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Why are you against this? T-Mobile and Verizon is also testing this out as well. Or do you feel the unlicensed spectrum should only be used by T-mobile, making it T-mobile's spectrum?

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To future proof itself even further. 

It's openly talking about selling some spectrum . . . yet it's installing LAA in case it needs more spectrum?

[insert "HUH" meme here]

Sprint is finally making it seem like their in it for the longhaul. With WiFi "roaming", small cells, and what seems like LTE-LAA, Sprint is in a great position in terms of their network.

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So a year after my last post I am posting I have found a B41 site in Metairie. It was just random that I was running a Speedtest at the Mellow Mushroom on Vets when I go close to 30Mbps down and 8Mbps up. Knowing Sprint's current LTE in Nola couldn't even come close to those speeds I had to see what I was on and sure enough there was a B41 tower! Screenshot_2015-04-29-19-51-04.png

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Has sprint always launched 2.5 lte by the 180 day schedule date?

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I wonder if I could do the router outside Sprint coverage. Sprint does own spectrum here. Hmmm...

 

 

Confused I am this WiFi replaces airwave??

Giving faster speeds as the airwave was 3g?

Or this only works for certain phones?

Will this handoff back to the network?

 

Wifi calling replaces airwave's purpose.

Your phone needs wifi calling, this router is not required, simply prioritizes sprint voice traffic.

No handoff to network until volte.

No. You need a fit.

 

 

 

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to add a carrier without CA?

As long as 20mhz contiguous is free of WiMAX users, sure. Probably needs backhaul provisioning as well.

I wonder how many people still actively use WiMax?

TMO said 500k METROs still on CDMA, down from 9.3Mil 2 years ago.

Not even that hard. Adding carriers and activating CA is all done remotely via software updates/config changes.

It requires a carrier card per 20mhz channel.

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Not sure to be honest, but I think we'll start seeing nationwide second B41 carrier being onair first.

Activating second carrier (without CA) requires no fit, correct?

Just inserting the card, running a config script and it's online.

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So sprint is joining the home wifi router club. From new Stephen Bye blog post.

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/blogs/sprint-perspectives/connecting-customers-to-the-best-available-network.htm

 

 

 

This to go along with the news about free airport wifi through Boingo.

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6954-sprint-to-offer-free-wifi-at-airports-through-boingo/?p=416348

How much would it cost - materials + manufacturing - for sprint to have made it be a pico-cell (b41 + b25) plus wifi?

Ditto for TMO to have added b4 lte + 190" Hspa?

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Hopefully they will discuss the status of Projects Ocean and Cedar, officially announce (and provide some details on) the network expansion that we know is being planned, and maybe at least hint on the plan for the former Clearwire sites. I would also expect some mention on the SprintShack stores although they probably won't have had much of an effect on the quarter.

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Have you seen this clip from DT Capital Markets Day that like 3 different people have pointed out in the past couple months (not on this forum)? 

 

(Start at 10:26 mark and listen for a few minutes).

 

It's interesting to hear the CEO of DT talk as a businessman as opposed to the warm cocoon of delusional optimism and cherry-picked "facts" from the T-Mobile team. 

Of course he is. DT is the Verizon of Germany.

No one doubts that all companies are in it to make money.

People have predicted the end of TMO many times, most vociferously regarding the ETFs: turns out that as of Uncarrier 9, they paid out to 1.8mil people, not the millions that we've speculated.

TMO may not make money for a long time but at least it's gaining subs and posting very small losses.

Please state the cherry-picked facts and we'll discuss them.

 

I do not believe that map.  It is wildly optimistic.  A project of that size is just not that easy.  Otherwise, Sprint or T-Mobile would have done it years ago.  No, some factor or another will keep T-Mobile from fully realizing that goal by the end of the year.  

 

The costs of adding thousands of new sites could prove too expensive, and funding could be scaled back.  Along similar lines, the timeframe required to add that many new sites could prove too short, extending the project by months or years.

 

On the other hand, if T-Mobile actually does cover the map as projected by the end of the year, it will be low density, low quality coverage.  Just toss up a site every 25 miles and call it a day.  That is what we call a superficial gesture.  It technically may fill in the map, but it will not fill in coverage in real world usage.  And I do not consider that a goal accomplished.

 

AJ

I'm inclined to believe you, that it'll be low quality coverage . . . and then filled in later.

Still better than what they have now.

I'm not so sure about that. Maybe some or most urban customers are staying, but unless it clearly continues, it's a fluke to me.

 

Non-urban T-Mo users are flocking and this is very abundantly evidenced in part by the increase of people giving it back to the trolls on fanboy war-zones like TMoNews and FierceWireless, and throughout social media. This "trolling the trolls" and "fact checking" minority has recently exploded from "one in the bunch" to several on nearly every post, on T-Mobile videos on YouTube, on forums and blogs, etc.

 

From the many stories, much of the ongoing churn ranges from:

-People switching from AT&T, and go over the river and through the woods, back home to Ma Bell.

-People going from Sprint to T-Mobile and heading over to Verizon like everyone else they know uses (still too common )

-People who have tried them all recently except AT&T and T-Mobile and after T-Mobile fails, head over to Cricket/GoPhone and are shocked how close/superior AT&T's coverage is to Verizon and how the 10-year-old FUD perceptions everyone has/had were untrue

-People ditching VZW and using T-Mobile to try them and for the ETF payment, then take their new GSM phone once unlocked to AT&T

 

And so on so forth.

 

There are also certain T-Mobile users that only use them as a secondary (so even though they hate the service a portion or most of the time, they technically haven't left yet to contribute to the churn), and are getting fed up and considering leaving. Many T-Mobile users are also staying with spotty service, "backhaulless" 3G or as bad as sporadic 2G with non/partner service in hopes it will improve, but they will also eventually get fed up and leave.

 

My intentions are not to rail T-Mobile and discredit them or their progress, however I'm sick and tired of the constant and excessive benefit of the doubt, defending, and praising of magenta from many people in one way or another (this rant is not towards you, but in general).

 

I do want them to be around with Sprint to give it back to the big two and help for competition's sake. However, for those who do not inhabit a 3-5 block radius in a concrete jungle their whole lives, or live in the lucky areas with a little B12 and denser coverage even extending a bit into some suburbs: the problems often far outweigh the benefits of the occasional islands of LTE and fast speeds for the e-penis. If Sprint isn't in these many many areas yet, it's "two" or nothing.

 

T-Mobile is just not a non-urban competitor, and it sucks.

They're increasing lte coverage from 0.6 to 1.6 mil sq miles EoY 2015.

I don't live in a concrete jungle and lte coverage is good (suburbs), some parts fall to Hspa outside.

In conference call they said they're not relying on getting more 700a to reach 300mil lte.

Don't know if there will be densification for not so well covered suburbs.

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Something that is big on my list is a phone that has as broad a roaming capability as possible. The Nexus 6 comes really close, if it included Band 20 it would be very nearly perfect, but now that I know all of those antennas can fit in one phone, that's what I want. I also of course want any phone that is released now by Sprint to be able to be unlocked and used domestically or internationally.

Who uses band 20?

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There are some slight dialect indicators, too, of ethnic Astroturfian.

 

 

AJ

Cause Softbank+Sprint is more/less worthy of backing than DT+Tmobile

It's marketing 101. What's not to understand?

 

How do you self-identify?

Will sprint have a plan for single moms? That's certainly a relevant indicator of someone's life.

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You really don't understand marketing, do you?

 

Or you're just here to make pointless noise. I can't tell which.

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Since Unlimited Data is guaranteed on T-Mobile for at least another 2years (UnCarrier 9), you better start stashing that money for that iPhone 8 in 2017.

The investor presentation says "guaranteed for two years" but doesn't define start date.

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Last I read, it was much lower then everyone else.

 

I'm honestly not surprised that momentum is picking up in terms of ports away from Sprint. They may have the network going for them but customer service is still very lacking, plus the masses are always 2-4 years behind what's actually going on.

Everyone I know that had sprint either ditched them for VZW or T-Mo and haven't looked back. The last person I know with sprint can't stand them because of their awful CS. (She truly has had bad CS just from what she's told me) I personally left for the same reason.

Sprint postpaid ARPU  $58.90 

TMO postpaid ARPU is $46.43

I'm not sure if Sprint's ARPU includes equipment ?

TMO ARPU is just service and ABPU is ARPU+equipment

I'm looking forward to the day "Unlimited" plans disappear, because it's never true. No one actually has an Unlimited plan. The sooner people stop asking for it, the sooner carriers can stop pretending this exists.

 

Fake "Unlimited" pricing distorts the entire market for large data. The sooner "Unlimited" goes away, the sooner 10GB / 20GB / 40GB plans start getting priced realistically -- and large data users start getting treated fairly on-network.

 

Ironically, AT&T is sort-of the leader in this, with Cricket's plans. They label their "unlimited" plan honestly ("Pro" as 10GB), just like Sprint/T-Mobile should.

 

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Here's a simple fix:  Take the 1/3/5/'unlimited' plans, keep the price points all the same, and make the data caps '2/5/10/20gb'. It's transparent, it's fair, there's no secret throttling, everyone's getting something better than they had before, and no one has to worry about 'abuse' of the network or unfairness.

 

They could even advertise it as "another uncarrier move"...

Sprint and TMO are in a game of chicken; neither wants to be first to abandon unlimited.

Sprint has more spectrum to burn than TMO and certainly not goodwill to sacrifice so TMO will be first to blink.

And that's when I'll take my future universal iphone to sprint.

A top 3% still amounts to many thousands of affected subs. That is more than enough people to make negative noise be heard. See Reddit. Do not underestimate the overall influence of a vocal minority.

 

AJ

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Spanish speakers? You do realize that 2nd generation Hispanics and beyond mostly use the English language as their primary language? Once you get to 3rd generation Hispanics, the Spanish language is mostly gone. Go to places such as Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Albuquerque, and Tucson and you'll see that the majority of Hispanics in those cities don't even understand Spanish.

 

The entire purpose of this hire is to target "Hispanics" and its growing population (Not Spanish speakers). You wouldn't target a middle class stay-at-home mom with the same ad used for a single, young African-American. America is full of subcultures and they all hold different social, religious, and cultural values. Knowing your target audience is important, and Sprint knows that.

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Yeah, not according to Reddit. We'll see.

No one has any idea if they're in top 3%.

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