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Actually much faster.

 

Depending on who owns the local telephone poles / traffic lights, it's mass permitting to that one entity and bypasses traditional permitting and zoning.

 

It's far easier than dealing with numerous independent land owners / lessee's and neighborhood zoning and restrictions once you get the process down. It'll go smoothly in most places if they're not stupid and stop trying to erect 70-100+ feet wooden poles in urban areas and utilize existing infrastructure.

I LOL'd at "erect 70-100+ feet wooden poles" sorry...it's been a long day lol

Oh they are...

I know in some markets but I haven't seen much in the D.C. Metro area or bmore

Oh wow! This is a good example of talk less, do more, show results.

 

 

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Exactly. Now if they can do this for their small cell densification then I'll be happy lol.

Celebrating a Year of Network Improvements as We Look Ahead to 2017

 

By Dr. John Saw, CTO, Sprint

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/blogs/sprint-perspectives/celebrating-a-year-of-network-improvements-as-we-look-ahead-to-2017.htm

"Three-channel carrier aggregation (3CA) is already available in more than 100 markets today and we’ll continue..."

Didn't know 3CA is available in 100+ markets...that's news to me

That's why we have forums so we can speculate. Otherwise these forums would be boring! If we can't speculate and bash Sprint what is this site good for?

I know! LOL. I'm just going to things day by day so I don't get my hopes up.

Too much speculation going on here, let's just take things day by day lol

Anyone care about one web?

http://oneweb.world/

 

I remember somewhere in here sprint was planning on using satellites for backhaul or something like that?? In rural areas??

Interesting check out one web... Seems like sprint/SoftBank has big plans for something in 2017. 3000 jobs to one web?? Doesn't seem like a merger to me yet. Really sounds as if SoftBank has something up its sleeve.

Gilat announced in October that they're partnering with Sprint to offer sattelite backhaul for LTE in rural and metro edge areas....I wonder if this partnership will be a conflict of interest with one web

Didn't they cut jobs though?

LTE live on lincoln tunnel. Hit nearly 40mbs..

Through out the whole thing?

Can someone explain the difference between 10x10 band 25 and band25 CA? Is it the same?

Finally had a chance to review all the questions and answers.... at this point I don't think we will get VoLTE until2018/2019, it all depends how much they can densify and optimize next year

Also I wish someone asked him about the sattelite LTE backhaul

Anything good? I'm at work so I can't read the whole thread

Just pondering about the merger.... with trump in office why should Tmo/sprint divest if it was already theirs? There is an auction going on so let them buy spectrum just like the others? With a 143 million customers they shouldn't be given anything...

Even if they did merge they are just a close 3rd. How can they compete if they have to give up their assets? I don't think masa is wiling to let go of his prime property for 5g to merge when if he deploys it right they will come for free anyways.

We don't know if they'll be forced to or not but it can possibly be a clause to allow them to merge but I agree if sprint or SoftBank is willing to pay that large amount then I think they should be able to keep all of it.

Plus we can use all the spectrum

There's probably $12-14 B in synergy a YEAR if SoftBank bought T-Mobile and then merged Sprint into T-Mobile... which is what would happen given what leaked about the transaction when it was brought up the last time.

 

• First off, for those of you who still love CDMA, this would accelerate any timeline to kill it off. T-Mobile's CTO would likely be the CTO of any merger. And even if he's not, the T-Mobile LTE coverage is bigger than Sprint's CDMA at this stage.
• More cost synergies are going to be achieved with a LTE network that keeps a 5 MHz of HSPA for legacy T-Mobile in tact in the areas where it still exists.
• Sprint small cells can be transitioned into T-Mobile's LTE with Multi Operator Core Networks.
• VoLTE would be mature enough to lean on by the time anything gets improved anyway, and T-Mobile's more dense network would be getting PCS and SMR spectrum infused into it for more capacity.

My concern is that prices are going to go up, but it's not like a President Trump gives a shit about that anyway.

I wonder how much spectrum the NewCo will have to divest (if any) also if the merger doesn't go through I don't want Sprint have to pay a fee or give spectrum to T-Mobile

I don't know what that means but it sounds good so I'll agree!

Lol "on fleek" means on point.

If the companies do merge I hope that doesnt delay the densification plans. I need sprint to be on fleek next year

I think they deleted the post in our internal system because now i cant find it.

 

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Lol. I miss those days...searching through iConnect lol

Internally they told us s7/s7 edge get 3x on jan 11

 

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Hopefully the iPhone is around that time too

I know mobilite was having issues with permits for small cells, have these issues been resolved?

If you take a close look at the images released during the presentation yesterday, you'll see this on the screen:

• 1.9 GHz Baseline
• Drop point for an LTE phone on 2.5 GHz with no HPUE is 77% of that baseline outdoors.
• Drop point for an LTE phone on 2.5 GHz with HPUE is 99% of that baseline outdoors.

Because HPUE can improve 2.5 GHz coverage up to 30 percent, it's able to cover 99 percent of the area covered by Sprint's 1.9 GHz spectrum outdoors and approximately 90 percent of Sprint's 1.9 GHz spectrum coverage indoors.

 

Once Sprint is able to make real progress on its densification program (including small cell deployments) and ramps up carrier aggregation to 3 Carriers and beyond (and the device base has enough HPUE device uptake), I don't think any other carrier will be able to keep up.

Which is why they keep saying they plan to have best network. I just hope they execute the small cell rollout. I feel it's the most important factor

So how it sounds Sprint will have some steroid taking mutant network next year? So with all these network announcements this is a clear sign of increased spending on the network next year. I'm excited to the progress by the summer!!

 

 

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Yeah 2017 is shaping up to be that year. Just hopefully they execute. Brong on the densification!!!

They do give comparable coverage, but this change will make the footprint even closer to that of PCS. And of course 8T8R antennas are still being installed. Installation rates dropped for a while, but we are seeing more deployment now, especially in cities that either didn't see any or had a limited B41 rollout initially.

True.... I'm excited and I can't wait until the AMA session this Friday. Hopefully Sprint exceeds expectations with the small cell rollout in 2017.

I always thought the 8t8r antennas and beam orming was supposed to give band 41 that comparable coverage as 1.9.

Are 8t8r antennas still being installed? Haven't heard much about them

"We are already working on five-channel carrier aggregation in preparation for 5G."

5xCA....can't wait!!

Is the iPhone 7 capable of HPUE? Once they send out the carrier settings update I'm assuming

 

 

 

 

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No device supports this. We don't even know if the iPhone 8 will support it