadband access in urban /suburban areas where they've spent a small fortune providing wired broadband? Its as though we're supposed to believe that the arrival of softbank in Sprint's world means that Sprint will be able to compete in some unnatural and un-matchable capacity. Not so. Sprint's future offerings and pricing must be profitable, otherwise they won't survive. Softbank isn't going to compete unprofitably.... simply, at lower margins than the competition. Verizon and ATT still turned a profit for fiscal year 2012. Don't let their 4th quarter losses and charges due to Sandy fool you. Whats the worst that could happen? ATT and Verizon have to up those data caps or offer unlimited again? I only wish I trusted the decisions our government makes.

NL03MR478 will be another 3G only for now site ... Scoped it out today.

The note2 and gs3 can be quick to roam, but also deceptive with the bars they show in relation to usable signal. Do u have wifi at home? Assuming you are discussing an airave , u do... so you should be offloading. The note2 is a solid performer with reception. Ive yet to experience it hold on to a signal it couldnt use.

Probably means the future owner of clear has somewhere to divest spectrum if necessary or maybe make some cash if not. This could muddy the argument that sprints purchase price is adequate, should the FCC or anyone decide to actually listen to that whining.

I dont buy that Ergen has any interest in control of the big yellow ship, specifically due to sprints debt. His offer to clearwire was carefully crafted to try and avoid responsibility to their debt. All of this must be especially frustrating for sprint, given the speculation that they approached dish initially for a spectrum deal.

I'd like them to see that the spectrum being used currently for voice all carries roaming requirements, as well as AWS. When you consider the expansiveness of Verizon's 1x voice coverage and the volte challenges, until they overcome the coverage shrinkage of LTE vs 1x, I'm doubtful verizon ever completely shutters CDMA voice availability in some places. Getting people on volte will help them re-use spectrum, but I think we are in for 10 more years of varied capacity CDMA voice. And why not? Run trash rate codecs and whore it out to as many prepaid customers as you can. It would be interesting to know how many billion $ sprint has paid over the course of the last 5 years in roaming rates to verizon.

Cringe worthy.... and people want throw darts at sprint and softbank for increasing competitiveness? This is further proof that most competition is giving up

Unless you believe the device will be stolen, why not go with applecare or squaretrade? 1 year of TEP @132+ 200 to replace a ip5 is 332. For that amount you could pick up another used android or ip4. My beef is with the deductible...sprint has let that swell beyond common sense. And I said 1 year because most of us dont carry a device longer than that and ive never believed phone insurance made sense after 1 year anyway.

More bandwagon rallying against Sprint.....otherwise known as the only reason your clearwire investment didnt end up in bankruptcy http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/clearwire-investor-taran-seeks-higher-bid.html

I wouldnt mind seeing sprint withdraw its bid for clear ....and given clear's refusal of the financing as outlined in the acquisition agreement, there could be grounds to also deny them the breakup fee. It would be interesting to see the results of Ergen's bid being considered and if the sale of spectrum would be approved.... of course, a bankruptcy could be harmful to sprint with their 50% ownership, but given where the stock price has been rallying, perhaps sprint could also start dumping shares. Ergen's argument seems predicated on the idea that dish's bid is more attractive than sprints. We dont even know if its even viable. Sprint needs softbank approval far worse than sprint+softbank need clear

Jabs between any of the carriers over customer satisfaction is rather trivial when you look at the mean scores and the distance between #1 and #2 or #3. The margins are so small its laughable. Ive had a few interactions with verizon when helping my parents and uncles and have found them to be well trained and consistant. Verizons corporate culture and its confidence in the products it sells is why customers who are disatisfied with verizon are not as nannied or coddled the way some carriers may. There are no freebies at verizon and they have no reason to reward loyalty. I just dont view customer service quality among carriers even debatable anymore. Verizon takes it by 10 points on an 800 point scale. If we were in school, that would be a 94% vs a 95% http://www.jdpower.com/content/press-release/iykfurZ/2012-u-s-wireless-customer-care-performance-studies--volume-1.htm

Ive said this before , but you have to remember that people who choose to pay more for a product are going to defend their decision to pay more with all means at their disposal. Verizon has seared into its customer base that it is the "end all, be all" of north american wireless carriers. I dont catch crap from ATT users or tmobile users. Its not just sprint that gets picked on.

We have had this conversation for 7 or so years now in various forums. Is it damaged? Yes. But the 7 year principle is correct. The arrival of the smartphone /data era together with the wireless era we are on the cusp of seeing mature is a new page for sprint. The time to change the name of the company was 2009/2010. That time has passed. The illusion that sprint can "catch up" subscriber or network size with the big two is also now long gone. Sprint will remain a value carrier until the next mega merger is over. The cost of renaming and rebranding would at this point outweigh the only benefits, which are in the short term

Its so odd. Ive never come across a tmo user who was dissatisfied with hspa+ speeds. What does upgrading to LTE in the markets that already have hspa+ accomplish with customers? I understand the need to say "me too" , but thats about it. I guess this new ceo has studied all the metrics of what his target customer wants and believes their current high speed build out is it. Just means many of us are not their target. I wish I was though!

Same here, worry less about LTE, more about making your whole network 3g. This guy is just.... clownish. He needs to stop bemoaning att....the failed merger got u 4 billion dollars , spectrum, and better roaming. Take the roaming away from your customers and see how they feel.

Ergen needs to worry about his company (employee satisfaction, growth, competition from direct) and the bridges he is burning. The services he sells now are antiquated ...as brilliant of an idea as it is to get into the mobile broadband market with better spectrum resources, as we all know, he's projected a deployment schedule that puts him entering a somewhat matured LTE market. ATT's WCS holdings should begin to be in use by then ....what's to stop them from using that spectrum for its uverse services? Is Ergen confident that the cash flow from competitively priced services in the later part of this decade will cover the investment costs he has incurred? And who's to say one of the carriers won't have teamed up with a media company to offer pay television services by then? I have long thought that packaging, say, 20-50 basic television channels together with a streaming service like Hulu and selling it in a bundle would be a huge draw for a company that had the means to deliver it. I think I just put Ergen on the same paddle-less raft as I keep Randall Stephenson on. CEO death match anyone? Oh how I miss claymation