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"C-band not being available to VZW/AT&T ". Due to installation or licensing?

https://www.talkandroid.com/382030-t-mobile-uncarrier-data-breach-glitch/ Reportedly a temporary issue during a system update.

They reduced the number of months to 7 (April 2024). Dish wanted 12 iirc edit: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/dish-gets-doj-support-800-mhz-extension

You will have to upgrade your LG V30+ to a S22 or better for C-band plus DOD Lots of C-band installed, but I have not seen much DOD equipment in my very limited excusions.

https://about.att.com/blogs/2023/network-ready.html interesting discussion of At&T's standalone 5g deployment. They are doing it by application and area, so to see if your area has it you will want to keep tabs on AT&T Internet Air (currently in alpha or beta). My guess is your local site needs to have c-band/DOD service as a prerequisite.

The stock price is almost the same as a month ago. Paying dividends and doing stock buybacks was announce at previous quarterly reports, so none of this is new. However timing wise from a PR and morale standpoint, a rookie move.

Nice chart at the bottom. Wonder if 800Mhz is included for T-Mobile. Doubtful on US Cellular spectrum in major markets. If so, which ones?

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/starry-ready-start-anew-after-exiting-chapter-11 Reminds me of DSLnet many years ago. Their initial value was a revolutionary way to get around expensive T1 links with SDSL which was rare, but they could not grow fast enough. Went through a bankruptcy process, but by then their product was no longer unique, thus stuck with sideways growth.

I was thinking the same about protection sites. I had one at the fully upgraded T-Mobile site at the Fire Station on Reed Road in Upper Arlington that served a wide area including Columbus and Hilliard. Then some converted T-Mobile sites finally got generators installed (almost two years after building permits). Soon after that the band 26 disappeared.

So sad. Dish went with incremental financing as needed while T-Mobile lined up financing in advance at favorable rates. Ransomware cost Dish a billion plus time and momentum. Dish really still has their new 5g only network in beta phase, ie not generating any return on investment. They should come to a group like us and SCP and Cellmapper users and cut a special deal to kick their testing into high gear, thus more quickly get it into full use, thus improving their ROI, reputation, etc. Else Dish could be last in having a fully in-use 5G SA nationwide network.

T-Mobile reportedly pulling out of Best Buy next month:

The strategy of buying 2.5Ghz licenses at a higher price to lease back to T-Mobile appears to be dying: https://www.lightreading.com/5g-and-beyond/the-t-mobile-wco-fight-gets-muddy/d/d-id/786157?

Dish is buying at least some of the Sprint 800MHz spectrum. I did see Maine covered, so they are buying some in border regions.

Auction 108 will primarily benefit rural to small city areas, thus will help with statewide rankings such as root metrics, along with improved rural internet access. In addition to C-Band/DOD, T-Mobile will soon need to buildout its mmWave due to licensing requirements. At one point we saw sites that serve areas such as freeway intersections getting mmWave. This might be a very cost effective method of serving many people versus small cells in neighborhoods. Any reports as to how this is working?

Okra Nuggets

Rumor is that it was supposed to be that way, but the 9/11 commission identified first responder communication issues and Sprint's 800MHz was the solution. "Compensation" (unofficially) was the 1900MHz G block. Southern Link in GA also cut it back to 3x3 iirc. Border area with Canada goes for 100km from land border, thus it reaches into Columbus OH. Exactly how much spectrum was negotiated in 1940 iirc. It varies along the border depending on the relative sizes of cities. Thus Toronto affects Rochester NY, Erie, PA etc. Biggest issue for Sprint was providing new radio systems for first responders and getting all paperwork signed off. That is all done at excessive cost and time, which likely reduced FCC's take on other unclean spectrum. Dish would not have to worry about this.

Article material along with Trip's comments.

Depends on the price. No need for the national carriers to offer anything. Time will tell

Dish Current has excellent roaming deals with AT&T and T-Mobile. Rumor is they may require minimum volume.

It will be interesting how US Cellular structures the sale. Could be to one bidder of course, but it may fetch more broken up. For example, Dish could buy the customers and each band for each area could be sold separately. Cell towes could go to American Towers etc. Even one bidder could end up doing basically the same.

It would be totally awesome if we could input what we wanted the system shortcut to be which SCP would then do.

US Cellular is for sale!!

@ingenium has reported "live on Pixel 7 series (and maybe 6) with android 14 beta.

"48 hour free line window". Sounds like Verizon offers for their grandfathered plans that they really want to eliminate. Often has required a leap of faith iirc.