Fraydog

T-Mobile was all for spectrum hoarding when they were wanting to merge with AT&T. Now they are against it. Well played, Phillip Humm. I also notice none of these protests are against AT&T. Are they operating under the assumption that if 2013 leads to a change at the White House and FCC, that they will try again? It's not out of my mind.

A Galaxy Note running on a S4 MSM8960 would be great.

Where is St. Louis on the grid? On a side note, I had a friend come down to Carbondale for SIU's graduation. His phone worked great. My 4S became a paperweight on the EV-DO network there and VZW support told me to get a 4G LTE device.

Excellent.

Robert do you know what will happen with existing Sprint Rural Alliance members?

Then what the heck is Sprint ever going to do if they want to expand coverage in rural areas? If they pull off Network Vision, would they be in better position to acquire rural carriers? It's a shame that you have Verizon aggressively moving forward with the LTEiRA Trojan Horse and Sprint is pulling back. I just don't see why Sprint isn't just hoarding as much spectrum as they can including any 700 A they can get their hands on.

LOL I just hope Sprint can keep track of all their piggy banks.

Is Sprint a GSMA member already?

The pixel density is almost as much on the Nexus. It may be more on the Rezound. I think there would be a subset that would react negatively within the Apple fanbase if the screen size grew. The real problem is that they're using 960x640 resolution when ICS is using 1280x720 as the standard. When people port apps from one OS to the other, what will be gained and lost?

I am guessing MobileNation is deploying NV equipment. I have not seen a site setup of theirs to see yet. Sprint left 20 MHz of frequency to themselves in the license partitioning. Therefore, I don't think overlap areas would be that much of an issue if Sprint itself deployed here. Sprint already offers service in 62233 albeit limited so I am pretty sure I could buy Sprint service even if MobileNation set up the tower here and not Sprint. I would rather have Sprint with their better phone options. The cost difference is not that much lower for MobileNation based on what they are selling in Tennessee.

Hard for me to feel sorry for Leap. They just never struck me as an outfit that was anything but shady.

OK AJ, that sounds a lot more promising than what I thought at first. I was envisioning a nightmare scenario where devices didn't work from one continent to the other in the 2600 band. If I remember correctly, TDD is more efficient in spectrum usage, but FDD is generally faster at theoretical maximums.

I don't see why we can't take some of the Clear spectrum and convert it to FDD-LTE. That would unlock some of the hidden value in Clear. Especially if that FDD corresponds to Europe's 2600 band. Can't the Feds just assist and move EBS and BRS government users into the TDD channels that corresponds with Europe's?

To be fair, one could make the case Motorola and Samsung are playing hardball with vital 3G patents as well. http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2786970/FRAND-smartphone-industry-apple-motorola-samsung

The short version is that some of these patents should have never been granted. The slide to unlock one, in particular, was ridiculous. It is what happens when people not technically competent have the authority to grant patents.

Has anyone read the complaint about the Galaxy Nexus filed by Apple?

AT&T just can't get past the Whitacre model of business. I would rather see them invest in their own network and try to reverse their industry lagging customer satisfaction. Oh what do I know, I'm just a mindless amateur.

If Clear is using only 30 MHz of spectrum, what's stopping them from converting some of that spectrum to FDD-LTE corresponding with European spectrum?

We will see what happens. I think two things need to occur before we see anything here. 1. Mobilenation opens for business here and we see their full deployment. They're already up and running in Tennessee and Kentucky, and the co-ops that founded them are based in Southern Illinois, the same co-ops that ran First Cellular and sold it to Alltel. See the "future regional coverage" on http://mymobilenation.com as an example. The closest tower these guys have is 10 miles away in Steeleville. 2. Network Vision deploys on the St. Mary's site and Sprint evaluates what kind of mileage they can get out of NV on the existing site. I don't know how Mobilenation's build corresponds with Sprint's. I know they also signed a deal with Lightsquared but I imagine that quietly went up in smoke.

Honestly, what's the point of Sprint carrying the Lumia at this point? May as well wait for LTE to go live, then Sprint and Nokia can launch a LTE enabled Lumia 900 that also runs on CDMA.

The terrain might not allow that, honestly I would be shocked if the 800 MHz ran all the way through. The current Sprint signal hits the river and pretty much stops, the town is on a very tall bluff and signal hits the bluff and stops. Then Chester runs away from the river for 2 miles to the NE. AT&T has a much closer site on the south bluff 7 miles away to the south. It is 4G HSPA+. The HSPA+ only makes it halfway through town, it actually cuts out right through downtown, a mile away from the river. If AT&T's 850 signal can't make it I'm not betting on Sprint's site which is in Saint Mary's, MO, about 10 miles away from town to have SMR make it that far. Of course AT&T doesn't own the CLR B in the CMA we are in, and ATNI dba as Alltel has basically gave up on providing service here and doesn't cover the whole town either. T-Mobile has only had service here since 2010, which is the perfect site for NV because it sits atop the bluffs. T-Mobile actually has the 2nd best coverage to VZW here but is only EDGE for data. Verizon has a natural monopoly here because everyone else blew it, more or less. In other words, it's a nice mess for Sprint to actually come into, the SMR spectrum is the only real beachhead that exists here against Verizon. With the only bridge across the Mississippi between Chester and Cape Girardeau, it's a nice place to cut into and I believe the cutting of roaming costs would pay for the tower in the long run. Right now, Sprint roams on Alltel, but that isn't viable for anyone to buy service here. Sprint will let you order with our zip code but if you didn't live in native coverage you would eventually get the boot, which really disqualifies 80 % of the town.

I'll just be happy when CDMA is finally gone. See the "Galaxy Nexus isn't supported anymore" debacle of a excrement storm over nothing as a reason why. The more I learn, the more I want open standards. Not necessarily "open source", mind you, but common platforms like Android. There's a good chance my next phone will be Android for this reason. I like iOS, and I love my iPad; I just don't want my eggs all in one OS basket.

Jack Wagon.

I just want them to build a filler cell in Chester Illinois (my home town) on the site T-Mobile built, not far from the middle of town. Right now Sprint has "limited coverage" but it's really 20% of the town. In our case, it would be a realistic alternative to Verizon who holds 95% of the customers in our town. How is one company having that many customers anywhere healthy? It's not. A little NV love (the supplier in my area would be Ericsson, I checked) would be really good. Supposedly there's a Sprint Alliance partner (SI Wireless dba as Mobilenation) in my region but I don't know a whole lot about them. Their FCC license area cuts right through the middle of Chester, but doesn't serve the entire town. I would rather have Sprint, as their established provider, and Mobilenation can hit the more rural areas to the NE.

Great deal.