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It's all dependent on the carriers being honest and actually removing the subsidy money from monthly rates and not just taking us for all we got.

In theory, if subsidies were taken out of the equation, then the options for purchasing a device outright should expand.

That is my point, we are talking about big telecom businesses, consumers currently pay x amount of dollars for service with subsidized phones. Once the choice for that subsidy is taken away, they have zero incentive to lower the cost of the service.

We will get screwed with higher unsubsidized phone prices, and the same or minimally cheaper service.

The only people who will win, are the ones that keep the same phone forever and/or buy used devices.

I don't have time to do the math right now, but I am pretty sure that the current non-subsidized services with their pay up front full price phones, do not really save a significant amount of money if you want a new phone every 1.5 to 2 years. If one kept a phone for a long period of time, sure a 10$ month/120$ year savings might add up. But what everyone forgets or ignores is the cost of a new full price phone vs the ~$200 saved over ~2 years.

see for example;

http://www.fiercewir...mers/2013-03-01

The problem with non-subsidized model,once everyone doing it and there is no choice left, is eventually they will raise the non-subsidized prices to near or same as the previous subsidized plans. Which saves them a whole lot of money, but customers not so much.

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2525

BYOSD is intended to help Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) address the growing number of inactive devices in the marketplace and offset the phone subsidy burden through the reactivation of used and inactive Sprint-branded devices on qualified MVNO price plans.

So did Clear take Sprints money Friday?

Folks, try thinking about this parallel. At various times, several states have tried unlimited speed limits on certain highways. But those unlimited speed limits have never lasted very long. Now, why not?

Sorry but this is not parallel at all.

If you want parallel, it will not be speed limits, but how many miles you can travel on said highway.

I have a note 2, but I am more wondering what the ranking of the non-top tier phones are.

looks like still wimax devices, but the ARC CBA750B appears to be usb dongle based, so when clr lte dongles come out might be easy switch

http://www.cradlepoi...oadband-adapter

or the wimax built in version i guess is probably the one they supply

http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/branch-office-retail-pos/arc-cba750-series-with-integrated-3g-4g

I know alot of folks have had experienced a wide variety of devices, I am wondering what everyone considers of the currently available sprint devices, how they stack in order of how you would either use for yourself and/or be good to recommend to your friends/family.

I would expect a near 3-way tie betweeen the s3, iphone5 and note 2, depending on personal preference and what size factor one would prefer.

But what about the other android devices, like the lg viper or optimus, or evo, galaxy nexus, etc.

I'd consider battery, signal, voice qual, overall usability, and future updates availability as the primary factors.

I'd expect a lot of the angst/impatience with stl lte is due to the fact that stl has had wimax since the evo4g, but has been behind on the lte roll out, when alot of people have already since upgraded (downgraded) from wimax to 3g while waiting for lte.

But at least we can start seeing actual progress now.

• Over 1,000 LTE sites on-air as of December 31, 2012.
  

With zero devices to use them

the hotspot handles 4g to 4g handoffs with no interruption however since this device is 4g only, if you are in between 4g service areas, then obviously you will lose service.

That said, it does seem to hold on to, and re-gain service a little better than my evo 4g/3d does. There is no manual rescan, that I have noticed, but it seems to be always scanning anyway if not already connected.

i visit the site every night

I admire your dedication, but am concerned about your priorities.

deep breath people, deep breath

I had good luck with linksys until cisco took over.

Netgear bought infrant/readynas a few years ago, came out with some good newer models (then simultaneously fractured the software side, dev team, and the community). The existing readynas board is on lifesupport, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ever suddenly disappeared into the ether, which would be an unfortunate loss for past, present and future customers.

From what I understand, about the same happened with their media player devices.

Ugh, its all down hill from there.

another article outlining some possible scenarios http://www.dailywire...reless-service/

Awhile back I speculated that google and/or apple might make a play for clear and/or sprint to quickly build out a nationwide network. Backhauled by google fiber would be the icing on the cake.

I wonder how Son/Hess are doing about now.

more speculation; the next (or next next) nexus phone, will be global lte2600, and provide minimal 2g/3g support while providing for the most number of possible carrier combinations. Meaning that carrier specific lte will be ignored or deprioritized as much as possible, to allow for the widest voice network compatibility while relying on lte2600 (and google fiber provided femto/pico cells where available) for data.

I wonder how difficult it would be, to turn google fiber boxes into all-encompassing (or as many as possible frequency) pico/femto/hetro/metro/wifi roaming cell towers.

consider googlewireless, elcheapo wrt-54 type routers with usb clearwire wimax/lte dongle.

and the kicker;

freedompop style free wifi access and automagic wifi mesh networks

I've been down to 100 shares of clwr, I had planned to leave until the bitter end, but ~$3.15 is looking pretty tempting to close out and re-invest it back into sprint while it's dipping

Not necessarily. Ergen could be trying to extract better hosting terms from Sprint in exchange for dropping the unsolicited bid for Clearwire.

Perhaps, but that really seems like trying to attract flies with vinegar instead of honey.

Hmm, well I think there goes any promise of dish & sprint actually working together

a user can access the exact same sites 'incognito' as they can in regular mode.

if you want to block porn, you should want to block in any mode.

the only thing that incognito provides, is that you can not go back and look through whatever browser history or cache or searchs.

which it sounds like you understand, but the point is even if you block incognito, someone could still access porn sites.

The easiest and simple way is, is to control who uses your device.

If you don't want them accessing stuff, and they are your kids, and they do anyway, then you should take whatever steps necessary to discipline them. Parenting 101.

In any case, it sounds like you either need to root and block sites at the dns level (which typically blocks ad's and malware sites too), or check out some of the apps @ https://play.google.com/store/search?q=web+filter