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Well it had one thing to do with HDTV. It got a lot of people to throw away the big box for a cheap flat panel from Vizio

That tower probably wont speed up much for that location. LTE speeds are generally signal/distance dependent on unloaded networks and to get 10MB at all you would need to be on the upgraded backhaul.

I travel the loop of the northern suburbs and usually stay in the 1-2MB range. Downtown must just be swamped.

Actually I don't know much about Verizon's 1900 utilization /850 geographic overlap, but it would be nice if they could be forced to divest some of their PCS holdings

If Verizon starts a network modernization project with LTE-A on AWS in the next year, then I have no major issues with their spectrum. They use their spectrum pretty efficiently and have the most customers. They have LTE capacity issues on 700 and they will need AWS sooner rather than later.

Also of interest, today USCC picked up the 700 spectrum from Verizon in Oklahoma including OKC, so look for them to deploy LTE there as well.

I'm a cable cutter, totally with you on OTA broadcasts, but beyond ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, NBC, CW, how much etc. does each market really need? The FCC obviously believes less than they currently have.

I've heard LA will no doubt be the hardest city to clear. They must have a ton of over the air channels there.

You probably already know this if you've read many of wiwavelength's posts, but in an FDD arrangement, the uplink and downlink are often in separated even in different bands. Also there's multiple AWS as it's just kind of the name they give to all the new spectrum they free up in that 1700-2100 range, except of course the 1900 stuff that was already allocated, as that's PCS.

I did a google search and that chart looks pretty awesome. One thing I ws looking at yesterday was the 5XX-6XX reverse spectrum auction of 2014/2015 where TV providers from ch. 39-51 will voluntarily be able to give up spectrum for cash. And Cell phone providers will buy that spectrum. The low band at least as far as I know of 700 came from tv blocks as well.

http://reboot.fcc.gov/spectrumdashboard/ Sorry the link changed when I visited it.

From the article I posted "no word on CDMA2000 1x/EVDO 3GPP2 suite making it." This could mean no Tegra4 phones for Sprint or Tegra4 phones paired with a Qualcomm modem.. Hopefully Samsung can do cdma+LTE in their modems for the Exynos 5.

I was hoping Intel would have an LTE chipset to announce too. The lack of one could be the reason why they didn't announce any new Atom based smartphones for America.

You're right it's in Sensorly too! Keep in mind that the towers downtown will probably have a lot of down tilt and not travel very far.

The LTE stuff is interesting, especially the modem from Nvidia, Icera 500 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6552/more-nvidia-icera-i500-details-28nm-hp-category-3-lte-at-launch-4-later the Intel conference has been boring, except for 7watt core chips that Anandtech talked about months ago. Mandatory touch on Ultrabooks seems really dumb to me though.

Clearwire is a capacity play for Sprint. I don't see Sprint hurting on LTE capacity on 1900 this year. A fast deployment for 2500 doesn't' seem that important other than to help Clearwire's wholesale financials.

Sprint seems to love to talk about their network. As soon as they can, I think they'll tell us their exact strategy for 800 and 2500. MWC Spring CTIA could be fun this year.

Antenna is definitely the issue. All these new phones have the Qualcomm radio chipset that supports a bunch of bands both below and above 1hz. The iPhone is magical because of its dynamic antenna. If an identical phone can be made that supports all the carriers, phones should be a lot cheaper and supply shortages should be a lot less. Most phones like the GS3 need an antenna for each band supported. And without researching, I believe some carry multiple antennas for the same band to allow for SVDO.

The link I posted a few replies back is their very first FCC filing for an AWS LTE device.

I knew there was a thread where my Verizon aws LTE device belonged. Tab 10.1 Verizon AWS LTE http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-device-support-aws-lte-approved-fcc/2013-01-03

Does anyone know how to keep sensorly from turning the screen on every 30 seconds? GS3 CM10.1 nightlies. Active scanning only. It keeps turning the screen on and getting a gps lock. I don't want sensorly running at all when I'm not mapping a trip! The behavior right now will force me to delete sensorly from my phone. From settings -Passive scanning is unchecked -Next wake time is never General->Turn screen on while scanning is unchecked General->Flush app from memory is checked

ok Coverage will probably be something like: NV CDMA-1x 800 > NV CDMA-1xA 1900 > Legacy CDMA-1x 1900 >= NV LTE-800 >= NV EVDO 1900 > Legacy EVDO 1900 > LTE -1900 NV LTE-800 might not travel as far as NV/Legacy EVDO-1900, or might travel further than NV/Legacy CDMA 1X 1900, not sure. Network Vision LTE-800 might be greater than EVDO currently is. My thinking is like this in order of highest priority: 1. Lower frequency travels further 2. CDMA travels further than EVDO. EVDO travels further than LTE. 3. NV increases coverage with RRU + antenna improvements

LTE-1900 will be worse than current 3g 1900. 3g 1900 will be improved by up to ~20%, however. If you get a new phone that has LTE-800 and the towers close to you are outputting LTE-800, then your in building LTE coverage could be better by a lot or a little than current 3g. LTE-800 is theory right now so we would have to go by similar deployments like Verizon LTE-700, which doesn't travel as far as their CDMA/3g 850, but does travel quite well.

This seems like the reason LTE phones are able to save battery on cdma networks. They turn it off and go to 1x when the screen is off. Last thing I would want is LTE burning up the battery all the time. With new qualcomm phones the radios are all on the same chip so the battery drain is similar to keeping a wifi radio on all the time, not much.

If you look at sensorly, or decide to become a sponsor, you can pretty much see exactly where the towers are. I totally agree with you! I would love to see LTE on the other side of Maple Grove.