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or swap the AWS, WCS with another company (AT&T?) for some more PCS.

Sounds too ideal to actually happen.

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Sprint should not overpay for any more spectrum (including PCS H).  Demand is not going up nearly as high as originally predicted and Sprint is sitting pretty well with what they have.  Also US Cellular has a lot of Spectrum (AWS/Cellular) that Sprint would probably sell.  Let these companies continue to dwindle and buy up their spectrum when the yard sale starts.

nTelos - Just buy the BRS from whoever buys them.

It's probably just not accepting connections.  Soon though it should be.  Exciting!

http://www.phonedog.com/2013/07/15/new-verizon-vz-edge-program-leaks-will-help-customers-to-upgrade-more-frequently/

It's good to see Verizon has found a way for people to pay more money.  I think this is the exact opposite direction of getting rid of subsidies, and in fact should help keep phone demand and prices artificially high.

I believe the htc one by sprint is 800mgz lte

Nope no phones currently on the market for sprint support 800 smr lte

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Just picked up 800 for the first time in Chanhassen, I'm close to the water tower, but picking up signal from a tower farther west.

 

It's nice when you pick it up for the first time, just to know that you got the right prl (I'm on CM currently) and the hardware all works right.

I am down on the south end of Shakopee off 169 and Marystown Rd. I get 1 maybe 2 bars when I connect to LTE but when my phone changes to 3G in other areas of the house I have full bars.  Would it be safe to say that they just may have not finished the closest tower to my house and my phone is trying to grab a weak LTE signal over a strong 3G?

Yes

Are there any phones out right now that support anything other than 1900mhz? I ask because I have found through digging that my galaxy s4 supports 1700mhz lte? Do you happen to know if that even belongs to sprint or would that be a verizon frequency? 

Verizon has nationwide AWS 1700

T-Mobile has nationwide AWS 1700

AT&T has some AWS 1700

Your phone supports CDMA 800 SMR/850 Cellular/1900A-G PCS and LTE 1900 PCS.  This is as advanced as any phone out today on Sprint's network.  Many Wimax phones support CDMA 800 as well.

tri band devices are right around the corner, probably coming on the next wave of phones for the holidays.

1900 only but that could change any day. I expect sprint to give a full network update press release about nv 800 and 2600 very soon. We are at financial quarter end and all of the acquisitions just completed so timing is important.

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Sounds about right to develop, test and release Tri-band phones. Just in time for my 2/2015 contract renewal.

Tri-band phones will see light of day this year.  They were going to use TD-LTE 2600 long before they were approached by Softbank and thought about buying Clearwire.  As AJ has pointed out in another thread, Tri-Band devices (not phones yet) have already passed through the FCC.

You really should be in a good situation with the airave, although some interesting things are starting to happen with CDMA-800 coming online.  People are connecting to towers further away because the CDMA-1X 800 signal is picked up even if a CDMA-1X 1900 signal is closer.

EVDO and LTE are only data (VoLTE is probably further away than your next upgrade), so they are unrelated to the voice signal issues around NV and Airave and they will stay connected and be waiting for you once you leave/turn off your WIFI.

Hello all, I have a question about my sprint airave. The closest tower to my house is approximately 4 miles away if I'm correct. So what I'm wondering is when this tower is eventually upgraded to 4G, will my phone be able to connect to it? Or will my airave being a stronger signal override the 4G signal?

Side question: are 4G signals stronger or weaker than 3G signals necessarily? Thanks for any insight you guys can supply

Sprint has their phones currently set up to hold on to slivers of LTE signal.  Once you lose LTE, it takes a bit to get back off EVDO, but it will happen.

Nice thing about your house is you should have wifi and none of this will really matter because voice will still come through your airave, whether you have LTE or not.

I would even call this a duplicate of the other T-Mobile thread, where this has been discussed extensively

I have a question about the 800 MHz network. As of 7/5 there are only 376 3G/800 and 846 3G/800/4G sites for a total of 1222 sites. Is this because Sprint waited until iDen was shut down to begin adding 800? My biggest question is how many NV sites will eventually be upgraded with 800? All of them, or only some? Also, since the network was already in place, but not necessarily part of NV, are there more than the listed 1222 800 MHz sites operating? Thanks.

This is from the Everything 800 thread, which is probably a good thread to look for information about 800 deployments.  Obviously this doesn't count if you are in an IBEZ region.  Also the LTE 800 number maybe will go up with the investment from Softbank.

Sprint is adding CDMA 800 on approximately 95% of sites, and they are targeting LTE 800 on 80% of sites.

 

Robert

That's probably when I expect Sprint to start refarming their PCS A-F holdings.

 

I expect sprint to use excess a-f as soon as nv phase one complete. If you mean refarm existing Evdo usage, your timeline makes sense to me.

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I'm glad you went into such detail. I didn't know or forgot a lot of the reasoning of the spectrum screen details for both bands.

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Well maintain a good tone and only present the most important facts, don't get caught up in the smaller feuds and see what happens.

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I like the name of this article because AT&T seems to be ignoring more facts than the FCC in this case.

I would say that

BRS owned != EBS leased

AT&T likely would not be limited from buying AWS(Including Dish)/PCS or some 600(5x5).

Sub GHz spectrum vs High spectrum can't be ignored the way AT&T wants.

If they like EBS licenses, they can probably still buy them from Sprint.

AT&T isn't worried about >GHz spectrum constraints after so nicely giving so much AWS to T-Mobile.  Not every company has the same problems.  The smaller 2 have the opposite problem, so the FCC should have an understanding of the entire wireless industry, not just the pitfalls AT&T is running into.

Maybe AT&T is just complaining about the awesome plan T-Mobile has come up with for the 600 auction, without directly addressing it.

We can comment on AT&T's policy blog!  Looks like AT&T wanted to make some fireworks of their own this weekend.

http://attpublicpolicy.com/fcc/inconvenient-facts-and-the-fccs-flawed-spectrum-screen/

 

Posted by: Joan Marsh on July 5, 2013 at 4:10 pm

Today, the FCC approved SoftBank’s acquisition of Sprint and Sprint’s acquisition of the remainder of Clearwire.  After it takes over Sprint/Clearwire, SoftBank has asserted that it will provide Sprint with an infusion of capital and expertise that will be used to deploy Clearwire’s 2.5 GHz spectrum – the key asset in play in this transaction – more effectively.  Softbank and Sprint have also alleged that the 2.5 GHz spectrum (the same band Softbank uses for its LTE network in Japan) will be made even more valuable through its combination with Sprint’s 1.9 GHz and 800 MHz spectrum holdings.

In fact, Clearwire’s 2.5 GHz spectrum portfolio is so valuable that in recent weeks it set off a bidding war.  In late May, Dish Network raised its bid for Clearwire to $4.40/share, representing a 29 percent premium over Sprint’s revised offer of $3.40, causing Sprint to revise its bid once again to $5/share.  This makes clear how valuable – and pivotal to the deal – the 2.5 GHz spectrum portfolio really was.

This value was also readily recognized by analysts commenting on the deal.  Baird Equity Research noted that gaining full access to Clearwire’s almost 140 MHz of nationwide spectrum provides significant bandwidth opportunities and solves Sprint’s spectrum shortage.  And Clearwire itself has long publicly touted the value of its approximately 140 MHz of spectrum on average across its national footprint and up to 160 MHz of spectrum on average in the 100 largest markets.

Yet, in reviewing the transaction, the FCC ignored all this and concluded that no adjustment to the spectrum screen was needed, even though the FCC today counts only 55.5 MHz of the 2.5 GHz spectrum in the screen, a tool that is designed to consider all spectrum available for wireless use.  The FCC reached this conclusion despite the fact that it is directly contrary to the FCC’s own assertions, in both its Wireless Competition Reports and in a February 2013 FCC White Paper, that all 194 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum is available for mobile wireless use.  Indeed, the FCC has acknowledged in those reports that Clearwire is currently using this spectrum to provide mobile broadband services.

This refusal to acknowledge and account for all available BRS/EBS spectrum is neither rational nor defensible.  Not only is it inconsistent with the FCC’s own findings elsewhere, but it is directly contrary to the manner in which the FCC treated the neighboring WCS band at 2.3 GHz.  When AT&T acquired those licenses, the FCC found that the spectrum was usable for mobile wireless services and promptly adjusted the screen.  Yet here, when Softbank acquires far more substantial spectrum rights in the 2.5 GHz band, the FCC ignores the ground truth and refuses to make the appropriate screen adjustment with little justification.

To be clear, AT&T took no position on the underlying transaction.  Our argument is solely with the FCC’s determination to avoid the inconvenient facts about its current spectrum screen.  The screen framework has been and can continue to be an effective tool for assessing competitive impact, but until that framework is updated by the FCC to reflect ALL spectrum that is available and usable – and in this case currently being used – for mobile wireless services, the framework is a significantly flawed tool that seeks to advantage some competitors to the disadvantage of others.

I just got a text from Sprint this morning "Milwaukee, we're building you an all-new network! See how this affects your service at http://sprint.us/rnr "

 

Once you're in there, it eventually brings you to that "upgrades" map where they were doing the band-aid fixes. So it's really not related to network vision, but they're at least telling us that we may experience some issues while the upgrades happen. 

 

I really have been having some issues over the last week or so. My EV-DO connection has been dropping in and out, it will take like 30 seconds to connect a voice call sometimes. I've never had these issues before. So I'm hoping towers around me are being worked on. (between Waukesha and Greenfield)

Actually it is completely related to NV, moreso than Band-Aid fixes at this point, since those are winding down.  Both are mixed in together.  While that site isn't as interesting as the sponsor maps here, they do a good job of showing your average customer work is being done.

It sure looks like Wisconsin is in full progress right now, and they just need to finish some of the towers they are working on to get progress reports similar to Minnesota.

Anyone know of any good sites for no contract sprint samsung GS4?

 

Got mine on eBay

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Verizon really needs to put down any thing it can to up there speeds in some market's, it getting really bad in some places. They may bid on it too.

That's what their large AWS holdings are for.  Let's let them deploy that first.

If USCellular is retreating and selling off spectrum, does that make them a better or worse potential target for dish to scoop up and use their network?

I wouldn't call US Cellular's latest moves retreating, in the US Cellular thread we have been thinking something like this would have to happen for a few months.  They needed to focus their spectrum holdings and liquidate the spectrum in markets they couldn't utilize.  They seem to be getting very good value.  In the markets where US Cellular serves, they have a very nice spectrum portfolio and should offer up nice balance sheets should they be acquired in the near future.

Whoever acquires them will have to divest some bands and possibly align technologies, though.  That's probably all I should say about US Cellular in this thread.

Haven't seen too much mapping on sensorly lately. Kinda disappointing... 

There are some key sites around me I would love to have turned on, waiting patiently.  Our market certainly gets a lot of sites each week, most are just in rural areas at the moment.  I don't view this as a bad thing at all though.  The initial plans for MN always showed them targeting some city, then rural areas, and back to city, probably for 800 service asap.

Dish is holding a hot potato, which is outlined very nicely by AJ earlier in this thread.  They have to do something about this spectrum, while the other 4 are busy enough just deploying the bands they have. 

AT&T doesn't even have a WCS phone yet.  This means those same buildout requirements will fall on the next owner of this spectrum.  Dish's need to unload or strike a deal, and other companies' focus on deploying what they have leads to a decreased value of Dish's spectrum.  This value was lowered more by sprint becoming flush with Clearwire spectrum they now have to deploy and a Clearwire network that Dish can't currently deploy on.

Combine all this with a false spectrum scarcity that is starting to show through in markets around the world, and you have a rapidly dropping value of Dish's spectrum.