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Thus, from my cold dead hands, or until they offer unlimited LTE

 

 

 

 

my point was, they are selling 2gig for 18 on one hand, and 10 gig for 18 on another.

 

I would pay 18 for 10 gig on the hotspot if it was available. I would not pay 18 for 2 gig.

 

I would not pay 150 for the device for the 500 megs free, but ~50 for the device and 500 megs free would be tempting, but that still would be all but useless for me unless I can add on ~10 gig for ~20 bucks or unlimited for ~50.

For somebody like me ,who already has the sprint hotspot @ 20 dollars a month, this could be a deal. After buying the modem I will break even at about 8 months.

the website annoyingly keeps making you input your zip/address/email just to try to see what plans and devices they have.

I have had issues with the site in the past but today I breezed through and made my purchase in about two minutes.

Website seemed pretty simple to me.

I think smart watches will be an interesting and profitable market but no where near the run away train that smart phones became. I think the market will turn on functionality and price point. I think most people will resist paying a $200 for a cell phone and then $150 for a smart watch.

P.S.-You might want to ask this question in  General Investing

1) I was addressing the "stupid consumers should educate themselves on Sprint's network"-argument. That's it. 2) Your analogy is totally not analogous with my analogy nor with the cell carrier situation. Your lemon-car introduces another party: the mechanic with whom the consumer must interact. Is there a "cellular mechanic" with whom i must interact to fix my cell service? 3) Sprint is providing a SERVICE not a manufactured good. Is someone complaining about "Sprint phones" or rather "sprint service"? If you want to continue this conversation, quote me in a new thread.

Grrrrrr.

Let's be honest: the only reason why everyone here is saying this is because Sprint's network (currently) sucks, right?

If a car has a design flaw, should consumers be expected to educate themselves on the intricacies of engine design?

The product should be a black box: it has inputs and it is expected to give certain outputs for which the consumer pays. Sprint's network currently doesn't provide those outputs so . . . why should consumers have to educate themselves?

How about the network just does what it should?

Thats a faulty analogy. Nobody here has defended the current state of Sprints network. What has been defended is the attempts to improve that network. So using your logic, if you bought a screwed up car are you going to yell at the mechanic because it is taking a long time to fix it, stick with the car and the mechanic, dump it and buy a new car or stomp your feet and complain about the manufacturer of the car?

I have not had any luck except bad with car chargers. This goes back to 2002 when I purchased my first cell phone. Just recently on a family trip I needed to charge my laptop while traveling and stopped in a local truck stop. I purchased a inverter for $20. Best $20 I have ever spent. The phones charge just as fast as at my house and the battery does not get anywhere near as hot. I think this is a 100 watt inverter.

THIS! On top of faster charging and better battery maintenance, it is harder to lose or break.

There are towers around 200ft or higher here in Goldsboro where Seymour is so I doubt thats what Johnston Co has a hieght limit. Sounds like they are just being stupid...

I have a feeling it was to appease the NIMBY crowd. They are currently rethinking the height restrictions.

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Sprint has to diversify it's revenue sources. It's never going to grow to the size of Verizon or AT&T on its own. Softbank's investor slides mention  utilizing "big data."

 

On slide 73, Softbank mentions its new California research center. The slide shows off a bunch of futuristic products. 

 

http://webcast.softbank.co.jp/en/results/20130730/pdf/2014q1.pdf

 

Maybe these 2 things refers to the "internet of Things" (e.g. Sprint becoming a dumb pipe for internet data?)

I agree on both points but only to a degree on the latter point. I think over the next several years we will see an evening out of size amongst the national carriers.  In other words Sprint and T-Mo will grow at the expense of Verizon and AT&T.

Everything checks out on the router. As i was trying to think about what else could be causing my data slowdown I remembered how many new ssid's I can pull up when I do a wifi search. Then it occurred to me, my router is 2.4 ghz only!

It's everything, It all just makes me shake my head lol. Some people here need to apply. I know there are some stores in the south bend market and the Indy market with openings.

 

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I already did my time in retail. I got early release for good behavior.

Why do they not release real time progress reports on NV for every town and a timetable?  What is the reason for their secrecy, are they afraid we will storm the site being worked on and protest?

If this was even possible to do Sprint or any other wireless provider is not required to do it. Besides, it would probably just caused even more hurt feelings. Though Sprint has done a poor job in communicating Network Vision to its customers it has done much more than expected and much more than any other carrier to date. What did Sprint get in return for this new level of open communication? A whole bunch of complaining. So now you want the timetables to be totally transparent. What happens when there are delays? Most people are just going to say same ole Sprint just like they are doing now.

Funnily enough, that's where Sprint's DSL business went. After all, SprintLink wasn't just a backbone network as it is today. It was also a DSL provider for many areas. Sprint spun it off as Embarq after acquiring Nextel, and Embarq was acquired by CenturyTel, who renamed itself to CenturyLink. CenturyLink then acquired Qwest, officially becoming a Baby Bell.

Yup. The problem is sprint and embarq knew how to run a phone company. Apparently CenturyTel is still learning. I got it straight from a tech who stated that they had been arguing with  the execs about buying cheap equipment and not allowing weekend repair visits. They were buying cheap dslams and then putting to many lines on each one. I do have to say, in the two years since my one month of no DSL service they have started weekend repais and the reliability has gotten much better.

It will provide ample capacity.  It will also provide superior speeds over the rest of the Sprint LTE network.  It will also provide equal or superior speeds to all competitors.  And if a TD-LTE carrier becomes overburdened, adding additional LTE capacity will be a snap with just an additional carrier card needing to be added.  It's not wasted money, but it is investing more money and capacity into the network than Sprint has ever done before.

 

And now it allows all those international travelers who may only have one U.S. LTE band on their phone to have a somewhat cohesive nationwide network.  If you can use TD-LTE 2600 everywhere, and only use LTE 1900 and 800 to fall back on, then that is a very good thing.  This is a 180 degree turn about from what the previous Sprint would ever have done.  This decision is courtesy directly from our new Japanese Overlords.  It's about time the worst decisions the company makes are pro-network experience!!!

 

The Japanese are not the type to think in the present, or near future.  They look much farther out then we tend to do.  It's a refreshing change, even if slightly uncomfortable to what we are used to.

 

Robert 

Hmm, I forgot about international travellers. That reasoning makes sense.

Not really. It just means that Brooklyn and the Bronx have towers in enough areas that they consider it complete. Lets that number is 75%. And let's say queens and manhattan are at the 30% mark. It will still be deployed more and more. But u gotta was till 75 until its (official)

Take a look at sensorly. The Bronx seems to have pretty good coverge. I have to believe that next to Manhattan, the Bronx is one of the most challenging places to build out. It is a dense urban environment with a lot of hills. You may be dropping LTE intermittantly for awhile.

with the amount of money being poured into 2500 development and with the requirement that all 2014 devices will support it , i think 2500 will become the main LTE band for Sprint and 1900 and 800 will be fallback when 2500 signal cannot reach customer. 

This is just my opinion but I really don't believe that every device that Sprint has will eventually be tri band. I expect to see it on the high level and perhaps some of the mid level devices. Additionally, you don't have to have a triband device to passivley benefit from 800 and 2500(offloading).

I was thinking of a merger between sprint and centurylinks wireline units but then I thought about Centurylinks reliability issues and said nevermind.

Wow so let me get this straight. We went from 2600 only being in the top markets on clear sites. To all clear sites. To all clear sites + all sprint sites. To all clear + all sprint + additional infill sites. Far cry from what we thought. Wow that's alot, infill almost seems like overkill. Which isn't a bad thing for consumers. But you would think 1900 and 800 lte would be plenty in places where 40k 2600 sites wouldn't reach. This is gonna be one bad ass network. Just hope it's financially viable. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Eh. I am not particularly overjoyed with this development. I am not sure how deploying 2500 where it is not needed is enhancing the customer experience. It does however increase costs. I would rather see a targeted strategic use of 2500 similar to what was originally planned.

There were two LTE sites turned on near Six Forks in the last update.  One near Northclift and the other one a little south of there (don't remember exactly where off the top of my head).  So if it was in that vicinity that makes sense.

Yup. I think I found it, just south of me.

I read an article concerning tower heights in Johnston County. The county has an ordinance limiting tower height to 120 feet. They are looking at raising the limit in order to improve cell service in the county. Any thoughts?

http://www.claytonnewsstar.com/2013/07/26/3060029/johnston-planning-board-reconsiders.html

I have a worksite on Six Forks road  that would receive LTE outside of the building and a relatively weak 3G signal inside the building. As of yesterday the in building reception improved to the point of receiving a usable 4G signal!(2mbps download). I need to check if any towers in the area are newly upgraded.

Try it again tomorrow. It could be network related. Also, restart your phone, then try again.

Whenever this has happened to me my phone needed to be reprovisioned. Call the Tech desk if the problem persists even after restarting the phone.

My shiny new Zing hotspot is connected to LTE Band 41 (2500 MHz) as I type this. I have attached a screenshot of the Zing Manager "4G Details" page. I am getting ~100 ms pings, ~8.0 Mbps downloads, but rather poor ~1.0 Mbps uploads.

 

That's all wonderful, because I live on the fringes of the Chicago market, so I really didn't expect to get any Band 41 coverage at all, at least this early in the deployment.

 

But . . .

 

I cannot figure out where the signal is coming from. According to the Clear coverage map, there is a WiMax site about 1.5 miles southwest of me, and no others within ~5 miles. Logically, then, one would think that my coverage would be coming from that closest tower, and the speeds seem to agree with that scenario. Except that I have driven to within 500 feet of the tower (I could clearly see the 2500 MHz antennas and the MW backhaul dishes), AND I DIDN'T GET ANY LTE CONNECTION. I have done this twice. I was parked. With the car window open. I have also driven to within 500 feet of 2 other Clear sites north of my closest site: No LTE there, either.

 

 

You might be in the "shadow of the signal". In other words there is not enough downtilt for you to get a signal that close to the tower.

Whoa, I did not realize it was open for ordering. Time to visit the play store!