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Exactly, they can't be making much off a $35/month unlimited home package, but they can't charge much more and expect anyone to get their service. They could charge 3 times that in rural areas that have no other option for anything over 2Mbps, but they don't have a dense customer base in rural areas.... Infrastructure is a lot cheaper to lay fiber to one hub and use wireless to deliver the "last mile" in rural areas instead of running fiber to every customer.

If it is no longer possible to buy out the contract as people have posted in this thread, you could port your phone number to Google Voice and port it back to your new line of service. It costs $20, but it would keep your number. Or if you do it this way, you could leave the number ported to GV, get a new number from Sprint, and have GV forward all calls to your Sprint number. Then you would have that number permanently.

I just did a software flash and converted the WiMax radio in my E4GT to LTE. LTE is coming!

I was more upset that I bought the HTC Hero just a few months before the EVO came out, than I was that 4G was never rolled out in my city. I wanted 4G, but it wasn't a big deal to me. I really don't know why people still have so much heartburn about WiMax. The collapse of the legacy network, yes, that is heartburn worthy. There were plenty of people that were left with terrible connectivity over 3G that would have been satisfied with about 1Mbps over 3G instead of WiMax. The fact of the matter is this, Clearwire built their business on, and were good at deploying, a network for stationary use. Their 3G Expedience network works well for what it is intended, wireless home internet in small markets with a lack of other internet options. Mobile devices, however, require closer site spacing, so they can handoff to the next site that the user is moving into before losing the connection from the first site. Clearwire must have either been ignorant to this fact, or they didn't care about Sprint's users' experiences and kept wide spacing to reduce their costs (rollout and maintenance costs). Like Robert said, maybe Clearwire was banking on the thought that they would have a lot of retail sales from their WiMax network. The problem with that, is that the 4G WiMax rollout was in large cities, with massive infrastructure able to deliver a variety of last mile connections that are much more efficient than WiMax. WiMax is really only a step up from satellite internet and antiquated or slow DSL/cable internet infrastructure. Bottom line, WiMax was destined to fail, but that isn't the end of the line for Clearwire. They have a ton of spectrum and if they gradually expand their network, while providing capacity to Sprint (and hopefully other wireless operators) they should maintain sufficient cash on hand to support the network expansion. They can still use a retail model to expand into rural areas, selling home internet to areas only currently serviced by satellite, DSL or (gasp) dialup... In rural areas, they could command a premium for the kind of internet speeds that LTE can deliver, rather than virtually giving it away, like they do now.

My AT&T iPhone 4S got a software update and is now displaying 4G where I used to have 3G service. LTE is here!

My dog barked in the direction of the nearest tower. LTE is nigh!

They should name themselves "Revolution wireless" because they are always fighting the "man" in the duopolies. Their logo could be this:

A custom ROM should not affect the ability to connect to LTE, unless there is some radio flash integrated into the ROM.

Perhaps is was just a thought that was left unfinished. "A letter from Tim Cook's..." ...Mom hand brain dog nanny Or it was a letter from several cooks who are named Tim?

It is NOT a threshold issue. We have been saying that for months now. As digiblur said:

I had to get a battery replacement on the E4GT and best buy's insurance sent me a replacement battery that had about 2/3 the capacity of the original battery. It was some off brand as well. I promptly cancelled the coverage after that debacle, so that is my only experience with Best Buy's insurance.

Exactly It might not, but it is better to have one person with lower speeds than everyone on the cell They might institute something like that I haven't seen anything like that, and PRL has almost nothing to do with LTE connectivity. It seems to be more of a enable/disable thing, possibly with battery life in mind.

That or New Orleans... Fat Tuesday anyone?

This sounds like a good place for the S4GRU to have our convention.

They have really gone downhill. I think part of the problem was the terrible reviews that people were giving the apps. There was a guitar tab app that was free. It was rated over 4 stars in google play, but 2-2.5 on Amazon after being the free app of the day. The difference was that on google play, the people who bought it, actually knew how to use it and could give a knowledgable review, but on Amazon, people "purchased" it because it was free, and then took out their aggression on an app that was given for free. Dumb...

Blowing smoke. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-302-inland-empireriversidesan-bernardino-network-visionlte-deployment-schedule-update/ They could be talking about the network maintenance upgrades, that are improving the legacy network by adding more backhaul, carriers etc. As far as the network vision upgrades though, no.

The most likely reason for the difference in signal strength is the difference in propigation between 800MHz (Nextel) and 1900 MHz (Sprint) not where the antennas were mounted on the tower.

Users per tower as well as what the users are doing. If you have 100 people on a tower checking facebook, it will be a lot less load on the tower than 100 people streaming netflix in 720p resolution. Each sector is broken into resource blocks. The more data intensive the usage is, the more resource blocks it hogs. Once the resource blocks are all being used, the cell has to start taking away resource blocks and allocating them to new users. Then everyone slows down. Once the NV rollout is complete, the network could also recognize that one cell is starting to become overloaded and push some users onto a neighboring cell with less load.

Not to be a smartypants, but I went to high school during the time of payphones. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was in college. I don't think phones belong in schools. It is nice for after school activities, but it is a giant distraction in the classroom.

How does the amount of city bypasses have anything to do with LTE deployment? The amount of cell sites has to be enough to support the population of the market, sprawling or not. The dates are forecasted by using the current rate of conversion applied to the remaining sites in the market.

See this map Nationwide Sprint Market Map is here!!!

I think Satellite radio is a whole lot more suited for the purposes of listening to non-radio music when in the car.