Fraydog
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How many bands in Europe are currently planned for LTE? Do those bands overlap with the US? I feel that we aren't seeing this problem in Europe yet because they are just beginning to deploy LTE in the new bands.
Europe has a problem of their consumers not being in a big rush to go to LTE because most consumers over there that I talk to online are satisfied with HSPA+ and are playing low prices to access HSPA+. British provider EE launched LTE early and isn't getting a great uptake because people don't want to overpay for LTE. The British are deploying 800 MHz Digital Dividend and 2600 FD-LTE later this year. I'm guessing most people are waiting for all four major carriers over there to swing out LTE so prices can go down.
The Euro country the most like the US on LTE adoption is Sweden, and they only have 5% LTE adoption, which is less than half of what the US has.
What I'm angling for is US performance at Euro prices in the long run. No, I'm not angling for the US to follow the Euro system exactly, but a global rebanding down the line is something that should be considered. It would take 7-8 years to do anyway so you would have to do this for the future. CDMA2000 won't be a factor by that time anyway.
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The FCC band plan should have changed when the duopoly fractured the 700 MHz bands at the 3GPP. Instead they hummed and whistled along in the pockets of Verizon and AT&T.
I'm fully aware of the band issues in the US that caused the APT plan to develop - painfully so. Do you think I would open this can of worms without thinking about it for a long time?
The real battle developing isn't US vs. Eurasia. It's operators conspiring against consumers. The Euro operators would take our band plans in a New York minute, because they would be able to rake consumers over the coals.
Read this as Exhibit A.
http://www.gsmamobilewirelessperformance.com/GSMA_Mobile_Wireless_Performance_May2013.pdf
That's the European operators commissioning that report. Of course they want our system and paying more to get less.
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I wouldn't mistake the Founding Fathers with the fundamentalists of today. Read the Federalist Papers and you'll quickly understand that.
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It boggles my mind how so many people who can afford to spend $110 dollars a month on their cell phone plan can't save up $200 to get the top end phones. You're gonna spend over $2500 during your contract on your phone and you're gonna settle for a sluggish, outdated device just to save $200?
Welcome to the US wireless game.
I'd rather see everything switch over to standard networks technology and bands. Have the majority of sales setup like Europe. Contract free offers for everything with identical plans just at a lower price point since the company is not recouping cost for device subsidy, but you can choose to pay for the device entirely up front instead. None of this separate prepaid/postpaid garbage we have now with carrier subsidies being the majority to keep consumers "in line".
What does switching to the same bands mean to you?
The original cellular bands are all used up. That's why new ones are created for more bandwidth.
It's not practical for all carriers to have a small amount of spectrum in all bands either.
And countries have different legacy uses for spectrum that might not let them all use world standard bands.
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I couldn't think of a more arbitrary and awful banding system for spectrum than what exists in the United States. It is awful. It is sociopathic. It is insane. I hate it when otherwise intelligent people defend it, I assume to defend the CDMA2000 standard.
The idea of a global banding system is an idea whose time has come. The US will pretty much be the only country using the awful 700 MHz plan. Even Canada has delayed their 700 auction. A switch to the APT plan would not shock me.
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Antenna FUD muffin he is, that's pretty audacious on his part.
FUD muffin, lol! That's putting it mildly. I won't mention the terms that I'd use for him and some of his fellow t-mo fanbois since they aren't around to defend themselves (AFAIK anyway), but some of them are real pieces of work.
He wouldn't come on here and do that.
We have T-Mobile fans on here but they're respectful toward the community. Antenna? Not so much.
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http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1800371
Antenna FUD muffin he is, that's pretty audacious on his part.
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Thanks for that reading, that just confirmed a bunch of my bad instincts about Hance. So the Carlyle Group put him on the BOD? That's confidence inspiring. /s
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SoftBank has to protect their own interests. They would be foolish to not consider T-Mobile if Sprint blows up. It's much less of a technical transition for one. WCDMA/LTE carrier buys out WCDMA/LTE carrier. Dog bites man.
Also, Sprint's own history of mismanagement at the board level has to come into play. The merger call is not made by Hesse. It's made by Jim Hance. If I'm right, wasn't he on the Sprint board when Nextel came into play? Hance blocked the MetroPCS deal, and that nothing to do with AWS spectrum, it was his incompetence.
They can always buy spectrum in band 41 from a desperate, over-leveraged Dish. If SoftBank buys T-Mobile, believe me, they'll be able to, over the long term, do everything they wanted to do with Sprint.
Also, you all better believe that Hesse's history with Son at Terabeam will come up. The end of Terabeam wasn't that inspiring. While I may not like Dish, if Dish ups SoftBank's bid to a point where a complete buyout provides a premium on Sprint's bid, which would be $28.71 billion, then Hance is going to sell out.
As soon as ergen won, I am willing to bet his interest would magically disappear and his true intentions would shine. Ergen would buy up surplus spectrum from Clearwire, then sign a network share deal with Sprint. That has always been Ergen's endgame. He is not going to over leverage his company to get Sprint. He is trying to agitate.
Given Sprint's history, you are looking at this far too optimistically. I fully believe that Charlie Ergen thinks he needs Sprint. Given how satellite is facing far more competition, not just from DirecTV but also from AT&T and Verizon, I can actually see how a paranoid Charlie thinks he needs a carrier at this stage.
You haven't found a good reason why Hance would go along with Sprint's executives in the face of a raised Dish bid. There's already a history of Hance interfering with Hesse, see MetroPCS as example one.
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If the board takes Dish's offer, I'm sure Hesse will go on his own volition.
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"Those who choose security over liberty, deserve neither."
- Ben Franklin
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SoftBank has to protect their own interests. They would be foolish to not consider T-Mobile if Sprint blows up. It's much less of a technical transition for one. WCDMA/LTE carrier buys out WCDMA/LTE carrier. Dog bites man.
Also, Sprint's own history of mismanagement at the board level has to come into play. The merger call is not made by Hesse. It's made by Jim Hance. If I'm right, wasn't he on the Sprint board when Nextel came into play? Hance blocked the MetroPCS deal, and that nothing to do with AWS spectrum, it was his incompetence.
They can always buy spectrum in band 41 from a desperate, over-leveraged Dish. If SoftBank buys T-Mobile, believe me, they'll be able to, over the long term, do everything they wanted to do with Sprint.
Also, you all better believe that Hesse's history with Son at Terabeam will come up. The end of Terabeam wasn't that inspiring. While I may not like Dish, if Dish ups SoftBank's bid to a point where a complete buyout provides a premium on Sprint's bid, which would be $28.71 billion, then Hance is going to sell out.
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But why the Apple hate?
I miss the mobile industry before the iPhone. Too many Joe Blows who do not need smartphones have them now because of the paradigm shift brought on by the iPhone, and that has caused lots of problems for wireless networks.
We also had locked down phones, VCast, and inferior smart phones. Blackberry, Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile? Those OS'es were awful! I went with a flip before the iPhone because, quite frankly, those devices were terrible.
Not to mention the US, for all the current faults in our system, has the highest smartphone adoption rates in the world. See the latest GSMA reports? The Eurasians, suddenly, want to be like the US mobile system. That wouldn't have happened without the iPhone. In fact, Android was originally meant to be a Blackberry competitor, and Samsung was copying Blackberry with the BlackJack running Windows Mobile.
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If Crest and Dish are indeed violating securities law, that should be investigated. In fact, Crest has said nothing about the accusations of wrong doing. They know they have no legal leg to stand on.
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Here's Brian Klug throwing cold water on this hubbub. Though if people were smart, he wouldn't have had to write that article.
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The iTweakiOS guys are idiots.
All the throttling on T-Mobile is done with APN's on the side of their network.
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Another major issue is the sheer number of band plans suggested. I still haven't figured out everything about each band plan that has been presented, but the TDD plans are utterly insane (the power levels required and the amount of RF leakage that would have to be permitted would completely screw over nearby bands). Some of the FDD plans have weird duplexing issues, which means that very tightly designed filters would be needed to ensure that Channel 37 doesn't get blown over. Power levels have to be lower than normally expected, which means that cellular density might be slightly higher than expected for 600MHz or even 800MHz deployments.
If the SoftBank led Sprint buyout of T-Mobile happens, I tend to think that Neville Ray should be the CTO of the combined company, not Stephen Bye, based on Bye's performance on advocating for TD-LTE in the 600 band. When reading the Sprint filings on the 600 MHz plans, immediately red flags with GLONASS went up in my head.
If Sprint would join up on T-Mobile's band plan, while it's not perfect either, they'd at least have the power of pooling their resources to lobby together against the Twin Bells.
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Could tmobile get an iphone with LTE Band 12?
It depends... I doubt AT&T would be happy, but at this point, Apple is powerful enough to dictate terms to AT&T, not the other way around.
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So AT&T and Apple stop selling the old iPhone 4. No great loss.
Apple's likely offering a newer low cost iPhone soon anyway.
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700 A has its own issues, namely interference with TV stations. That's why neither Verizon nor AT&T want it. And the fact that 700 A interference zones are primarily urban doesn't help TMo's case for that band in the least.
The only place where T-Mobile really needs 700 A is rural areas, areas mostly unencumbered by 700 A interference issues.
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So Ergen is setting himself up to litigate again. Nothing new for that assclown. Sprint has to get ready for the lawsuit, or go on the aggressive themselves. I advocate for the latter.
Rumor: Sprint may be preparing to release their own Android flagship phone
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It depends on what needs to be done. If a more drastic realignment of spectrum would be needed, then it could be much longer than 7-8 years. I'd be fine with taking 700 and realigning it into APT. Even that would create a hellstorm.