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  1. Fraydog
    While we're on this topic, let's remember that Sprint introduced HD Voice with EVRC-NW in May 2012, saying that it was going to be introduced later that year on the Sprint platform. So far, to my knowledge, EVRC-NW hasn't been enabled yet. The performer in the US mobile market that will get to claim they were first to VoLTE is MetroPCS, and the first to HD Voice is T-Mobile's implementation of AMR-WB over UMTS circuit switched voice channels. Metro's current VoLTE implementation is encoded as AMR-NB, but Roger Lindquist, CEO of MetroPCS has said that voice quality was "better than what we have over the CDMA network." http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/gsma-planning-volte-how-guide-carriers/2013-03-03 I think one thing we can all agree on is that Sprint is nowhere near pushing for VoLTE. They have to finish Network Vision first. I'd just like to know what the hang up with EVRC-NW is.
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    If I turn up any old handsets during Spring Cleaning, I'll check.
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    I'd have to contact the Verizon engineers I know. I have no such contacts within ATNI. If I had to make a guess I'd say no.
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    Looks like I forgot to add "broadcasters" to my list. Duly noted. They're part of the problem too. The Bells are a big part of the Channel 51 mess as well. Anything to stamp out competition.
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    Cellular 850 still isn't universal for rural coverage. Clearing out the 450 band would be the ideal here. Southern Illinois lost coverage after the transition from analog to CDMA. I don't expect anything different from CDMA to VoLTE. I agree with the basic point you make AJ, but I have little faith in our regulators to do the right thing. As such, I bet on failure. There are common sense solutions that can work. I just don't expect the FCC, or the 3GPP, or Qualcomm, to see them though Bell lobbying. Out of all three groups you'd probably have the best luck with the 3GPP. That's a sad, sad commentary. It is the truth.
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    Most of the T-Mobile people there would have been done the minute AT&T closed the deal. The Ex-Southwestern Bell crowd probably would not let most if not all of the T-Mobile people in. Humm would have left for Vodafone anyway. The only smart thing DT did was extracting a high exit fee and abandoning lobbying for this when it looked like it would die, while AT&T dug in deeper out of desperation. T-Mobile had great customer service once. It would be nice to see them return to that. I know plenty of objectors existed. They were fired.
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    Yup. Urban customers are the ones driving the bus. Look at the footprint of any mobile carrier NOT named Verizon. If the US really gave a rip about rural service, they'd open up 450 for CDMA and have that be the defacto rural band for emergency use and the like. Heck do W-CDMA at 450. Maybe Qualcomm can do everyone a favor and put the good stuff in the 3GPP patent pool now that they aren't even using it that much. Edit: Brazilian researchers are doing 450 LTE testing in rural Brazil. http://www.rcrwireless.com/americas/20120302/carriers/brazilian-institute-tests-lte-at-450-mhz-eyes-2012-launch/ The 3GPP has 450 LTE band support as an open item. I'm hoping there's new technologies coming down the pipe to enable LTE reach other than just the low band spectrum.
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    I don't see it as two faced, given that Phillip the Humm was there during the AT&T, and was gone soon after. Legere wasn't around during that era where T-Mobile failed the most. He could see that capitulation as a mistake. It would be like me judging Hesse for dumb things Gary Forsee did. As far as the network infrastructure I refer to, some of the eNodeB's T-Mobile had would be useful. T-Mo did have some RBS 6000's and Flexi's in their system before. Now the MSC's? Completely useless. I agree there. Would it be enough to make a dent in AT&T's cell grid? I doubt it.
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    Maybe. Since it's AT&T getting slugged, I really don't care if T-Mobile is wrong. The more modern NSN and Ericsson equipment in T-Mobile's network would have been very useful for AT&T.
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    T-Mo's dropping the gloves on AT&T. http://www.tmonews.com/2013/03/t-mobile-responding-to-atts-newspaper-ad-with-their-own-creative-responses/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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    Sprint should go with this model, IMO. I think Mr. Son would do something like that... If I had the choice to pay full price for a device to save over the life of a contract, guess what choice I take? The choice to pay full price. The subsidy model is based on a house of cards, the more people know about it, the more they want to get out of that model.
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    Calm down digiblur lol.
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    Read the site policy. Speed test posting is forbidden. I may not personally agree with that but it is what it is.
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    CDMA is a dying tech, guys. I don't like some aspects of that, but in the global scheme, the rural customers in the US really don't matter. The reason its dying is Qualcomm. CDMA was (note past tense) Qualcomm's baby but now that they're making more money off LTE, they won't push CDMA any more. You may continue to see it on Qualcomm chipsets, but it won't be on chipsets by ST Ericsson, NVidia, Intel, or LTE/3GPP chipset makers. Like all good things, it must come to an end. Please pay your respects to CDMA, but recognize a collaborative standard beats a closed one. Also, it's not as if CDMA is going away altogether. Verizon won't go for final shutdown until 2021. That's plenty of time for future 3GPP releases to deal with the problems in LTE for rural cases.
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    The pongs are jumping too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDrRnJOCKZc
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    America Online.
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    Burn all KFC's, Robert.
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    If only people would do that to smorgasbords!!! LMAO
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    Yes. Sprint will be able to roll out more advanced technology updates like LTE Release 10 and LTE Advanced for starters. Now if I understand correctly, most of Sprint's equipment can go to Release 10 with a software upgrade.
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    There's plenty of LTE in NYC. That's the irony.
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    A consistent 5-12 Mbps range is amazing compared to what Sprint had there before. IsiahL, you'll learn this stuff fast. We all had to start somewhere.
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    It's simple supply and demand. There's always going to be a finite supply of spectrum. With that, how do you regulate that? Simple, like the rest of the economy, you regulate that with prices. I'm on AJ's side on this.
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    I don't get it, especially since it's going to be a while before either of those bands are deployed.
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    People are conditioned to think that way because that's how the Bells and Deutsche Telekom does their rollouts. Although, to be fair, the 1900 HSPA rollout has been pretty much by tower as well.
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    Are there maps that show the divisions of labor between different contractors for the LTE rollouts of the other US providers anywhere on the Internet?
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