And the city wants it taken down...
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2016/06/01/City-issues-cease-and-desist-order-for-Mount-Washington-
sign/stories/201606010227
That Bayer sign is ugly and hasn't worked in years...
So it's gonna be a 5G "demonstration." My guess is that Sprint will have a large TV with a speed test page on it showing a static image of 1 terabyte per second.
That's likely. Maybe this is part of a clever ruse saying 3 billion then at the end of fiscal 2016 actually spending 6 billion, thereby fulfilling their newly created ethos of underpromising and overdelivering.
They did give themselves leeway stating that they could spend more if opportune.
That ruling is huge for Sprint (and T-mobile) and explains why Marcelo has been in DC so much as of late. It will only help Sprint return to profits, and at the same time, upgrade to fiber without having to pay exorbitant early term. fees.
So my parents are moving to northern NH...(dont ask me why 65 year olds would want to retire there). Coverage maps show no Sprint service but they have been looking at houses and said they had good data and voice coverage.
If they kept Sprint would they breach their contract with all the roaming?
Can I recommend US Cellular? They will be doing a lot of driving around NE and probably winter in SC or maybe FL.
Watching some HGTv and saw a Scott's commercial for their lawn app. Lots of Sprint LTE shots - free advertising! Woo Hoo
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AT1b/scotts-my-lawn-simplify-lawn-care
Wow, I glanced through the pdf. 75 pages with multiple planning boards and recreation commissions. For 1 site!
No wonder sprint anticipates being stuck in permit hell for 2016
Pittsburgh has a similar program within the city limits. It seems like it would be cheaper to co-locate/share the node with Verizon than build a monopole that will need conditional use permits and take 6-9 months to get approved, let alone build.I know the relay system is supposed to save on backhaul but I hope sprint is considering time to completion as a valuable variable too.
Carrier agnostic antennas seem to be the best solution but who would pay for them? Municipalities probably couldn't and I dont think the carriers are going to get together and launch a system where there isn't a competitive advantage.
There are wins that sprint had in prior testing then lost. I have to wonder if this very site is the reason for that. We have so much critical info on site placement and upgrade times that is essentially open to the public. A competitor just needs to pay a small amount here and has all the info they need to overbuild and steal any performance gains sprint obtained.
Maybe we are the reason sprint is behind after 3 and 1/2 years since starting NV 1.0
Oh, so they will be paying for the work after it's been completed? Giving the time frame of FY2017 for payments assuming that work will be completed before then?
Nice post grapkoski...Shentel is well run and has strong financials, I think Sprint should give them as much as they can handle! Central PA clear through Central VA...to start