Fraydog

It would be nice for some sort of Platinum Band type solution to pop up for both T-Mobile and Sprint like what SoftBank got in Japan, but there's literally no chance of that happening. I'm just waiting for the FCC to screw up the 600 MHz auction. For those hoping that band is going TD-LTE, I wouldn't hold your breath. Supposedly Qualcomm is running interference for the carriers by claiming GLONASS interference.

After reading up on the issue I'm convinced Stephen Bye should have endorsed T-Mobile's 5x5 prices of FD-LTE band plan.

What would you consider putting a strain on the network. I hardly use more than 2GB a month. I am not planning to watch YouTube/Netflix everyday. I would appreciate an answer to my original question and stop this thread-jacking.

 

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Then you're fine. I just felt the need to make a greater point about network consumption. Carry on.

 

Why should I have to have a separate broadband connection at home? I am allowed to consume unlimited data by Sprint, so there is no worry there. I want the ability to watch YouTube and Netflix on my phone. That being said, for argument's sake, let's say the same situation applies to work (instead of my home) and I definitely don't have a wi-fi connection at work. Wouldn't it be nice for me to be able to watch videos on an LTE connection on my phone during my lunch break? Just saying...

It's all fun and games until so many people think like that where it becomes impossible to do use Sprint phones in that manner and Sprint has to resort to aggressive network management and throttling after a certain point, or take unlimited away altogether.

Most people are going to use a gig a day by the year 2020. Did you ever sit back and think of where the bandwidth for that is going to come from?

Start raising issues? It already has.

 

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Bingo. We already have compatabilty issues out the Wazoo with LTE, which in theory should have been able to bring together fractured technologies and unite them.

The major issue I see with all of this is that the current methods of managing by the FCC are making all of this understanding far too complicated. We should be seeking to make all the spectrum allocations more simple, not more complex.

If hspa+ (which is present in all these places and synonymous to the lte that will be deployed) hasnt caused mass exodus of customers flocking to tmobile, why would LTE? I know we love to wage war on feauxG, but outside of marketing hype, the end user experience is much the same

We know why T-Mobile suffers, and it doesn't have as much to do with HSPA+ as much as it does have to do with lack of coverage, not just rural, but in cities and suburbs as well. They fell a year behind on tower density due to the AT&T debacle and it shows.

 

They had problems with their IMS Core. It had nothing to do with the base stations.

I suspect having legacy base stations didn't help. If they had just went with RBS 6000's like Sprint and just replaced everything I suspect they'd have less of an issue.

 

And I could be dead wrong, but I leave open the possibility that VZW's adoption of removable SIMs has contributed to its network outage woes, which have been due to authentication problems.

In prior network outages, Verizon has isolated problems to eHRPD, diameter authentication, and IP Multimedia System. I suspect the three don't play well together. Specifically, I think eHRPD sucks because it's trying to glue two completely different systems (3GPP and 3GPP2) together. When you do that you're asking for problems.

It's not shocking that VZW had issues in retrospect. They only added LTE base stations to overlay, they didn't replace their old legacy base stations with new Ericsson or Alcatel-Lucent base stations.

 

Carrier aggrigation... LTE-Advanced...

Sprint can do those things as well. Sprint just has tons more spectrum. I don't hold anything against T-Mobile. They just aren't a suitable option in lots of places. Maybe when they modernize their entire network, not just urban sites, and win 600 MHz spectrum, they'll be a suitable option.

I imagine T-Mobile will have some incentive to get low band spectrum kind of like 3 did in the UK (they got a 5x5 in the Ofcom Digital Dividend auction).

What's T-Mobile got that can complete with SMR 800 and TD-LTE. To quote Katt Williams, "I'll wait."

 

It will take a lot of work and additional sites before Sprint can't even think about deploying VoLTE.

When SMR LTE is deployed, commercial trials can commence. I wouldn't do anything customer facing for VoLTE until they have SMR LTE deployment that's widespread.

A regeared rural program would not be a bad thing. Now that Nextel is almost gone and SMR can be used for LTE with SMR LTE handsets forthcoming, Sprint's options are much deeper.

Likewise, the Clearwire acquisition also gives Sprint more options.

The key point is that it doesn't have to be this way for much longer.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/lowensteins-view-dish-sprint-could-usher-new-broadband-content-era/2013-04-29

LOL. Talk about pie in the sky... He doesn't even have an idea of what Ergen would have to do, though to be fair, Ergen doesn't either.

 

There is but if he resides in Chester then the closest site is about 8-10 miles as the crow flies.

I've been there and photographed the St. Mary site. It serves part of Chester, the rest is roaming on ATNI, which is going to go away soon. That's why I'm not a current Sprint sub. I could subscribe in the 62233 zip, it's that I'm doing Sprint a favor, if anything, by not drawing out the Golden Ticket.

I've snail mailed Sprint for a site expansion here on the SBA site on our side of the river built by T-Mobile. I'm not holding my breath, however.

I can check things out to the farther south reaches of the market.

 

So, wait, are you saying that I should hold out for a TD-LTE device or a TDe-penis device? I am confused.

 

AJ

AJ, they're one and the same.

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If it's e-penis you want, here's a reminder... Sprint is going to fully own a megaton of spectrum in the 2600 MHz band post-SoftBank transaction. Pay no attention to Sprint saying "we're only going to use this for capacity hotspots". I sense the 2600 is going to be deployed aggressively in a lot of places by SoftBank/Sprint. While they're wise to hide their true ambition, I would wager Sprint has a more aggressive plan than they may be externally letting on.

This is good, because even with LTE on every site, there's only so much you can do with 5x5 carriers. At some point the capacity well will run dry.

If e-penis is a game you wish to engage in, my advice is to hold off for a TD-LTE device.

Yawner of a choice.

So we can start the countdown for 12:01 AM June 30, right?

Son went to college in the US, having command of English is unsurprising to me, and also reassuring that he knows what he is doing.

Verizon also has a much more sparse 700 MHz cell layout, and twice as many customers as Sprint. Sprint can do just fine against VZW in the speed test game. They just need to keep doing what they're doing with Network Vision.

Who are the Alternate Access Vendors for your area? Sprint is going to try to use those first, as would T-Mobile if they upgrade Charleston to LTE this year.