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As long as they continue to improve their network, I don't care if it's 3B or 5B. Marcelo did say the attitude has always been spend more=network improvement, but they want to get away from that mentality and spend what's needed but also improve the network. I'm sure there's fine line where you can not spend this little and expect a lot of improvements, but time will tell if their strategy is working. I am optimistic.

Same. At least it's 3 billion going into the network...it could be nothing lol

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/softbanks-son-sprint-about-turn-cash-maker/2016-07-28

So can we get expedited NGN lol

I love coming into this thread after a couple days and returning to amazing news.

 

The stock price jump is wonderful, the positive blog posts and articles, the way Marcelo gets to toot his horn to his accomplishments and most importantly... the nay-sayers and haters are shut up!

 

What a good day to be a Sprint user!

Finally!!!

I'm late and catching up now....any news on NGN? And sprint reported a 173k net add which is good but sprint has posted this and I believe more prior to this quarter....what makes this one so good?

I ported out of Sprint to AT&T now I regret it so much data speeds are much slower, latency much higher and i'm getting frequent Network Communication issues on good signal on Speedtest

 

Currently on the phone porting back

Lol why did you port out in the first place?

Just out of sheer curiosity, was it a pro-Trump panelist? Trump and Legere have a history.

Maybe, I don't remember lol

Lmao I was just watching CNN and one of the panelists said "I have T-Mobile so if you call me the call will drop in 25 seconds"

Haha

In my market I almost am never on B26 not unless I'm in church. Outside of being in church I'm always on B41. I know a lot of people on here just want B26 to be optimized. I on the other hand just want my VoLTE but I know that's a long ways out.

 

 

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Same! I need to to use voice and data at the same time because of my job. I know I can use google hangouts but still ???? Lol

So is Dish getting B70 to make the spectrum more valuable, or to actually deploy it? From what I've read, they've done nothing in terms of actually utilizing the spectrum for broadband or fixed wireless.

Only thing Dish has done was the fixed wireless trials with Ntelos and Sprint but that was Sprint's and Ntelos's own spectrum.

Really hope the DC Metro area (preferably Montgomery County) gets some of this NGN / Small cell love.

Overall my service experience is good, but it's very inconsistent in many areas.

I don't think they have 8t8r band 41 & CA enabled on a lot of sites though.

Probably 20-25% at most.

We are in mid 2016, and Sprint can't get their act together. The time keep passing by, and the others carriers keep executing.

 

From 2013 to 2015 Sprint management team: "With our rich spectrum portfolio in the 2.5ghz band we will able to have a big advantage over our competitors LTE networks". Still the slower LTE network out of the big four, and the network regressing instead of improving (RootMetrics source)

 

 

SPRINT management team in mid 2016 "Our 2.5ghz spectrum portfolio will be the lower band of 5G"

 

This company always bragging about spectrum richness, but it doesn't make a difference if I is not deployed in a dense network.

I agree. I can care less about its spectrum assets at this point

All we need now is NGN to the 10th power ????????????????

Yes!!!! I love the new ads. Finally Sprint hahah

I really hope the 10 billion dollars is for NGN densification than the 600 MHz auction.

I think we all can agree that Sprint has improved a lot. I know for some, it is frustrating because we see Verizon doing this and T-Mobile doing that, but if we take a second and compare Sprint now, to Sprint 2-5 years ago, we all can agree that sprint has come a long way.

My only issue with them is, they're not as transparent with their plans and execution but I understand why.

Macro sites cost a lot of money. Money is available now, just not too much of it. A couple million here and there.

 

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Do you think they will deploy a "good" amount of small cells this year Tim? Also can we expect VoLTE sometime next year?

Some funding has been allocated. Most work will not begin til 2017 it looks like.

 

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I wonder why so late -_- hope when we get to 2017, they don't push it back another year or so

If this is their plan to get to cash flow positive Softbank is looking to sell.

 

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SoftBank has stated numerous time they are not looking to sell

Basically the answer is no and will continue to be no since Sprint doesn't want to make promises that could potentially be detrimental is they don't follow through. It's the mistake Sprint made under Hesse and I'm willing to bet Marcelo won't be making them again.

True. I don't blame him. Just hope a lot of good things are happening behind the scenes

Haven't had a chance to review the powerpoints or read all of the above posts...

Any mention about NGN deployment? Anything else exciting that was uncovered during the Q&A?

Its more than here and there, I wouldn't be surprised if there already hundreds already up. If you look deep into certain threads. Small cells and mini macros are coming online in multiple markets at once.

That's good. And I guess I should have looked at the threads before I posted that lol. I expected them to be further in their deployment by now but I know they had some set backs.

Earnings call is Tuesday. I really hope we hear something about NGN since NGN was announced about a year ago, and the deployment hasn't really started (few small cells here and there)

I actually care more about NGN than 3x CA.

I just hope NGN finally takes off soon...that's all I want and care about lol

Looks like the RF telecom guy is showing a couple more spots where small cells are being deployed. Together with the Baltimore article and the MN article. It's safe to say that small cell deployment is moving forward in quite a few places.

Baltimore article?