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  1. Fraydog
    Yes, the end of the Chicago rollout. I know Chicago is way ahead of most places as far as a complete Network Vision rollout goes. That's good because Chicago needs it. I just thought it was curious cornfields got LTE before the most populous part of the market, as well as the area where the most business takes place. The craziness of the urban environment is a good reason.
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    My guess would be that it is simply the largest pain in the ass to upgrade.
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    Of all the places to put at the end, why put the densest and most populous part of the largest city in the Midwest? I'm not understanding this.
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    8 Mbps on LTE is on the slow side for AT&T and Verizon in St. Louis. I've used a friends One X+ to get to 57 Mbps up there. Verizon is no slouch either. St. Charles isn't backhauled by AT&T like St. Louis City and County is, though. I'm pretty sure CenturyLink is the ILEC there.
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    Good to see this is being sped up. When STL goes live, I hope it's a case where Sprint gets it absolutely right. They need to, because Verizon and AT&T are really, really good there.
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    I think it's definitely worth something in the future. That's a big reason why they want it in the spectrum caps. Verizon and AT&T would try to push out all the EBS usage and force that band into something like Europe's band plan, then try to buy the FD-LTE blocks, leaving Sprint with the TD-LTE spectrum. That's my first guess. I'm not sure it's obstructionist in the purest sense.
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    100 MM for a house? Even if I was rich I'd live in a crusty old house I'd modernize somewhat, like Steve Jobs' mansion. Maybe my vice would be a nice car. Maybe. Maybe a SL65.
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    I have no problem with the DOJ investigating, but if foreign ownership was/is an issue, why approve Voicestream to T-Mobile? Also, the Huawei comparison doesn't hold for me. Huawei is owned by the Chinese government, SoftBank by an investor who went to college in the US and is very friendly to US interests. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
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    It might hurt VZW coverage a little bit. They can put up towers IMO, they have a monopolistic lock on Southern Illinois, they can deal with being a duopoly and make almost as much money.
  10. Fraydog
    Yeah, that guy... Seriously, why don't one of these investment firms give you a call and see if you would work for them? I know you'd be loath to take such an offer, but why not?
  11. Fraydog
    Since I live in the ATNI area that's part of the transaction, I'll comment. First off, ATNI botched integration so poorly that even AT&T would look better. Now if Sprint had been announced as the buyer, I'd have no issues with that either, but let's face it, Sprint has bigger fish to fry at the present time. That's a big reason why Southern Illinois, with the exception of Carbondale being a college town with Chicago transplants, is not a big area for Sprint coverage. I assume the 3G roaming will be intact for the length of the current agreement between ATNI. After that... I don't know if it makes sense for Sprint to do anything coverage wise in that area other than a 1X agreement with AT&T or Verizon. It's simply too small, it's shrinking in population, and too rural. I remember having the debate about Sprint not natively serving Chester with AJ. He was right. Short of some local telco's doing a Shentel like setup with Sprint, I don't see how you can profitably serve that area. Through most of Southern Illinois, all this deal does is draw AT&T even with Verizon on spectrum and they'll be starting far behind the Big Red Monopoly here on customers as Alltel bled people away like crazy. At least someone will be able to compete with Verizon here. We're simply trading in a monopoly for a duopoly. That's all. At this point, given the degradation of Verizon service where I live, I'd take the duopoly. Maybe it will get Verizon kicking in LTE deployment where I live. I hope so. 98% of the people here have Verizon and the old 3G network is congested.
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    I live in the land of Chocolate only, I understand completely. I am looking to bolt from VZW, but the only way I can move to Sprint is to literally move. I could go to AT&T, but they aren't any better here, and T-Mo is a big fat ball of EDGE. Alltel doesn't have any real quality phones to speak of here. They're the closest thing to Sprint in Chester, but they have lousy phones and worse coverage. Most of the time I'd be roaming on Sprint anyway. So yeah, I'm stuck. I'll wait until the bitter end but I'm probably going to have to sign another deal with Satan, I mean Big Red.
  13. Fraydog
    That's what normal people are thinking that don't read boards like this. Please don't shoot the messenger.
  14. Fraydog
    This sounds a lot like what I hear from my family in Kirkwood that's still on Sprint. Verizon and AT&T's LTE has tested great there, and T-Mobile is really going bananas with the refarm. Most of the people at the table couldn't believe the family members that did even renewed with Sprint. I tried using some of the knowledge I learned on here to calm the table down, but most of them were like "Why didn't you go to AT&T?" Keep in mind AT&T and Verizon are both really good here. I just hope something gets moving soon. Maybe acquiring the USCC spectrum will help.
  15. Fraydog
    http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1765908-Nextel-iDEN-Life-On-A-Dying-Network?p=15008451#post15008451 I kept the light on in the HoFo thread about the Nextel Dying Network article on Pocketnow. The author of the article, Michael Fisher, has popped in the thread a few times. He'll do another story when the Nextel platform shuts down.
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    I was never defending the Boost Mobile garbage, which hurt PTT for serious business uses because it overloaded the Nextel Platform. QChat can be adapted for LTE, and it's already a VoIP platform. What would LTE help? Obviously, it would lower latency below the range it's on for TDMA-based IDEN, which CDMA 1X Advanced PTT doesn't help.
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    They already have a good chunk of the Nextel consumers on the Sprint platform. I'm saying there's a difference between "handle" and "optimal", That's all. IDEN is a dying tech, that doesn't mean all PTT has to die. Now whether you think it should or not is a separate opinion.
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    That was only true after the SoftBank investment. Would that be optimal, however? Obviously not. Sprint cares; otherwise, they would not push QChat.
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    It would be nice if this test were run with more modern handsets in an area with better LTE coverage, like South Korea where active VoLTE networks are deployed. Then we can see where the true gap in battery consumption is on handsets that use 28nm basebands.
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    Again, you're confusing IDEN with PTT. Sprint does need the big corporate accounts and FEMA that has PTT. Otherwise you would not have QChat on the Sprint network. PTT over LTE is an option once you deploy that 800 MHz spectrum anyway. You need to have Network Vision complete first.
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    That still doesn't mean it should be ignored. There are good solutions for PTT over LTE from the public safety side of things that will work eventually. I'm not arguing for Nextel, all I'm saying is that PTT is a tool. That's it. Doesn't deserve strong feelings one way or the other, IMO.
  22. Fraydog
    Don't feel bad, that's faster than EV-DO for Verizon is through most of St. Louis. Far faster than where I live, actually.
  23. Fraydog
    Yup. If anyone finds any LTE work going on in St. Louis it will be news to us all.
  24. Fraydog
    I think PTT doesn't have to be on all phones. Well it can be as a OTT option that could be downloaded over the Play Store or iTunes, but I'm not for baking it in all phones. That's crazy. As far as lowering the Nextel fees, that was a panic move, but it's mostly in the past now. I just don't think PTT is "passé", I'm not calling a service used by first responders and big corporate clients "passé." The future is PTT over LTE, but the technology isn't there yet, sort of like VoLTE. All QChat really needs to do is be a bridge to the future.
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    If Sprint could revive it, it could be a powerful differentiator. I do not understand the hate for PTT as a service. To me, Sprint needs all the positive buzz it can get. I completely understand the desire to retire IDEN but there's still some big clients who provide money for Sprint who can be served by the Direct Connect service.
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