Fraydog
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Ain't happening. Sorry. Wish I had the energy to debate this, but look at society in general. I used to be utopian about spectrum like some of you. Then reality struck. To guide this back on topic, T-Mobile still has a lot of improvement to make on rural even with B12. They are eventually going to need more rural sites deployed if they have the aspiration of really competing with the big guys. Otherwise they can comfortably settle in at 65-70 million, have a very good business and be profitable. That's not a bad thing. It just isn't what Legere seems to be selling. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Call performance was really good on their end considering they don't even have band 12 deployed there yet. That is what surprised me. Sprint has 1.5% blocked calls. That seems very odd. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk -
I'm surprised the big two hasn't done more to respond. AT&T brought back Unlimited but that is attached to DirecTV and strikes me more as a gimmick. Pricing on the big two has to drop a little more to slow Tmo gains. That said, we won't see real competition until the T-Mobile people steal the top end customers. To do that, they almost need an integrated or business play. Most corporate still rolls with Verizon or AT&T. Business mobility is still a huge profits center for the bigs. I'm not sure how T-Mobile cracks that market without a big acquisition of some sort. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Madison, WI? T-Mobile barely has spectrum there. Might explain why they suck there. NY isn't that spectrum rich either but the head engineer there, Salim Kouidri, is really good. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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It has all the elements of a race to the bottom with smartphone prices steadily decreasing along with increased competition from Mediatek along with other manufacturers from China. Meanwhile the top end is moving away. I would argue Apple could assemble their own baseband team that would be ridiculously good. People doubted Apple's ability to put together a good SoC unit. Apple proceeded to prove a lot of their doubters wrong. Samsung followed the same path, and did a lot of the same things with Exynos. It helped they were familiar with Apple's SoC since they assembled it. Qualcomm misfired with the 810 and only recovered a year later with the 820. Now they will be getting fierce competition from both sides. Low end MediaTek is getting better and better each year. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Smartphone SoC's for non Samsung and Apple devices seems to be a Pyrrhic victory won by Qualcomm. It has all the makings of a race to the bottom, especially when the big boys are moving more and more in house as far as SoC production goes. Yes, I'm aware US, China, and Japan have Snapdragon 820 in the GS7 but the rest of the world does not. Yes, Qualcomm is selling gigabit in a phone but who really needs all that? Most people are OK with the RF performance in their devices in 2016. Even on the iOS devices I see that were once behind on RF seem to be more even to the point where most people won't even note the difference.
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Something just seems way off with the Intel baseband rumors. Apple was rumored to do this with the SE and didn't. Furthermore there is the long record of failure that Intel has in mobile. It just seems like lots of smoke. Furthermore Intel basebands aren't known for their performance. That's before we throw in the CDMA2000 racket. Intel bought out the assets of VIA Telecom but VIA chips were bad CDMA2000 performers too. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Unfortunately Esrey got fired over a tax case that ended up being complete BS. That had much greater ramifications than people realize even to this day. Sprint lost their best leader at a time when they needed steady leadership. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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I'm speaking in the second paragraph more about where I live. Sprint doesn't sell to my ZIP code. There's definitely some in-building issues in the city itself that can be resolved with this coverage. Spectrum wise, there needs to be greater densification. Suburban and a good chunk of downstate down to Bloomington and Clinton are served by this license. USCC holds most of the rest including large areas they no longer serve. T-Mobile already holds 700 A in primarily rural Southern Illinois counties along the Indiana and Kentucky borders like Massac, White, and Lawrence counties. Usually T-Mobile comes swinging out of the gate with deployment. That said, how much they cover is an open question. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Compared to what values are post AWS-3, I must dissent here. I don't think that TMUS is overvaluing Chicago at all. It is an area where they have had weak coverage for a long time. Paying big for spectrum to solve a weak point in an urban area is a good move for them. It isn't like they paid over value for 700 MHz in Bum Fuck Egypt or somewhere like that. Chicago is a very important market for any carrier. Now I could argue the city of Chicago still needs far greater density for T-Mobile given they still won't be spectrum rich there. I'm glad someone is at least making Verizon and AT&T look over their shoulder a little bit out here. If not for Uncarrier I'd still be at $2800 for a two year value of a smartphone plan over where I'm at on Verizon now which is closer to $2300 on the same time frame. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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That leaves St. Louis and Charlotte as the lone major places where T-Mobile doesn't own 700 A. Here's a better list: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/4kzj6v/tmobilelaserchicago/d3ja3ce Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Not to mention the rural component of the demographic. Now if AT&T became the Cup Sponsor, that would fit. Southern and rural. Maybe Cricket could do a bunch with it as well. Same goes for Verizon even though the South is not in their strongest areas like the Great Plains or Northeast. In Sprint's case, their spectrum portfolio and customer base skews urban. Maybe if 800 MHz EV-DO and good Southern coverage was part of Sprint's plan, the sponsorship would have worked. Unfortunately the financial chaos of Nextel happened. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Market concentration is an issue here. Do we want three equal powers or two superpowers without competition? If AT&T ended up getting TMUS after all this the end would be doubly disheartening. It would also mean Sprint would have no choice but to open negotiations with Verizon. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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How much money is Sprint saving per year by not sponsoring NASCAR next year? Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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I would say Flexi Multiradio 10 is great for that. T-Mobile uses it here. Granted it is a cluster of 8. Four Multiradio 10 DU's and four radios. That said it is still a smaller and more efficient setup than the weird E would have done if they were here. T-Mobile not surprisingly murders VZ for data speeds here on a 10x10 PCS but no one I know other than me has given them a shot because, you know, coverage. If they had a similar cell in Sparta I'd have already switched. Band 12 would help as well but USCC/King Street/Carlson tax sheltering has put a brake on that. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Small cells certainly do have rural applications. Ericsson is deploying LTE small cells in BFE Southern Illinois for Verizon. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Just look at what would happen in NY. For the love of God. There would be people initially skeptical. Then Salim would tell them where to go find 850 Mbps and they'd see the logic right then and there. It wouldn't be that difficult of an integration. Nokia small cells can hand off to Ericsson macros. Though I could see logic to take out everything and just go full Nokia in NY. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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I may have inadvertently made the point for a consolidation. Take Sprint's spectrum. 2600 out the wazoo. Then add the T-Mobile infrastructure. Their network toolkit that they are already on the track of deploying like 256 QAM, EVS, RCS, then toss the small cell strategy on top of T-Mobile's dense urban grid. Then throw in some of the technology strategies China Mobile is doing like uplink and downlink CoMP, 3D MIMO, and then toss TDD-FDD carrier aggregation into the mix. 20x20 FDD LTE in AWS 20x20 FDD LTE in PCS 3x20 carrier aggregation in TD-LTE You'd have a carrier in this country the duo couldn't match. With 256 QAM that would be total speed of 850 Mbps at the theoretical max. The fun part is T-Mobile's execs would not even need a lot of the legacy infrastructure. That could be retired like MetroPCS CDMA. But the small cells Sprint deploys would be very important. Add PCS and AWS FDD-LTE to those, then watch the duopoly quiver in fear. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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That's where the difference with only being able to spend $5 billion in CapEx compared to the duo that can blow $10 billion plus is. T-Mobile have done the best they can do with their constraints. Meanwhile Sprint, which still has more low band than T-Mobile until the 600 MHz incentive auction closes, has lots of cells with GMO where they could easily add LTE with a tower climb and voila, added coverage with 1X Advanced and SMR LTE. If anything Sprint would get better coverage than T-Mobile in these situations. 1X, for all its flaws, is still a great fallback layer in voice applications, especially in rural. I'm of a mixed mind on CapEx cuts given that Sprint got outperformed when they were going $6-8 billion a year by T-Mobile going $3-4 billion. I see where people should be concerned but it isn't like money was being spent efficiently in the first place. Tarek and Gunther have their work cut out for them. My first piece of advice for them, if I ever cross paths with them, would be to find the people making excuses and clear them out of the door with immediate effect. Sprint has to have a winning culture to beat T-Mobile. Simple as that. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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EE more or less kills it in Britain if I recall correctly. Movistar wins in Spain (though Telefonica kinda sucks at some of their other markets like Mexico).
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2 year subsidy phone upgrades early warning info
Fraydog replied to dkyeager's topic in General Topics
Yes (reactive) seems to imply that 2 year contracts are only there if they are specifically asked for, right? Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk -
Even on their end I wouldn't advise it. Not a lot of handsets on VZW are default on for VoLTE yet. It will be very very interesting to see how Verizon handles this. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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I'd be super shocked if CDMA1900 was going away anywhere anytime soon... Not sure thinning can happen for CDMA here either. It isn't like Sprint has the replacement any time soon. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
