IamMrFamous07

3 hours ago, nexgencpu said:

It's kinda surprising that Massive MIMO equipment (from any vendor) still hasn't passed FCC considering Sprint's push for April launch of some markets.

Having Ajit Pai at the helm of the FCC just makes me uneasy with them approving anything that gives Verizon competitors any sort of leg up or big advantages.

I just realized that too. We are probably looking at a June launch

Man I hope the new iPhone supports all of that carrier aggregation. 

Hopefully Sprint does implement TD/FDD CA this year

Dang! I wish DC or Bmore was on the list

It seems this is definitely their main approach for the small cell deployment. Sounds exciting.

Great job on this article Tim!

That's awesome AJ, I re-read the article. I swore someone stated on here that Sprint's devices doesn't support FDD 10x10. This is very exciting!!

So what devices support this? I wonder if Shentel-land is capable of doing this? I believe they have 3 PCS carriers deployed on some sites

^ no. Only the HTC m9 is capable of 40mhz of CA.

Surprised DC is on this list. Just assumed ALU markets will wait until end of this year. Very good news!!

And surprised to see Baltimore as well.

I'm assuming the 3-5 cities/markets might be areas will be the areas to receive carrier aggregation first.

"So, now once we build 2.5 in some selected markets that we will be announcing soon, we are going to focus on those markets and provide an experience of the speeds that haven't been deployed in the U.S.," Claure said.

The fact he said "experience of the speeds that haven't been deployed in the US"

We'll see. Let's not forget 2x Carrier Aggregation is being deployed soon

Noticed cross signals already posted the article! Oops

Saw this on Bloomberg.

3-5 cities should be completely overlay with spark by 2016

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/sprint-to-focus-denser-spark-coverage-on-3-to-5-initial-cities.html#

I like this new network strategy. It seems very cost effective too. I just wonder where does Carrier Aggregation (deployment) fall into play and small "spark cells" and will it still take 3 years to deploy band 41 in the top 100 cites/markets.

Also is the plan is still to cover 100 million POPs by year ends.

If sprint were to aggregate 2 PCS carriers...would the iPhone 6/6plus support it?

Great write up Robert!! With the band 41 support, the new iPhone for life leasing plan and the amount of 8t8r antennas deployed...I won't be surprised if sprint will announce a handful of spark markets by next friday!

April fools was 25 days ago....You can't be serious? lol