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This was comedy gold, yet overlooked.  I am a little disappointed in you guys...

 

AJ

You should have said Insane Bolt. Usains evil twin.

Like the person said above we didn't know what was going to happen with sprint. We didn't know if Dish was going to buy them and have the network be Dish's problem or if Sprint will remain the same but with Clearwire and Softbank. I'm sure sprint corporate decided to pause network vision in major markets until the bidding war was completed. I honestly don't blame them, why continue building out the network if dish was going to take over and redo everything

 

 

I totally disagree. When you have a capital improvement plan you go forward with it no matter what. Why? Because the money is already spent. What we are seeing now is a glut of sights that were completed but waiting for approval. The timing is just coincidental. Clear may have been a different situation. I suspect the towers were approved and ready to go and they waited until after the merger to flip the switch. In either case work did not stop.

If you zoom in closer, there are a lot more holes. Also, Lower Manhattan is very poorly covered. Most of it is "light purple" which in reality equates to fringe or no signal for most devices.

Yeah. I missed that. The west side of the financial district has no covergae and there are several small pockets through out Manhattan. What is puzziling though is that there are several pockets in both the Bronx and Brooklyn with brooklyn having some sizable gaps in coverage but they are still launching those two boroughs but not Manhattan.

The interesting thing is, even though they have only officially talked about Bronx and Brooklyn, the coverage maps are showing LTE in all five boroughs. Not complete coverage, there are holes, but the coverage is showing, which is odd if they aren't actually launching them.

I was looking at sensoeley the other day and NYC LOOKS about 90% covered not counting Staten Island(forgot to look). Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn are covered. Brooklyn seems to have a hole down by seagate and IIRC downtown brooklyn is spotty. Queens has holes out on the Rockaway penisnula and the extreme eastern porton of the borough. In comparison to other markets that they have "launched" I dont see why they cant announce all of NYC or atleast four out of five boroughs.

Did you guys catch the article this weekend about how Goldman Sachs is using a loophole to control the aluminum market? Those guys sure are shrewd. I recall a Rolling Stone article that described them as 'The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.'

 

Here's the link about how they are making money on aluminum...

 

http://www.mlive.com/business/detroit/index.ssf/2013/07/new_york_times_how_goldman_sac.html

Yup. I saw that. Disgusting but apparently legal. it seems that Goldman and others have been manipulating the commodities market for awhile now.

Alcoa is a good company. When looking into metal manufacturers, just remember that they will be affected by any government and military cuts or spending.  As long as Boeing and other aircraft companies are still growing, manufacturing should still do well. 

There is some speculation that the auto industry may increase its use of aluminum to reduce the weight of vehicles and assist in fuel economy targets. In my mind it increases the opportunity to make or lose money. Taken together I think a small investment would be my best bet right now.

Depends on where you think the world economy is going. The commodities boom of the past few years has declined as emerging economies such as China have slowed.

Yeah, that is always a concern. I got interested after reading a couple of reports pointing to an increased domestic demand and China becoming less of a factor internationally.

About to start researching aluminum, specifically Alcoa. Does any body own Alcoa or have any thoughts?

You can throw the fastest and best router at anything but if you have ISP issues its all for moot.

 

Reduce things down to the simplest form  and work up from there.

 

In all the years all my issues have been ISP related.

 

i run mid grade older routers Dlink DIR-825  for the dual band and gigabit switch ports.

 

I have 3, yes 3 of these linked together to provide decent coverage over my 2 story Brick house. if you can run aftermarket software such as DD-WRT I would recommend that as well.  

 

Unless your running internal  gigabit file servers you don't need the most expensive router out there. Your ISP will always be your bottleneck

My speedtest almost always show that I am getting the advertised speed. I assumed that cleared the ISP as the issue.

Sounds like it might be a NAT issue.  What brand router?

Linksys/Cisco

Um, you know, Sprint is investing untold amounts of capital into its network, doing something no other carrier has done, and doing it faster. They're going at breakneck speeds. Are you following the acceptance reports at all? While you might not have LTE at your location, work is happening everywhere, as fast as possible. Sprint isn't waiting around on this. They're hiring as many contractors as they can. I really don't think, despite what you guys are saying Sprint "needs" to do, for them to go any faster. They're already in the situation they're in, and doing their best to get out of it. 

 

Really, what could be done? It's not like they're going "nah, these sites don't need backhaul yet. Wait on it, screw the rules consumer, we have money!". They're accepting sites as soon as they're finished. 

 

And, frankly, I don't think NV being behind is what's stopping your average customer from switching to Sprint. Your average consumer has no idea what "Four Gee Lite" is. They don't know about this and that network and megahertz and whatnots. They just know that Sprint's those yellow people who keep yelling about unlimited. Getting a real marketing campaign going is what's going to attract customers, not a network. The network attracts technically-minded power users, but the ads and the public perception are what bring people over.

And - Sprint's latest churn numbers only look bad because of the iDEN shutdown and lack of Nextel recaptures. So, yeah. Those low-ARPU customers were pretty much write-offs anyways.

I agree but perception is everything and the average customer percives the "slow NV rollout as the same old Sprint. Take a gander at Pocketables/good and evo as an example. 

A run to the bottom between Sprint and T-Mobile or competition to the big two? If you're talking about competition to the big two, only somebody their own size can possibly compete. As far as competition between the two, it will just leave both of them bloodied and bruised while the big two will be smirking and eating popcorn on the sidelines. I don't think DT has the stomach for a knockout, dragout fight. Either Dish or Sprint will merge/acquire them.

I disagree 100%. In my opinion Softbank willnot allow Sprint to furthur damage its image. In other words they will tightly control their growth until they are comfortable with the quality of the network. Thats when we will see better plans with more competitive pricing. I think Son is planning on confronting T-Mobile with value and AT&T/Verizon with network quality. This is not a stretch. Sprint compares favorably with T-mobile and AT&T with the exception of network speed. Verizons ability to absorb more customers is questionable at this point. Alot depends on what spectrum they aquire and how they deploy it. Bottom line fix the speeds and prices and Sprint will be succesful.

Sprint has a real big opportunity here to attach like 12 or 15 month upgrades to the all in 110 plan. I think something like that could be huge and help increase customers MRC which would help Sprint make more money.

 

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I have a sneaky suspicion that currently Sprint does not want any new customers or wants to tightly manage its growth.

Lets see:

I have power cycled the router and modem.

I use speedtest.net for my speed test.

The problem persists across three computers, desktop, windows 7, laptop windows vista and a chromebook

I will check to make sure the firmware is up to date and I will also try connecting directly to the router to see what happens then. Thanks for the suggestions!

Or that they think that Sprint is going to have a disastrous 2nd quarter which is to be expected since the last remainng IDENites jumped ship.

Stranger things have moved the market.

Sprint taking a beating today, why is the pricing dropping so much for the past 3 days?  It drop under $6 today.

My guess is that the excitement over the mergers is wearing off. People likely bought additional Sprint shares in anticipation of the merger which inflated the price and now they are taking their profits. It may also be the market responding to the other carriers new upgrade plans and Sprints apparent lack of a response. The financial fundamentals from last week have not changed.

Not good if it tanks more.  Bought some at 6.49.  It is 6.24 today! I should have waited! Lost thousands in value today along.

Are you sure investing is for you? reading your post is giving me a flash back to King of Queens when Doug almost lost his mind because his stock price fell.

So, I'm thinking that my router is going bad. Here are my issues:

1) My internet connection seems sluggish even though the speedtest come back with my usual 4/mbps. Just to make sure it was not my computer I timed a 1300 mb download on my PS3. It took one hour with no other load on my connection.

2) I have noticed that sometimes the router allows certain devices to become bandwidth whores while bringing other devices to a standstill. 

Does this sound like a router issue to you guys?

If anybody is a beginner or does not have a bunch pf money then sharebuilder.com my be a good place to start. Also, any of the financial magazines are great sources of investing education.

Agree. I will only buy back into Sprint if there is a good selloff/panic period.

Chances are Sprint wont tank. It will probably have a roller coaster for the next year or so but I personally don't expect the price to go beyond +/- 2 dollars. It is entirely possible that we can see a stock price of $20 in about two -three years. My advice, don't try to short the stock. Buy it for the long haul.

ConocoPhillips is doing an IPO on a new unit next week. Ticker PSXP.

Panel!  Panel!  Panel!

 

 

 

At first I thought it said paddle paddle paddle!

I need help.

I own some shares of AMD.  Bought them when they were like $2 a share just a few months ago, and now they are already up to $4.40.  They are really undervalued if you ask me. 

Hmmmm. I'm going to have to give them a look. Dont they have plans to make some mobile(cell phone) chips?

Does anyone recommend investing in Sprint?

I own sprint and I'm still adding shares.

I thought it might be interesting to see what everybody is investing in. It might give people some new ideas on investing.

Right now I own shares of:

Sprint(S-OL2)

Fedex(FDX)

Fannie Mae(FNMA)

Norfolk Southern(NSC)

Meridian Bioscience(VIVO)

I usually stay away from the financial sector like the plague. However, I have heard some very interesting things concerning JP Morgan and it looks like Bank of America may be turning the corner. I also may take a look at Chrysler and GM.