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Hopefully by now, yes. Instances of it started showing up three months ago. Given that a good number of them can be reconfigured remotely, I would hope so.

That's correct. They've squeezed CDMA down to a single 1X carrier at the bottom of the AWS C block, put LTE on AWS C+D+E+lower third of F, and squeezed DC-HSPA+ onto the upper two-thirds of AWS F.

It's not a rumor. AT&T has been putting up sites that are UMTS/LTE only as of late. Expect the density of GSM sites to fall over time.

The CellSpot Router is just an ASUS RT-AC86U with special prioritization settings to ensure quality of service for Wi-Fi Calling that is available for free to postpaid customers or $99 for everyone else (as opposed to $220 for the RT-AC86U). The CellSpot Signal Booster is a variant of the Cel-Fi RS3 that repeats PCS and AWS WCDMA+LTE signal and boosts it for in-home coverage. The router obviously needs an internet connection, but the signal booster does not.

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For LTE only, provided Sprint were to rejigger its network authentication and its subscriber management systems are decoupled and rebuilt. Nothing else. But there's no reason to do that, since it's rare to see GSM devices (there's only three tablets, excluding iPads) that can function on Sprint's network.

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Hmm, you're right. I mis-remembered it. I stand corrected. However, they did add the coverage expansion program in Q3.

You make a good point that all carriers have their ugly spots. As for T-Mobile, they moved up their timetable to have their existing footprint fully converted over from the end of 2015 to the end of the first half of 2015. They are planning to finish expansion to offer native 4G service to 300 million people by the end of 2015 (which puts it at the same level as AT&T and Verizon).

Donated! Moto X 2014 looks awesome.

No cap on anything. They call it LTE data, but more accurately, it's "full speed data".

Err, what? The plan structures have not changed. The 4/$100 promotion is merely expanding the 1GB/mo full speed data allotment (the lowest one available) to 2.5GB/mo until January 2016. 4/$100 is for the unlimited 2G web with a bucket of high speed data. The 2/$100 offer is for the unlimited full speed data plan that is normally $140/mo. They are two separate offers. T-Mobile has always offered some options that don't offer unlimited full speed data for those who don't want/need it. And there have been (and continue to be) options to get unlimited full speed data for those who need/want it, too. Not for multi-line accounts like T-Mobile does. T-Mobile does offer both multi-line and single-line accounts with unlimited full speed data on any and all lines on the account.

It was going to happen regardless of iPhone. The iPhone merely sped things up by a few years. If the iPhone hadn't come around, some of the other touchscreen-based app-centric devices under development at the time would have led the charge. There's no point in deploying wireless systems if people aren't using them. Yes, the architecture of current wireless systems is sub-optimal to be the primary Internet connection of many people, but the beauty of engineering is that it's all about solving a problem. There's always a way to make it work in a way that will either satisfy all parties, or satisfy nobody. And there are a lot of very talented folks working on designing wireless systems that can support people's daily needs as a primary Internet connection because that's all that would be available in many places here in the US and around the world. We'll just have to wait and see, though.