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They wil not get rid of PCS if they can help it. They will get rid of EBS definitely. 700Mhz I am not so sure given Sprint's intention to roam on 700Mhz rural partners.

 

If the spectrum screen is on total spectrum, then divesting some/all of EBS should satisfy it. If the spectrum is by band, then they might have to get rid of some of PCS. I hope not.

True but with the 600mhz spectrum coming up and if they divest the 700mhz band that means the only lower band they have will be 800mhz band.

They might as well give it to Dish

 

 

Well its good to know that everything should work out smoothly. Now my last fear is that Softbank isn't going to compete aggressively after the merger but align their pricing close to what the big two have going on. That would suck.

 

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I think that's everyone's fear but Masa Son is no fool but everyone needs to realize that the whole process will take years and nothing will change immediately overnight.

I'm interested to see what spectrum they divest? Personally I think having 600, 700, and 800 is redundant. They should divest EBS, tmobile 700, and Tmobile PCS holdings.

Again this is My opinion

My question is if the merger is approved what kind of growing pains would we experience while Softbank is integrating the two networks?

 

I don't think I can stick around and experience anymore network growing pains.

 

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Nothing major. Everything might be same but SoftBank may decide to build out TMUS aws on sprint existing sites.

As far as the integration of the network for this merger, I don't see it being as bad as Sprint and Nextel.

No way why would you want that. lol Nexus 5 will not get it either is not a Sprint branded device and has no Sprint apps or bloatware.

Just making sure lol. I want the nexus 5 but idk if I should hold out until the iPhone 6/ nexus 6 or the g3

I prefer "SoftBank USA"

So the new update doesn't show the little spinning thing on the top right? For Spark LTE

Sprint has passed AT&T on NetIndex in NYC. That is pretty remarkable considering 4 months ago Sprint was in last place by a very large margin.

What does that exactly mean? Pardon my ignorance lol

Wow seems NYC has great band 41 coverage! Are you seeing band 41 all over the 5 boroughs? What's the highest speed you encountered?

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/rumor-mill-iphone-6-contain-faster-lte-support-nfc-and-wireless-charging/2014-06-09

I hope the iPhone 6 will support carrier aggregation!

 

Wow. That is interesting. When did they set that up?

 

 

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I notice the cellebrite change for a few months but I never thought to much of it since sprint owns 80% of sprint.

Random: if the merger goes through, can't they just combine metro pcs and boost mobile I feel they both have the same target audience. No need to keep those two seperate

Also on my iPhone it auto corrects when I type "softbank usa" to "SoftBank USA"

Hmm lol

The funny thing is...when I use our cellebrite machine to transfer customers info from one phone to another...any time when I Auto detect any iPhone it says "GSM or CDMA, (US SoftBank)

He's wrong at the end when he says sprint can "flip a switch" and turn on VoLTE. There's still a lot of work to do before that can happen.

 

He's also wrong about the top 5% stuff being removed... It's still there http://www.sprint.com/legal/open_internet_information.html

 

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Volte can be installed for all we know...might just need an update to the tower

I hope "SoftBank USA" still commits to the roaming hub

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/06/sprint-t-mobile-reportedly-merging-softbank-usa.html

Interesting!

Arent dish and sprint demonstrating their fixed wireless broadband service soon?

If sprint can keep at least 60mhz of 2.5 they will be more than fine.

Doesn't tmobile have 20x20 and 40x40 of aws in some markets?

Will the new company still participate in the roaming hub?

Can sprint use Dish's spectrum too?

So many questions

I think they will have to divest a good amount of spectrum.

Probably 2500(ebs) and maybe 700. We'll see

Band 25 is a superset of band 2, so yes, current Sprint phones support that.

Thank you Fraydog...that's what I thought.

Wow so if the merger does go through..The new Co will have

600/700/800/1700/2100/1900/2500

Jesus.

Tmobiles rolling out LTE on band 2. Doesn't sprint phone support band 2?

A press event to announce NV "completion" would be a terrible idea. For current customers and potential new customers that aren't in completed areas it would be very irritating to see a grand announcement while they still have not seen the NV love.

 

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I agree

I think they are going to announce the "completion" of network vision. Remember sprint announced network vision and lte will be deployed to 250 million by mid year. June 23 is technically mid year.

In other words I'm not expecting anything new or surprising

Can someone paaalezze explain to me why Sprint's service is so horrible at stadiums. I went to Summer Jam this weekend at the MetLife, I had 4 dots of nothingness [emoji30],

 

 

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Congestion.

They are planning to fix this by deploying small cells

I know the 600mhz auction is next year but can sprint start incorporating the band support to their devices next year?

Im skipping the iPhone 6 for the "6s" since it will likely support support carrier aggregation for band 41, unlocked out the box, 700mhz support (rural roaming hub), and maybe volte

doesn't sprint have enough high spectrum???

Can't sprint do small cell in the 25/2600?

SoftBank is utilizing the 3.5 band in japan, so I'm sure sprint will obtain some as well