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I'm sure if every one heard what Sprint's HD Voice sounds like they wouldn't care about VoLTE. I have heard nothing but awesome things about it so if 1x Advanced provides greater coverage and has more capacity than VoLTE while offering comparable call quality then I'll take it.

Probably working so hard to get PR done so that some contractors can get back home to their families. Would they fly out contractors to the island or would they actually use contractors from PR?

9-7. The reason they are working so hard is because they know that got a nice fat paycheck coming in from all that overtime.

Lol turn off GPS and stop using slacker radio :-D

The holdup is that they are working on over 100 other cities at the same time so it's gonna take some time, especially with the number of sites there are in New York.

I think that the instances that those situations you outlined would be few and far in between just because when I'm at work I can't sit here and watch Hulu plus or ESPN on my phone (I mean I can, but I wouldn't be very productive)

At least I'm not the only skeptic out there about VoLTE. People just hear that term and just think things will be all rainbows and unicorns but don't know what the downside of it would be, which appears to be reduced coverage.

Yea it's easy to just throw spectrum away and use so much capacity on voice and HSPA+ 42 when you have substantially less customers than larger competitors.

Do you know if the standard for LTE Advanced would improve on the technology's ability to maintain a connection when you have a weak signal or is -93dBm As good as it's gonna get for LTE?

Yea but remember when we are talking about voice we are talking about CDMA not EVDO. I don't know if you have ever tried it but if you use your phone and turn off mobile data so your phone could do strictly voice and text only, battery life increases drastically as opposed to if you have 3G turned on. Qualcomm's 28nm chips are awesome and they have managed to bring LTE battery life close to EVDO ranges but Idk if they can rival the energy efficiency of 1x just yet.

That makes sense. Although a couple posts back I stated that one of the things I'm skeptical about with VoLTE would be the potential for reduced talk times due to LTE being much more power hungry than a 1x CDMA radio. Would that still be the case?

Not being proportial would result in an unfair comparison so that may be of some importance. You're looking at it from the wrong point of view. The amount of data that can be lined up to pass through cables in unlimited; like AJ said "it can be created at will" but if you look at it from the perspective of the cable it can only pass so much information at once. Its akin to trying to how you receive water at your home. There may be a vast amount of water available to you but the bottleneck to how much water you can use will always be your plumbing. The Pipes are the bottleneck just like backhaul is one of the bottlenecks of data. We can't refer to data as being unlimited in regards to Sprint's network because there is absolutely no means in the universe that I am aware of that can transmit ∞ mbps. The term unlimited data means that you can use as much data as you want (within Sprints guidelines of course) and you will "NOT BE LIMITED" to the amount of speed or data that you can use at any point in your billing cycle. It does not mean that you have the power or speed to send at receive infinite amounts of data through your cell phone.

When you put it that way, it seems like VoLTE isn't even worth it if 1x would have much greater coverage. If thats the case Sprint should stick with HD Voice over 1x. But maybe I am wrong. What are the benefits that VoLTE would provide over using HD Voice on 1x?

Heck, if those abusers leave and start clogging other carrier's networks it might just even out the playing field. Faster data for us and slower data on the competition.

Your comparison isn't very accurate because you eating all the shrimp at a single restaurant is no where near proportional to you as 1 customer using the capacity of data on an entire network that is designed to support millions. A more accurate comparison would be you being able to eat all the food at every McDonalds in the country. Also Just because data as a measurement is infinite does not mean that the rate at which it able to be transmitted is as well, in this case those limits being spectrum and backhaul. You can only pass so much information though a certain amount of spectrum and though the cables that connect the network to the internet. Therefore the amount of data that can be handled by the network is indeed finite.

I don't think Sprint will lose customers just because their LTE won't hit 30 mbps like AT&T or VZW. To be honest people don't need that kind of speed on their phones. The advertised 6-8 should be MORE than enough to do anything on your phone. Heck in my opinion even 1-2mbps 3G is enough to do pretty good web browsing and watching Youtube videos. As long as customers get a good experience they will be happy. They aren't going to be like "My LTE is only 10 mbps and that guy is getting 15. I'm leaving Sprint!" That would just be foolish.

I don't think i've heard of any other US Carriers using 1x Advanced right now. But if networks have been so well off until now using solely CDMA 1x, then moving over the the Advanced should make their network that much more capable. But if there is one thing that I'm a bit skeptical about with VoLTE would be the potential for drastically reduced talk times due to LTE being much more power hungry than CDMA 1x Advanced. Does anyone know how VoLTE would impact battery life?

You were driving down route 30 while staring at a water tower? That's not very safe... but whatever, network vision is underway in York, PA!!!! I can't wait! Shouldn't take long either because York isn't very large so there are probably only a couple dozen towers in the entire city.

Try updating your PRL and profile, that was how I was able to connect when I went down to Baltimore.

I'm not sure if they do in PR but Wendy's does as well.

Completely irrelevant but... has anyone ever told you that you look like Kevin Millar?

You are doing us a great service my friend. I'm keeping an eye out but I haven't seen anything in York yet.

Sweet! Its nice to see Puerto Rico getting some early love with network vision. Now service won't be so bad when I go over there in the future. When I went this past summer, service was not very good but my location may have played a big part of that.

That makes sense. I thought they were transitioning to deploying Network Vision across the entire country, that way people start seeing those benefits around the entire country and it would also eliminate the need to move forward as much with the band-aid fixes because Network Vision would cover those needs.

Hey Robert, I noticed that a lot of the Anticipated completion dates on a lot of cities are getting pushed waaayy back like NYC to August 2014. Do you think Sprint is just falling that much behind? To me it seems like a change in their deployment strategy. Maybe they are spreading the contractors all over the country as opposed to focusing on maybe 10 or 15 markets at a time.