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People post great speed test results...not the crappy ones. Root Metrics uses all the tests. I would be quite shocked if the average anywhere was over 20Mbps. Even 8T8R sites on band 41 are running below 20Mbps around here.

Well, I have criticized root metrics when Sprint was having a bad showing and I am certainly not going to jump on the band wagon now that the results are better. I have always questioned its accuracy and methodology as well as their technical expertise(are they separating or counting all of the LTE bands) as well as the possible conflict of interest. I take everything they say with a large helping of suspicion.

Where does Sprint average over 20mbps?

 

I've hit 80Mbps in Baltimore...but usually around 5-10Mbps.

I will leave that question to the members who are constantly claiming/posting speeds well above 20 mbps. I find it very hard to believe that there is not a single sprint market that averaged  over 20 mbps. This leads me to believe that either our members are mistaken or the methodology is flawed. Guess which one I am going with?

http://www.howardforums.com/showpost.php?p=15801885

 

Spin is already starting!

 

To paraphrase one Vincent K. McMahon, there was "no chance in hell" Sprint was going 0 to 100 on speeds, it takes time to unwind past incompetence. There wasn't going to be enough 2.5 in the field to turn around losing e-peen in one quarter. Some may think I am making an excuse. I would say I'm being real. No way that was getting fixed with a magic wand. It is going to take a long time.

No Sprint markets over 20 mbps? And people wonder why I don't like root metrics.

I actually like Nextel Or Spark

The Nextel name probably has less value then Sprint at this point. I am also not sure how receptive the market would be to a "new" entrant, although Spark could work with a massive advertising campaign.

If we're still calling this Sprint, at least do away with yellow. After all it is as reminder of Nextel.

 

That would hopefully be the final stake on that rusty coffin. White and black it would be.

They are really going to have to pour some brain power into this one. The primary colors are spoken for so it will be difficult to use a power color that is acceptable. They need to present something that either is directed towards a specific demographic or conveys inclusiveness.

I do wonder why DT, after it bough voice stream, didn't realize that they needed lowband to compete. Did they not look at a map of America to see how big it is?

It probably did not play into their strategic vision at the time. It is easy to have 20/20 hindsight.

When it comes to 3G, there's only 2 blocks of 850.

I misread the 3 g part and just read low band spectrum. I still stand by my opinion. Verizon and Sprint did not have 800 mhz fall magically into their laps. They made decisions that landed them those frequencies. T-Mo did not.

How is it TMO's fault that it doesn't have lowband 3G spectrum?

Decisions made in the past. Some people can and will complain about favoritism by the FCC but when it comes to it, T-Mo because of decisions that it made and its predecessors made put it in a position where it was unable or unwilling to effectively compete in the auction. Or maybe they just undervalued the future importance of lower frequencies. Likewise, I won't give Sprint a pass on that situation either. Some may say that cash was tied up in the Nextel merger debt or the Wimax roll-out. Still comes down to decisions. Every company is free to make their own and live by the consequences. T-Mo is no different.

Tmobile is only carrier that doesn't have lowband 2g/3G voice spectrum. It's not level playing field.

Flags on the field! You and I cannot have it both ways. Each company is where it is because of decisions that have been made. Period.

TW makes their franchise agreements available on their website.  Do any of them show broadband details hashed out for your area?  Last I saw for my area, some franchise agreements mentioned internet but simply that the cable company may or may not offer it if they see fit.

 

This link should open for your division but if not you would have to go in through your divisions local site.

 

http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/about-us/legal/regulatory-notices/programming-legal-notices/franchise-agreements.html

When I get a chance I will look for it and post but a couple of years ago the State of North Carolina scrapped local franchise agreements and instituted statewide franchise agreements  with the goal of increasing internet availability, service and competition.

To city buildings, schools, libraries, etc that might be so.  In regards to cable at least, franchise agreements do not deal with internet / telephone services...they address cable television service only.  Naturally, the cable company is going to provide voice and data as well as that is the money maker but franchise agreements do not touch on those services at all, let alone speed thresholds then again, mnost cable companies now have higher speed tiers, at a much higher price for those that want them so they can at least say they "offer" them.

 

 

Thats not exactly true. It really depends on the state. I know all of those services are on the state government radar in North Carolina in reference to franchise agreements.

 

The big issue is that most existing homes are fed by copper, and upgrading existing copper to fiber is expensive.  It may be equal or less than installing new copper, but these places already have existing copper.  And those systems are paid for.  And they want to milk that for as long as possible.  They have no incentive to upgrade existing unless competition makes them do so.

 

I recently discussed some thoughts on fiber to the home here in a Premier Sponsor thread:  http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4474-le-glorious-premier-sponsor-lounge-thread/?p=398738

 It has been 6-8 months IIRC since Google placed the Raleigh area on its short list of Google fiber candidates. I find it very interesting that Century link called me about 5 days before Raleigh was confirmed to get google fiber to let me know that Prism was available in my area. Coincidence? Hmmmmm.

There are different levels of the spending limit. They may have changed since I've been there, but they were: $125, $250, $300 and $500 I believe. As long as you keep your total account balance under that amount (no matter how many phones you have), service would perform as normal. If your balance was over your set amount, calls and data were restricted on at least the main line on the account. If you paid enough to get under the ASL, your service would return to normal. Your service was never terminated.

Thats no longer true. You can be under your credit limit and past due and they will limit or disconnect service. The ASL as it is constituted now is nothing more than a money grab.

to the above post ^ WALL OF TEXT! i only grazed over a little of what that guy wrote but i did see something about google buying sprint. the only thing i halfto say to that is LOL never. dont even consider it. softbank will never sell so just give up that dream. Nor will they buy T-Mobile. 

 

They have their fiber network to worry about right now and are smart enough to not just spend stupid amounts of money all at once.

Never say never. I agree that it is unlikely but I would not say impossible.

They could afford to give things away because their cost per search is low because they own the infrastructure.

Even if I was to concede that very flawed point the fact remains that there is a price point. I would be more concerned with how long Google will remain in the MVNO market.

You didn't read my posts regarding owning infrastructure vs being an mvno

Yes I did. The point still stands. Google has built one of the worlds largest and most profitable business on a model of giving services away. They know how much of a loss they can take on each customer. Keep in mind, that whatever Google believes that it can make in data collection will be used in part to subsidize each customer. Another thing to remember is that Google has also been looking for other avenues to bolster its data collection as it faces more competition in areas such as web browsers.

I don't think that per person, that information could make up for someone using 15gb per month on lte for only $50 or $60.

 

Sprint and tmus have an interest in protecting their differentiating asset: unlimited.

You do realize that Google built a business model of giving services away for free and making billions off of the information gained from those services? I'm sure that Google has already worked out how much they can "lose" per customer and still make a profit.

An att TMO hybrid makes more sense.

Only if they were using voice also. If they are using data only as has been suggested then Sprint/T-Mo makes sense.

Mr. Paul makes me crack up!   Even with his little bit of Sprint bashing here and there I still find it funny.

"I would end arguments way quicker if there were more 16+ year-olds on here instead of 10-12 year olds boys and tweens." Mr. Paul

This dude is awesome!

This all may be a secret deal for Radio Shack to take back the TRS-80s that have historically powered Sprint's coverage maps.

People are gonna start leaving tmobile because if its stance on Net neutrality? Don't think so

Lets put it this way, whether it was done purposefully or not it can be considered part of a Public relations strategy which also points to a weakness in T-Mobiles public relations strategy. Will it by itself cause people to leave T-mo? Probably not. But Sprint needs to continue to craft a positive Public Relations image and this is a nice piece of that puzzle.

Well the boat hasn't sunk...yet.  Considering they are going to file for restructuring bankruptcy (Chapter 11) they can emerge as a more lean company, now if they were filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy "liquidation" well then they are past the stage of restructuring and it would be safe to say the boat has sank, this is not the case...yet.    

Radio shack has a failed business model. There is no coming back for them unless they radically change how they do business. They may manage to keep a few retail locations but I think their best hope is in becoming a full fledged internet business like the Sharper Image.

I prefer to buy my devices in store. When I bought my LG Viper back in 2012 from Amazon Wireless, somehow they screwed something up and the activation was botched. It took a few hours and got resolved by Sprint Tech Support over the phone. All my other phones were bought in store, and Phone Connect & my iPad were the only other Sprint devices I bought online.

 

Of course, on the flip side, we helped my friends brother upgrade his iPhone 4S to a 6 Plus at the end of November in store, and we are still suffering from that, so I can partially see where you are coming from.

The last six phones that I have bought with the exception of my step sons iPhone were bought at Best Buy. I was cured of buying directly from Sprint after an atrocious buying experience.

Interesting.

True but that only lasts as long as 1) your customer considers you a premium brand and 2) they are still willing to pay for it.

 

Being a premium brand can breed resting on your laurels and that can bite a company quickly. There is such a fine line between behaving like a premium brand and being arrogantly out of touch with changing customer needs/wants.

Agreed. On all points. Cadillac was in trouble and Lincoln has darn near become an automotive footnote because they were arrogant. While the premium European brands, or the most part, have listend to the consumer and gave them what they wanted at a price.