Fraydog

What word did you use a few months ago when i asked about the clicking and popping in your car speakers duing a call or direct connect with Nextel or iden, and older gsm?  I tried to look it up but could not find it.

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.  

The key is Clear. 

I think people are underplaying how badly Sprint needs that. 

Because 'MURICA.

It's easy to say "I don't give a rat's ass about marketing", especially for us geeks who care more about networking than marketing.

That said, the marketers are needed to move product and keep Sprint from going out of business. They should also give it straight to people.  Don't BS.  

My largest problem with Sprint isn't the Network Vision side.  I think they're doing well with that. It's the same dumbass marketing people who act like they came from Verizon or AT&T. A lot of them probably did after the house cleaning that came at the end of the Gary Forsee debacle. 

Yeah, it would have been nice to see a single band plan and mobile technology for the planet. It won't ever happen because the DoD, Qualcomm, and other powerful special interests in the US. 

Even if the rest of the world changed to ITU Zone 1 we'd resist. That's due to the DoD more than anything else.  

I wipe my ass with what Charlie Ergen thinks of national security.

Sprint *has* the bandwidth in PCS to fire up another carrier if need be in most places where they have 40 MHz of bandwidth between A and G.

They just don't have enough sites up yet for this to make a real huge difference.

I'll bet IDEN has great voice quality now that no one is on it.

Also, I could blast Crest for taking everything CLWR management said at face value and not coming up with plans that would keep it viable earlier. These guys showed they have no clue what they are doing. They just thought "Oh, all this spectrum...PROFIT!" And didn't have a clue about what it would have took to build all that out.

Apple should release a EMEA iPhone with the band support for Europe's 5 LTE bands. They kind of need to because, over there, they aren't doing as well with market share.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352838/htc-in-disarray-kouji-kodera-staff-departures-disastrous-first-and-production-problems

Oh dear.     

I have to agree with @backlon here...

https://twitter.com/backlon/status/337040391540965376

The problem with AlLu isn't engineering wise. It's that they lose money hand over fist. Same problem Lucent had. NSN was able to turn around in a short time by bringing focus to their business and focusing on mobile broadband.

Maybe AlLu should try the same.

Crest is bluffing.

They don't have the leverage to get the investment needed to switch to TD-LTE and make Clear a long term going concern.  I expect Sprint to point that out. There's simply too much debt, and that was incurred on Clear's end because of their incompetence.

I don't mind blasting Clear management for incompetence. Maybe Crest Financial is playing a part in that incompetence! 

She is a beligerantly delusional sow if she truly believes Dan Hesse is the reason Sprint's stock price plummeted.  To be the expert she purports herself to be, she clearly knows nothing about sprint's culture or the financial or cultural challenges it has faced. 

 

She can't be trusted and she's not worth the clicks or comments from any of us.  It will clearly just entice her to be even shitaeous. 

I'm giving her one chance at the benefit of the doubt. We'll see if she listens. If not? No big loss.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joanlappin/2013/05/21/softbanks-son-and-his-sprint-puppet-hesse-blink-raise-bid-for-clearwire-by-dimes/

I replied in the comments... I'm going to be intrigued to see if/how she responds. 

I know they do not use Band 41, but doesn't Europe also use spectrum in the 2.5Ghz-2.7Ghz spectrum? That should boost the likelihood of antennas broadcasting that frequency being included in the iPhone. 

SoftBank is currently, by my estimation, the largest seller of TD-LTE phones worldwide since China Mobile has not yet launched commercial TD-LTE service yet.  The best part? It's on Band 41.  

Look at the specs of SoftBank branded phones on PDAdb. 

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=4020&c=softbank_pantone_6_200sh

That's the Pantone 6, that's using XGP aka TD-LTE on Band 41, the same band that Clearwire will use for TD-LTE when they launch commercially. Here's some others.

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=4012&c=softbank_sharp_aquos_phone_xx_203sh

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=4023&c=softbank_fujitsu_arrows_a_201f

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=3838&c=motorola_razr_m_201m_xt902_motorola_scorpion_mini

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=4027&c=softbank_huawei_stream_201hw

More is coming down the pike, and I wouldn't be shocked to see some of these handsets eventually make it to the US. I'm pretty sure all these handsets are powered by the MSM series of x60 handsets that have CDMA unactivated riding abord. 

Edit: I forgot all about TD-LTE services in India. I'm sure Airtel has a pretty large set of economies of scale they're building.  

Edit 2: SoftBank may still be the largest TD-LTE seller right now since Airtel only sells the Huawei Ascend as a TD-LTE phone.

Yeah, but have you run this idea by Solinc lately? I don't think they are OK with it. 2, 3 4 years from now, maybe. SouthernCo, want to be in control of their own destiny. I don't blame them, really.

Sprint actually has a PTToLTE system they can demo to SoLinc that isn't complete fertilizer now with QChat over LTE. That's a big difference. 

Has Crest or Joan Lappin said anything about the revised offer?  Or are they finally going to shut up, realizing that it's in their best interest to be owners of S and SoftBank long term over Dish and their completely jacked governance structure.  

They will still have power under Sprint/SoftBank. Dish?  That's all Charlie's baby. 

Since most of the SMR operations were local, it was OK for people to reuse part of the spectrum for one area and have the other part of the spectrum in an adjacent area. with a spatial reuse pattern that minimized interference without expensive filters. Now, my question is what is Sprint going to do with this spectrum after they shut the IDEN network down. Can they trade it to Southern Co in exchange for their spectrum in the Southeast? Can they sell bits and pieces of the IDEN equipment to local companies along with the 900Mhz spectrum?

Sprint should just make an offer to buy out SoLinc from Southern Company, and Southern Company would transition to using PTToLTE from Sprint. 

I tend to think that the next iPhone will have TD-LTE support of some sort because 700 million China Mobile customers would be too hard to pass up.  Apple will have to cater to China Mobile and SoftBank more now, as China Mobile and SoftBank merged with Sprint would bump AT&T back down to third in global iPhone supply. 

Band 26 isn't that hard to add since it's more or less a superset of Cellular band 5 that the iPhone 5 already supports for LTE.  By moving to the MDM9625, the iPhone 5S would add carrier aggregation and the ability to support up to 7 LTE bands.  I could easily see an Asia Pacific model that supports TD-LTE for SoftBank, Sprint, and China Mobile.  

1. If the only other option for the high end engineers is C7 liquidation, I'm betting even the French would accept a deal when it comes to AlLu finding a buyer.

2. Canada had the foreign investment rules which lifted a bit, but it's still a lot of scrutiny to put up with.

Big snake,

Canada is more or less a mirror of the US in spectrum policy. Add the protectionism of their government and good old-fashioned greed, throw them together, and voila, Robelus. I know one of the entrants there, Moblicity, went into creditor protection (Candadian C11) and sold off to Telus. WIND isn't doing great either.

As far as AlLu, they are on the ropes big time. Talk is they could be absorbed by Nokia and NSN and most of the US operations and Lucent legacy tech would be shuttered. If NSN buys Lucent at the fire sale, I'm betting it would be taking over AlLu's Network Vision equipment. It's not a big deal now since Nokia Siemens has CDMA equipment of their own.

Our entire spectrum policy in the US is a cluster.

I am kind of amazed at the quasi-technical reasons that come up to defend it. It seems like it's supporting a lot of cruft and a lot of legacy tech that is being used by hospitals, the DOJ, and amateur radio that could be shifted to other frequencies.

That said, as long as the idea persists that corporations and not the people of the United States owns spectrum, this kind of cluster will continue.

Dwnk, I think that the big difference is that Masa Son has much more credibility in wireless than Charlie Ergen. That's the short version.

Sprint itself is presenting a TD-LTE band plan for 600 MHz. I don't know if it will take. Qualcomm, doing the bidding of Verizon and AT&T, is opposing that plan. Qualcomm has, historically, had lots of jack at the FCC.