Dan_LRMobile

Hi

I spoke to Iyad Tarazi back in June. He told me then they were working on 3 different small cells for this year. Followed by outdoor models for 2013-2014.

This is the first of them.

Dan Jones

Site Editor, Light Reading Mobile

Articles like this out there in the blogosphere are dangerous for Sprint. Karl usually skews positively towards Verizon, but statements like these: "Last week we noted that Sprint's LTE launch left a little something to be desired, with the company saying they'd launched in fifteen markets -- but users who live in those markets being hard pressed to find any actual LTE signal. .." are borderline irresponsible imho. I think it would have been just as easy and likely more accurate to simply state that SOME users have been having trouble connecting to Sprint's nascent LTE network. I suppose that's not sensationalist enough though...I'm surprised that he didn't throw in his opinion that Sprint will soon be ending unlimited data as that's been his personal crusade lately whenever he runs any kind of story about Sprint.

 

And look at the comments. The Romney sycophant is already talking about Sprint's LTE network is just like WiMAX even though, as everyone here already knows, that's wholly inaccurate as the two networks use disparate spectrum. That's the beauty of the internet though; everyone is allowed to express an opinion no matter how uneducated it is. Though thankfully iansltx corrected him, blog pieces like this just foster more and more of these types of opinions. For some reason when it comes to Sprint so many seem to want the underdog to fail which is counterintuitive to me. Some might say that the US wireless market is a de facto duopoly. Inexplicably, it seems like some want that to turn into an ACTUAL duopoly. Madness...

Hi

I actually wrote the original article that Karl linked to. I had been seeing chatter on various forums about not getting connected and had the opportunity to get Sprint on the record about any issues:

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=223114&

I didn't really editorialize in my piece since people can read it and judge for themselves. Sprint's Bob Azzi did tell me that he plans to quickly fill in the gaps in launched markets. "They'll find the LTE coverage in more and more places over the next several months," he said.

I did find it interesting that all the initial sites are Ericsson builds...

Nice job on this site/forum by the way,

Dan Jones

Editor, LR Mobile