Mr.Nuke

Not exactly. An NV 3G accepted site has the new base station and antennas installed. However, the vast majority of the time it is only 3G due to the fiber (or microwave) backhaul not being present yet. As soon as the backhaul reaches the site, they'll fire up LTE.

To an extent, you want Sprint customers to have access to data to check the web or their email as they're passing through. But as AJ noted limits need to be imposed to prevent arbitrage opportunities from happening. I just randomly picked a company from the press release. James Valley Wireless is in a portion of South Dakota. Here are their phones. http://jamesvalley.com/residential/cell-phone/residential-cell-phones/ Not a great selection. Free of any roaming caps, if I lived in James Valley's territory there wouldn't be much to stop me from signing up for Sprint, getting a better selection of devices (and possibly a much cheaper framily plan), yet use James Valley's network 100% of the time.That isn't fair to James Valley.

Deliberately clicking download on a 1GB file isn't background data nor is it a surprise.

I haven't studied the financials of any potential merger at all, that said Masa doesn't really have to answer to shareholders. He owns 20.15% of Softbank (which in turn owns 80% of Sprint, thus he personally owns 16.12% of Sprint). This level of concentrated ownership is obviously very uncommon for a public company. The comparable U.S. company off of the top of my head is Berkshire Hathaway here in Omaha where Warren Buffett, another founder and CEO, owns about 30% of his corporation. Again with such a concentrated ownership structure, Buffett doesn't answer to shareholders either. Even institutional investors know they're along for the ride.

Additionally updated depoloyment statistics on a market by market basis can of course be found on the here.

I doubt it. Running fiber to a site on top of a building is inherently more difficult and time consuming than running it to a base station on the ground.

Indeed I'm just letting you know it still takes time. There are sites that have had the new panels for 6+ months without LTE. The good news is the GMO to full build conversions were done in part because fiber was at the sites.

Yeah that won't be happening tomorrow. This site will still probably be visited by 1 more crew to finish the cable runs and hook everything up to the base station. Additionally at least one more visit will be required by an Ericsson integration tech for site acceptance and activation. Additionally, without pictures of the base station the site may not even have fiber backhaul yet for LTE. If backhaul is there, they'll likely have this site up and running within a couple of weeks. If backhaul isn't at the site yet the timeline goes to tbd.

Done as in what?

Buy the pro version anyway. The developer is a member of the site!

http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint#q=Greece,+NY+14626,+USA|coverage

That is a test SID. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1344-network-visionlte-jacksonville-market-including-gainesvillest-augustineocala/?p=244312

I'm not sure where you are getting the notion that I don't believe their are people using huge amounts of data from. I fully believe their data abusers using Sprint as their ISP and or streaming service. My no way is it that high comment was in response to your comment about the top 5% being well beyond 25 gigs. And I still contend there is no way it is that high. My best guess is somewhere in the 7-9 gb/month range likely puts you in the top 5% on Sprint right now. That is significantly lower than 25.

This is from a Cisco white paper using data collected from almost 40,000 devices on global tier I networks. I realize this isn't pefect, but it is probably the best we are going to get. The top 1% of users are in the 12-16 gb range, the top 5% in the 6-8 gb range. Back to a point AJ was making earlier in this thread, the top 10% of users generate an equal ammount of traffic compared to the remaining 90% of the users. The Top 1% of users are responsible for about 10% of total traffic. Table 9. Percentage of Traffic by User Tier, Months October 2012–September 2013 Data Users Oct-12 Nov-12 Dec-12 Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sept 13 % traffic due toTop 1% 15% 14% 15% 15% 19% 17% 15% 13% 14% 13% 12% 10% % traffic due toTop 10% 49% 48% 48% 47% 59% 59% 48% 46% 46% 42% 42% 40% The average monthly data for an unlimited user as of last September was just under 2 gigs. Table 11. One Percent of Mobile Data Users Consume 5 GB per Month % Oct-12 Nov-12 Dec-12 Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Greater than 5 GB 1% 2% 1% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 3% 3% 3% Greater than 2 GB 12% 13% 11% 15% 16% 17% 16% 17% 18% 20% 23% 24% Greater than 200 MB 54% 56% 56% 56% 57% 58% 59% 60% 62% 74% 75% 75% Greater than 20 MB 70% 72% 72% 73% 74% 74% 74% 76% 77% 93% 93% 93% Source: Cisco VNI, 2013 Data use continues to grow with the percent of users using more than 2 gigs a month doubling over the one year period... http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/white_paper_c11-520862.html

There is no way it is anywhere close to that high.

As others have said it will help... Both of the Sprint MVNOs in discussion here limit video streaming speeds and throttle down to 2G speeds when monthly data allotments are passed.

This is several years old (2011) mobile data consumption has skyrocketed since then. It also is an aggregation of all carriers by Nielsen. Sprint with the unlimited data could skew even higher, but at least it gives us some idea of what a distribution pattern may look like.

Sprint always reports before the market opens. No company reports earnings during trading hours. It is either before or typically right after the close of a trading day.

That may improve slightly shortly as their is an accepted but not live site that will cover part of that drive. The specifics are on our sponsor map. In general though the 204th/Highway 31 and Maple Street intersection is one of the areas in the Omaha metro that Sprint failed to keep up with population growth over the past decade.

Same here. I honestly didn't think I was being affected by it at all. I guess I was wrong.

Your understanding is wrong. What radio are your running?

First you'd have to believe Google would delay said release based on the report. This is possible if they want more time to investigate it, but I'm assuming they already soak tested the release on all 3 North American carriers and didn't find an issue (if you are going this route). The bigger problem is if you buy into this line of thinking AT&T or Magenta are using google to screw with Sprint. That in itself may sound ok (it doesn't to me...). Google isn't going to go for that, and the Uncarrier doesn't want to screw up any relationship they have with google. The logic here is massively flawed.

You can enable manual exposure in advanced settings.

Why would you? Sprint has no control over this update. It comes from google. Sprint has posted the previous Hammerhead updates a few days in advance of google releasing the actual update. It is going to come in fairly short order, but why contact Sprint when they have absolutely no control over it?

Like digiblur posted immediately above your response, you have a bad phone...