Mr.Nuke

Correct me if I am wrong, but I always hear Sprint control an average of 120mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum in top 100 markets. I know New York City:), Chicago and LA are some of them. What are the others cities that Sprint brag about 2.5ghz spectrum rich?

 

Just to clarify I think they only will need 60mhz of it anyways.

Don't you already kind of have the answer in your first sentence?

Will they be acquiring C band spectrum in Cedar Rapids?

No. The spectrum situation in Cedar Rapids is different. In Des Moines and the Quad Cities AT&T has either PCS Block D (Quad Cities) or E (Des Moines). Sprint's PCS B block spectrum sits in the middle of D and E. So a B/C swap gives Sprint 40 MHz of contiguous spectrum in C+G and AT&T the same in B+D/E.

In Cedar Rapids, for starters Sprint doesn't have the entire PCS B block to trade, they split it with AT&T. Furthermore, US Cellular holds the PCS C block and no additional PCS spectrum. There isn't a trade to be made there. The trades involved in this AT&T/Sprint transaction were rather obvious.

That's great news, thank you! Now all we need is to get Lighsquared on board for a swap of BRS and EBS spectrum so we can get at least a 20 MHz of band 41 and life would be peachy in these parts I recon...

SpeedConnect is the one that holds the majority of BRS/EBS. If they are game, a BRS2 for BRS H3 swap would help Sprint immensely.

So if I'm reading this right and remember correctly, the Quad Cities has 30 Mhz of spectrum in the B block. After the swap with AT&T, assuming AT&T has the whole C block, Sprint will have a contiguous block of C and G blocks totaling 40 MHz to play with?

Yes they are doing a entire B for C swap so Sprint will have 40 MHz (20 MHz FDD) of contiguous spectrum. That is enough for a 15x15 LTE carrier with room to spare for 4-5 CDMA/EVDO carriers.

I can't find this report of root's site.

 

 

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The link is dead right now, but if you scroll down on the 2H 2015 Las Vegas report, it shows the category winners for 1H 2016.

http://rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/las-vegas-nv/2015/2H

The article is up on the wall.

 will this also apply the Quad City area as well?

Yes it is really good news for the Quad Cities.

And in a few months yall won't be seeing 2nd b25 carriers but one centered 26640 / 8040

Iowa City won't as of now...

Funds are fungible, they just raised 3 billion.

I'll take them at their word.

Does this affect their threshold (percentage) of stock Softbank can own? 

No. Softbank buying back shares of their stock has no quantitative impact on their ownership stake of Sprint. Their ownership percentage of Sprint is only changed by them buying or selling Sprint's stock.

That screen is available with a $5 donation to the sgarringer pizza fund :-) 

 

Just kidding... I guess I'll try that next time I am in IC

Thanks. I should've been more specific in the initial request. What I'm after is the EARFCN of the 2nd carrier.

Stock buyout? http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article60579966.html

It isn't a buyout it is a buyback. it is being discussed already here.

I don't get this at all. SoftBank has a nearly 100 billion in debt. To borrow money and pay interest on it to buy back stock, an act that doesn't offer a return on the borrowed money, seems short sighted.

They aren't borrowing money...

http://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sb/2016/20160215_01/

Sorry, but you're not looking at this objectively. I think both data speeds and data used are very important to both current and potential customers in determining how robust a network is. I understand this is a Sprint site, but there is no need to dismiss the importance of the amount of data used.

I don't see how anyone can objectively say that the average consumer cares how much data is going through a network much less that they have an understanding of wireless network infrastructure. The average consumer cares about 1) price and 2) does the service work where I need it to?

Data used can indirectly become very important when you get too many users on a network in a given place without adequate site spacing or spectrum. That said, your average person isn't going to have a clue that the reason their experience degraded was everyone was using more data. All they'll care about, if they care enough to move at all, is finding another carrier where the service works where they need it to.

 So how does Sprint have 2x20MHz carriers in my market?

What is the EARFCN of the second carrier?

Thing is, this isn't unique to my area. I'm just using my area as an example.  Want me to do this for a few more markets across the USA? If anything, it is a specific B41/EBS/BRS/Holdings question which belongs in no exact market thread.  And I don't know of any strictly B41/EBS/BRS/Holding threads.

I've got to run to a meeting in a couple of minutes so I'll double check again afterwards... But like I responded to you initially, per dashboard Sprint appears to lease the entire EBS in Hamilton County.

So Im curious if I am missing anything. 

 

I went through FCC Dashboard looking at Sprints 2.5GHz EBS/BRS holdings in my local area.

 

These are the blocks that Sprint/Clearwire own or lease.

http://imgur.com/birxuMy

 

If you do the math, Sprint (yellow) has 96MHz total. A second company (in green) has 22.5MHz and unlisted channels is 77.5MHz.  Sprint only has one continuous block over 20MHz at BRS2 through E4.  So how does Sprint have 2x20MHz carriers in my market?

 

45MHz of the unlisted channels are EBS, could those be owned and leased to Sprint by a local school outside the county that I am looking up licenses, be more than 35 miles away, but in the same license market area?  So I may not see those licenses but Sprint holds them for my market?

Assuming based on your profile that you are in Hamilton County TN, Sprint has the BRS block that you note, but they also lease the entire EBS from Chattanooga State/Walker County Board of Education (Georgia).

Just to confirm there 100% certainly is a 2nd B25 LTE carrier in Iowa City / Coralville.  

 

http://imgur.com/lcujRth

If you connect to it again, an engineering screen would be great.

10x10 requires 20mhz of spertrum. Sprint only holds 14mhz.

That post was from nearly 4 months ago...

 I just don't see Sprint putting the resources into that.

Nor do I. If Sprint's current coverage and or speeds aren't good enough for someone in Cedar Rapids there is really no reason to stick it out.

It looks like they're moving from the EBS spectrum managed by Mobile Beacon to Sprint licensed BRS spectrum. 

Is any of the New York EBS actual Mobile Beacon/ Mobile Citizen owned though?

So what do you do now to attract users away from the Big 3?

The big 3?

I remember iPCS used to be the affiliate here in the Quad Cities as well. My question is, did we lose any spectrum here through that mess?

AJ may correct me, but I don't believe so. Sprint's PCS spectrum holdings in the Quad Cities are pretty consistent with what they hold elsewhere. SpeedConnect is the limiting factor.

Yeah but I don't think sprint is still planning on executing this plan in its entirety. I think I can say with confidence that sprint hasn't mentioned macro sites specifically since the first quarter of last year. All their talk since then has centered around small cells. I could be mistaken but I don't think they will be adding that many Marco sites.

 

 

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Marcelo went to Japan last year to get funding for it...

I could be totally wrong on this if they don't actually get charged a base fee regardless of amount used.

We have no evidence either way, but my guess is roaming agreements don't have a base fee. Verizon or whatever carrier wants to make it as easy as possible to roam on their network to generate the consumption based roaming revenue. There is little incentive for them to charge a base fee and potentially turnoff other carriers.

 Am I missing something? 

The fact that they've historically lagged in reporting at the beginning of reporting periods.