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Okay, what is with this? This doesn't make any sense at all. His name is "Legere", and it's pronounced "leh-JER". If this is mockery, this is a pretty piss-poor way to mock someone. It doesn't really help with credibility of your statements, too. And frankly, it sounds like you hate the demographic that T-Mobile is targeting, which is exactly the same demographic that Sprint targets, too.

(I say the same thing about people who call Masa "sonny boy" and Marcelo as "marcy", which are equally stupid)

Frankly, Sprint wishes it could have managed to create the marketing machine that T-Mobile has. As it is, it tries and fails many times.

I'm not sure the name has anything to do with "impressing potential customers".

 

I'm fairly sure the only reason for the awkward "stash" name, is because they can't call it "rollover" due to the trademarks AT&T holds. Same reason C-Spire calls it "rolling" data.

 

Everyone is calling it "rollover". Pogue gets paid to talk to Legere, and even he couldn't stop calling it rollover. If Legere could have found a legal way to call it "rollover" (without paying AT&T for it), I'm betting he would have.

 

Yep. That's basically the reason.

Interestingly, C Spire's "rolling data" automatically expires after 30 days, and is limited to the size of the data bucket you have. That means, if you have a 4GB data plan, the maximum rolling amount is 4GB (for a total of 8GB). This differs from T-Mobile's "data stash" in that there's no limit on the amount of data that can be held, but each allocation "stashed" expires in 12 months if it hasn't been used up already. That means you can have a multi-month cascaded "stashing" effect.

Pretty sure this particular device isn't for Sprint or any American operator for that matter. I couldn't find it during a cursory search of the FCC database. I'd imagine that Sprint will eventually launch some derivative of this device as a successor to the Zing hotspot. It'd be nice if the also included the band numbers. Just saying "700" is pretty ambiguous as is "2600".

It's for Telstra. It supports UMTS bands 5, 8, 2, 1 and LTE bands 28, 8, 3, 1, and 7. 

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700MHz is limited to 5MHz channel width. It will perform like Sprint B26. Where you can get it.

 

Wideband is 15-20MHz wide channels allowing for faster throughput speed. You will not see those kind of speeds on Tmo B12/700MHz carriers.

More accurately, it's impossible. Band 12/13/14/17 do not permit carrier sizes larger than 10MHz FDD. In fact, the only low-frequency band class to allow it is Band 28 (APT 700MHz FDD).

and this is being broadcasted on every T-Mo site in the NYC market for example?

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.

Tomorrow should be interesting.

 

So with their wideband LTE, it's basically repurposed Metro spectrum + their own holdings?

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.

There was a rumor at some point in the last 2 years that AT&T was going to stop broadcasting GSM and stick to UMTS and LTE only.

 

 

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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.

So basically you are eager to be a micro cell for T-Mobile, in which you pay for the broadband to run that on also while paying T-Mobile for your service to, sounds good to me.

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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Is it possible they have T-Mobile work out a way to take Sprint SIM?

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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I'm pretty sure it was always the first half of 2015.

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

AT&T is still not a bad network, they are still not done with LTE deployment, sometimes there 3G "HSPA +" is faster then there LTE. I have friends who have T-mobile and they still get 2G EDGE out side city limits LOL and I think I remember seeing somewhere saying T-mobile will have LTE on ALL there 2G EDGE sites by the end of 2014, its almost the end of 2014.... I maybe I didnt read that right or I might be wrong. Regardless ALL the carriers have there good and bad spots, no one carrier is THE BEST and PERFECT, Just saying!! 

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.

I might switch over to the 2/100 offer, looks interesting. I wonder if the non lte data is also unlimited? i.e. is there a cap on 3.5g ?

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

Point is TMobile isn't fully unlimited anymore, they have said so themselves.

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.

Sprint is though. 

 

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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.

Have you ever seen a mass of zombies piling on and climbing a wall "World War Z" style?  That, sadly, is the way the hoi polloi basically "attack" wireless data networks.

 

In my dream scenario, the iPhone would have never existed, and the unwashed masses to this day still would have little interest in wireless data.  The iPhone is "patient zero."

 

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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.