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    There have been members in southern Minnesota and St. Cloud that have seen work going on on towers. In the next few weeks/month MN should start having completed sites. We are definitely behind schedule, but there is work being done.
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    Chaitu, probably not in the short term. If they need more LTE bandwidth they will likely add another 5x5. Unless your phone uses carrier aggregation, the speeds will stay around 25 at good signal.
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    Thanks a bunch for this information! This is pretty much exactly what I was trying to figure out. Rochester and Barat/King Street wireless holdings had me stumped. Like how do they even make money off this spectrum currently? I can't believe there are that many Verizon's out there that will spend many millions/billions on spectrum and just sit on it!
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    I view it as necessary. I don't think I'm alone, and obviously Sprint thinks it is necessary too. It was nice to see the article point out that a lot of the subscriber growth was from Nextel adds. This is how you support subscriber growth on the legacy system, unfortunately. Should be a lot easier after NV.
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    A little off topic, but one only has to look at reasonably recent articles like this one just after the AWS auction to see how much things change! It was a really good read, and the fact that fact that small companies could buy AWS at 75% really looks like a terrible idea in retrospect. I also like how they talk about deploying VoIP on EVDO Rev. A to avoid having to deploy 1x. My how fast things change! These carriers weren't thinking at all about 4g when they bought up AWS. Heck I didn't know Sprint was a founder of Spectrumco until just after this auction. Oh and Verizon still hasn't deployed anything on AWS and has no phones. Crazy they were allowed to do that for so long! http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=99&p=1496 ps. I found this trying to learn more about Barat/King Street Wireless.
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    Does US Cellular use their Rochester / La Crosse holdings? They don't have any 850 cellular spectrum there. This was the question I really wanted to ask. Do they have any other MN holdings that make sense for them to divest? We had the other forum, where we talked about divestiture, but there's a little less to divest now.
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    It's not like Sprint is really using all of their spectrum anyway until that time. Sprint still has to realign their spectrum and deploy more LTE outside of G block after Network Vision is complete. Maybe they could have deployed extra 3g before then.
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    I don't understand why their Minnesota PCS spectrum wasn't added to this deal.
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    I didn't really plan to advertise, but I think I'm going to do the same. I have google voice, so i'll just cancel my account. I'll be back when I can get an LTE-800 phone, unless the Galaxy S 4 is amazing.
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    Damn you Madison, GA!
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    That still sounds very dangerous. I recommend moving all contractors out of the area. Specifically we have designated cell towers in Minnesota for them to work on.
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    There's no LTE till Sensorly says so!
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    You would think that LTE was a worse service than HSPA+ from all the Android defenders out there today! They also seem to think that including LTE would add $300 to the device. It seems like society today is so willing to pick a side and defend it to the death, instead of reasonably look at benefits and negatives. One side of peoples' mouths say 10x10 LTE is the only LTE fast enough for them, and the other side says HSPA+ is better than LTE, because Google says so! I'm done rambling and I probably just stumbled on to the wrong Android/T-Mobile enthusiast site.
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    Cell connections to torrent! You should bring that up in the wifi offloading thread. Unlimited is doomed.
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    I'd love to hear how this affects your LTE signal/4g signal threshold.
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    It's been out for months. Too bad about the $5 a month.
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    Any chance that the ordering of spectrum priority changes through all of this? 2.5->1900->800. Many of us were thinking Sprint wouldn't want to pay Clearwire so the priority would be on Sprint frequencies first.
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    I agree with you, except I don't see them deploying LTE on Cellular or AWS in any significant capacity in the short term. AWS just doesn't make sense as they gave it all to T-Mobile. I see it more as a bargaining chip for more spectrum in other areas. Cellular, I see them using as their primary voice platform. It must be able to serve the areas that 2g voice serves today. We have noted that VoLTE might not be able to do that. Those are minor details. however. You are right. AT&T holds a lot of prime spectrum and is having a tough time migrating to 3g/4g technologies. The FCC should not adjust their spectrum positions just because some technologies are harder to migrate from than others.
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    This is just the beginning of the opposition to Sprint's spectrum position. I think they wont be allowed to easily acquire any other companies and acquiring H will be harder because ATT is butthurt about it's own spectrum position. I bet that Verizon doesn't say much though. The analysts that used to hate Sprint will start bashing their new powerful position like Entner at the end of this article. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/entner-softbanks-purchase-sprint-could-make-it-bandwidth-powerhouse/2012-10-16
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    Thanks for catching that! Looks like I had a moment of color blindness
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    Keep the Sensorly running folks! It's fun to watch the city fill in with green!
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    You were just not that close to the tower. If you take your lunch to go and walk towards the tower things will speed up. Also 10.37 Mbps seems pretty fast to me, for a phone. I'd be pretty happy with that. Oh and 4g has not launched yet in California. They are just starting to allow access to the first 4g towers. You were lucky to find one.
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    So ridiculous...I laughed
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    Those commercials are so terrible. I'll take a Kishu though. Too bad they are protected by the government there.
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    Big 3? There's only a big 2
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