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    Wonder what it would have taken to get 896-940MHz for WiFi use. Expand it 17MHz. Wonder how much business this company actually gets. Especially in places like Atlanta where SoLinc is a direct competitor.
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    “The plan is no plan” either Arora is being a big baby, or now after realizing he won't head up Softbank anytime soon, he decided to just quit which is still kinda baby like. He probably just wants to run a company really bad, be the CEO. Should of stayed a President at Softbank while he tries to get "poached" by another company to be their CEO.
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    Some of the towers with ATT here (and at the top) have 5 panels per sector, so a total of 15! From a distance it looks like a single giant antenna.
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    One thing to take note too is with the recent acquisitions, part of the agreements have been expansion. AT&T has to expand FTTP/FTTH to 12 million residents (they strung fiber down my street a couple weeks ago so now I have four ISP options! lol). And Charter has to expand coverage to 1 million new customers. Charter has stated they will avoid entering areas with cable providers and enter areas served by only DSL. Plus they can't do caps for 7 years. So with NN being upheld, and the expansion of these companies we are winning some of these battles. Granted, ATT and Charter did just get larger. At least with Charter, there was no coverage overlapping and with ATT they have a sizable agreement to uphold.
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    Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa needs a small cell. Horrible horrible experience there.
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    In my city there are a few towers I've tested on TMo I haven't got over 2Mbps around 5pm.
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    Well, I was meaning Project Fi having access to USCC roaming through Sprint.
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    Don't you still have access to USCC (3G/LTE) via Sprint? Or is it just 1x only for talk/text? Fi is expensive though. It is only good if you use less than 1GB of data. If you use ~1GB or a little more and want coverage, might as well jump on Cricket or something.
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    Coverage map for LTE clearly is overstating. This is why you don't trust maps. Sprint map used to do this in my area like a year or so ago. Even with B41 coverage seemed to be just square blocks placed on the coverage map. They have gotten it cleaned up and was nothing like it was before (lots of reduced LTE coverage on the map, that in reality was never there) It is good for Sprint too. The coverage appearance drops heavily but increases the honesty of the maps.
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    TMobile send out a mass text about the Tuesday app? Wonder if I should let some people know.
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    I don't think they are too expensive. "Little" old Charter just dropped $55billion. Comcast was going to drop $45billion for TWC. Comcast has the cash. Stock hasn't changed much since 2015.
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    Yeah they would. Your dream... increased bundled services. :-P
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    I think what would have been cooler is fixed wireless services in certain areas. Carriers have all this spectrum, and in rural areas it doesn't get used. These rural areas might have a poor dsl offering or no offering at all. Where my dad lives, he only has fixed wireless as an option. He pays $70/mo for 2Mbps. Yet I can pull in over 100Mbps on Sprint's B41 outside and 40Mbps inside. My brother at his house only has a Windstream 1.5Mbps connection. My uncle and brother in law have zero internet providers (outside satellite) yet live very close to a tower with three major carriers on it. That would be disruptive imo. What he did do was comment on cable again. Ugh. Really only leaves Comcast as they likely buyer.
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    Free wifi on the plane is nice. Guess you figure sms/mms isn't really the default way to text anymore. Makes sense to offer more! The only issue, until the airliners get Go-Go's new satellite equipment, Go-Go is ground based and it is SLOW. Probably end up waiting 5minutes just to send a snap chat pix. Might be decent enough for simple websites like reddit through. The pizza is cool, I'd be down for pizza. I love pizza. :-D However, I don't like the stock option. Why not just do a $50 referral bill credit or visa gift card? That is consumer friendly 101 right there. Instead, TMo is asking customers to sign up for a service, which will require a lot of personal information, after a year will get trading/selling fees, and it is money that the customer will have to file with the IRS and get taxed on. Seems not consumer friendly at all. Seems like a extremely poor "innovative" idea. The article says TMo is guestimating $1 million in this. Ahh... that isn't very many shares. Seems more like they purposefully doing this so they can do an Uncarrier that says "Hey FREE STOCK" and have the process done in such a way that the least amount of people will actually claim a stock. Seems like they just might be out of ideas. Pizza and movies is just promotional giveaway which isn't a first for business to ever do cause the business usually doesn't pay for much of this kind of promotion. Oh, and didn't Sprint do this last year? And then the GoGo flight is just expanding on an existing idea which doesn't need an uncarrier. Might be way they are combining it with the giveaways.
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    Softbank announced the sell of $7.9 Billion worth of Alibaba stock yesterday. The same day Auction 1000 started. Hmm.... I wonder what that $7.9 billion will be used for!? A new investment of some sort???? :-D
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    Pretty much was before a long with AT&T. Can't really go to Sprint or VZW unless you buy a throwaway phone. The problem with this is you still got to visit a TMobile store. How many other stores and store fronts that sell 50 different types of MVNOs will an individual pass. What is already offered in airports? To really be the defacto company for tourists, they need to have a little TMobile kiosk in the major international airports. Get these people on the TMo network before they even leave the airport.
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    Just throwing spectrum, or doing equal amounts of spectrum for all will not get what you want. You will have to dictate at the micro level to get what you want. number of towers for each subscriber for a given coverage, backhaul, government, etc if you want an equal experience in each market across the USA for each carrier. Then you'll also have to micro manage each company to guarantee the level of support, customer service and that networks stay up to date with the latest technologies across the entire network. Plus you also know a LOT more today then you did 10 years ago, 20 years ago. 20 years ago was 1996. 30 years ago was 1986. If anyone could have seen the future of smartphones and LTE and the huge demand for data, the market would be so much more different. But back 20 and 30 years ago the Internet went from no one has it to some people have 56k. Sprint would not of ended up with the amount of 2.5GHz spectrum that they did. But we live in a world where that didn't really start until less than a decade ago. It would have made things a lot easier if the feds could have got into their time machine back in the day and saw the need to set a side +500MHz of UHF spectrum for cellular.
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    With Sprint selling spectrum to a Softbank affiliate to lease bank, I'd imagine the chances of a Softbank affiliate bidding in this auction would be a bit higher now. Or maybe even have a deal struck, like with Dish.
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    Map got updated 5/16. I see a little new LTE coverage from Blue Ridge, GA to Ellijay, GA. Looks like 4 or 5 towers finally got LTE online. From the two previous maps, it seems like Sprint is plucking away at the 3G->LTE conversion. Don't know why Alabama isn't getting any love. Seems like 3G to LTE has all but stopped, there is no B41 present in the whole state and place like Birmingham could have a 2nd PCS LTE carrier but does not.
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    Dang, $420million. Average price for the two 10MHz blocks in AWS3 was $575million. Doesn't seem like 600MHz will be all too cheap? Spectrum would still be worthless if it wasn't for this explosive demand for mobile data! Demand drives prices. If there was no demand, there would be no need for additional spectrum for cellular. People see money, businesses and the government a like want to profit off that. After all these years of just giving away spectrum to get people and businesses to use it and innovate uses for it, cellular is that gold mine everyone was waiting for.
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    If ATT bought TMobile, things would be a lot different, but how would be very interesting. Maybe Softbank wouldn't by Sprint, and Sprint would be a dead horse right now. But, then I think that would leave Sprint to be the only one to make the few remaining large acquisitions. I doubt VZW or ATT would be allowed to acquire MetroPCS and/or Cricket so these would have been acquired by Sprint. Increase their subs some 15 million, Sprint would be in the ~72million range from those two acquisitions right off the bat and if they did some aggressive marketing could be in the 80+million range right now. They would have acquired some solid PCS spectrum holdings and have some 700A+AWS reserves. Not sure what this would do going from 4 to 3 major carriers. But myself I am all for a fifth major carrier. I'd love to see Dish+Comcast or Dish+Charter do an MVNO. Do regular popular MVNO pricing like say 3GB of data for $30/mo but then have it where when you ride Dish's airwaves it doesn't count against your data bucket. So you get VZW LTE coverage through the MVNO that gets unlimited data when riding Dish LTE. And just have Dish deploy their spectrum in the major pops.
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    Rootmetrics speed test went down 15Mbs. 30 to 15. Even though 2nd carrier B41 was added. Kinda interesting.
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    Some good data for a statistics class but that's it. The saying "Sprint sucks because of this data" is pretty dumb IMO. Should have done the more of "Here it sucks" If I did the same thing you did on TMo from inside my home I wouldn't have ANY data to collect, but if I went outside Id get -125dBm. So TMo must be 5x worse! What would have been cool is if your partner did the same thing at his house, run the stats on those numbers and then compare the two stats. That'd be a lot of fun.
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    I like that they at least rely on roaming in a lot of areas I venture. Having roaming 3G and LTE with decent sized 300MB bucket beats TMo no service and 2G with 50MB bucket. And if I get on cell edge like in the deep woods/mountains 1x goes forever. Just depends where you live and what you need/do. I like Sprint, have a good time. But my neighbor could have a radically different experience. Something simple like a DAS is all it could be to change the outcome of who someone likes. However, I don't like TMo cause they get a lot of no service at peoples houses I go too even though the area is well within the "fair" lte coverage. Once 700A goes online hopefully fix that, so long as they don't install on just a few towers.
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    Gotta really wonder what, when and how Dish is talking too about their spectrum assets. Dish has got to be making a move sometime soon.
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