marioc21
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I loved that phone. IMHO it is the all around best option out there for a WiMax phone. The Photon and Nexus are right there too, with the photon having the slight edge in signal strength and the added bonus of being a world phone. The nexus s has the definite software advantage. Both photon and nexus s are EOL, so if you want new, the E4GT is the only way to go.
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Since I never travel outside the U.S. the worldphone capabilities are kind of wasted. The nexus is S is almost two generations old now. If I got a nexus I would go ahead and get a galaxy nexus. I would trade 4g for getting android updates. But the epic 4g touch has CM9 and soon CM10 so I think I'd prefer the wimax capability.
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It's a great phone.
I would recommend you get if off-contract though, keep that upgrade open for a LTE device when you're ready.
To give you a idea on pricing,
The contract/no contract thing is almost irrelevant. Like I said we're not getting LTE until late 2013 or early 2014. If I renewed I would be upgrade eligible again in May/June of 2014. Hopefully, LTE would be mostly deployed here by then.
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The Epic 4g touch seems to getting some good sales this week. Sprint has it for $99 and it's a buy 1 get 1 too. Best Buy has it for $49.99. Would you guys consider this phone a good choice if your in a non 4g LTE market? I live in Richmond, VA and it looks like we're a 3rd round market at best. So no LTE for us until late 2013 at least. We do have wimax here and when you can get it's pretty fast.
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First up is Verizon. Below are the highlights.
- Wireless service revenues were $15.8 billion for the qtr.
- 1.2 million new retail customers including 888,000 new postpaid customers added.
- 94.2 million total retail customers including 88.2 million postpaid customers
- ARPU of $56.13, up 3.7% from 2nd qtr last year.
- 50% of postpaid customers are on smartphones. Up from 47% last qtr.
- Postpaid churn of 0.84% for the qtr. Total retail churn of 1.11%
- 4G LTE is now available in 337 markets to more than 230 million people.
- Company expects to close wireless spectrum purchase from SpectrumCo, Cox & Leap by end of summer. Will execute Tmo spectrum swap soon thereafter.
SEC Filing:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312512306829/d380431dex99.htm
AT&T reports its quarterly earnings on July 24. Followed by Sprint and Clearwire on July 26. Deutsch Telekom (T-Mobile) reports their earnings on August 9.
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- Wireless service revenues were $15.8 billion for the qtr.
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I bought at $2.33/share, but the stupid trading fee brought my effective purchase price to $3.33. So you can imagine how happy I am to see it up $.30/share from my break even point.
What was your commission fee? Is that including the commission to buy & sell the shares? Seems real steep.
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On a more serious note, does anyone know which sites Clearwire is thinking about putting TD-LTE radios on? I assume they're using their existing (pre)/wimax towers, no? Considering the lousy penetration of 2500 and the fact that these sites are mostly separate from Sprint towers, won't that be a pretty lousy blanket of 2500 TDLTE? Seems like even with that, Sprint's LTE on 1900 will be doing the heavy lifting..
From the sound of it it's going to be wherever Sprint tells them they need excess capacity coverage. After that I guess it's up to Clearwire.
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They don't need to have coverage nationwide, just in places that Sprint needs it. Between their "G" block, other possible 1900PCS blocks and 800MHz they will not need additional capacity for a little while.
No they don't need it nationwide. See this article below:
http://www.fiercewir...reas/2012-07-18
According to the article 70% of Sprint's data traffic comes from 30% of Sprint's cell sites. However, you would think Sprint would still want to offload traffic onto wifi everywhere else to keep the strain off it's 3g network. Or will lte and the backhaul it requires provide enough capacity that wifi offload won't be necessary?
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The only issue for China Mobile is Clearwire plans to only offer hot spot LTE (well, at least in the beginning). That will not be a very good roaming ecosystem for China Mobile customers inn the U.S. Unless China Mobile also adds LTE 1900 for their devices to supplement Clearwire roaming in the U.S.
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Since Clearwire and Sprint are working on integrated chipsets and radios that handle 2.5ghz TDD/FDD LTE, maybe sprint's other frequencies get added to the mix over time. Then you may have true global roaming option.
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Listening now. Sounds like Sprint is saying they are giving up on the wifi offload strategy that others are using and relying on Clearwire to provide that excess capacity. I wonder if that's directly related to the Cable/VZW deal.
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Good question. I hope they do. I could be ahead of the game ifthey did.
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If you read article I think it it states 3g/4G services and devices.
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I think your conclusion is faulty. Sprint is not looking to put as much traffic as possible on the network, but rather, Sprint is trying to monetize its network. Increased traffic is likely a result, but not the goal.
Robert
Maybe, but increased traffic leads directly to greater revenue. A network that has a lot of unused capacity is not very worthwhile to Sprint.
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Sprint seems to want as much traffic as possible on its network. I saw this press release announcing Sprint offering new tools for those companies wanting to create their own MVNOs. Claims to make it easy.
I wonder how much it would cost to start my own wireless company?
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Me too! I couldn't buy it since I wasn't 18 at the time
It's been a good while since I was under 18. lol. Bought in at $3.27. Hoping the 2nd quarter earnings call brings some positive news.
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The only thing I regret is not having bought in at $2.10. D'oh!
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As the thread title states Sprint has announced the ICS updates for the EVO 3d and EVO Design 4g. Unfortunately, they have not given an exact date. An OTA update will begin in the first weeks of August.
Sprint:
The Verge:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/16/3163129/htc-evo-3d-evo-design-android-4-0-update-ics-announced
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Clearwire announced today that their 2nd Quarter Financial Results Conference Call will be on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at approximately 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It happens to be on the same day as Sprint Conference Call, but it is at a later time.
Interesting. For the longest time Clearwire would announce their earnings about a month after sprint. Then starting last quarter they actually released prior to sprint. I wonder if they're scheduling this on the same day because of some shared news?
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Magic 8-Ball says "don't count on it" sorry.
I remember Sprint sent me an e-mail about an exclusive preorder for the Kyocera Echo. I instadeleted it. They probably still have some of their initial stock left.
I remember when they had the press conference to announce that thing. The Sprint VP for phones said it was going to be the first in a new device category and they were definitely going to make new versions . I guess he was wrong.
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Well, looks like the hot streak is over. Sprint's stock is down $0.09 at 9:40 am EDT. If it finishes in the red today that'll be two down days in a row.
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Well I did not see this coming. The judge in the Apple case upheld her injunction despite the fact that Samsung is appealing. Now it looks like Google has stopped sales of the nexus from the play store. They say they have an ota fix is coming to get around Apple's patent. We'll see what actual effect this has.
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Well since the market reopens on Thursday' date=' let me ask the following and hopefully not throw this off too off topic in the process.
So how does one get into buying Sprint stock? Does one go to a broker, or use an online outfit? Mind you this is coming from a complete (stock) virgin newbie.
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Lots of different ways. You can open an individual account at places like etrade, td ameritrade, t rowe price, fidelity and numerous others. Some have minimums some don't. Some have higher minimums than others. Places like etrade are mostly online, self-service type brokers. Although for a fee you can pick up the phone and talk to a broker. Places like fidelity give you the choice of either a real broker or do it yourself. and of course each brokerage will charge different commissions. The do it yourself ones like etrade will charge less than full service ones.
Any stock buying it do, and it isn't much, is in an etrade account. It's been a while, but I think etrade charges 9.99 per trade for up to 1,000 shares.
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Nah, I think that's probably pretty close to what we will see. It just struck me as funny to lay everything out like that.
If its a qwerty slider like some are speculating, I can't imagine the screen being that large. It would make for a very difficult device to hold.
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That's all?
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Is that too much? Sounds like a GSIII with Motorola stamped on the back.
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The hot streak continues today. Up $0.09/share to $3.49 as of 1:08 pm EDT.
edit: And we finished out the day at $3.47 per share. And that's where we'll stay until the market opens up again on Thursday.
Is Epic 4G Touch still a good phone for non LTE market?
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Waiting has never been a problem. I'm a two year phone buyer type of person. The only time I ever bought off contract was to replace my wife's blackberry. I paid $450 for an EVO. I just can't make myself pay that kind of money for a phone.