borf

Make no mistake: If this happens, Softbank is here to go to war with the domestic providers. The US market hasn't had real competition for years... Verizon and AT&T do everything short of outright collusion to get richer and fatter. Softbank will hand them their asses... just watch.

Read Softbanks history and you'll see they rose to number two in Japan because they were incredibly aggressive on price. I have little doubt they're banking (hah!) on that working here too. It will! It would be awesome for the US consumer and could change the whole industry for the much better.

My only worry in the deal is personal... I'd rather not lose the privileges that come with being a customer for almost 15 years.

EDIT: Wow... a timely opinion piece that supports my thesis:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2012/10/11/us-consumers-need-softbank-to-buy-sprint/

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You should be able to keep it at -110dBm RSRP on a GS3 (unless perhaps the signal quality is really poor). Have you upgraded to LI3, yet?

 

Robert

If you have your MSL it might be worth (carefully) poking around your phone debug menu. I'd wager you can control the signal release threshold for the various radios there. If I get time tonight I'll look and report back.

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Everything on eHRPD does the same thing - starts off bouncing over 2mbit, then just sort of jumps around and lands in the 1800 range or so. It wants to go faster, but it can't, heh.

Now that they have some headroom they're almost certainly bursting before throttling to sustained speeds. This accelerates many common use cases (email updates, html downloads, Google results) without choking capacity with large sustained downloads. Its super smart, giving a much better general user experience the majority of the time. Cable internet providers have been doing it for years.

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Getting 1200 down, eHRPD @ -98 dbm in Arlington MA. Signal isn't improved, but speed sure as hell is.

Another thing I just noticed is I'm pulling 3000 down on my airave. It used to be capped at 1500...

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