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Don't forget that the Easy Pay $30 plans are usually no money down, but flagship phones on a two-year plan are normally $199.99. Therefore, the subsidy on a flagship phone isn't anywhere close to $30/month to Sprint.

 

Most flagships retail for $650, but probably cost Sprint less since there is some profit built in to that number (for the sake of easy math, let's assume the phones cost $632.01). Once the customer pays $199.99 for the phone, Sprint only has to make up $432, which comes to $18/month over the 24 month contract.

If the customer has an ASL they are required to pay a down payment and typically the down payment is the subsidized price.

I think Sprint should just get rid of the ASL IMHO

Regardless what the new plans are they will be better than the current plans.

Or... If you own or bring your own device, that should be OK too.

 

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Yeah but phones that are being sold on ebay or craigslist are still expensive to some extent.

The nexus price and what it's worth is where phones should be priced at lol

I think 2 year plans should be gone. I love the framily/easy pay concept, cheaper monthly rates, and you aren't "stuck" for 2 years.

You're still stuck. You either fulfill the contract of your plan or easy pay agreement. If you don't you either pay the remaining balance of your phone or termination fee.

It's the same thing

Yeah, 2 year is important to me too.

Same because most flagship devices are close to $30 a month

I'm sure these new plans will require easy pay. Hopefully it includes both 2 yr and easy pay

I just tweeted @marceloclaure, welcoming him from S4GRU members. I then asked him about doing B25 CA in markets with 2 LTE carriers.

 

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I'm surprised they haven't done that yet. That will give the maximum Download speeds to about 74 Mbps second?

No info yet on plans. But it should be big. Besides holidays this is the first time i remeber them closing stores early since the night before the iphone 4s launch. All sprint stores are closing at 6 Monday (at least in indiana) and meeting for training. Several stores and preferred retailers in my area are coming together for it

Wow the new plans must be that serious.

Re: Apple and B41, they have B26, B25 and B13, which are all single-carrier bands. Phone tech has advanced a bit singe the 5s/5c so they can probably add another band in there. I'd say that the Nexus 5 already has this but it's missing B13.

 

Hopefully these big price drops will end up with at least unlimited talk/text with 3GB tether-able web for $50/mo. I can dream about them having unlimited at that price since I could get exactly that with Voyager Mobile but Voyager has no way of doing tethering, and I'm sure no roaming.

 

Whatever the price drops end up being, looking forward to moving off of my SERO-P plan and onto something that won't have folks looking askance at me every time I mention the plan I have

Yes I hope these plans include tethering! That would entice some people to switch

If they end up with just 5x5 pieces of 600MHz, I would expect them to CA with B26.

 

Doing CA with B25+B26 is not a good idea. Since B26 covers so many more customers, it will be overwhelmed to add some of those people who are already within B25 coverage over on to B26 too. B26 needs to be preserved for people outside usable B25 range, or extra capacity only when other bands are full and B26 has lots of spare room.

 

Also, B26 users would only get the boost when they are also in range of B25. So that negates the whole advantage. It would only 'feel' like 10MHz inside the B25 areas. Not inside buildings and outside B25 coverage. And then you reduced B26 performance when you were in areas with no B25 coverage. It's just a bad idea in Sprint's case.

 

I would advocate for Sprint to consider intra band CA for Band 25 carriers, though. In markets where they have two B25 carriers, aggregate them. It would not be much of a leap to get OEM's to add B25 CA with their upcoming B41 CA devices.

 

Besides, the relief for B25 really is another B25 carrier or B41, not B26. Once B41 is common in the next 12-18 months, B25 is just going to get less and less common. If you think about it, a full Triband site would have B41 in the inner 1/2 of a cell, B25 in just the 1/8-1/4 ring outside B41, and B26 everything outside that. B25's usable geographic area will be going way down after B41 starts doing the heavy lifting.

 

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Very good points. I really hope they can get 10 X 10 600mhz. How will sprint and Softbank be able to obtain this?

I'm not familiar on how wireless auctions work.

They could with inter-band CA.

 

EDIT: I have no idea if they equipment currently deployed is capable of inter-band CA. Obviously there are no devices able to do this currently.

 

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I don't think so either. All we heard was CA within the 2.5 spectrum.

It would be awesome if Sprint can acquire us cellular and form a partnership with dish. I don't want tmobile to get their hands on either

This is something I have been quietly advocating, especially in the IBEZ, where possible. I think AT&T should do it too. I would. And then I would CA the one B26 and one B12 carrier together in the markets where you have both. Then you could have some 10MHz low frequency action.

 

And even if you don't come up with it in a lot of markets, make Tmo pay more by having to compete with someone for that spectrum!!!

 

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That will be a great Idea. I wonder if sprint will use CA with 600Mhz and band 26.

Random but can they aggregate band 26 and band 25?

Id hope that - that would be part of the changes.

 

But id totally understand why he wouldn't. Better to deliver it rather than talk about it.

I'm sure it is. Claure is all about under promising and over delivering which sprint needs. I think they will roll out spark aggressive but keep time lines and launch dates etc silent. I read (can't find the source) the network vision 1.0 is set to be completed by 1Q 2015. If they can have 2.5 cover 200 million POPS by mid year next year that would be great.

I wonder how aggressive Marcelo's and Masa's Spark rollout plan will be. Hmmm

Anyone know if they will be dropping the Sprint brand for SoftBank USA? I thought I heard rumblings about that last month. I think it would be a smart move since a not so good reputation is hard to shake.

That was a rumor for the merged company for tmobile and dish. I honestly don't seem them changing name.

I hope they keep framily but as an option. I like the idea of group savings and separate billing.

However leading with Framily was a bad idea.

Excited to see what the new plans are and I'm sure they will be announced at the Take EDGE off event

I just hope this upcoming winter is not the same like last. Hopefully it's a mild winter but good weather so they can still deploy at a good and fast rate like they are now.

* Can't say much since it's premier sponsor info but I can say 8t8r antennas (spark spectrum) has been spotted in many areas that Sprint hasn't launched so I expect a pretty big spark announcement in the next upcoming months.

I'm really excited for this new era. I just want the network to be the focus point. New plans should be announced right before the iPhone 6 launch (which I see happening)

Awesome! Can't wait to get my G3 and test out tri-band!!

Yup I had Band 41 from Germantown, MD to DC.

So has anyone picked up band 41 in the DC area?

Yup at the DC zoo, Adams Morgan. My highest speed test was 55 Mbps

So Sprint owns 120 MHz of the 2.5 spectrum 90 out of the top 100 US markets....I also read Sprint (Clearwires) owns up to 180 MHz of 2.5. Do we know how many markets have 180mhz of spectrum?

I don't think so, my guess is if that was the only hold up they would have already launched DC. Then just launch Frederick, MD separately.

 

Is Frederick the reason that Sprint never formally launch DC market?

I wonder what the hold up for the lte deployment? Hopefully once they get things going they install 8t8r antennas and just launch it as a spark market

Sprint is now faster than AT&T in the Bronx according to NetIndex.

I would like to see the netindex results towards end of next year. Sprint should be #1 in some areas

Do we know or have an idea which markets will get carrier aggregation first?

It would be awesome if they launch all current spark markets at the same time

Really? I think Sprint has plenty of Mid and highband spectrum in most places. It's lower band spectrum that is really their only need. That's why everyone keeps saying to keep thier powder dry for the 600Mhz auctions.

A nationwide 10 X 10 600mhz !!! Let's all put that in the universe so it can happen.

might have to use my voodoo magic lol