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What parts of Iowa have band 41? I havent gotten it when ive been there so Im just wondering.

It's not widespread yet. But you'll see more in central Iowa soon (more details in the IA premier thread).

We should know more come November 6, if the protection sites in markets that are not scheduled for B41 have not had upgrades then we costumers in those markets might need to start worrying.

 

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Sprint may not need to convert the site. Because they're using the spectrum for LTE as part of their main network, they may not need your protection site anymore. For example here in Iowa they may no longer need the rural protection sites to keep their licence because they've built out B41 in the cities here now.

Would Sprint be interested in any of these?

A rumor I heard recently was that Project Cedar was put on hold last year. So either its funding was raided or never fully put into place.

 

 

 

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They'll have to get that going at some point soon to satisfy build out requirements. That would be a bummer if it is really delayed.

From what I hear, the N5 was only good on Sprint, RF-wise. I hear complaints about it from T-Mobile and AT&T users. Especially AT&T users. Odd, because I only hear complaints from Sprint users regarding the Nexus 6. Something about texts failing over LTE or of the like.

Well, technically the N5 is not an officially supported device by at&t so that might be one reason it's not the best on that network.

Interesting... I was taking a look at T-Mobile's preliminary results for customer adds in Q2, and their postpaid net phone adds dropped from 991,000 to 760,000, and postpaid mobile broadband net additions jumped from 134,000 to 248,000. If you ask me, that looks like they are "padding" lower phone adds with higher mobile broadband adds.

Everyone is doing that. Tablet adds are a favorite trick.

You're not looking at the big picture and maybe the Carlson's aren't either.

 

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USCC doesn't see themselves as a national carrier. They see themselves as regional carrier, albeit a large one. If a customer spends enough time outside their footprint that it's a problem, they have no problems telling you to find another carrier. I'm not sure where you think they're bleeding customers. They only had a churn of 1.5% and made a 161 million profit last quarter. They don't seem to be hurting.

One interesting note about any possible deal made for LTE roaming with USCC is that King Street Wireless actually owns the 700 spectrum USCC uses for LTE. Would this affect any possible roaming deal?

Maybe, but do not count on that. Pseudo native coverage often enables improper use -- informally called "perma roaming." That may not be such a big issue with EV-DO now that it has been deprecated in favor of LTE. However, it will be an issue with LTE.

 

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And adding on to that, US Cellular has little commercial incentive to offer pseudo native roaming. Since Sprint and USCC overlap a lot, allowing unlimited roaming would open up the risk of losing a lot of customers to Sprint. Sprint is a true national carrier and is often cheaper.

Do you recall any correlation between that native CDMA1X + roaming EV-DO split and SVDO handset capabilities? In those handsets, CDMA1X and EV-DO were on separate RF paths. The native + roaming split does not seem to happen often, if at all on modern single RF path handsets.

 

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Maybe I can show proof sometime if I see it again. But it periodically happens to me on my nexus 5 in reverse (roaming voice, native data) at work.

Good news everyone. As I'm checking on this today, I just had a higher up from Sprint walk through my door. I decided to ask him and surprisingly enough he's in the middle of having a conversation about it. He gave me the long spill about everything that's going on and I'll sum it down to this.

 

It's here, the work is done, the agreements are almost finished and its the flick of a switch away now.

 

The 4g LTE network will be nTelos' 700mhz only, and will not be NV. 1900mhz and 2500mhz are far away.

 

As for a date range, he's as sceptical as I am guessing at one because anything can happen between today and tomorrow.

 

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Does Ntelos own 700 spectrum? Sprint sure doesn't. In which case Ntelos would be under no obligation to open up the LTE to Sprint customers.

Could you imagine if Softbank bought all 30mhz of the reserve? It'd be hilarious to see John's reaction.

The interesting part of this is TMUS only chance at this spectrum is in the reserve. But if Softbank brings capital, why not also bid for more against the duopoly and use the reserve as fallback spectrum in markets they don't win bids on the main stuff? Everyone seems to think Sprint will only get spectrum from the reserve.

What I'm seeing in T-Mobile's actions is a realization that no help is coming from the mother ship so there's increasing desperation. If Softbank gives Sprint capital, there's a real chance TMUS could get swept out of the auctions. Sprint and TMUS are not the only small entities eligible for the reserve, there will be other bidders that pick up the pieces in the reserve Sprint doesn't want.

Here's an FCC filing from Public Knowledge, LTE-U and LTE-LAA gut WiFi and make it unusable in a lot of test cases.

 

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001105564

 

Everyone should read this filing by Public Knowledge. Lots of innovation comes from the unlicensed bands and WiFi, like the Republic Wireless and Cablevision mobile plans that extensively use WiFi. The only way LTE-LAA should be kosher is to see the 3GPP and IEEE sit down and come up with a neutral approach that doesn't gut free and open WiFi.

 

This is all part of T-Mobile's plan to Recarrier, I'm afraid. And if Sprint continues to shoot itself in the foot, T-Mobile will fall more in line with the Duopoly. Remember what John Legere really wants is the Triopoly. He was going to be the CEO of T-Mobile after they ate Sprint, but Chairman Wheeler fortunately thought better of it.

 

 

 

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Cisco is firmly against LTE-LAA as well. I'd be so upset if it interfered with my home WiFi network. Especially since the 2.4 ghz level is so crowded.

As it would be in Omaha, but for whatever reason the protection sites here are still apparently active despite more than substantial protection coverage on the 8T8R deployment. It may also be part of the reason for our seemingly locally unique EARFCN in Omaha.

Yeah, but Omaha isn't spectrum limited, is it? There's little urgency for a complete shutdown.

Verizon just simply takes the option of streaming at higher than 480p away on YouTube. Sneaky way to cut down usage.

...but only after total WiMAX shutdown.

 

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With them only having protection sites, a full Wimax shutdown should be easy in this market.

I'm not even sure if 600 can stream 480p. They should go the Verizon route and instead of a set throttle just kill the options for streaming above 480p. Much more subtle and devious.

That is where it gets interesting though because some of those protection sites are strategically placed. Off of the top of my head I remember from researching that Oelwein has 20 MHz of contiguous BRS.

Can you broadcast into an area where you don't have the spectrum if your tower is in an area that does?

Press release is live

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-seeks-to-end-consumer-confusion-frustration-with-wireless-industrys-first-ever-all-in-pricing-plan.htm

 

 

 

..."at all times" seems kind of concerning to me.

This moderately concerns me. While I am not a heavy user (I top out at about 3gigs), I do like to be able to watch some videos (watch ESPN, etc) while out and about. I'm not sure if this will be possible limited to that speed.

You and I have both picked up 1x800 from further away than that tower though. Right now a 1x800 to the Missouri site would be my best guess.

I got a very strong ehrpd signal in Bloomfield, IA last year, where we don't have a registered tower nearby. I've always meant to go back there someday and follow up on it.

What I'd really like to see is Sprint kill that stupid $10 per line "Premium Data" charge that I'm hit with on all lines on my ED1500 plan.

 

It made sense back when 95% of people still had flip phones, but seriously what's the percentage of people w/o a smartphone now? Crikey my parents have iPhones and they are late sixties/early seventies!

They killed it for all newer plans. Maybe see if one of those is a better deal.

Interesting. Can Dish afford to get in a bidding war with Comcast? And even if they decide to do so and win, Comcast will drive up the price like when Dish drove up the price of Clearwire for Sprint.

No bidding war, DT has said they would prefer someone like Comcast to be the buyer. This sure sounds like it might have be set in place behind the scenes.

Yep, Shentel was quick to install the second Band 25 carrier a few months ago and it sure did help. But now, even with two Band 25 and one Band 26 carriers, things are really slowing down. It is not only York either. Shentel built a very good NV network and very early. The problem is that the local people saw it or heard about it and are really jumping on it. Band 41 is needed and soon.

This really surprised me as it is happening in areas that are not really considered as high density.

 

Shentel is not sitting still. They are preparing for Band 41. Backhaul is being increased and Band 41 will arrive. It is a long process. If they install band 41 antennas and RRU's without having adequate backhaul established, things will not improve.

Due to some of the sites being in some very difficult spots, it was difficult to get just a little backhaul established in the past. Shentel did it but taking it to the next level requires much more work in some cases.

 

A site that has been fed with a little mini microwave system now may require that a new fiber ring be installed. Many times this requires a contract crew go out and actually run new fiber for miles either on poles or underground. This can take months.

Fortunately microwave can support up to 10gbps, more than enough for B41. But the site it's chained to will require some beastly backhaul.

 

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I'm much more concerned about the battery life rumored for the new nexus 5. Still under 3000.

 

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