irev210

When will the first Sprint LTE handset become available?

Anyone know?

Although LTE will be up and running, I'm skeptical about Apple and LTE. As every one is aware, Apple likes every thing in tidy little packages. That's why you see only incremental changes to its devices and OS's from year to year.

 

IMO LTE is going to be a headache for Apple due to every carrier has its own bands of spectrum. Unless Apple has access to a super-duper chip that can handle8-10 different bands of spectrum, you will not see a universal LTE device. If Apple does go the LTE route, I would think it would be carrier specific and I'm not sure at this point Apple will do that. But with the iPad 3 debuting in two weeks, we'll see.

That's the qualcomm 28nm baseband.

The bigger issue is the antenna. You will need a lot of antennas.

if i recall Hesse said the Sprint would throttle data to the heavy users .. I think the statement was taken out of context but who knows ..of course i cannot find the article right now .... the max amount of data i have ever used was like 8 GIGs and that was streaming netflix and pandora for almost 24/7 so if they do tier they are still a great deal....MAN i sound like some sort of fanboi

Yes, you are incorrectly quoting. He said that they can remove users who roam too much. I can dig up the article for you if you want.

What they have talked about is how much "runway" they have to offer unlimited data. Essentially, with clearwire's spectrum, the runway is a bit longer than say, AT&T.

Once that runway runs out, they will switch to similar plans as AT&T and VZN. The difference will probably be that with Sprint you get "double the data" for less, or some other marketing scheme.

Clear is in trouble unless they can convince carriers like AT&T (which seems very unlikely) to use their spectrum for capacity in markets that are extremely oversold.

If every iPhone sold supports clearwire's TD-LTE... it would be stupid for both sides not to come to an agreement.

That being said... it IS AT&T and I doubt they would put their their customers first.... but stranger things have happened.

I would really love any details on exactly how Sprint ties together their network and how imporant sprint's own backhaul is to the process.

Robert mentioned that centurylink is rolling out an OC48 to chicago and placing DS3 fiber cables to each tower. Is that even enough capacity?

I would think that they would just run the fiber to 1gigabit ethernet? Are any wireless carriers putting 10 gigabit ethernet to towers?