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RT @SalvantoCBS: Latest #GASEN map by @andyguess: Purdue north, Kingston south, waiting on lots from metro ATL. Models = 3-way race http://…
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RT @2AvSagas: From the "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" Department.... http://t.co/dOKjeX6uzZ
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Looks like the GSM/Global variant; there's no CDMA listed at all. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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Keyboard is a separate app; if there's a bug in it (I haven't experienced this with my Nexus 5), it can be updated separately.
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RT @Sethrogen: .@macklemore, first you trick people into thinking you're a rapper, now you trick them into thinking you're Jewish? http://t…
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RT @EmmMacfarlane: Let the @usask fallout be a lesson for administrators who forget about the core values of their university.
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RT @treycausey: @kesearles Modal submitter got very picky grad students, high status submitters got no grad student reviewers.
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Finally some good news: Lou Holtz says he’s leaving ESPN at the end of this season http://t.co/yn0CirxLS7
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Drinking an 312 Urban Wheat Ale by @GooseIsland at @logansroadhouse — http://t.co/AxvAnkxkGk
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Would be more impressed with AT&T's broadband commitment w/DirecTV if they'd bothered finishing their existing U-verse markets already.
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FCC votes to approve a plan to allow for paid prioritization.
lordsutch replied to jamisonshaw125's topic in General Topics
Well, ultimately Comcast's subs are going to pay for it either way, and understandably both Comcast and Netflix want the other company to pay. -
FCC votes to approve a plan to allow for paid prioritization.
lordsutch replied to jamisonshaw125's topic in General Topics
One thing lost in this debate is that the original peering arrangements that set up the Internet were based on the idea that traffic flows would be roughly symmetrical over the long term. Now that streaming audio and video services are a big part of the Internet, that's simply not the case; if my ISP peers with Netflix's ISP, the flows are going to be on the order of 1:99 (and a lot of that 1 is TCP/IP overhead like connection setup and ack packets). The other point I'd make is that we're in a nasty regulatory hole between two extremes: ISPs aren't completely free of regulation, so their rents and other monopolistic behavior aren't high enough to attract competitors in the free market (except for companies like Google that have cash lying around and just want to spend it to make political points by depolying fiber in a few areas), but at the same time they aren't so highly regulated that they have to provide universal high-quality service either - for example, my mother lives in an urbanized area of a 1 million+ MSA, yet the ILEC doesn't even offer ADSL to her house. The FCC needs to find a regulatory policy that either incentivizes real competition by creating opportunities for profitable overbuilding (whether from profit-seeking companies, non-profit coops, public utilities, etc.) or needs to require universal broadband service from ILECs and cable franchise holders. The only winners from the current scheme are the ILECs and cablecos that make enough money from their position to be profitable but not enough to attract others to compete and grab a piece of the pie. -
If the @nytimes and its owners were actually capable of self-reflection, this would be rather embarrassing, no? http://t.co/zP4mSCym6W
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RT @andrewbhall: How the public funding of elections increases candidate polarization: http://t.co/TGq4Jv9qdV my new blogpost for @LSEUSAbl…
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RT @asymmetricinfo: Stunning RT @petersuderman: This is a seriously worrying trend. RT @baseballcrank: Correlation http://t.co/3cjgZC5Q5v h…
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RT @MattBors: He used the Friedman column generator for this. No other explanation makes sense. http://t.co/6BTPkzefZY
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RT @SarcasticMethod: Dear Student, expecting an A b/c you turned in a paper is like expecting weight loss b/c you bought exercise equipment…
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My understanding is that while most recent Sprint smartphones can technically do GSM and UMTS on PCS bands, almost all (except the Nexus 5) have firmware or even hardware locks that don't allow UMTS/GSM access on US networks (e.g. any MCC starting with 31). Unless Sprint was forward-thinking enough to exclude 310-120 or another US MCC-MNC under their control like Nextel's (which would presumably mean that T-Mobile could broadcast the Sprint/Nextel MCC-MNC in addition to their own), there's no way to get those devices to authenticate on a US network. I suppose Sprint could go to the manufacturers and get them to update firmware to remove the lockouts, but we're talking about dozens of different devices, many of which are no longer supported by their manufacturers. You're also going to have to enable the WCDMA modes other than "Global," which are hidden from the menus on most Sprint devices, and talk customers through switching settings. And even after that you're probably looking at SIM swaps, with customers who have no clue what a SIM is, because it came preinstalled in the phone and they've never changed it. And that doesn't account for the millions of dumb phones, m2m devices, mobile broadband devices, Phone Connects, and the like out there too, a lot of which don't even have any non-CDMA capabilities to speak of. And the older LTE devices that have embedded SIMs who won't be able to transition. Those people will churn - look at what happened with Nextel.
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As has been discussed ad nauseum, 8T8R on the 2.4-2.5GHz band largely makes up for the loss of propagation characteristics compared to 1900 (which at the G block is closer to 2.0 GHz anyway); unless you're in a market with cellular site spacing - hello Baton Rouge! - the 2.4-2.5 band can relieve most of the close-in and outdoor usage (out to something on the order of 80%+ of the area), leaving 1900 and ESMR for adequate service indoors at midrange and outdoors at distance. No, you're not going to get streaming 1080p60 video 5+ miles from the tower, but that's not what mobile broadband is for. Unless you're measuring e-peen on SpeedTest.net, or trying to use your phone to drive the Jerrytron, you shouldn't know or care. Of course, the challenge now is to get 1900 and ESMR finished so the 2.4-2.5 deployment can begin in earnest, along with stop-gap measures like shifting some of the A-F block EvDO carriers to LTE.
