Mr.Nuke

Take off the Sprint goggles and look at the big picture. The advertisement landscape will change considerably and Sprints public image will be further degraded. It's ridiculously hard to acquire new subscribers who see Sprint as a carrier on life support. 

Sent from my Nexus 5

I think the premise that the average wireless consumer knows where carriers rank nationally much less care is false. Same thing with Sprint's financial health. Your average consumer is looking for coverage that works for them and reliability.

I just drove through Lincoln & Omaha both of which have 2.5 B41.

Both cities have multiple 8T8R sites broadcasting. Lincoln on a percentage basis is doing better than Omaha.

This thread is closed for the foreseeable future. If you are interested in talking about T-Mobile you can continue to do so at S4GRU's new sister site T4GRU.

If TMO barely has any towers then shouldn't their avg speeds across the blue tested area be away low?

T-mobile is maintaining a "substantial service" network for their PCS C block and AWS spectrum here with pretty much no one using it.They don't sell service to Omaha zipcodes so odds are if you hit a t-mobile tower in Omaha you are likely the only user on it. I have a feeling the distribution of rootmetric's speedtests is across the board for them, because there are wide swaths of the city where you won't get a signal. This is reflected in 1/5 of root metric's calls being dropped in their September tests.

Sprint did well here..

 

Tmobile, not so much

 

 

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/omaha-ne

T-mobile runs a protection network in Omaha and doesn't sell service here. It is typically their worst market in root metrics testing results.

why exactly would they put up equipment and not optimize it then and there? does it really take that long to 'optimize'?

Because a tower climber isn't an RF engineer.

I guess you guys forgot about the Radio Shack stores.

Regarding what?

I feel a lot better now. It sounds like the news site was actually doing OK financially.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/technology/personaltech/digital-media-darlings-unfazed-by-the-fall-of-the-news-site-gigaom.html

I'm not sure that conclusion can be drawn based off that article.

I interpreted new logo acquisition meaning they are buying someone out.  In the past I have seen the term Logo Acquisition to mean a new asset purchase.  I have never seen someone working on a new corporate logo refer to New Logo Acquisition, especially when referring to it in a sales job.  Although, it could be.  Just trying to wrap my mind around it.  It could be in reference to the purchase of Radio Shack stores though.

I'm not in sales so I don't know what it means for certain, but I've seen this acronym with other sales positions. A logical guess would be something like large organization growth opportunities. Acquisition in this context would be Sprint hiring a bunch of new sales reps to go after (acquire) corporate accounts they currently don't have. I'm reasonably certain it has nothing to do with Sprint acquiring a company or the radio shack deal. 

A comment from S4GRU on a similar recent thread here.

I don't think we will host this discussion. I believe you posted this question with the best of intentions. However, because of the political nature of the topic of Cuba, it will likely lead to a lot of off topic conversation that will result in people getting angry.

I grew up in Florida, and most of my family lives in Florida. We have Cubans in our family through marriage. Based on my personal history with this topic, I just know how passionate all parties are involved.

However, now I have a hankering for a cubano sandwich and a strong black espresso.

 

Sprint will offer $1B In Senior Notes. The proceeds could be used for any of the following, "...working capital requirements, retirement or service requirements of outstanding debt and network expansion and modernization."

 

Read the press release here....What do you think?

That for a company that is still struggling to turn a profit and has over $30 billion in long-term debt it is far more likely to be working capital or debt retirement on higher interest bonds.

My cousin has tmobile, in omaha, he looses signal several times driving thru omaha. I nvr loose signal anywhere i go in omaha and council bluffs

T-mobile only runs a protection network here. Others will argue bs about not having access to local numbers as a reason for not fully building out Omaha. But yes, Omaha is literally their worst market in the cities root metrics tests. http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/blog/special-reports/where-does-your-carrier-have-the-best-mobile-performance-us

I noticed recently that all my BSL locations are all wrong. They are showing offset locations like before the NV upgrades. Anybody else?

I see this as well.

For whatever reason Samsung markets are switching to offset BSL locations. This has been observed in multiple markets over the past 6 weeks. 

Lollipop update: It sounds like most (all?) users are no longer able to use the Reset Connection feature, even though the phone appears to acknowledge the command if you are rooted

Mine is still working on my Nexus 5.

Investors sure don't like this. S is down 6.77% after-hours.

The stock was up 4.55% on a day when the market was down in regular trading though. The stock is down about 1% from where it opened today. The company reported losses greater than expected, the stock is going to drop.

If many sites on exciting LTE markets are still lacking fiber backhaul, they will continue to lose Postpaid customers. The lack of fiber backhaul is causing customers to flee.

I think they're aware of this.

First question on 2.5

Claure

1) Complete 800 mhz LTE, crucial to enhance in building coverage 2) leverage 2.5 for capacity issues 3) continous deployment of 2.5, accelerating deployment in customer target deployment. Start in 3-5 deployment markets but then roll-out to country (clarifying previous confusion)

Expect substantially complete 800MHz voice and LTE deployment by the end of this year.

 

Expect over 100mil 2.5GHz by the end of the year.

He said voice on 800 substantially completed this year, next year for Band 26 LTE, where both can be deployed. On 2.5, he reiterated going forward they are going to be looking at the network and deploying it to the places it is needed first, as well as having several cities that will serve as a proof of concept of a completed Sprint Spark market and marketing aggressively in those markets.

73% of post-paid phone subscribers are on LTE.

• LTE covering 260 million people
• 2.5 LTE aka Band 41 covers 92 million
• Total Net additions of 590,000 subs
• Postpaid net loss of 272,000, prepaid net adds of 272,000 and wholesale net additions of 827,000
• Operating Revenue of $8.5 billion, Operating loss of $192 million.
• Net loss of $765 million for the quarter, $284 million of that being severance packages.
• EPS loss of 19 cents per share versus analyst consensus estimates of 6 cents
• More cuts coming: 2,000 more previously unannounced layoffs
• People: "The company has launched a management review and will seek to grow its leadership talent with a combination of internal candidates, new outside talent and SoftBank resources"
• Postpaid deflections declined significantly in September with net losses slowing by almost 60 percent
• Postpaid gross phone additions grew 37% month-to-month in September
• 800 and Band 41 deployments are on track to meet goals for the end of the year. Capital Expenditures for next year are being revised downward to less than $6 billion.

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=11627

Anyway at all we can check on whether that backhaul has been done. I know at one time there wasn't, didn't know if something had been identified that we could look for.  I know some towers with newly installed fiber boxes weren't really a tell tale sign in the past as it seemed like maybe that was installed but truly waiting for the underground dig to happen at times.

If you can get access to the base station the fiber hookup at the back is typically a fairly good indication. The bigger indication in our markets now is if a GMO is converted to a full build, fiber is there and the sites have been picking up LTE acceptances with two weeks.

Most towers that I have checked in the rural areas I travel are still GMO but upgraded backhaul or at least tied T1 lines. The speed tests are most often 2.5Mbps down and 1Mbps up.  FAR different "3G" than what they used to call 3G.

 

For that - I'm grateful in what they have done.  

The speed increases are likely a result of the NV base station equipment being able to handle bonded t-1 lines. Had the rural GMO sites actually had upgraded fiber or microwave backhaul in all likelihood they wouldn't be GMOs at this point.

Tmobile result came in with nice figures.

It depends on what figures you are looking at. They didn't hit analyst revenue and EPS projections (lost money when they were projected to have a profit).

They really should abandon the Tmobile merger plan and spend the merger budget on network from 1st half of this year. But all in all, Marcelo is the right pick and Sprint is on the right track now.

The "merger budget" was a bunch of financing continent on a merger. This isn't money sitting around somewhere for network upgrades. Furthermore, we have no evidence that network upgrades are overcapitalized right now. You have access to the premier level schedules, things are progressing rapidly.

Did no one else catch that they plan on reaching 300 Million customers by the end of next year. That constitutes a network expansion. Sprint will likely try to expand their network in light of this information.

I doubt Sprint's plans change in any significant way as a result of that statement.

Blast it all. It's rather annoying that T-Mobile still doesn't have Nebraskan numbers, so they won't fix this market because they can't sell anything there...

It is curious that T-Mobile is the only carrier that never was able to get Nebraska numbers then. AJ may correct me, but we may have had the record for most wireless providers at once in Omaha in the early 2000's: Cingular-->AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, Qwest, Cricket, Us West (Airtouch--> Verizon), Verizon, Alliant-->Alltel--> Verizon, Us Cellular, and T-Mobile sitting on their protection network. It seems like their were plenty of numbers to go around here for anyone that wanted them.

Way to go John!

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/omaha-ne

I think we have a new one for you AJ in Omaha.