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RT @rosyna: I don't say it enough, but I really, really, really love Detective Conan. http://t.co/qnofr0HgGv
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Thankfully, it was replaced with converted MetroPCS coverage. The whole area is now lit up with HSPA+ and LTE from T-Mobile.
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The economic scale of APT 700MHz is good for 4G in Europe. The lack of scale in EU800 makes it better to reband for next-gen networks.
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T-Mobile has only dismantled CDMA so far in markets that are AWS only: Las Vegas and Boston. At the end of this month, another AWS CDMA market will be shut down: Philadelphia. Eventually the entire CDMA network will be shut down, but for now, the PCS CDMA persists. AWS and PCS LTE has been turned off on the MetroPCS network everywhere, and all users were shifted to the MOCN-enabled T-Mobile network for PCS/AWS HSPA+ and AWS LTE (and soon PCS LTE, too). Unfortunately, AT&T doesn't allow roaming on T-Mobile anywhere except in extremely specific circumstances for anyone. However, they are perfectly happy paying Verizon for Unicel GSM coverage even if T-Mobile UMTS roaming coverage would be cheaper and better (this occurred in pockets of North MS). There was a small bit of PacBell bidirectional (AT&T<->TMUS) in-market roaming still available in Northern CA, but that expired earlier this year.
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RT @WSJ: A look at how the U.S. telecom industry has changed over time: http://t.co/TIYRHRXgYd http://t.co/CWjjRa25Td
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Since MetroPCS never had a PCS CDMA network in NYC, Sprint would never roam on MetroPCS in NYC. Sprint could only roam on MetroPCS in Texas, Florida, Michigan, and California, where MetroPCS had PCS CDMA.
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RT @TMobile: The rumors are true. @HTCUSA One M8 for Windows is coming this fall. Pre-reg: http://t.co/8Eqd2UJGwE @WindowsPhone http://t.co…
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You won't run on GPRS in most of Europe. You'll have access to HSPA+. You'll just be throttled to 128Kbps of throughput, but still have the latency and reliability of an HSPA+ connection. If you want more throughput, you can pay for a data pass to access the full performance of the UMTS network (HSPA+/DC-HSPA+). Pretty soon, you'll be able to have access to roaming on LTE, too. Deutsche Telekom has been working on it for some time now. -
The U.S. band plan was the reason ITU Option 3 existed. Each section of 2.6GHz had different rules on how it could be used, and the divisions of blocks were uneven, making it impossible to sanely lay it out. The FCC rebanded 2.6GHz partially in 2005, but it didn't completely fix the problem. Flexible FDD/TDD is perfectly fine, provided that the rules actually allow such flexible arrangements. The U.S. band plan and rules do not. Most of the world chose to use 2.6GHz for FDD+TDD in a fixed arrangement because 2.3GHz was set up as a full TDD band. In the U.S., this situation was flipped. 2.3GHz has a fixed FDD+TDD arrangement, while 2.6GHz is effectively a full TDD band. Canada was the same way until it rebanded 2.6GHz again to resolve it to Option 1. Latin America is planning on allocating 2.3GHz as a TDD band like Europe and Asia are. China and Japan did not choose flexible FDD+TDD like the U.S. They made partial allocations and left the rest of the band as reserved. They reserve the right at any time to realign the band, because unlike most of the world, these two countries still use "beauty contest" style allocation processes for licensing radio frequencies. China does it this way because it owns controlling stakes in all three telcos, and Japan does it this way because it is an effective way for them to control licensing allocation proportions and gain recurring revenue from license fees.
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No one is retarded enough to keep the U.S. 2.6GHz band plan. Canada, Mexico, and other countries that originally had it sensibly switched from ITU Option 3 (flexible FDD/TDD used by FCC due to weird requirements) to ITU Option 1 (fixed FDD+TDD used everywhere else but Japan and China). Even with Japan and China using 2.6GHz they way they are, they've actually left room to roll out FDD too. In China's current allocation, 2535-2555 / 2655-2675 MHz for LTE band 7 is free. In Japan's current allocation, 2525-2555 / 2645-2675 MHz is free for LTE band 7. And if either country decides to rearrange the currently allocated blocks, then the LTE band 7 allocation could be even larger.
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RT @TMobile: Spin the phone and go! We'll go with you. http://t.co/NLJs7kXZVW #simpleglobal https://t.co/fBtd27gBPs
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RT @ExtremeTech: Verizon's VoLTE rollout will kill off CDMA - and allow unlocked LTE phones, too http://t.co/NGSiMTj8Ui
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It wasn't "just slapped". This fine was originally imposed on T-Mobile four years ago. The company repeatedly tried to fight it for years. In the end, they gave up and accepted the FCC's fine...
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On a whim, I decided to visit the old Comcast ad site for the Slowskys. The site domain points to an RHEL Apache test page.
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I really want @FUNimation to dub more episodes of Detective Conan. And introduce a simulcast, too! It's an awesome show!
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My happy breakfast: toast with strawberry jam, omelette with cheddar cheese and pickles, and orange juice. http://t.co/7QJW4DWeYs
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RT @margafret: Unless your account is private, every time you're RT'd, you're probably annoying a total stranger. >
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RT @amazonmusic: Retweet this post if you believe music has the power to change the world...
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RT @BBCAMERICA: An Adventure in Space and Time is coming up next at 8/7c, only on @BBCAmerica! #DoctorWho (@DoctorWho_BBCA)
