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irev210

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  1. I was actually surprised when my cruise ship pulled into St. Thomas a couple of weeks ago that my G3 that was set for "Sprint Only" showed 3G signal. Let me catch up on all my voicemails....so maybe that wasn't a good thing after all. Who knew there was a Sprint signal in the middle of the carribean -- although I suspect that the backhaul is pretty limited.

     

    Sprint has a "global MPLS Access POP" in Saint Thomas and lots of fiber around there :)

     

    https://www.sprint.net/images/network_maps/full/NorthAmerica-MPLS.png

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  2. Well said.

     

    Maybe it is the generation of "I want it now" people, or the people who just have nothing better to do.

     

    You can't turn on over 38,000 sites at once.

     

    Now, I get people's frustration - many were incorrectly promised WiMAX and never got it but that doesn't give people the right to be lazy or impatient.

     

    I think the biggest message here is that this is a full network overhaul. The markets that have launched are not anywhere NEAR done but at least you get a taste of what is coming.

     

    People may say "well that's what happened with WiMAX" but honestly, it wasn't.

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  3. Just a heads up - I am guessing that Boston server test is towerstream. It always has very high latency (not sure why, as the speedtests are always pretty good).

     

    The best speedtest server in the Boston area seems to be the New Hampshire "G4 Communications" server.

     

    Great to see NV coming along in Mass! It would be awesome if there was a month-by-month map for Boston like you did for PR/VI :)

     

    Thanks for the update! I bet we are going to start seeing a LOT more of these over the coming months. Only 2 more days until we start seeing 4G LTE speedtests popping up!!!

  4. The lack of SVDO support is due to using the TI OMAP processor (SoC). The radio baseband used is likely a Qualcomm MDM9600 (like the Rezound, Thunderbolt, iPad3, etc.), which will do CDMA/EVDO/LTE of just about any form. The problem is there is only a single CDMA baseband (and a single LTE baseband). The antenna and "antenna paths" can be shared with no issue. The previously approved LG Viper DOES do SVDO because it undoubtedly uses a Qualcomm SoC processor (Snapdragon S3) with a built-in CDMA baseband along with the MDM9600's. The TWO basebands share the antenna arrays to allow for SVDO usage.

     

    According to anandtech, the Verizon Galaxy nexus uses the Samsung CMC221 with FCI FC7851. I doubt Sprint would get a different version (but maybe they will).

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