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  1. http://www.droid-life.com/2016/06/29/verizon-may-introduce-carryover-data-free-roaming-throttled-unlimited-data-week/

     

    Apparently everything Sprint and T-Mobile has done has got into Big Red's head. Ridiculous that unlimited 2G data would be an extra $5 charge however.

     

    This option is only free to XL and XXL plans. If you are on any other plan (S, M, and L), you’ll have to add on Safety Mode for $5 per month.

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  2. And Sprint's stock just keeps going up. Post-Brexit it kinda tanked but pretty much so did everyone else's but theirs just climbed right back up again really quickly.

     

    Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

     

    Yup! The 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders is on August 9th.

     

    The next Earnings Call should be in early August as well. (For reference, the Fiscal 1Q15 Earnings Call was on August 4, 2015.)

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  3. Sprint just officially opened its South Central Region headquarters in Little Rock, Ark.

     

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BUSINESS WIRE), June 29, 2016 - Sprint (NYSE: S) officially opened its South Central Region headquarters today, after formally announcing its job expansion in Arkansas at a press event in April with Governor Asa Hutchinson, Mayor Mark Stodola, and the Little Rock Regional Chamber. The newly-renovated 5,000 square-foot headquarters at 900 South Shackleford Road will house the regional offices for consumer and business sales, marketing, and finance space for Sprint.

     

    Sprint currently has more than 230 company and dealer-owned stores across Arkansas, with 34 in Little Rock. Over the last three years, Sprint has spent more than $62 million on network enhancements in the state, which included voice and LTE optimization.

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  4. Interesting news development: Verizon to raise $1.17B through bond backed by EIP loans

     

    Sprint's creation of Mobile Leasing Solutions in conjunction with SoftBank was a pretty smart move!

     

    On Page 10 of Sprint's Fiscal 4Q15 Quarterly Investor Update, it says:

     

    The company executed its second sale-leaseback transaction of certain leased devices with MLS, providing a $1.1 billion cash infusion.

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  5. Interesting; I do hope sequential PCIs are coming to all markets.  All other carriers have them except Sprint, in my experience.  Whether the PCIs for different bands line up seems to vary:

     

    Verizon:  Consistent across bands everywhere I've been.

     

    AT&T:  Consistent across bands in DC market, not in other markets I've been to.

     

    T-Mobile:  PCIs, like GCIs, vary wildly, including some sequential and some not, but seems sequential more often than not.  Not consistent across bands in the DC market.

     

    Shentel:  169 offset, but consistent across all three bands.

     

    nTelos:  Consistent across bands.

     

    US Cellular:  No idea, phone doesn't record PCI.  Have yet to LTE roam in a place with both B5 and B12 to get the PCI with my Sprint phone which does record PCI.

     

    - Trip

    My device was cycling through coverage/no service intermittently for about 15 minutes yesterday. Would this be related?

  6. Unfortunately this is closer to my workplace rather than my home.  Otherwise I'd probably be ok with having a cell tower on my lot. haha

     

    Perhaps your workplace wouldn't mind receiving a check every month from Sprint for placing a site there? Couldn't hurt to ask.

     

    Would your workplace meet the site eligibility criteria?

     

    If you're ok with having a cell tower on your lot, you should let Sprint know that as well, and submit a request. Best kind of money is mailbox money!  B)

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  7. I realized after I posted it was possible that reps are supposed to tell people about it. Still, I would think most people would rather DM a Twitter account and have someone get back to them.

     

    We've had people report success with phoned-in reports, right?

     

    I've used Sprint Zone quite a bit. I think it's made a difference. I've only called about issues a couple times. That worked too as far as I can tell.

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  8. More than 40% of Sprint's traffic is on 2.5 GHz, Wells Fargo says

     

    Sounds like Sprint has made some real progress on this front, including the comments on small cells.

     

    "The most interesting take-away was the fact that today Sprint carries more "tonnage per subscriber" of data than any other carrier in the US - yet it is using only less than 25% of its 2.5GHz spectrum holdings. Think about that - using less than 1/4 of its 2.5GHz spectrum, more tonnage/ sub than any carrier and no meaningful congestion."

     

    Interesting info on sales/distribution being a concern.

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  9. You brought up some interesting points.

     

    As far as I've heard given Sprint's downsizing, Sprint has made an effort to have customers utilize more self-service features, and that includes Sprint Zone to report network issues (and for billing inquiries, etc.) Apparently, store reps are required to set up Sprint Zone and give a brief orientation on supported devices.

     

    Issue reports in Sprint Zone are essentially the same as contacting tech support and filing a network issue "pinpoint" report... unless we make the assumption that those don't get looked at either.

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  10. Robbiatti literally poured liquor out on CDMA. I am not surprised that he said that given his background at Telstra, but it is still noteable.

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    He's the right guy to have around for the VoLTE stand up and eventual CDMA sunset.

     

    Considering the fact that he was there when Telstra shutdown its CDMA network 10 years ago, seeing Sprint on CDMA must be a bit of a time warp for him. However, doesn't CDMA have certain advantages over GSM?

     

    This will be moot with a move to VoLTE right?

  11. Look at the mess Hesse inherited after Forsee... :rolleyes:

     

    Forsee is still getting paid...

     

     

    At the end of 2007 he was fired “without cause.” But he had negotiated well. Sprint gave him $40 million, including a $1.5 million salary through 2009, $5 million in bonuses, stock options and restricted shares worth $23 million and an $84,000-a-month pension for life. This package was structured under his contract as if he were still running the company and had met all his goals. Oh, Sprint also paid for “outplacement services” that landed him the presidency of the University of Missouri (where his annual salary and bonus amount to $500,000).

     

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  12. Yeah, while WiMax wasn't a great technology for how it was implemented, the legacy Clear network has been godsend in DC once they added B41 LTE (and then CA once WiMax was retired). I think WiMax still could have a future in certain fixed WISP environments.

     

    Didn't the Dual Mode equipment from Clearwire enable Sprint to quickly implement 2xCA via a software update?

  13. Saw has done a good job as Sprint CTO since he has been on the position for over two years now. Neville is in another level anyways, dude  does things in advance. He was the architect of getting the tmobile network with fiber backhaul in all metro areas back in  2008. 

     

    Any clueless executive should had seen what the iPhone did to the AT&T network in 2007-2008. Hey Dan don't you think we should start preparation to get the Sprint network with Fiber backhaul.  

     

    Had the Sprint network was fiber backhaul ready instead of T1, Sprint wouldn't had lost all those millions of subscribers,  would had bought Metro PCS, and probably Cricket. 

     

    The point is, you can't make a bonehead decision in this industry. There is not margin for errors when it comes to execution. 

     

    I agree with you about most things. Neville had the advantage of sufficient funding and a forward thinking CEO/Board.

     

    However, Saw is a smart guy, and he has the experience (and financial backing from Marcelo/Son) that Sprint needs now for its work with high frequencies for backhaul and densification.

     

    Remember, Saw worked under the prior Sprint network guys who were fired by Marcelo back in March 2014:

     

    Sprint's (NYSE:S) team of technology and networks executives is receiving a major shakeup, with Steve Elfman, president of network operations at Sprint, and Bob Azzi, the carrier's senior vice president of networks, leaving the company. Meantime, John Saw, Clearwire's former CTO, has been promoted to Chief Network Officer of Sprint. Saw had previously been Sprint's senior vice president of technical architecture.

     

    Now it's Saw's show, and Marcelo/Son wouldn't have kept him if they didn't have confidence in him.

     

    Also, Dan Hesse wanted to buy MetroPCS. The Board wouldn't let him.

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