JeremiahMcCurry

So is johnny crafting a series of tweets at this time? Or waiting for a reply text from mom and dad ( deutsche telekom) for more funds to lower prices?

Maybe he's outside of the city limits. He'll tweet as soon as he's back in town with a data connection.

Anyone hear of any Hotspot includes with this? 

No hotspot on the $60 plan http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-drops-unlimited-everything-plan-60-undercuts-t-mobile-20/2014-08-21

Smart way to lower costs, lower prices, and still be able to afford the network deployment schedule.

Front bezels and the metal sides. The back is all Samsung though.

If that's what it looks like, I'm getting it. That is a nice phone. What happened to true tone flash?

Supposedly still there just with a more traditional round shape.

The still gigantic bezels are more hideous than the lines, to me. A 5.5 with the same size bezels would be huge. I've got the 5s so Spark would be the only thing to make me upgrade. 

Oh, I just saw it linked somewhere else. It is great though. They have more 51 interference than I was expecting. 

From the TMONEWS comment section. No creator was given. 

I did check it against FierceWireless Verizon and current purchase article to see if the licenses seemed correct. 

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zYsWXH8QR36Q.k_csKbu63eVk

Pink is what they had prior to the most recent purchases, newest purchases in blue/white. Circles are stations broadcasting on channel 51 that have to be moved before T-MO can use 700A.

So is Sprint going to rollout 8T8R faster now? Implement a second PCS channel? Swap some spectrum with Dish? Host Dish's spectrum?

It will be interesting to watch.

"In the short-term, we will focus on becoming extremely cost efficient and competing aggressively in the marketplace," Claure said. http://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-taps-brightstar-ceo-claure-as-new-ceo/

Oui, monsieur.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-frances-iliad-makes-bid-purchase-t-mobile-us/2014-07-31

DT considers the $33-a-share offer as not competitive and inferior to a separate bid planned by Sprint (NYSE: S) parent SoftBank, an unnamed source familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is reportedly working on an offer of about $40 a share for T-Mobile in a deal valued at about $32 billion.

 

• Cut capex by at least a billion dollars
• Deprioritized 2.5GHz deployment for 2014 in favor of 800MHz
• Stated intent to deploy 2.5GHz in "capex-efficient manner" (read: substantially less deployment than originally planned)

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6143-sprint-schedules-2q-2014-earnings-release/?p=344608

 

Merger related? :/

By the end of the year, Sprint will deploy two-carrier carrier aggregation on its 2.5 GHz TD-LTE service, Saw said, producing peak downlink speeds of more than 100 Mbps. Sprint is currently seeding its customer base with devices that can take advantage of those capabilities, he said.

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-sheds-181000-postpaid-subs-q2-fewer-expected/2014-07-30

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/fcc-sets-rules-105b-aws-3-auction-t-mobile-dish-denied-request-split-spectr/2014-07-24

EDGE makes me immediately think of T-Mobile.

KC Star on potential merger http://projects.kansascity.com/2014/sprintfuture/#748216

Sprint spends $15.80 per customer to run their network.

Verizon $6.80, AT&T $9.40, T-Mobile $14.90

I don't think any Oklahoma carriers were on the 12 announced agreements so far. http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-to-expand-4g-lte-roaming-through-12-new-agreements-with-carriers-covering-a-population-of-over-34-million.htm Very interesting. 

Divesting some 2.5 GHZ wouldn't be killer, would it? Especially since the combined company would have T-Mobile's current spectrum and possibly 600 after next year. 

WSJ says T-Mobile likely to run the venture http://online.wsj.com/articles/sprint-t-mobile-could-raise-10-billion-for-spectrum-auction-1405445417 which seems to fall in line with the discussion that TMO would be the surviving brand in a merger.

I'll guess they lost a surprisingly large number of subscribers. Negative press and the T-Mobile resurgence will take their toll. Verizon added 1.4 million including tablets. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/10/us-verizon-comms-results-preview-idUSKBN0FF26F20140710?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Wow AT&T.

Brilliant! 

I didn't see it mentioned or explained anywhere. In which markets does Sprint have enough spectrum for a second Band 25 carrier? Chicagoans are the only ones I've seen mention it. 

I think I have a reason to tweet John Legere now.

http://www.nvdaily.com/news/2014/06/county-oks-new-shentel-tower.php

Shentel is replacing the tower at 1503 Cottontown Road. The old one couldn't hold any more equipment. 

The carrier also disclosed details of the spectrum it is acquiring as part of the transaction:

• In NM-4 (Santa Fe): 20 MHz of AWS A band, 25 MHz of 850 MHz B band, 12 MHz of 700 MHz C band
• In TX-3 (Parmer): 20 MHz of AWS A band, 25 MHz of 850 MHz B band, 12 MHz of 700 MHz C band
• In NM-2 (Colfax): 20 MHz of AWS A band, 25 MHz of 850 MHz B band

AT&T's LTE network works in AWS and 700 MHz spectrum.

 

AT&T doesn't need that 850. Is it something Sprint could want or need in those markets?