dkyeager

Bleeding edge

So are you now on T-Mobile all of the time or perhaps roaming on T-Mobile when Sprint Shentel signal is weak?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/30percent-of-americans-missed-their-housing-payments-in-june.html?&qsearchterm=house payment

Band 41 through a Magic Box is faster for a lot of customers. They may not have an ISP or a good ISP. By my definition, bad ISPs don't offer true speeds greater than 200Mbps down, are unreliable, ban or slow down certain sites and ports without telling customers, have no option to get rid of a data cap. AT&T for example offers 1Gbps in new condos and upscale homes, but leaves out neighborhoods with buried cable and even most neighborhoods with above ground cable (they had plans which they dropped). So many people's choice on internet is dial-up at 53kbps, ISDN dialup at 128kbps, ADSL at 3Mbps, VDSL with at most 75Mbps, rarely WISP, satellite has caps and can't do Zoom etc because of lag. (Most of these should be good markets for SpaceX etc.) Then you also have budget reasons. 30% of American homes skipped their house payment this month. Why pay for internet twice? Many homes only internet devices are smartphones and tablets with LTE.

Cash flow wise Dish may have gotten Boost for nothing. https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/dish-to-raise-1b-for-general-corporate-purposes Boost was the most profitable part of Sprint according to the anti-trust judge.

Only certain plans are eligible. Other than paying activation fee and monthly taxes, there seems to be no catch. ED1500 does nit seem to be eligible.

Not gifted yet to be able to access those details

https://www.thetechie.de/2020/06/t-mobile-initiates-4-billion-bond-sale.html?m=1 The layoffs make sense to lower the bond costs.

I have a Sprint phone and 3 Tello (Sprint) as well. Definitely from two nearby Sprint sites base on known PCIs plus earfcn. Locking onto b25 on my T-Mobile network phone gets nothing. Edit: My T-Mobile normal is b71 from 1 of 3 nearby sites. A fourth T-Mobile site is getting b71 but not public yet. All of the T-Mobile sites are Sprint Co-Sites. Inside that perimeter lies 4 Sprint Sites. These two b25 neighbors are the center most.

I have been seeing band 25 from a local Sprint site on my T-Mobile MVNO phone occasionally for the last few weeks in the same way as I do band 71 sites before they become public.

With the Fed basically throwing money at public firms perhaps this needs to be all rethought. I wonder what percentage of T-Mobile customers are currently being carried due to Covid-19? If this level is relatively small, perhaps they should be borrowing lots at this time to speed up the process significantly. However they should not become error prone. properly done, they have a very good window of opportunity.

In most metro areas there is enough for both. Getting Magic Boxes off b41 to wifi will given them 20Mhz. In small city areas with 55MHz effectively then are activating 15Mhz LTE. Hard to determine if that is to leave 20Mhz for 5g or not.

The spectrum is split between 4g and g5 LTE.

Because they plan to dump most Sprint sites (most of which are co-sites). They need to get to being one network, one accounting system etc as soon as possible since those areas are where the synergy is. Failing to do so quickly will crush their capex, since it is paid for from profits rather than a sugar daddy or smoke and mirrors. You want everyone focused on achieving a few simple objectives.

https://www.businessinsider.com/att-layoffs-thousands-jobs-cut-covid-19-june-2020-6 https://www.channelpartnersonline.com/2020/06/16/cwa-says-att-job-cuts-to-impact-thousands-nationally/ There may be far more layoffs. The Fed expects the economy to take several years to recover. The scale of the layoffs depends on possible additional funding from Congress. Workers no longer in under supply so firms will do as they must or as they wish.

Assuming network build success, T-Mobile will need lots of stores in small towns/rural areas to match the duo. Building up will take longer. Eventually they will thin out their network support ranks once they reach a unified single network.

Let us know if you pickup n41. Thanks

Does the band selection work? (n71 will still need an anchor band of course). Can you get n41? Thanks

Don't disagree, but not required by the FCC.

5G is the focus because it is really the only item that is required by the FCC for the merger. We could say the speed targets are related to density, but could also be achieved by reducing the number of customers. Doubt the later is their plan, but if T-Mobile/Sprint becomes the next Sprint/Nextel merger...

B26 will definitely get better. B41 spectrum will likely be shrunk by moving to n41 once they get rolling on more site work. B25 is likely most vulnerable to spectrum being moved to T-Mobile b2 or n2 or n25 (which has more bandwidth per carrier). FCC put in almost no Sprint customer oriented network restrictions into the merger so we either accept or move to another carrier. Even that is being rushed by pushing people over before sites have been converted thus limiting customer rational judgement. Accept or pick new carrier since T-Mobile can do what it wants.

I hope they have started to use their data for this. Plenty of Samsung S20 users had netter Sprint service and non-existent T-Mobile service in some cases.

Likely Samsung S20s in areas covered by T-Mobile towers.

Some people negotiate before the deal, others after. Trump has historically used a similar model to Ergen. The Fed has been pumping money into their system so most large firms can get financing even if in trouble, so that should not be an issue. FCC historically has been weak on enforcement thus leaving the Department of Justice. It is a political year. What plays best for Trump at this point? What if Biden wins? Most of us would not play this game. I don't think T-Mobile wants to either. Perhaps T-Mobile will spin off Boost, or at least dust off the other suitors.

The key item would be dialer codes or a hidden menu to allow band selection.