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He loves it if the business environment gives him a return on his investment.

Yes, the first map for every carrier shows three carrier aggregation but the maps below that show individual channel ownership and that is where the confusion is.

There has been some back and forth on Twitter this morning with Mike Dano, FierceWireless editor and Allnet Insights, the creator of the maps for the article. Allnet Insights says that the maps only include the three largest channels of LTE spectrum that are, or will be part of a carrier aggregation strategy. Mike Dano feels like this was disclosed and I told him that I completely disagreed. The article doesn't even use the phrase carrier aggregation.

What does this sentence even mean? It seems like it circles back to stating the same thing that both is and isn't included in the maps. "To be clear, these maps don’t show actual LTE deployments, only the spectrum that likely is used or will be used for LTE deployments."

TMobile is now ending Jump On Demand as well. http://m.gsmarena.com/tmobile_abruptly_stops_offering_jump_on_demand_lease_option_for_new_customers-blog-20885.php

Yes, they have full building 802.11ac wifi deployments as standard with guest, student and faculty ssids. They've just never supported wifi calling of any kind before so we're looking at the density and bandwidth implications of doing so. This is a 36,000 student campus and we're not privy to their overall campus bandwidth but the building will have dual fiber entrances as part of a fiber ring.

Thanks for that Cisco link. That's very helpful.

Is that a public information source showing in that screenshot?

You can't really compare expected speeds across carriers when the utilization (number of customers) is different for each carrier.

We're starting discussions with a collegiate client who is building a new building, about supporting Wi-Fi calling and messaging rather than investing in a DAS. Can anyone point me to any credible technical information that would provide some guidance on the bandwidth of the compression schemes used in Wi-Fi calling and messaging?

Don't we already have those AT&T maps? Their coverage map has filters for 4G LTE, HSPA, 3G and Edge. It seems like they are being upfront about their coverage. My frustration with Sprint is that without S4GRU we have no idea where the pre-NV sites are because it's all advertised as LTE.

Happened every time to me when roaming in USCC territory. Only fix is to place a phone call which somehow registers you on their network. Hang up and data will be flowing. Reboot, profile update and airplane mode toggle don't work.

That's a common way to save a tweet you want to come back to later.

In my situation is was definitely roaming only. Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk

I got the same screen shot with US Cellular in northwest Iowa earlier this month as well. It showed 1X Sprint and LTE with USCC and I had about 10Mbps speeds. Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk

"Get something completed" WITH WHAT MONEY? They're basically in financial distress, improving slowly. They can't borrow. They are doing everything they can with the capital they have and the capital they can generate. Son can't throw more money at them without triggering the "you have to buy all of Sprint" clause thing. They KNOW what they have to do. They aren't stupid. Previous management - yes, I'm convinced some were misguided. This group? I don't buy that at all. They need capital.

It's not backwards when your in the situation of not having enough capital. EVeryone wants to replace the roof at their house at 20 years too but when you don't have enough money to replace the roof, replace the windows and paint the exterior you prioritize. If the roof leaks, you address it if you have to. In that situation, why spend money you don't have on infrastructure that isn't causing you to lose customers?

So take everything you've said at face value and as the truth. What should be done about it? Fire the CEO, get a new board of directors, and get a huge investment from a multinational owner? Oh, wait. They did that. The Monday morning quarterbacking about Sprint is lame. They know what the problems are. We know what the problems are. They have a finite amount of capital and they are trying to save the company by spending what they have to spend. Pretty much end of story.

It isn't a matter of being distrustful. With a checking account if there's an error or a payment doesn't get stopped it's basically your cash getting deducted. If there's an error with your credit card you haven't lost any cash while the situation resolves itself.

I realize that they use their own locations services as an input. I'm referring to the Google's use of AirSage.

Completely disagree with this comment. The TomTom app is one of the better navigation apps available for any platform. If you want to go OSM then both the MapQuest and Scout are very solid as is the newer Inrix app.

HERE Maps has rapidly released updates after its acquisition by German automakers. There's absolutely no sign that it is end-of-life.

I travel a bunch, all over the United States and I am always amazed at the accuracy of the ETA in Google Maps the last year or so. And I am talking about major metropolitan areas not just highways in the countryside. A couple of weeks ago I left the western suburbs of Chicago near Naperville at 4:55 p.m. with my destination at O'Hare and Google Maps ETA was accurate to the minute. I did a similar trip last month from San Francisco Airport down to San Jose and accuracy was just unbelievable. The anonymous cell phone data that they are buying from someone is just unbeatable in my opinion.

NV is no where near done in Iowa either. Especially in eastern Iowa, Sprint is a mess unfortunately.

I returned yesterday along the same roads that I traveled on Saturday and therefore came back into USCC territory. I again could not establish any data throughput. My wife's phone worked fine in the same spot. A reboot did not fix it. I also tried to upgrade the PRL even though it didn't need it and did a profile update. Neither fixed it. For some reason, I thought to try to place a voice phone call. The voice call went through and the minute I hung up I had blazingly good LTE data on USCC. It seems as though I just wasn't getting registered properly on their network and by placing a phone call, that flipped the switch somehow.