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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    New York and Florida NE at FedEx station right across the street fro XM/Sirius. During rush hour in DC forum, posted speed test on band 41 I say about 2 to 3 weeks ago of me doing over 60mb down during evening rush hour. Got a few likes off of it to. Don't make generalized statements about areas others live in that can refute . I cover from Richmond Virginia all the way north To Elizabeth NJ for FedEx, and I'm just using a LG GFlex 2.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    You are referencing something that you are shortsighted in forgetting that T-Mobile had to turn themselves around to become profitable with a couple of CEO changes and such. As what Sprint is going thru to, as is blackberry and a few other companies that are restructuring the way they do business. It doesn't happen overnight and this armchair CEO stuff from some who aren't even in a business oriented way is getting tiresome. I guess next you might want to tell my big boss Fred Smith how he should run his company.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Everyone looks at another buyout to fix Sprint's debt; will never happen. Nobody will buy a company for such large liabilities at this point, SoftBank bought Sprint and has had 0 return in the past 2 years, in fact Sprint has been costing them a fortune. On top of this, they never paid Sprint's debt, nor will anyone else.

     

    No one is gonna buy Sprint from SoftBank. They just don't have that much value. Every company who's interested is better off waiting for a bankruptcy so they can swoop in and buy their spectrum holdings.

     

    Sprint has to plug holes in their network that are inconsistent, lack coverage, and provide poor performance and they need to dump their branding. That's the only way they can get out of this rut and pay their bills before it's too late. A new name that performs as well if not better than the competition will lead to new customers and a chance at raising the ARPU to a level where they're posting a profit and shrinking their debt.

     

    And exactly how much did DT have to pony out for T-Mobile US before they started becoming profitable recently. Man do people look at things with blinders on to much. Stop and think about it before you go on. Because T-Mobile US only became profitable in the last couple of years.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Supreme Court rejects Sprint bid to set aside New York tax suit

    10:48 AM ET • S • Jason Aycock

    The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Sprint (S +4.5%) of an attempt by New York state to collect $300M in a tax case.

    The state says Sprint deliberately didn't bill customers for taxes on wireless service over seven years, amounting to more than $100M, and it's seeking triple that amount in total damages and penalties. Sprint had argued that federal telecom law applied rather than a New York law imposing sales tax on interstate mobile service.

    The decision leaves in place an October ruling in favor of New York.

     

     

    So Sprint will have to write a check of 300 millions to the state of New York when they are scrambling for funds.

    That money was already set aside when that case came up, and the trial hasn't started yet. So don't go jumping into conclusions before the book is finished.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Sometimes a business merges with another because of assets. Market share has little affect in that decision. There is a reason why people didn't wat to be with company a that bought company b. Now that company a did buy company b, company a has to let the market share of customers that don't want to be there go. Later on company b finds out that company a only wanted it for the assets and basically starts shutting things down and sends a lot of pink slips while telling the market share to play by our rules or leave.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Just give him a Extra Class ham radio manual and let him get his mind wrapped up in the formulas for frequencies and antennas. Db gain especially in the ehf bands where hams have been experimenting right into 300ghz. Then he might understand sometimes it isn't simple as he thinks it is. I've been a ham for 16 years and a rf burn at 1.2ghz at 12 watts is smart. Kenwood TS2000X to be exact.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    First of all, what does age have to do with anything? By that idea, any person of 50 should be smarter than any person of 20. While in some cases thats true, it's not always.

    Second, this isn't just a marketing side show by Verizon. Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm are all experimenting with it. So is every major carrier INCLUDING Sprint. FCC is aware this spectrum is viable for 5G so they're kicking off the repurposing this summer. This is more than just fantasy idea; it's completely plausible.

    Third, in the span of 6 years we brought phone technology from 500Kbps to 100Mbps. In 6 years we can figure out, build, and create technology to efficiently harness high band frequency for data at a reasonable cost with reasonable coverage.

    Last but not least, and certainly most important, NYU's 5G Research Department did a paper covering the usage of mmW in cellular and came to the conclusion it's completely doable, and that coverage can spand several hundred meters (paper here: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6515173).

     

    It's ridiculous to claim 39GHz is not usable in cellular just like it was ridiculous to say 2.5GHz isn't usable in cellular. Will it be difficult? Yes, but technology constantly advances. I can see this happening in the next decade.

    I got news for you, at the power levels it requires to equal 2.5ghz in distance and everything. You will receive rf burns. I already posted what a 30ghz setup looks like for a ham radio operator and that is recent. Amateur Radio operators have been experimenting in those frequencies for years now and the gear has only been reduced in size by 30 percent. Those bands are not going to be good for mobile use. Point to point Los, yes. Moving around with a 5g moto g handheld. Don't think so.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    WiGig has been stalled for some time and hasn't shown much signs of life. WiGig is probably going to be used primary for near communications. I think the Wikipedia entry sums the problem up very well "The 60 GHz signal cannot typically penetrate walls but can propagate off reflections from walls, ceilings, floors and objects using beamforming built into the WiGig system. When roaming away from the main room the protocol can switch to make use of the other lower bands at a much lower rate, both of which can propagate through walls." We are seeing it already with WiGig being used for Wireless USB and Wireless HDMI. I honestly don't see it becoming a main stream for networking. If you need 7 Gbps of transfer you probably are going to wire what ever it is.

    We have to start to get honest here, the average user can't tell the difference between 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps. The talk of "5G" is just hype at this point and using 39 Ghz on mobile networks is such a pipe dream at this point it isn't even funny. And when you see someone say we are "Testing" in a lab that in no way means they have had any success with it. The reason for even releasing such information is purely marketing. The average user thinks "More GHZ must be better" so they play on that.

    Anything above 10ghz is going to have that problem really. To go thru walls and other material you will have to pump up the power which basically means frying anything and everything.

     

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