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The problem with this strategy is that eventually the wife and kids start demanding to use the upgrades on themselves! What's up with that!?

And today's announcement comes to you from AT&T land. Let's see some highlights: $31.6 billion in consolidated revenue. (All of ATT operations) 18.8% growth in wireless data revenues Postpaid churn of 0.97% 1.3 million total wireless net adds, 320,000 postpaid adds. Total subscribers of 105.2 million. 5.1 million smarphones sold. Smartphones are 77% of postpaid device sales. 61.9% of ATT customers now own smartphones. 1/3 of all postpaid subscribers now on 4g devices. (Probably includes faux G devices.) 3.7 million iphones activated. 22% were new customers to ATT. Wireless ARPU up to $64.93 2/3 of smartphone subscribers are now on a tiered data plan. Here are press releases: http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/24/att-q2-2012-earnings-profit-iphone/ http://finance.yahoo...-113000149.html Their earnings call will be held at 9:30am EDT and can be heard here: http://phoenix.corpo...EventId=4776744 Sprint is up next on Thursday morning followed by Clearwire in the afternoon.

It looks like the spectrum story making the rounds today is taking a toll on the stock today. It's down $0.20 at the open to $3.46. It'll probably be bad. I'm just hoping for some positives like postpaid growth, continued ARPU growth, progress on NV deployment. Would love to hear news about new roaming agreements or network sharing agreements, but I'm not holding my breath. Ultimately, i'm holding for the long term. Not much money at stake since it's only a few shares and the purchase price was low.

Here's mine in reverse chronological: Smartphones: Samsung Epic 4g Touch Samsung Epic 4g Palm Pre Motorola Q I'll add flip phones once I remember what they actually were. Flip phones in reverse chronological order: Sanyo MM-8300 (got as insurance replacement for A740) Samsung PM-A740 Samsung SPH-N400 (my first phone with mobile data) Nokia 6120 (I'm not sure about exact model number)

I realize I'm doing this just to prove a point, but I can't help myself. I'm really not trying to difficult. I just can't let this go. I live in Richmond. I grew up in the Springfield area. My parent's still live near Springfield. I'm driving up there this weekend. It's not 30 miles. https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Richmond,+VA&daddr=Alexandria,+VA&hl=en&sll=37.540766,-77.436104&sspn=0.225404,0.382805&geocode=FXXTPAIdcGti-yntyZlXCRGxiTHFPELibT7Yvw%3BFWMdUAIdd1to-ynxq6STPk22iTEsAcHbhib11w&oq=alexandria&mra=ls&t=m&z=9 If a mod is available, feel free to lock this thread as it has served it's purpose. Plus I appear to be doing a good job of derailing it.

Are you talking about Richmond Hwy? That's route 1. I'm talking about Richmond, VA. That's about 110 miles south of Alexandria. That might be our point of confusion.

Maybe. Although Abyss19707 has me intrigued. Does your phone connecting to eHRPD give any signal as to whether NV is being deployed? I so I would just wait. My OG epic with CM9 is getting me by. And if not and I decide to buy an Epic touch I still have to it get cleared by the wife. As always she has veto power.

I wish I could be a new phone every 6 months kind of person. Sigh. Not in my budget though. but the Epic Touch is already approaching $0. Best buy has it for $50 I have a $50 best buy discount that I haven't used. And Sprint's offering to buy my old epic 4g for $54 so that would cut the price in half if I got it directly from them.

That comes as news to me. I'm pretty sure Robert's market update articles for Washington, D.C. have never included Richmond. I'll have to go back and check. Update: http://s4gru.com/ind...chedule-update/ See according to the post, the D.C. market only goes to about Stafford maybe Fredericksburg. Richmond does not seem to be included. And then there's separate articles for Norfolk. I think we're just out in cold for a while. Maybe there's some backend stuff that's already been set up, but I don't expect any tower here for a while. If it did turn out that we would get LTE this year then I would not buy a new phone until then.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What was your commission fee? Is that including the commission to buy & sell the shares? Seems real steep.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Here's the story: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-mobile-clearwire-advance-plans-110000677.html

If you read article I think it it states 3g/4G services and devices. Sent from my Acer A200 using Forum Runner

Maybe, but increased traffic leads directly to greater revenue. A network that has a lot of unused capacity is not very worthwhile to Sprint.

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. http://www.4-traders.com/SPRINT-NEXTEL-CORPORATION-12643/news/Sprint-Nextel-Corporation-Sprint-Single-Source-Enablement-Offers-Turnkey-Solution-for-Companies-Wa-14417394/ I wonder how much it would cost to start my own wireless company?

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.