Mr.Nuke

Personally I don't know... 100 may be on the stingy side on the newer plans, but I fail to see how 300 isn't enough. A fairly common roaming situation is someone on vacation for a week or someone going back to visit family for a week in a non-native coverage area. 300 MB still allows you to send 400 emails, visit 200 we pages, and upload 200 pictures to social media. It isn't going to allow you to slingbox back to your TV at home or stream Netflix, but nor should it for that matter. If people find themselves needing more than 300 MB in roaming on a regular (or even somewhat infrequent basis) a different carrier may be needed for them.

While you are correct that it isn't against the law to use slang, you are horribly mistaken in assuming the "laws" or legal standard apply to moderation of a message board. I'm not a spelling or grammar Nazi by any means (and Lord knows I make plenty of mistakes on both on message boards); that said, if 99% of the board can conjure some semblance of the English language through spelling out words fully and making complete sentences, then avoiding "slang" as you put it, isn't an unrealistic expectation.

I don't have a clue what the "unless the other person it" is supposed to mean.

'How wrong u is" has nothing to do with getting "defensive just because he is having a good experience with another carrier." It does have everything to do with some semblance of proper English.

Confirmed this is currently the case via Nebraska testing as of this morning.

We may double check just in case.

Explain how that is business. This is business. This is a clown show.

With softbank owning approximately 82% of the company not much (you aren't worried about an activist investor coming in and demanding changes or a hostile takeover at this point). Longer term if the stock stays depressed it has the potential to impact rates for borrowing, and Sprint is still in a position where they need to borrow significant amounts of money for the foreseeable future.

I don't know that I buy into the investor hype argument. The stock out performed verizon and us cellular by about 2% between Monday and Tuesday, if anything that is your "hype." It is clear the market didn't like the announcement for sure. However the market reaction isn't a surprise. Sprint continuing to cut margins is bad for short-term investors.

Says the poster who likes any remotely negative Sprint comment.

No you won't, and I'm not sure what you'd expect them to say. Sprint is involved in active litigation at this point. They'll attempt to work out an agreement with the plaintiffs and if not it will go to court.

Outside of a few cities and tech blogs this isn't really getting coverage anywhere.

Yeah i mean it isn't like those people had 4 years to find another alternative or anything, right?

We don't know for certain (and Clear may have already done it with the initial buildout). In most populated areas Sprint has already well surpassed the requirements. My city Omaha is a perfect example. We had 3 Clear protection sites and now have probably 2/3 of our Sprint sites broadcasting 8T8R. In rural areas it is yet to be seen. It is entirely possible they continue to broadcast Wimax on the expedience sites to satisfy the requirements.

This has no impact on it. There are many places Sprint can run FITs that have ample spectrum right now.

Which makes no sense given the lawsuit.

Well the good news is you get to keep the Photon in your museum on the condition that it is displayed on loan from me.

We don't know that. What we do know is that they are backing away from throwing a bunch of money at major deals that left them with nothing to show for the outlay; something we've known for nearly a year with Nascar and nearly a half a year for the NBA.

I can't find anything on length details. That said, I strongly suspect this one was due to Hesse being a ND alum.

#Omaha.

I'm not in Sprint's marketing department, nor am I affiliated with Sprint in any other way than being a customer so I don't know how you expect me to know. I'm also not sure how your question pertains to the NBA deal. That said 10 seconds and google appear to confirm that Sprint is no longer advertising with Regal. Good for Sprint for dropping that too.

No.

It will be really interesting to see what happens with protection sites if that is the case.

Yep. People get excited somehow every quarterly earnings call that it is going to be the magical day where Sprint tells all about their network plans. That day is never going to come. It is typically Sprint spinning their financial results on the most positive light possible (see JimBob's post above mine about their postpaid adds), Marcelo picking a root metrics report to highlight (Denver), etc, and if you are lucky one targeted analyst question about the network. Marcelo's response Wimax and the impending shutdown doesn't have a huge effect* on Sprint's near-term LTE strategy outside of a few markets where it may have been preventing a second carrier. That said Claure noted 90 markets already have the second carrier yesterday. *We may see some LTE capable sites switch over after the shutdown, but that remains to be seen.

I'm not sure what resource you are using to search ownership. If it is something like antenna search, data there is notoriously outdated. It could be anyone's equipment on the sites at this point. Verizon is a safe bet on most of them.