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Yup, that's what had me completely puzzled while reading Euteneuer's transcript, but since he's a Sprint executive I'm going to assume that he knows what he's talking about.

I suppose that they might have deployed a secondary system just for iPhones in order to support the feature, and slowly migrate to that over the course of the next two to three years. Remember that T-Mobile deployed its system in 2011 alongside the older GAN based one, and transitioned completely over to it in 2012 for new devices? It might be the same thing here.

It's a network resource management nightmare, though. There will be endless conflicts between the two systems, especially if both use the same SIP gateway as an endpoint.

Yeah that's what it appears to be, but Carrier Updates can be pushed OTA at any time.

 

In order for next gen VoWiFi on iPhone 6 to be supported, the operator is required to upgrade their core network with ePDG (evolved Packet Data Gateway) which itself is a fairly new technology. The most notable benefit is seamless handoff to and from VoLTE.

 

Euteneuer's statement that Sprint WiFi Calling support is coming to iPhone 6 indicates that Sprint is working on these upgrades.

The ePDG is part of a larger upgrade that requires migrating Wi-Fi calling to the 3GPP network core and enabling core access over the IP network. Sprint's current Wi-Fi Calling platform doesn't use the 3GPP network core to begin with, so that's already a pretty huge hurdle to overcome.

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Not this again.  Basically, you are insinuating that a mobile technology does not really matter until Apple embraces it and makes the hoi polloi feel they need it.  And you do not see this as a problem?

 

AJ

It's a problem, certainly. But it's still true. However, he is wrong in saying Google did not work with banks. On the contrary, they worked with Citi, American Express, and several other banks over the course of the last few years to integrate into Wallet directly. The credit card art, among other things, is a consequence of cooperation and integration of Wallet with bank systems.

The main thing that stymied growth in Wallet was that AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Cricket, U.S. Cellular, and T-Mobile demanded that embedded secure elements not be included in their phones, or if they were, they had to be disabled. Google Wallet required the embedded element to function. Sprint and MetroPCS both embraced Wallet and encouraged its growth. In a market like the U.S., that essentially relegated the service to irrelevance.

Google eventually managed to work around the problem, but it would take three years to do it. And now, a year after that, Apple Pay has arrived, with Apple's classic ability to override the carriers and provide its services anyway. That ability is what gives Apple the strength in the market. It can provide an experience untainted by the carriers (well, mostly).

5Ghz LTE? How much power will be required to make that work 

 

I use 5Ghz wifi at home for speed in most areas, but need 2.4Ghz to reach some parts of the house. Obviously a cell tower will have more power, but geez.

5GHz LTE would not be on the macro network. And it isn't designed to replace the licensed system on 700/AWS/PCS, but to supplement it with additional capacity through on-demand carrier aggregation.

I agree with you with respect to CDMA. It was, is, and will be problematic, at least until VoLTE becomes ubiquitous I suppose. (Is the VoLTE incompatibility you speak of expected to remain forever?) In any case, I prefer to look at the glass half full I guess Even just being able to use unlocked Sprint devices on AT&T or T-Mobile would be great.

The VoLTE incompatibility is expected to remain in place for the foreseeable future, because the ecosystem is basically now driven by U.S., Canadian, and Japanese operators, who relish lock-in. Perpetuating the model across Europe and Asia is good for them, because unbranded models are "crippled" against carrier-bloated models.

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Front page update says postponed, not canceled unless something else has changed.   

Oops, I tend to read "postponed until further notice" as "canceled" because in a lot of other industries that I follow, this is actually what that means. It could just mean postponed, I suppose.

Correct for now. Big issue will be vzw and att devices will not have band 41. So people doing BYOD to Sprint will not be getting the best experience. And Sprint iPhones are still locked to Sprint.

 

 

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While on the subject of improvements to the Sprint website, can we please get a better coverage viewer tool? The current one needs to be retired back to the 90s, where it belongs...

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The only companies that have announced they will use Ericsson small cells are AT&T (Ericsson Radio Dot platform) and Verizon (standard micro RBS/RRUS). T-Mobile is macro-focused for now, but will announce small cell contract awards next year. Sprint, of course, uses Nokia in Ericsson territory.

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