Fraydog

Can someone look and see what has been happening in Berkeley regarding permits. It would be really interesting to see what's really going on.

I also wish Hesse had got his way and wasn't overruled by the Sprint board on getting MetroPCS. That asset could have been used quickly to bolster Sprint in SF among other places.

Someone's using the Queen's English. See the EE spelling of "fibre" in promoting their fiber to the curb product.

http://ee.co.uk/

No problem with that, but the explanation is very confusing.

Backhaul, in the context of mobile, is simply the data connection used by a mobile provider to move voice and data from their core network to the node where service is broadcast.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhaul_(telecommunications)

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It certainly seems possible to do, according to this Radisys white paper. Of course, they could be trying to sell their VoLTE solution and not have a real clue on how to go about it.

http://go.radisys.com/rs/radisys/images/paper-lte-srvcc.pdf

 

The major impediment Sprint has for launching VoLTE is cell density.

 

 

Some Sprint phones already support it, and NV equipment can launch it. The problem is, with LTE's airlink, they need more cells. The 3GPP vendors will be able to launch sooner because they will be able to do eSRVCC which makes handoff go down to 200 ms.

 

 

Verizon has an even lower cell density than Sprint so they won't be able to launch VoLTE soon either.

 

Given current equipment, what's the handoff like for Sprint's VoLTE to 1xA?

I don't even know if Sprint is going to implement VoLTE to CDMA2000 1X handoff through eSRVCC. No clue. If I had to guess I'd say no.

I must concur 110% with what AJ said. Also, I wish the US would consider, down the line, rebranding the 700 block to the APT plan if possible. Unfortunately it may be too late to shove the genie back in the bottle, and by genie, I mean the mechanisms that the carriers use to separate US consumers from their money.

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/how-ottawas-plan-to-foster-wireless-competition-sank/article12005826/?service=mobile

If the incumbents could restrict foreign ownership after VZW gets out of the Vodafone partnership... Of course they'd use the 'MURICA line. ????

Nokia Lumia 925 with CDMA 800/850/1900, and LTE bands 4/25/26/41. Quadband GSM and Pentaband HSPA for roaming.

Yeah sucks for them I guess, but it is a good thing for consumers.

 

They're fighting like hell to overturn those open access rules in court.

FierceWireless is such a pile of pro-carrier crap.

See this article as Exhibit A.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/will-lte-end-europes-mobile-winter/2013-04-26

It sounds like they want the high costs on consumers to be exported to Europe. What a bunch of industry shills.

AT&T is just too envious of the closed system VZW has. It's a clear case of penis envy. The sad part is that they could be the ultimate anti-Verizon, open everything up as a 3GPP anti-hero, lower prices, and make more money. That is too contrary to AT&T's DNA from the Bell System.

In the end, we'd have a better industry if the FCC would just do their damn job.

Do we have any constituents of Chuck Schumer who live in NY who can call him up and give him the business over this?

I'm off work until next Wednesday. I just finished dinner at Mu Du Noodles in Santa Fe. Now it's time to go tower scouting around the city before the light disappears.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

 

MuDu Noodles. That sounds like a blast.

Please keep Cell ID's on the sponsor side of the forum guys. Thanks!

The major impediment Sprint has for launching VoLTE is cell density.

Some Sprint phones already support it, and NV equipment can launch it. The problem is, with LTE's airlink, they need more cells. The 3GPP vendors will be able to launch sooner because they will be able to do eSRVCC which makes handoff go down to 200 ms.

Verizon has an even lower cell density than Sprint so they won't be able to launch VoLTE soon either.

 

 

Is that running old TDMA based GSM?

 

 

Nokia Lumia 822 ..... Is there any TDMA based GSM left?

Yeah, if that phone has support for 850/1900 GSM but not 850/1900 UMTS, then you're hitting the ancient GSM network put up by Cingular/ATTWS.

What is SI?

 

I forgot to mention Europe's adoption of GSM wasn't a clean and clear process either.

 

 

I always called it GSM buzz back in the days I had a RAZR on what was then Cingular. That was a damn good phone. Good voice quality, and it never dropped calls - which was a feat on that network.

 

 

I try Verizon Lumia 822 on ATT's network. Kind of wired. But voice quality is pretty good.

Is that running old TDMA based GSM?

If it's too slow you could always quit doing speed tests

 

If the speeds are decent I'm a lot less likely to speed test. Now if Pandora starts buffering I am much more likely to fire up Speedtest.net for diagnostic purposes.

Also remember as 1X Advanced NV towers come up, the amount of channels needed for 1X will go down. That means more data can go for both EV-DO and LTE.

I will say this. If Ergen wins you can bet the house I'll have a piece to say with the FCC over it, if they dare listen.

Why not truly vote with your wallet?  Man up, and drop your wireless subscription service altogether.  I am thinking that is what I may end up doing in the next several years.  This industry used to be interesting.  Now, more and more, it is just dysfunctional and distasteful.

 

AJ

I need some sort of flip phone service if I'm stranded on the side of the road somewhere. I can do Page Plus for that.

I would still be paying Verizon indirectly though. That's the problem.

I want to see the results on the Tegra 4i before I crown it better or as food as the Snapdragon. As much as I can't stand Qualcomm's cornering of the CDMA market through intellectual property, I must admit they're making better SoC's than NVidia at this point.

If Dish wins it's either going to be T-Mo or the Duopoly. In my case, the Duopoly. Sad but true.