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That $50B is not for M&A, it's for startups and new companies and comes from Softbank's technology fund.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-06/japan-s-softbank-to-invest-50-billion-in-the-u-s-trump-says

 

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Says for startups and new companies.

Sprint Mobile = New company

Band 41 holders, mvnos, maybe some other things = startups

Both boxes checked doing regular old business. lol

That's a lot of money just to swallow up the competition. Son would have just been better off buying T-Mobile from the start if that's what he really wanted. Just go after what you really want and not BS it. That amount of money can be used elsewhere.

 

 

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Sprint was the low hanging fruit.  He might have been better off with TMobile, but then Sprint might be dead and in pieces right now, so starting with Sprint might have been the best path forward to secure Sprint's assets. 

With the quick showing of wanting TMobile after the Sprint purchase, it gives the impression that a merger has been his grand vision.

Where would Sprint get that kind of money?

 

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Softbank is getting that kind of money.  If TMobile is purchased, it will be Softbank owning Sprint and owning TMobile.  Then merging those two assets together.

Son pledged $50billion already.  He doesn't have to buy every last DT share up front either.  And $33billion of it is just taking over the debt aspect.  No cash needed there.

Except a merger will result in the loss of 10,000 jobs.

That does tend to actually happen.  But there is a difference between what is "promised" and what actually happens. 

Is there a group chat to test this functionality?

Son's meet with Trump pledging $50 billion and 10k jobs was Son discussing approval for Sprint+TMobile.  Son buys at least 51% of TMobile for $50 billion and promises to create 10k jobs. 

Unless Son is planning on doing other various acquisitions (AMD maybe) that warrants a meet with the president-elect. 

It'll be a vary interesting merger indeed. 

I've only seen 1900MHz sized panels in my area. Never seen panels that look long enough for 800 too, like these. In my part of the Sound, they are 1900 only and 2600 only panels. Any chance of zooming in on the ports to see if they at least support 800 too?

 

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The dual band 800/PCS panels around here are just a smidge taller than the B41 antennas.  Not sure how tall they actually are, but i'd guess it is around a 6" difference. 

So Samsung has decided to go with the Nuclear Option for the remaining Galaxy Note 7 devices!

Something like 5 Nvidia Shield tablets batteries swelled up (I don't think they exploded like the Note 7 did, but got hot and caused some burns) and Nvidia did a full recall on them.  80,000 tablets.  Few weeks later they pushed an update to brick the units. 

The colors are better, but still need some work.  They should just make extended 3G and LTE and same yellow color.  Average user isn't going to care that it is a different network. They don't even need to know that it is roaming.  It will not show up on the phone as roaming, and it only eats away at your regular data bucket.

Only place we need to know that is roaming is where it actually eats the roaming bucket. All we need is

Dark Yellow = LTE Plus

Yellow = LTE

Orange = 3G

Dark gray = roaming LTE

Light gray = roaming 3g

I think mostly it is all moot. 

In populated areas were speed is low, people will complain and get angry at those who "abuse" the network using many GBs.  But the thing is, if you kick those guys off you will still have the same level of congestion.  The speed gets spread to as many as are using it on that tower.  When speed is 1Mbps on a tower, kicking off one guy from the network cause he has used 100GB already isn't going to do much.  That 1Mbps he got himself will spread among the 100+ people on the tower. 

Then it also doesn't take into consideration rural towers where you will also get 20, 40, 60Mbps based on however many MHz are deployed practically all the time like in my neck of the world.  You could use 2000GBs a month and you'll never impact anyone.  People will still pull double digit speeds off that tower if they happened to run a speed test.

Then the network can easily be abused with programs like unlimited one. 

Plus the other thing is, mobile data usage growth isn't very linear.  lol

Can you post a link to that video?

 

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It's pretty funny, currently house hunting and the only internet options I will have are from these websites.  Might be testing out these providers out soon. :-P

@kgor93, do you know if the 100GB and 200GB plans that offer ATT/VZW service are capped, or are they just throttled as well? There are two towers I'd be able to point too, those towers are light duty rural towers made for range. Need them GBs. xbox a lone is ~250GB/mo average.

Yeah, an opt in option would be cool.  This way it doesn't effect regular users, and it would give Sprint a lot of valuable real world data. 

Is sprints network ready to offer volte ? I think we all want them to offer volte , but not if it offers a bad experience. Sprint can't afford anymore loses... I'm sure there are a bunch of markets/ cities out there that are not dense enough to be running volte for quite some time

 

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The user experience would be very lacking.  They are #1 or #2 when it comes to voice as it is now.  I feel if they turned it on now, they'd drop to #3 and mostly #4.  As we have seen with TMobile, VoLTE doesn't fix everything. This seems to be an area that TMobile was struggling with before VoLTE and still is with VoLTE. If you have quality issues it is even recommended to turn VoLTE OFF. 

I have a feeling we won't really see VoLTE on a large scale until 3G starts to officially die off.  Roaming LTE should help with users VoLTE experience on Sprint.

Actually Qualcomm stated that the Snapdragon 808/810, so long as it has a particular sister chip can do 3xCA.  Most phones come with the required sister chip. 

IIRC the only thing is that two channels have to be adjacent for it to support 3xCA.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/snapdragon/2015/04/27/snapdragon-processors-x10-lte-put-tomorrows-connectivity-hand

Wait, so those antenna's aren't for the WiFi?  They are the Tx/Rx antenna's for the cellular connection?  Watched a youtube setting one up with a yagi. Guy got huge RF gains.

Sweet :-D

Im house hunting and a house I am looking at has no landline options.  If Sprint service exists and is fastish and stable I will get a plan from them.  let us know how it goes! I'd be interested in how the signal performs on that vs say a phone with solid RF performance.

This is a little better.

http://www.4gcommunity.org/

$500 first year and then something like $250/yr after that.

Why does West Tennessee have Extended LTE and Roaming LTE?

I thought Si Wireless was the only provider in West Tennessee.

I no longer have the logs, but I can confirm it is Carolina West Wireless.  Drove through there earlier this year and was very surprised.  IIRC there was even 3G.  They have 10x10 AWS and 5x5 PCS there in Polk county and Rutherford. 

Map was updated 11/11

55057 did seem to fix my VZW EVDO roaming issues.  :-D

I'd connect to it but not get any data 95% of the time. All the towers I have hit VZW on, only two gave me any data. Not sure what that would be, could be many things, but so far on 55057 every VZW tower is giving me data now.

Satellite backhaul can support 1+ Gbps. The ping depends on what kind of orbit the satellite is located low earth orbit can be as low as 150 milliseconds. It will not be good for urban settings but would be good for rural highway sites. They could have one satellite backhaul site and it using microwave to get more sites upto lte.

Are there even leo satellites up there that provide business broadband, and enough of them for the constant coverage that is required? Otherwise, looking at 500ms+ ping.

I just wonder how many of these sites actually only have Sprint.  If the other guys got internet...  If they have internet for 3G, why are the providers able to just upgrade the line with new technology? Keep the wire, replace the hardware.  Companies like ATT and Comcast have been doing this for decades. The DSL lines on the power poles in my yard are from 1992 and now offer up to 10Mbps.  Cable lines are from 1999 and offer 150Mbps.  For really rural towers, I'd imagine that even 10Mbps backhaul connection would be plenty for three LTE sectors.  

Been very happy.  Twice now I have been able to successfully connect to VZW EVDO.  :-D   Just seems throttled to 128Kbps.

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Is there a picyure that has the USA broken up into these geography areas?

Like what geography value is east TN / north GA? Hopefully they are fixing actually getting data when connected to VZW EVDO.

Always the chance for TMobile to get 20MHz in Chicago when the next AWS3 auction happens.