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Rumor the Germans are finalizing the Sprint-T Mobile merger in an all stocks purchase. With Sprint free unlimited plan running until June 30th expect this merger to be announced during the first week of July. lets see what the Magenta cult says when T Mobile is charging 120 dollars for a single unlimited line. Verizon and T will love this to happen because they can raise prices again, no that they are that low anyways.

We are basically 5 months away from 2018 and Sprint hasn't catched up to the competition. By the middle of 2019 the other three will be moving into 5G deployments. In fact by July of 2019 you will hear Verizon, AT&T and maybe T Mobile 5G radios being installed in their macros.

That won't mean anything because there is opportunities to grab customers everywhere across the 50 states. They are thinking with a losing mentality instead of becoming ruthless businessmen.

That is good and everything, but if they do another deployment like the 8T8R then it will be half baked.

Fair enough but I don't think Sprint needed to lobby the FCC to reserve 600mhz spectrum if they didn't plan to participate on it. This basically allowed T-Mobile to grab all the reserves in many markets. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Verizon already owns 10x10 700mhz nationwide and plenty of 850mhz cellular. Sprint CFO didn't need to mention the money stuff. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

2018 is almost here You can put the CFO in the same group. He said Sprint didn't participate in the 600mhz no because of money....LOL. That statement made lose complete faith in this management team besides Dr. Saw and Gunther. The network guys are bright, but they are not getting the resources to execute. I don't think Dr. Saw will cite PC magazine in the next blog.....

Retail expansions are good when there is a demand for your product. Sprint service is not in demand by potential customers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I finished reading this report, and the thing that stood was the Sprint network is very inconsistent. Now you know why they are giving free service for a year.

Yea, Sprint and their lack of network CapEX slowed the momentum they were picking up from 2015-2016.

Charter is in massive debt. The last thing Sprint needs is a company that won't invest on their infrastructure.

They didn't participate because they didn't have money for it period.

Tomorrow PC magazine will release the annual faster mobile awards for several cities. We will see if those New Orleans speeds are accurate.

Maybe Apple has been testing Iphones with gigabits chips and the battery performance sucks.

I don't see things about haters or lovers of Sprint. This is a wireless carrier that needs to add many customers. Legere has done a great job turning his company into a cult of followers which reminds me a lot of Apple. T Mobile can have a handful of towers congested, and their customers would give them a pass. Sprint having the same type of problems, and they would call it a crap carrier. If Marcelo was as passionate about the Sprint network as he is about Soccer this company would be kicking Tmobile teeths where it matter most.... network quality.

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/comcast/philly-and-suburbs-brace-for-attack-of-the-small-cells-20170601.html?mobi=true Apparently Mobilitie is at it again regarding those ugly poles.

Verizon spectrum holdings currently on LTE use in NYC : 10mhz(band13)+ 20mhz(band4)+ 20mhz(band 2)=50mhz. Band 5 and AWS-3 are missing in action, but I am not so sure they own any AWS3 here. The 1x network is still around, but I would be surprised if they don't kill it by the end of the year in this market.

Let's pick another city smaller than the NYC tri state area named Boston where Sprint is dead last too. http://www.rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/boston-ma/2017/1H In this city Rootmetrics didn't have to test suburbs in other state( NJ), or other parts of the state like in New York. So instead of spending 200 millions on Tidal they should had spend it all the way from New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Oh I forgot I left philadelphia where Sprint is dead last too. http://www.rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/philadelphia-pa/2017/1H overall their network is dead last in the Northeast period, and you wonder why they only reported an anemic postpaid customers quarter. we are halfway 2017 and we are talking about mediocre network stats.

There are a lot of people that don't live the Island of Manhattan, but there are millions that live in the suburbs. Those folks come to work in the city, and those are the people Sprint wants to get as customers but they can't because the service sucks where they live.

People travel all around the New York metro area, whether for work, or visiting family or friends in places like Long Island, Westchester county, or Northern NJ. Sprint is average or mediocre at best in those locations. Its a huge metropolis with so many millions of citizens that if Sprint were a smart organization they would fix the network everywhere.

It was a four years ago using outdated Nokia tech that they demonstrated 2.6Gpbs in a lab test using 120mhz spectrum in a 8T8R setting . So Nokia and the others network companies have come a long way since that time. the new tech is 64T64R with massive MIMO so Sprint won't have a problem breaking over 1Gbps using only 60mhz of 2.5GHZ spectrum. Sprint problem is not the tech or Spectrum, basically is $$$$$$. If they had not money and no the debt problems the network would be at 60k 2.5hgz macro sites and over 25k small cells by now with planning to deploy the 64T64R radios this Fall.

From hearing Massa in that call, he sounds like someone that doesn't know what else to do with Sprint. The only thing we got today was a box that you put in your window for coverage. I assumed the HPUE stuff was going to solve the indoor problem the 2.5hgz has.

42k net add phone customers with the cheaper plans in the industry is not impressive at all. I think Sprint is about to hit the M&A game.

That 44.67/7.36 in Sacramento from Sprint left everyone in the dust. If they would do nationwide what they are doing in Sacramento.....

What Sprint said about this spectrum was the truth, but unless they go gangbuster and add thousands of small cells and macros to make their 2.5ghz network strong is basically nothing. Tmobile is already going into hyperdrive regarding small cells. They are talking about over thousands on the air already with another 25k coming online soon.