lou99/maximus1987

Network Vision was technically merely the rip and replace of equipment ie "nv done" did not necessarily mean "backhaul in place and lte good to go" In spring 2014 sprint sent mass texts to markets where the network was "nv done" but speeds were still unusable. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And another thing to add to the above: you're in sprints best market!: 2.5, 800, two b25 carriers all deployed. Chicago is sprint's flagship market like NYC is TMO's. Why would you switch to any other carrier? Because your phone lost signal for a few hours? Could've been phone or network problem but not a reason to switch. Sprint has provided multiple price points to enjoy their service as travis stated: $30 for 2GB on boost all the way to truly unlimited for $60/line (for androids). You even have the option to do the framily thing if you're ok with jumping through hoops a bit. TMO has slowing speeds in Chicago. One day a total stranger saw my twitter posts about TMO and stated that speeds were slowing down fast in Chicago. Compare the two previous rootmetric speeds for TMO in chi: avgs fell from 18mbps to 14mbps. It may be below 10mbps for 1H2015, we shall see. I'm on tmo in Detroit metro and here, TMO has gobs of spectrum but Chicago? I don't recommend TMO based on what I know about TMO's Chicago network. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep. Please less unnecessary formalism. Your posts sound like a script for alfred from batman. Will help everyone trying to read your posts. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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He stated that cincy has slow speeds and I replied that it's because of amount of spectrum a carrier has. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

1) More spectrum = more speed. No one doubts this statement. In Cincinatti, TMO has: 5x5 AWS hspa 10x10 PCS LTE (up from 5x5 LTE) 5x5 HSPA 5x5 GSM In other markets, TMO has 25x25 AWS and 15x15 LTE and is faster than Sprint. 2) Chicago is a dense market so yeah, 10x10 LTE is not gonna be enough. In Chicago, TMO has: 10x10 AWS LTE 5x5 AWS HSPA (to be shutdown and refarmed to LTE in July, 2015 resulting in 15x15 AWS LTE) 10x10 PCS HSPA 5x5 GSM Sure they could densify like NYC and they probably will. Until then speeds are gonna be sucky. 3) TMO needed low-band LTE spectrum given that even Sprint had 5x5 nationwide. Desperate? Sure that's fair. But are you saying that if Verizon had owned 700a nationwide, it would've been ok to purchase it but because ownership was split among Verizon and other speculators then it's a waste of time to purchase it, one owner at a time? 4) TMO spent $3.315B cash & spectrum on Verizon 700a including $2.365B in cash http://investor.t-mobile.com/Cache/1001182112.PDF?Y=&O=PDF&D=&fid=1001182112&T=&iid=4091145 Tmobile spent $1.77B on AWS-3 while Verizon = $10B, Dish = $13B, ATT = $18B. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/aws-3-auction-results-att-leads-182b-verizon-104b-dish-10b-and-t-mobile-18b/2015-01-30 An extra $2.365B would've made no difference and it wouldn't have addressed a key complaint among magentans: lack of in-building coverage. 5) They're not leaving behind anyone. They've purchased additional 700a since the VZW transaction they'll purchase more if the price is right. http://www.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700a-spectrum 6) Chicago has a ch51 station whose interference, with the 700a block, probably can't be addressed until after the 600 auction. Therefore it's a waste of money to buy the spectrum from the owner - att - until the interference can be resolved. 7) Metropcs: apples to oranges. Metro never bad low-band anything. The fact that sprint can penetrate "deep concrete walls at Medieval Times" shows Sprint as having low-band LTE. The reason why Sprint has nationwide low-band spectrum is because it paid $36B for Nextel in 2005.

Modification to Chicago aws hspa shutdown and date for LA's shutdown. http://www.t4gru.com/index.php?/topic/49-aws-hspa-shutdown-and-resulting-implications/?p=846 Up to now, we have knowledge of following being shutdown this year: Indianapolis Louisville, KY Chicago LA

Already discussed in "Q1 earnings" thread.

I wonder what spribt's strategy is for framily or if they want to push people off it. Death by obscurity is good tactic but unless they kill it, it'll live on forever! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I guess the decrease in churn validates their strategy.

Merger office makes sense. What other evidence? I don't get why Sprint doesn't continue to expand 2.5ghz coverage. Wouldn't more capex help with that like with hiring more people? Or poaching them away from other companies? Yes Sprint is densifying 2.5 instead of expanding but why not do both? Lack of people? Then increase capex to hire more.

These examples shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, the President’s own Small Business Administration warned the FCC last year that its proposed rules would unduly burden small businesses. And yet the FCC decided to treat each and every small, scrappy broadband provider as if it were an anticompetitive industrial giant.The FCC still has a chance to heed these calls and stay the effect of President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet. But I doubt this will happen. That’s because moving forward with this plan isn’t about logic, the law, or marketplace facts. It’s about fulfilling a political imperative. http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0507/DOC-333383A1.pdf Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The article is dated dec 2014. Question is why would the loss of TMO cause him to shutdown office? TMO would've brought Money - from synergies of combining two companies More money - from removing a competitor and gaining market power to be able to not offer unlimited data anymore. Spectrum - pcs, AWS But none of these is revolutionary If son had bought TMO first and been denied spribt's 2.5ghz then yeah it'd make sense to close down an innovation office. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It shows softening of his commitment at very least unless you can give a good reason why he'd close the office so soon. Do you agree that it was because of the TMO merger failure? We shall see for the 600 auction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sprint (NYSE: S) parent SoftBank plans to clear out most of the staff of its Silicon Valley offices, according to a Reuters report, following SoftBank's aborted effort to merge Sprint with T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS). The report, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said that the downsizing of the office in San Carlos, Calif., reflects a decision within SoftBank that the company will not be trying to forge a deal with T-Mobile anytime soon. SoftBank opened the office in September 2013, shortly after it closed its deal to acquire a controlling stake in Sprint. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-softbank-wind-down-silicon-valley-offices-following-collapse-t-mobil/2014-12-12

He opened it because he thought he was compete in a cozy 3 carrier environment. He closed it because? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But son would/could, supposedly, pump more money into sprint by buying more sprint issued equity; DT won't do that. Given the closure of the cali softb offices, I think son pumping more money is not likely. Furthermore, even if other 3 want to buy 2.5ghz Tdd, they're not stupid enough to do so before the 600 auction to strengthen sprint. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Whenever I go in to check the speeds, there's at least one customer (and 3 employees); corporate store, big intersection. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What are speeds without b26 (if you can force it off)? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Burr Ridge, Oak Brook are Spark areas meaning that most of the traffic is on b41, some on b25 and the rest on b26 so of course you're gonna have high b26 speeds. If you can disable b41 and then b26 on your phone, let me know how your experience is.

It's q4 of fy2014 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So even though they're gonna spend money for ocean this year, they're accounting for it in last years CAPEX? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Does ngn include project ocean et al? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Which means that it won't start until FY2016 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I knew this would happen if I included Moffet's name in that quote! lol It's worth speculating HOW Sprint will obtain more $ because, for example, if it sells 2.5 then, as known, it has to decide to whom to sell it as that will enable their competition. Who's the least dangerous to sell to?