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They took yours and gave it back to me.

 

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Looks like we stole it back. "eherpes" detected in the garner/clayton area today.

Accelerated NV deployment. This is the future of the company. Anything else is gravy.

Yup, back to evdo today.

I had not seen that article. That would be a lot of debt to carry on your balance sheet. Son must believe that the price he is getting Sprint for is too good to pass up. High debt right after a merger does happen-ATT was going to finance 23 billion of the 39 billion to buy T-Mobile if I remember correctly. They better have a good plan to bring in a lot of revenue to pay it off. Let's hope for great news when Sprint releases 3rd quarter earnings. Are we in for a bit of a surprise? Last quarter nearly all their loss was attributable to iden costs. Maybe a very small loss or small profit this quarter?

 

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By all accounts Son thinks the time is ripe to enter the US market and he cant pass it up. If they are financing because they don't have enough cash on hand then the cash infusion that everybody ishoping for won't happen. I would think it would also dampen any aspirations of more aggresive pricing. I would love to get a look at their balance sheet.

It's very common for companies to finance large deals. They don't want to deplete cash reserves for many reasons. One being that often debt securities require a certain amount of cash and equivalents to be kept.

 

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I'm aware of that. What I dont know is if that is the situation here considering that softbank is already carrying a $10 billion dollar debt. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-sprint-softbank-idUSBRE89A0I520121012

They usually do the entire market at one time.

Nice. Is it done remotely?

Read somewhere that softbank is trying to borrow 23 billion to finance the deal. If they are simply trying to use somebody else's money then its no big deal. But if they don't have the cash on hand and they have to finance the deal then this could be a big negative.

Seems like a lot of towers in the metro raleigh area have ehrpd. I checked in the immediate area of the state fair, nc state, garner and clayton and they all popped up with ehrpd. I will see what it looks like tonight.

I like the idea of this merger, however, I hope that they don't try to convert Sprint's existing CDMA network over to GSM as they already use. Plus I hope they keep Network Vision the same and don't make any serious modifications to it. Ok modifications include speeding up deployment of Network Vision work, and of course, hiring the necessary people to make the work finish faster. But anything too drastic could destroy Sprint in the end, (ie. eliminating unlimited data).

If anything I think they would convert their gsm to cdma in order to realize certain economies of scale. The math is easy, sprint= 50 million customers and 40-50k towers. Soft bank is around 39 mill customers(after e-access acquisition) and I'm sure far less towers.

They should name themselves "Revolution wireless" because they are always fighting the "man" in the duopolies. Their logo could be this:

That is full of awesomeness!!!!

Been with sprint since 1999. Almost left a few years back because of horrible customer service. At this point, I'm not going anywhere.

Sprint needs better advertising, not a name change.

To my amazement, I see eHRPD is the connection in my cube now (was EVDO Rev A before). Told ya something was up! Proof NV work going on? Mapping to sensorly now.

Where is the tower? Also keep in mind that the state fair is in town. I have noticed in the last week or so that data speeds around the fair grounds and rex have been increase and are more consistent.

I can't help but wonder if the feds are going to ok this.

The cache will just get recreated on boot.

I don't see how it would free up memory nor should you need to do that on phones today.

 

Dunno.. Maybe I don't understand the question.

 

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Yes and no. The cache never goes away it just gets emptied out. When you reboot each app that reloads will start to insert data into its individual cache. As the user opens up and uses applications, those applications will insert data into there individual caches. Its easiest to equate them with cookies. Cookies don't go away until you clear them out. They automatically "reappear" as you surf the web.

Yeah, if cdma is a dying technology, he obviously has no idea about how his company and its spectrum will fare with volte in its present incarnation.

 

The 3g tmo chooses to market as 4g is in fact wcdma... hmm.

 

 

Did att shove something in their breakup agreement that forbid tmo from talking smack about them? Again, if it werent for sprint tmo would have be a baby bell right now, either literally or in practice via plans=limited data, no anymobile, higher prices

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this was motivated by the need for revenge.

Ouch. Tmobile is coming out with fighting words commenting on Sprint's latest attempt to counter offer the Tmobile bid. Lets just say Neville Ray is less than pleased with Sprint's latest efforts calling CDMA a "dying" technology as well as bringing up how Sprint failed horribly with the Sprint/Nextel merger with trying to maintain 2 different technologies. Also he couldn't help but bring up about the fact that Sprint's spectrum is incompatible with MetroPCS since MetroPCS mainly uses AWS spectrum vs. Sprint's PCS spectrum.

 

Boy I really hope Sprint snaps up MetroPCS.

 

http://www.kansascit...-at-sprint.html

Must have hit a nerve. Nice to see Sprint taking the high road and not commenting.

Unless you are using éclair or earlier versions of Android, task killers are at best a complete waste of time, at worst they are actually bad for your phone.

 

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I know. Thats why I stopped using them

Explain...never used this before, nor have I used task killers either.

Somebody else can probably explain better but each application creates a cached file when you use it. Its the equivalent of temp internet files or cookies on a windows machine. The app cache cleaner deletes these files freeing up memory. When I had my OG EVO it was especially useful because I was always running out of memory.

Been using it since I stopped using task killers. Works fine for me.

I had to do this with my Galaxy Nexus at least once per day. Seemed like there was a data network outtage daily, only localized to my device.

 

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LOL! The tech desk said it was statewide and that they were still looking into the cause, go figure. In any case the system started coming back online around 2 or 3 am.

I heard that LTE is a IP based tech where as Wimax was not. Sprint should have some formidable weapons to bring to bear in quickly and effectivley indentifying those users who are violating the TOS. Is this true?

Looks as if there was a statewide data outage on sprints network. After talking to the tech desk I was able to re-establish my data connection by doing the following:

Settings

Under wireless and networks click More

Usage

Toggle mobile network back to on(either off>on or on>off>on)

You should reconnect within 1 minute.

So I just read the back out fee that MetroPCS would pay is 150 Million. I think that the executive board would be all over that if Sprint came with a better offer. In fact if a better offer is on the table it is the boards obligation to to get the best deal for shareholders even if it costs 150 million to get there.

If nothing else it may be shrewd to tender an offer just to drive the price up. After a quick look, newcos financial fundamentals don't look that great.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I still feel USCC is the bell of the ball with Metro out. I also feel Metro has set the price for regional carriers. Sprint goes after USCC, and they will increase their lead on Tmobile, while increasing their coverage closer to that of ATT/Verizon instead of Tmobile. I feel Tmobile will have some trouble migrating these customers, which will lead them to leave for Sprint or another carrier. They have the same number of customers as Leap. The increase in rural coverage could get Verizon/ATT customers in those areas to switch to sprint.

I would go so far as to say that since Big Red gobbled up Alltell, USCC has been the bell of the ball.

I think one of two things is going to happen. This will blow up in T-Mo's face ala sprint/nextel or this will force the hand of other regionals to merge.