jonathanm1978

Where can you find those? My newegg mobile app doesn't know what that name is, I'm guessing only a few places you can purchase? (Use Swype and try to type the word newegg without adding to your dictionary. My phone thought I was saying "meth")

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When I went to the Alabama/Georgia line this past Saturday and hit a patch of 4G...I watched my phone (Galaxy S3) switch to the timezone (-6 for Central, -5 for EST)...but my wife's phone wouldn't do it. We went way over the GA line, to exit 9 ..and were at that location quite a few minutes (30 or so) before heading back across the CST timezone...mine was switching before I hit Alabama, and even while still in Georgia...forward and backward an hour. Wife's never did switch until we had just crossed into Alabama, then it switched for about 30 seconds, and went back to CST and stayed.

Does the ROM have something to do with this? I'm running a custom ROM...she's factory without root. That was the only conclusion I could come to. And also, my custom ROM'd S3 picked up 4G before hers did, and kept it longer...even though we were side by side in the van and had good/full signal.

At one point a few months back, someone here was telling another person who asked about making routers into repeaters..or tying 2 routers together ...will that person please speak up and tell me the name of that router you were talking about? It started with a U....but that's all I remember.

I keep trying to think of the brand, but the closest I can remember it was a word similar to ubuntu...but that's a linux version.

I'm looking to buy a couple and make a repeater...having 4 different routers in my house, each with different firmwares and problems from time to time (especially the 2 with factory Netgear and belkin firmware) are an issue.

I have 3 running DD-WRT, but 2 of the 3 are in my house and added to the other 2 that are factory default firmwares. the 3rd DD-WRT is at my neighbors across the yard, and I rarely touch it.

I want to reduce the wire (that I spent so much time trying to hide) that's run inside, and do away with as many possible points of trouble on my internet connection, and this router was spoken of rather highly that a member was telling about. And for about the same price point as what I'm paying for Buffalo HP routers too.

I've not found anything on Newegg that was close to the name either. so I'm guessing it's not available there.

For the Sprint connect now app only, I'm sure. I can't see it feasible to release a new phone with iDen chip inside when shutdown coming in June. Right?

Wish they would open the app to more devices.

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Too much information? I didn't go into the bodily fluids portion..

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Besides when we were dating and engaged, the only other time my wife and I have played the piano away from home was when we had been separated for 8 months, almost got divorced, and she went to my family reunion in Mississippi and to my dad's with me in 2008. We got back together that weekend, never stayed in a hotel and done it though. Felt bad going to family house and doing the deed, but it was a long separation. And it was my fault. We stayed married, even though I moved someone else in and cheated..I was also strung way out on painkiller meds and cleaned my life up to get my family back in order. 14 years now.

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I haven't compared the differences, but I assume the Opt G doesn't have anything over the GS3 as far as the radio tech and what it can pick up, so I wouldn't really be upgrading much except the camera if I bought it...

I might just wait...if I buy a new phone off-contract, i want it to be able to do something that my GS3 doesn't do, and it currently takes photos just fine. I want to be able to use 800 for LTE or something like that...

Wonder if I can do bogo with off-contact purchase? I just got my GS3 in July, wife got her GS3 in September, so we would have to pay full price on anything new. Thing is, I'd like to have the optimus G because of that camera, but I'm asking myself is it worth it to pay that for a camera.....

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880781

Every Sprint PRL

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With new LTE super antenna, SkyCross aims to defragment the 4G airwaves http://gigaom.com/mobile/with-new-lte-super-antenna-skycross-aims-to-defragment-the-4g-airwaves/

Talk amongst yourselves... (snl reference)

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I'm still watching right now, seeing what these house republicans are going to do with this Senate bill, I'm glued waiting to see what vote is brought and how the vote goes.

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Just heard that they are going to take up the clean up or down vote only, no amendments. I think they will likely pass it as it stands even though a few totally dislike and won't vote yes.

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I hope everyone has enjoyed their new year and has a prosperous 2013. I've spent the last 3 days watching CNN and I can't say I've seen many movies better than this soap opera I'm watching now. But I told my wife just now, once you start watching this political stuff, it's really hard to just forget it, especially with what's going on affecting so many of us.

I also celebrated my 34th birthday on Christmas day, and looking forward to a happy New year.

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Robert, when you find out something around Sylacauga/Central Alabama (between Bham and Montgomery) is being worked on, will you give me a heads up...and I'll take a ride with my P & S Fuji and grab some pics.

Still waiting on word of that new site you mentioned for the Sylacauga area back in September...I haven't found it yet myself and not sure where it is...has it been added to maps yet?

I'm heading to Slidell, or actually pearl river around mid February to visit my dad for a week... sure would be nice to see some lte around that area by then.

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BPL was tried, and there were interference isues, so it was dropped.

 

Also, some states have made it illegal for the utilities to provide residential 'net service. You can thank the telecom giants for that one.

Or thank the same ones who allowed AT&T to scoop up Cingular, Bellsouth, South-Cent Bell...etc and become a large AT&T once again..just like they used to be before being forced to break-up in the 80's or so...whenever it was...

I know I've often wondered..where would we be today if the cellular carriers hadn't gone the way of the dinosaur and left us with only a handful of options..

Is this why MVNO's are thriving and becoming the talk of the town again?

I remember walking into my first cingular store in 1996, buying a pager...and having my $9 bill a month. Then I decided to get that big Nokia Cingular phone...5155 or whatever it was...

Motorola startracs...those little green-glowing screens...and the snazzy leather cases that never lasted more than a month and had pieces of torn leather hanging off of them...

My (then) girlfriend...now my wife...beeping me to come over for..*ahem* .....yeah. We've been married for 15 years as of June 6, 2013...oh the things we've seen..and done.

Southern Co, as well as FPL, have already strung many miles of fiber and or microwave, so it makes sense that they would provide their own voice as well. Both utilities also provide data services to other customers. Southern-Telecom has a lot of dark fiber.

At one time, wasn't there talk of providing public ISP service via electric utility service? I coulda sworn I heard this..

I know from a business standpoint...AT&T isn't pleased with Southern Company's decisions...so would AT&T go into a (sensible, monetarily feasible) relationship with them on their SoLinc service...not sure..

Here's why: Southern is cancelling and not recommitting to hundreds of contracts that they've held with AT&T/formerly Bellsouth for years...they made AT&T come to each plant and pull ALL the copper out..and installed their own Cisco equipment. Now the plants run their own VOIP solutions, except for the few that can't switch over yet...so I bet there's a sour taste there with AT&T and the millions in revenue they lost when Southern Comp said "bye bye"...imagine how many lines a plant has...not including data service...they did away with and are doing away with AT&T completely..they want to do their own in-house telecom. (another instance where I've personally seen that Southern controls everything about it's operations...they dont want anyone to cause them to lose production..so they seemingly want to control every aspect of their operational status...

Is there any other utility provider like this around who owns spectrum like they do? I'm curious if there are others..

That would entail moving external (i.e. non Southern Company) users onto an MVNO because SouthernLINC really does not have sufficient spectrum to run two airlink technologies concurrently. And that would further diminish the economy of scale and utility -- pun intended -- of the iDEN network.

 

AJ

I'm curious to see what they do with the supposed "Nationwide solution" that Horsley commented on..maybe that's the MVNO move you mentioned. Then again...I wonder if this is SoLinc pulling a pokerface to see if Sprint might give up some of their towers (maybe they have an offer pending to buy the Sprint iDEN equipment and maybe even try to acquire some towers)...

Usually, in what I've seen being on plant sites...they put their towers up on their own property...with 300,000 acres of right-of-way..they have land for towers.

Funny thing is...these 800ft tall smokestacks can't have a cell antenna mounted on them -- regulations won't allow it. Wouldn't that be one hell of a tower site..but a pain to work on. But the wiring wouldn't be able to run straight below the stack due to cooling towers and such that are required...

Cheap is one thing. Profitable is something else entirely.

 

SouthernLINC has fewer than 200,000 users. And considering the antiquated iDEN technology and the type of users it is likely to attract, device turnover rate is probably no greater than 50,000 per year. In other words, SouthernLINC provides device manufacturers very little economy of scale. Device procurement is a growing problem that SouthernLINC will face if it refuses to progress from iDEN.

 

AJ

May get to the point that they only offer a certain handset to employees for the PTT (and obviously to external subs if so wanted), and other devices to their subs that aren't PTT but have something like the new Direct Connect Now app that's available for the Qualcomm 8655 chip..

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I don't believe that utility rates for people in western states or brownouts in California (which is what pyroscott quoted) have anything to do with the topic at hand.

Thanks for that in-depth observation...bandwagon. jumped. on.

And it did have something to do with people assuming SoLinc passed on anything to electric consumers. They are two separate entities inside a company...even while using service as an operating expense, the rate plans are comparable to nationwide providers.

But hey..I see what you did there..

(BTW..what he quoted is the only thing that was there when he quoted it. I edited and added the remaining part into it ...)

I wasn't saying the costs are passed on to the other southernlinc subs. I said it is written off as an operating expense for the southern company as a whole and passed off to the millions of "customers" that have no choice but to purchase their power from southern (short of building their own power generator)

 

You're the one who said they do this. I countered.

Good for you. Can we get back on topic?

If the topic should stay on path, then why say things you can't back-up with evidence or internal information? Don't ask me to get back on topic when you claim they pass on expenses to their 'millions of customers who have no choice'...This site is all about presenting factual information, and this isn't factual to say these things.

Southern Co and it's subsidiaries still tout one of the lowest electricity rates across the US compared to other providers. Though the percentages have gone down since the economic crisis, they still range 10% to 15% cheaper than any other..

I'd much rather have no choice to purchase their power, which is costing me an average of $115/month with a central air unit in a 4 bedroom brick home...than to pay what folks out west pay, especially in places like Cali, where they regularly run out of power and have random brown-outs.

I hate to be devil's advocate here, but there are a few comments that are far from truth..when it comes to renewables, they are in a league of their own. A 100mW biomass plant in Texas, converting a coal plant to biomass in GA, micro-turbines on billboards, a geothermal 30mW job in Hawaii, refuse-powered generators in Bay County, FL...

Right now they are building two nuclear facilities in GA. A record they hold in Nuclear is never having any level of threat at their plants, because of the safety they put in place. Before a nuke reactor scrubs, they have so many things that have to be in place, where in Japan, they had 2 things that safeguarded the nuke and both of them were disabled.

I think we should mainly just talk about SoLinc and not try to say that they pass much onto their customer, when their customers enjoy some of the lowest rates for electricity in the entire US..

One thing that was thrown at me was how many other utilities there are that DONT operate their own iDEN network and they do just fine...well, SoComp operates their own iDEN network and still don't raise rates to compensate for the cost of it because those utilities that don't do it..charge more for electricity than SoComp does.

I'm glad we aren't getting personal with this..but I also have internal information to go on that many may not be aware of.

Has anyone checked on pricing of southern Linc service before assuming they pass the buck? Line of service, no minute restriction: $27.95/month, data add-on = $10, text add-on = $5. Insurance and other extras available at comparable prices of other carriers. I don't really see where in the past two years they've passed the buck on to external customers.

Oh, and they foot the bill for their 26,000 employees that they give phones to.

Someone said that they had around 32,000 subs but it says in the article they have 150,000. add to that the employees that they don't collect money from and you have a pretty reasonable amount for a small carrier.

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And you would think, since they have to cover their employees phones, that they would pass that cost onto paying customers that are stuck in two year/one year agreements...but it doesn't appear that they do...their pricing doesn't reflect that, rather.

I know for what SoLinc costs per line..and what I pay for Sprint, per line...and I don't understand how they do it so cheap. Where a phone with data and text on Solinc costs about $42/$45 a month...it costs me on average, $70/month. I have 3 lines, and the Airvana...bill runs right at $192...and we divide by 3 and my sis-in-law pays $70/month for her line (after taxes/insurance blah blah, it comes to $212 a month total).

Could be right. They may do that. Not discussing the coal thing, I stated fact about a smokestack and it was met with... Nat gas is cleaner.

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Well, unless they offer data along with nationwide roaming, I foresee them losing some of their non-Solinc employee customers. At that time, when the network is basically used solely by Southern Co, does it make sense to operate a network without anybody else sharing it?

Well that goes against what this article states and we don't have much open room to discuss anything else

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