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    Where outside of Lake County in Minnesota did Peregrine have 700 spectrum?
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    I think 5 people live in Lake county Minnesota, where AT&T is picking up 700 "B" block from Peregrine.
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    This is a big shift PCS realignment actually.
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    Phonescoop http://www.phonescoo...cle.php?a=11297 FCC http://hraunfoss.fcc...document=316703 FCC http://hraunfoss.fcc...document=316705 Some more spectrum news to chew on! Is AT&T giving up on AWS?!?
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    I hope for a phone that will be supported by the dev community for around 2 years. Usually that's only reserved for Nexus phones, but the OG EVO did pretty well in that respect. This site will be very helpful in finding my next phone and I will probably sit out a month until antenna reviews come in and the first price cut hits.
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    Unfortunately, it's made by LG
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    I think Ray is having a hard time detaching CDMA 1x and EVDO. The more I hear about 1x and it's tiny sliver of spectrum and hd voice combined with LTE for data, it seems like the perfect match. Sprint can drop EVDO a hell of a lot sooner than T-Mobile can drop HSPA+.
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    I'm fine with rural carriers getting to use that spectrum, but I don't think there needs to be any more fragmentation of spectrum in the US. I don't expect carriers to deploy complete nationwide on >1ghz spectrum.
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    So what's going on with your 3g vs 4g is that the closest tower to you is still not updated to 4g yet and probably not 3g/backhaul either. However, you are close enough to get a weak LTE signal from another tower that was upgraded. Your speeds will improve in both 4g and 3g when they upgrade the tower giving you the really slow 3g speeds right now. LTE is very signal dependent, so that distant signal can only give you 3mbps now, but you will probably see 10+ in the future.
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    Also there's no Sensorly 4g coverage anywhere in Florida yet, so if you get something you would be the first. It would be your duty to run Sensorly if you get 4g, got that?!?
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    We know with T-Mobile's network vision type project, they will be utilizing most all of their PCS and AWS spectrum in every market. Companies don't have to have the network built yesterday when they acquire spectrum. A company like T-Mobile will put any available spectrum they can to use as fast as possible. I realize that NewCo will have some excess in certain markets like AJ's article shows, but I also expect them to have to sell that excess off to make for a much more fair and competitive spectrum landscape.
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    I think T-Mobile would try to hold on to 40MHz, so giving up 10 in Sacramento might be a tough sell.
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    Sprint should take those 2.5MHz in Orlando too! Great article as always AJ!
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    I would direct you to the EVO LTE thread to discuss these issues. Members here have been very aware of the issues with connecting with the EVO LTE. They've also been looking at the effects of each OTA for the EVO LTE as well as comparisons to other phones. S4GRU will have an article comparing the EVO LTE connection to GS3 and other phones in the coming days. Here's to hoping that an upcoming OTA will get the EVO LTE to connect to LTE when in range.
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    If they sell it. My bet is AT&T buys it. Even with WCS AT&T is going to need more spectrum, even if none of us want to give it to them. I don't think Verizon is allowed to buy more spectrum yet, but I could be wrong.
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    Sprint offers Dish an olive branch in clash over spectrum shift- http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-offers-dish-olive-branch-clash-over-spectrum-shift/2012-10-04
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    http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/sprints-tarazi-explains-hetnets-and-network-vision-20/2012-10-03 So much for NV 2.0 being the great expansion into rural areas using CDMA/LTE-800. Good to see they are embracing WIFI, though. Also interesting, they are calling LTE-800/LTE-2500 "Network Vision 2.0" now. I guess that makes sense. Interview details more about Sprint's plan for pico cells too.
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    That's what it's all about going forward...Getting as much spectrum capacity in as many urban areas as possible. T-Mobile could use a little slice of the of the sub 1hz pie, but it's not their primary goal right now. I do see them expanding coverage at a slow rate, though.
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    I agree with all the replies about 850. I was doing a summary for all carriers and brushed over how easily Sprint could add 850. Not sure if they would need new antennas on the towers, but essentially a moot point. iansltx - Thanks for the great writeup where you separate LTE bandwidth from legacy. Tons of insight. I also am really intrigued by the idea of USCC as a short to medium term subsidiary of Sprint. This should keep more contracts around and makes sense to me. Then eventually replace USCC towers with Sprint towers with 850 support.
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    So what company is going to take on the job of acquiring US Cellular? Verizon lines up the best spectrum wise, but would probably get rejected by the FCC. Also they were told to dump 700 a and b and this would have them acquiring more. Sprint would have to sell off AWS and Cellular(850), and 700 just to get some PCS AT&T makes sense, would the FCC allow it? T-Mobile is not CDMA, but that doesn't seem to stop them. It would be their first cellular 850 spectrum to maintain, however, and 700 block spectrum. In a lot of ways it would make them a powerhouse, but only in certain geographic areas. US Cellular might just be too hard to integrate and that's probably the reason they are still independent.
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    They still don't have any <1GHz spectrum. They still have to maintain HSPA+, which is just as big of a bandwidth junkie as LTE, essentially splitting their spectrum in half. It's not just a direct comparison between amount of spectrum.
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    There aren't a whole lot of connections out there bringing better latency than the 50-60ms NV LTE is bringing. Data speeds would definitely be fast enough to do it too. Jitter is either caused by latency or connection hiccup or computer hiccup. Wireless always has the potential to give a connection hiccup(momentary loss of connection) as there are many factors like sitting between towers or wireless taking multiple paths etc. Lastly, while it's very possible to use your Sprint connection for things like this, Sprint service should not be considered for home Internet usage. They will be cracking down on high usage of data post network vision, especially if they suspect it's done using a free tethering plan.
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    Maybe if he read this thread he'd enable Wifi calling to appease some of us. Man I would love wifi calling when I'm in rural areas.
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    Spectrum probably gains a bit of value the closer it becomes to usable. Sprint is just waiting until the right time to sell, which shouldn't be long now that the FCC is approving it for LTE use. That one company was in bad debt and dire need to sell the spectrum.
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