4GHoward

Has anyone ever seen a Cricket, Cellular South, MetroPCS, or U.S. Cellular antenna on a tower?

Are band-aid fixes done by the local engineer that does not travel out of a market?

turkey burger

I believe that Sprint Direct Connect runs on 1900 MHz, and Nextel Direct Connect runs on 800 MHz. I bet that Sprint may start augmenting the iDEN COWs very soon before hurricane season arrives.

Do you know about iDEN? Nextel Direct Connect was usually deployed to Public Safety Officials when something catastrophic happens.

Another point is that if you use VoIP, it only use about 100 Kbps of bandwidth, not much compared to a video chat. How much bandwidth does cellular voice runs on?

How will it work if some catastrophic event occurs like a hurricane or a tornado? It can get electricity from generators, but It has to get backhaul from somewhere. Right?

I just want a better inside look as online is not that close up. Thank you for contributing!

I know for a fact that only HughesNet and ViaSat, formerly WildBlue are the only primary satellite internet providers, but I am not that familiar with their type of technology and backhaul.

If you happen to see the COWs, may you please take some good up close pictures?

Is that what LightSquared tried to do and what Dish Network is trying to do?

That is exactly what it is. Has anyone seen it in person? Please post your images if you have any.

stink bomb

Do you think Sprint SatCOLTs will go multi-mode with the latest 4G LTE Technology with HD VoLTE?

fishing rod

It may be that they are working on Network Vision, and that is a higher priority for your tower than a data speed upgrade. Houston is undergoing Network Vision Deployment right now. Are you using 3G or 4G?

Which part of Houston are you in?

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration or NTIA recently found 95 MHz of spectrum currently in federal hands in the 1755-1850 MHz band that could be re-purposed for commercial wireless use including wireless broadband internet. The NTIA should share a portion of that spectrum to LightSquared, so the political controversy over GPS Interference using the 1525-1559 MHz band can come to an end with LightSquared building their 4G LTE Network in the 1755-1850 MHz band instead. What do you think about this? Voice your opinion, and join the petition at http://www.change.or...=share_petition. Source: http://www.ntia.doc....band-revolution

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Hopefully, there will be no massive layoffs like T-Mobile. It also happened to Clearwire, and now they are outsourcing overseas which we don't want that to happen to wireless companies like Sprint.

Maybe that spectrum should go to LightSquared.

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