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Win win situation for big red. The flood of customers will come back, and Tmobile and Sprint will merger then once we have only three carriers Verizon can eliminate unlimited data again and raise rates Canadian style. by the way I have an Iphone 7 plus with Verizon and Galaxy 7 on Sprint, and let me tell you Verizon is going crazy deploying 3x or 2x in New York. Also the phone is picking the less overloaded band which is # 2 and Speeds has gone up a lot. example in my apartment I used to get only 16 down and 18 up using a Galaxy 4 now I am getting 70 down and 34 up in doors. Sprint is very good in Manhattan but once you leave the Island its just an average carrier. I guess they are extremely good because of those 200 small cells.

The problem with your comment is, the Sprint network is not dense like the others. A network that wants to rely on a high band 2.5hgz needs roll more macros and small cells. Where is

what you think that Tmo Employee will show speed tests where they are doing poorly? There is a metric Tmobile havent been able to fix and that is reliability. That is where Verizon torch them and even Sprint.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14303910/qualcomm-allegedly-bribed-apple-wimax-iphone-ft-complaint I hope Intel and Sprint follow suit.

He is saying Sprint is terrible in Orlando which is a different opinion from the rootmetrics report.

http://rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/orlando-fl/2016/2H I wonder why then rootmetrics says Sprint has a good network in Orlando or they just cherry pick the locations they test.

Sprint is already moving to 64T64R when they haven't even dense their network with 8T8R. This is the fundamental problem at Overland Park. They deploy a little bit of a tech then move to the next one. Dan Hesse and to a certain extent Saw said that the 8T8R was future proof. I never bought into the silver bullet of dense a network on efficiency and a lower budget. Nokia is a public company with responsibility to shareholders and they will always get wireless networks to spend billions into the new tech. No to mention Mobilitie and Crown Castle have the same business structure.

65k Macros with 8T8R 50k to 70k Small cells Then Sprint can brag about " With our 160mhz of 2.5hgz we will have an advantage" until then they will continue to be a pretender.

Let me merge with Tmobile, and I will create X amount of jobs. The typical line every executive throws when he wants to buy the competition.

He wants a merger for scale and high prices. Honestly Att and Verizon will welcome a merger with the condition of divesting some spectrum. This way, the twins bells will go back to charge customers 150 dollars for 2gigs.

They started the year with Capex guidance of 4.5 billions then lowered to 3 billions, and now they won't even get near of that figure. One of the things that I find funny is the fact that they keep talking the bs of lack Of small cells permits for the low Capex. Last time I checked there are more than 20k macros without 8T8R radios. Sprint is settling as a budget carrier, and that should concern the stockholders.

Sprint is not thinking long term but merging with Tmobile. Mr.CEO is even holding fundraisings for the lady running for president and showing it via twitter. Hey I am lobbying here guys, I want her to pick a FCC chairman that will approve the transaction.

Att customers will get HBO streams without data caps. They will own great media properties. Att is thinking long term while Verizon is short sighted. Buying 1990s tech companies like AOL and Yahoo lol will do nothing. Att is deploying fiber gigabits where they face competition. Verizon made a, huge mistake selling the wireline divisions in many regions. This basically will force Comcast to buy Tmobile and and maybe Sprint.

Sprint preliminary results The company sees FQ2 net operating revenue of $.825B, up 3% Y/Y, and wireless net operating revenue of $7.85B up nearly 5%. Net loss of $142M vs. $585M a year ago, with this quarter's result boosted by a non-cash gain of $218M. Operating income of $622M vs. a $2M loss a year ago, again boosted by that non-cash gain ($354M pretax). Adjusted EBITDA of $2.35B up 17% Y/Y. Adjusted free cash flow of $707M vs. a negative $100M a year ago. Total Sprint platform net additions of 740K during quarter, including postpaid net additions of 344K, prepaid net losses of 427K, and wholesale and affiliate net additions of 823K. Total postpaid churn of 1.52% slipped two basis points, and postpaid phone churn of 1.37% was lowest in company

Spend 7 to 10 billions on a 10x10 600mhz license then you will have to go back to those towers to add capacity three months later due to congestion. This doesn'take sense at all.

Meh,like the poster above said Sprint should spend billions on upgrading the rest of their macros to 8T8R equipment. It is not sufficient if a city has 500 macros sites and only 250 have 8T8R radios.

Jesus, is this the NFL board? I think this discussion is more appropriate here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jaguars/

Sprint 3x carrier aggregation on a 8X8 MIMO would bring 1.3 gigabits speeds. That was Hesse and Saw presentation in Chicago on June 2014. That is what the 8T8R antennas are for.

I never said Sprint problem it's the spectrum. Their problem is the lack of money period. The previous two management crippled the company. In 2014 Hesse and Saw showed a chart in Chicago that Sprint 3x carrier aggregation on 4x4 MIMO would have peak speeds of 600 megabits down, and 8x8 MIMO 1.6 gigabits speeds. The problem is, sprint needs 8t8r radios in every tower and every market is mostly 50% or less with the exception of Las Vegas and Chicago. Are the 8T8R equipment future proof ? Yes but the company doesn't have the cash to compete with a Verizon and Tmobile on network right now. I am afraid by the time Sprint has their financial problems solved the others will be into those high bands and 5G. Sprint spectrum advantage diminish by the day.

Seems Magenta always have a card under their sleeves. Unless Sprint comes out do 3x carrier aggregation on a 4x4 MIMO their 230 megabits down peak speeds will be yesterday news compared with the 400 peaks Tmobile will deploy commercially. If somehow in the future Tmobile gets Dish spectrum holdings whether by merger or partnership Sprint "With our 120mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum we will have an advantage on our competitors" will become a total irrelevant carrier.

Seems they have been having the last laugh for a while now. Sprint was talking the 4x4 Or 8x8 MIMO 256 QAM in 2014 at the Chicago demonstration. http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/4g-lte/sprint-promises-180mbit-s-peaks-in-2015/d/d-id/709518 I asked here if this was possible and I was told no. So Now Tmobile is launching 4x4 MIMO and it seems to be a reality.

Where the funding has been addressed? I don't want to be a jerk too , but Sprint is basically cutting budget everywhere. They spent 370 freaking millions on CAPEX in the first half of 2016. Does that look to you a company on a tear of aggressive deployment?BTW sprint small cells can do only 2x carrier aggregation max. Sprint might have the spectrum, but Verizon has the $$$. Money talks from equipment vendors, deployment, to permits. No to mention once big evil red remove CDMA completely in a city like New York they will match Sprint total 120mhz spectrum. Verizon hasn't even deployed the 850mhz cellular into LTE, once that happens they can create a lower band big pipe 700mhz, 850mhz and maybe 600mhz if they get it.

Verizon is hyping up the LTE advanced stuff, and tech blogs are cheerleaders. The funny stuff most of their announcement is 2x carrier aggregation something Sprint did a year ago.

Yes,and another one at 120th Amsterdam Ave.

Check those addresses, might be Sprint small cells. That is how I discovered the ones in my area. No Boro CD L CD R Permittee On Street From Street To Street Work Start Work End Type Description 1 X012016190A18 BX 01 01 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. WALES AVENUE EAST 145 STREET EAST 147 STREET 7/13/2016 8/11/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 2 X012016190A19 BX 01 01 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. WALES AVENUE EAST 147 STREET EAST 149 STREET 7/13/2016 8/11/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 3 X012016190A20 BX 01 01 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. EAST 149 STREET WALES AVENUE 7/13/2016 8/11/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 4 X012016190A21 BX 01 01 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. EAST 147 STREET WALES AVENUE 7/13/2016 8/11/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 5 X012016190A22 BX 01 01 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. BERGEN AVENUE EAST 148 STREET EAST 149 STREET 7/14/2016 8/12/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 6 X012016190A23 BX 01 01 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. BERGEN AVENUE EAST 149 STREET 7/14/2016 8/12/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 7 X012016201A92 BX 12 07 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. EAST 211 STREET BEND KINGS COLLEGE PLACE 7/20/2016 8/1/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 8 X012016201A93 BX 07 07 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. PUTNAM PLACE EAST 211 STREET EAST GUN HILL ROAD 7/20/2016 8/1/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 9 X012016201A94 BX 07 07 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. EAST GUN HILL ROAD PUTNAM PLACE 7/20/2016 8/18/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION AND FRANCHISE 10 X012016201A95 BX 07 07 CROWN CASTLE NG EAST LLC. EAST 211 STREET PUTNAM PLACE 7/20/2016 8/1/2016 11:59:59 PM 01 STREET OPENING PERMIT CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION