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verizon bid nothing for 600Mhz but now willing to plow almost 2 billions for high band.  So I guess verizon, sprint and att have the same perspective about 5G but tmobile seems to take a different path.  who is right and who is wrong? only time can tell.

Tmobile is thinking about 4G LTE, while the others have their sight on 5G. 600mhz is 4G spectrum, even if you light up a town of 5,000 with one 15x15 or 20x20 60mhz you will have to go back to the tower to add capacity.

Neville has turned into a little arrogant Pr$ck. I understand that you need to be confident but the way he was bashing Verizon yesterday it was pathetic. He needs to be reminded that big red stills has a lot of $$$$. 

tmobile bought this not for capacity, but to match Verizon 2+ millions per square miles coverage. Regardless watch Verizon buying Dish now. Tmobile doesn't have more cash for more  acquisitions, they bet their future on 600mhz.

T-Mobile US CTO says merger would benefit Sprint subs

 

https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/home-banner/t-mobile-us-cto-says-merger-would-benefit-sprint-subs/

 

"T-Mobile US CTO Neville Ray (pictured) insisted the operator is currently not thinking about merging with Sprint, but said any such tie-up would prove beneficial to its rival’s customers."

 

Perhaps a specific campaign by T-Mobile to whet the market's (and the Fed's) appetite for a merger

The want another breakup fee, and if little Massa tries to go for this again he would be stupid. Even with a new administration there is no chance of this getting approved. The new head of the FCC is a Verizon guy anyways. Sprint solution is simple spend money on the network and that total 203 MHZ of spectrum will be an advantage. 

If you want to sell then approach a cable company otherwise the Tmobile guys will steal half of that 2.5ghz spectrum holdings. Also a combined Tmobile and Sprint will have over 60 billions in debt.

Rootmetrics released a new batch of results today, and I noticed something major in Atlanta is happening with Sprint.

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• Sprint’s median download speed increased from 18.3 Mbps to 33.9 Mbps since our previous round of testing.

http://www.rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/atlanta-ga/2017/1H

Seems their network is getting very dense over there, and I would like for any members that live in the ATL regarding their experiences.

Some good news...

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/03/sprint-shows-off-gigabit-lte-unannounced-motorola-device.html

In New Orleans, Sprint along with Qualcomm and Motorola, showed off Gigabit-Class LTE, on a brand new Motorola device that will be out in the near future. Motorola wouldn’t state what the device was, or any specs about it, in fact it’s in a case and covered with tape, so it can conceal its identity until they are ready to announce the new smartphone. We do know that the device is running on the Snapdragon 835, and using the X16 LTE Modem from Qualcomm, which is what gives this smartphone Gigabit LTE speeds.

According to Sprint, Gigabit LTE uses a variety of technology to produce some massive speeds. It uses three-channel carrier aggregation which is available in over 100 markets right now, and Sprint will be bringing it to many more before the end of the year. Additionally, they are using 60MHz of their 2.5GHz spectrum along with 4×4 MIMO and 256-QAM, which gives them Category 16 LTE speeds on an existing TDD Network. Now technically, this isn’t Gigabit LTE since, it doesn’t hit over 1Gbps in speed most of the time, also the Ookla Speedtest.net app they are using to test the speeds can’t really handle speeds this fast. But we were able to get a multiple speed tests of over 100Mbps, and a few over 600Mbps and some as high as 800Mbps, which is pretty impressive for a mobile device.

Sprint executives always talk they can build a 4G LTE network cheaper than the competition, which I find untruthful. Their vendors like NOKIA are public companies too, which their responsibility is to maximize shareholders value therefore no way those 64R64T radios will be cheap.

China Mobile will put a big order on those radios and since they have  a lot  $$$$$$ they will be the priority customer, and no Sprint. There is not such secret plan to build a wireless LTE network on the cheap because the companies that sell wireless equipment have shareholders and want to make money too. 

Seems Sprint is pitching their spectrum assets into overdrive because they want someone to buy them. The Massa Guy doesn't like competition, and wants things to go his way. 

The words in those Softbank board meetings, is that if they would dump billions into the Sprint network they don't believe that organic growth is possible.

To be fair, Masa is extremely tight with the purse strings. That makes the RadioShack/Tidal/Pokémon dalliances all the more frustrating.

 

That crap won't get customers in the door. Advanced voice and data capabilities will do that. Not spectrum. Not Tidal. Not RadioShack. Not Pokémon. Only capability. Network product in customer hands paired to top level devices with simple rate plans.

 

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LOL, A wireless network is their core product. That should had been the focus from day one. You sell wireless service, not pokemon or others BS.

This is what happens when you hire CEOS with zero telecom experience. 

AT&T doesn't really care about the wireless division that much anymore because they just want to become a media empire. Regardless  we shouldn't forget how they got here, selling their core product which until now was the wireless network. Verizon and Ma Bell became big money machines because they focused on their core product, something Sprint has been neglecting.

You can't give customers 600 dollars to switch to your carrier while your higher postpaid customers are leaving. Being a budget value carrier is not sustainable long term, and that is why  I think they know and the reason for a merger in the near future.

I hate all of the "look what we will one day be able to do" stuff sprint churns out. Just deploy it in the real world and say look what we have done.

 

 

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Softbank Boss addressed The wireless industry in Barcelona regarding the 30 years plan of his company, the bad news is, Sprint is  is not or will  be part of this.

What's that tell you? basically they will unload Sprint to the first man that flirt with it. So all these massive MIMO,  or 64T64R wil not come to fruition during this current ownership. They don't believe on Sprint.

If TMobile can get their hands on this spectrum all three national carrier's will be in a world of trouble.

And you assume the piggy banks carriers  known as the Twin Bells will allow Tmobile to get that spectrum? they will outbid Tmobile if they have to.

Neville says crowd source data is more telling than scientifically conducted tested, might have something to do with the results...

 

 

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/network-testing.htm

Not everyone on Verizon download the open signal app. I have a line with them , and I never downloaded the app.Neville never wants to admit defeat. T-Mobile a great network like Verizon yeah right.

Tmobile has been using the MetroPCS prepaid arm to destroy the Sprint brand even further ,Legere is a cold assassin. This basically makes people believe that  the Sprint network is basically a cheap prepaid one.

Those 3 things aren't indicative of a sale. They're just indicative of a company that's trying to right their ship. If I inherited any company that was in a poor financial situation and was losing customers, I would obviously want to reverse that.

Sprint knew the debt bills were coming, and that didn't stop them from investing close to 5 billions in 2015 then  kill the Capex in 2016. The debt bills were an excuse because merger  was the strategy.

Wow, I called it again. I said that this VZW's unlimited plan announcement would likely give TMUS/S more reason to merge and no one acknowledged my comment.

The merge was in play for several months, since Sprint wasn't spending money on their network. The VZ unlimited data was basically the final nail on the coffin.

A company ready to sell do this:

Cut massive budgets, and spending

Start paying down the debt

Acquire customers even if they are discount ones to make the sale more attractive

Finally Did anyone here assume Marcelo was going to stay in Kansas City long term? Nothing wrong with the city, but this dude is a Miami party man.

All carriers offer unlimited data, and have a better data network than Sprint

What is Sprint selling point?

What separate Sprint from the others?

Does Sprint has the faster network

Does Sprint has the most capacity per customer?

Does Sprint offers a great customer service? 

The answers to those questions is a big fat no..

We know about all that spectrum,but it doesn't count because its not deployed, and average Joes and Lucy  around town dont care about it. They only care about that their expensive smartphone works anytime they need to. 

Verizon hasn't completed there fiber buildout in NYC, as a matter of fact, the city sued Verizon for breach of contract. Until Verizon turned around and said OK. Til this day, Verizon is still building fiber in NYC at a snails pace

 

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They havent completed the fiber buildout to every building,  but  its  in every street block.

I do not know how much further V can go in NYC.

 

They have deployed damn near everything under the sun.

 

I recently heard they have 3xCA live here as well.

 

Keep in mind NYC is V's hometown.

I do not know how much further V can go in NYC.

 

They have deployed damn near everything under the sun.

 

I recently heard they have 3xCA live here as well.

 

Keep in mind NYC is V's hometown.

 

I do not know how much further V can go in NYC.

 

They have deployed damn near everything under the sun.

 

I recently heard they have 3xCA live here as well.

 

Keep in mind NYC is V's hometown.

 

  My Iphone 7 plus speeds on Verizon are consistent everywhere in New York. I can't say the same about Sprint while their service is good in Manhattan there are pockets holes in the rest of the city where they go to crap.

Verizon macros and small cells are fed by the same fiber  that FIOS and the LINKNYC Wifi kios use. The whole city is wired with Verizon fiber so I seriously doubt any carrier will dethrone them here.

Verizon during rush hour in NYC..

 

Imagine six months from now..

 

Like I said before, maybe this is awesome for more rural areas but big cities not so amazing.

 

Verizon in NY https://imgur.com/gallery/4gLnD

I have an Iphone 7 plus and I don't suffer any slow speeds in lower Manhattan or midtown during  rush hours. BTW I am rooting for Sprint hard, but  even if Verizon speeds start going to crap they have a lot of $$$$$ to deploy additional macros and small cells. 

Terrible, just terrible! And very sad...

"Make Sprint great again"

last time it was  2001 aka Sprint PCS

Sprint strategy was bad from the start. They needed to sit down back in August 2014 when the new management team took over. our network is the worst of all four when it comes to data and speeds. We need to think long and hard and every penny we get should go to the network instead of spending billions on advertising and buying customers. 

These guys went into a crazy budget cuts storm, and they even made deep cuts into CAPEX just because of the incoming debt. Yes, like nobody saw the debt coming. Sprint cheap plans offers are basically to get the cow fat then sell it.  M&A is their strategy at this point.

I noticed that John keeps saying that they have the more spectrum per user than Verizon. Isn't that false?

 

Don't they have the least amount of spectrum than any of the three other carriers?

Verizon has more spectrum,but they also have twice the amount of customers. This is why John is correct they have more capacity per customer than Verizon. 

Sprint neglected two years on building and densification  their network(2014 and 2016). Instead of working and using their assets(120mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum) they got into a cheap promo war with Tmobile, while high paying postpaid customers continued to leave the carrier. 

Sprint loves to cite Rootmetrics reports, but ignore the fact they are still last in network data performance and speeds. Yes they fixed the calls and text drop problem, but this is not 2007 when  Voice was the main thing.

I am sure its nice to respond with discount promotions, but the thing is Verizon got the network and Unlimited data for 80 dollars is a big deal.