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3x41 is in the works for later this year. With how quickly 2x41 rolled out, once finalized it should go very quickly as well.

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The joking side of me says its because folks have complained about not getting the V10 when everyone else did. 

But all joking aside, I doubt that was the case. Aside from the LG V10, the other examples mentioned are not good ones. Sony. if I'm not mistaken. will probably never make a Sprint phone or another CDMA phone for the US Market. The only one I can remember being CDMA was the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play for Verizon and Droid is a Verizon marketing thing as well. Not too familiar with the Active series though. 

 

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Maybe he was let go in preparation for other device initiatives... "Android Forever" has been waiting in the Wings Forever.

Sounds like new devices may make its way over.  Sprint's flagships are kind of limited.  Get either a Galaxy, iPhone, or an LG.  The other three carriers have a lot more exclusives (Sony phones, Samsung Active series, LG V10, Droid, etc.)

I wonder what the rift here was with him being let go.... Could this be it?

What kind of new thinking was Marcelo, etc. looking for?

I didn't know that.

Yup. Go here: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/reuse_and_recycle

Under "Get a gift card online", select the applicable link. The iPhone, smartphone and iPad links take you to a Brightstar page:

i.e.: iPhone: https://reuserecycle.abbti.brightstarcorp.com/Iphonehome.aspx

Well Brightstar distributes phones to carriers, and Marcelo was the founder, I'm just wondering if Sprint will get a wider selection of phones now.

 

Though I may thinking wrong , haven't had lunch yet...

 

SoftBank acquired Brightstar when it brought Marcelo on as CEO of Sprint. Brightstar does provide an incredible advantage for Sprint, as well as cash flow for SoftBank as the parent company. Among other things, Brightstar runs Apple's buyback program around the world.

I hope this report is not true because if it is it will be like NV1 all over again.  Just imagine the tasks of moving equipments to 50000+ new towers.  It will be even worse than NV1 debacle.  

No it won't.

Maybe we will see more stuff with Brightstar as well now?

 What do you mean?

Sprint Shake-Ups Continue as Product Head Leaves

David Owens, Senior VP of Product for the last 3 years and a 25+ Year Sprint Veteran has been replaced.

According to the Article, he was in charge of product strategy, device selection, engineering and relationships with handset makers, among other duties. His last day will be Jan. 29.

Sounds like Sprint made the decision per the Internal Memo cited.

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Great buying opportunity if you believe in the future of the company and trust Marcelo and team. I do.

Sounds like major disruptions 2.0....Hope not because trolls are going to lose it and actual customers may lose it too. If its anything like network vision 1.0 it will not be pretty.

I disagree. Sprint has much more competent executives running this build now. Between John Saw and Günther Ottendorfer, and combined with Masa's and Marcelo's oversight, Sprint will handle the NGN project much better than Network Vision. I think this is all a bunch of FUD, honestly.

Glad to see they have the other event venues covered as well.

Agreed. Seems like Sprint went in big on these improvements in the region. Anybody here going to the Game or going to be in the area?

Sprint Tackles the Big Game

By Eamon O’Leary, Regional Network Vice President, Sprint

Great blog post about Sprint's network improvements for The Big Game on February 7th. Nice to see that Sprint worked to get Carrier Aggregation deployed on the stadium DAS as well as on many sites in the region.

Some other interesting info about DAS deployments in the area as well: SFO Airport, OAK Airport, Moscone Center, Stanford Stadium.

Thoughts?

Some more personnel announcements for "One Sprint":

Conrad Hunter Joins Sprint as President, New England Region

Greg Post Joins Sprint as President, Mountain and Southwest Region

Glen Flowers Joins Sprint as President, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana Region

Jim Mills Joins Sprint as President, Illinois and Wisconsin Region

(replaces Tracy Nolan, the first regional president of this market who tested this concept. She will become senior vice president of sales for the office of the CEO.)

As part of its One Sprint strategy: Sprint announced Karen Paletta as the new President for New York and Philly Tri-State Region

Wondering at what point Charlie Ergen over at Dish Network will give Marcelo a call...

Unlimited Data on a Tablet for $40/month or 1 GB for $10/month.... Didn't see that coming...

Of course, the last time AT&T offered Unlimited Data on a Tablet, it was on the original iPad... and it pulled it shortly after one month.

AT&T is very reactionary. After losing customers for several quarters, they need to do something. The days of Sprint taking 6-12 months to react are long gone, now AT&T is filling that shoe.

So how will Sprint react to this? It previously offered 1 Year of free service to DirecTV customers. Shortly afterwards, it added more data options for those customers.

Sorry for post this here, wasn't sure where else to put it.

 

But long live unlimited data (for now....and until AT&T doubles the price in the future).

 

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/11/10746516/att-unlimited-data-plan-pricing-directv-uverse

 

It's actually a pretty good deal if you are a DirectTV or uVerse customer....$180 for 4 lines, unlimited talk/text/data. One unique aspect..you can get unlimited data on a TABLET. Don't think I've ever seen that before.

The saga of Unlimited Data on AT&T is remarkable.

AT&T offered Unlimited Data for $30/month on the iPhone. It then stopped offering it, and replaced it with tiered data plans. Then it decided to throttle the top 5% of Unlimited Data users. Then those Unlimited Data users started being throttled at usage levels even lower than the tiered data plans because the top 5% was causing a data "shrinkage" every month no matter how much the "top usage" was. So AT&T then made it a 3GB throttle cap for 3G devices and 5GB throttle cap for 4G/LTE devices irrespective of whether or not the network was actually congested: Speeds were throttled to Edge/3G speeds. Then AT&T starting offering "Double Data" promotions on its shared plans where people on a 15 GB plan would get 30 GB, 30 GB would get 60 GB, 50 GB would get 100 GB, etc. for the same price as long as they stayed on it... and this showed that congestion based on Unlimited Plan usage alone was a total farce. People kept dropping their throttled AT&T Unlimited Plans, either to switch to other carriers, or to stay with AT&T, but on a "Mobile Share" plan. Then AT&T finally got investigated and fined by the FCC for throttling on Unlimited Plans, but hardly anyone was still on one anymore. Then AT&T made the throttling threshold 22 GB for those remaining handful of customers still on the plan and said it would reduce speeds for those customers using over 22 GB/month only in areas of congestion. Also, the price is increasing by $5/month in February.

As for Tablets, AT&T offered its "no contract" Unlimited Data Plan for the iPad which you could turn off and on as needed. It was sold as a "breakthrough deal" by Apple/AT&T... and AT&T pulled it barely one month after the device shipped to customers, replacing it with tiered plans before many people even received their devices. So the only way to keep the Unlimited plan was to never actually cancel it. These Unlimited Data iPad SIM Cards went for thousands of dollars on eBay.

Now it's offering Unlimited Data for new/existing customers who also sign up for DirecTV, and per this re/code article, you can stay on the plan even after AT&T stops offering it.

Just remember whom you're making a deal with...

National results coming tomorrow

https://twitter.com/marceloclaure/status/685636544690950144

I see your joke but if you have family in the military this is actually a brilliant move on Sprint's part. 

I don't think Global Roaming was meant for extended deployments. However, Sprint has a pretty good Unlocking Policy for Military Personnel.

Interesting article on the timing of and notification requirements for Sprint's upcoming layoffs:

When are the Sprint layoffs coming?

Sprint Posted a couple new videos on its Yellow Fan Studios YouTube Channel:

and

The Harrison Wiley Show with Güenther Ottendorfer

I found it quite entertaining actually. "LTE Plus vs. 5G" actually came up. An improvement over the "Talking Hamster" for Framily if you ask me... 

Your excellent post...

Some good additional background here: As Sprint’s cost cutting rolls along, a T-Mobile merger is ‘not in the cards’

It really sucks. It's the "norm" of all the local Sprint stores (corp or not) in central Maryland. I have yet to find a good one.

When this happens, it shows the attachment requirement and incentive program needs a revamp. The store rep would rather get his "metrics" for attachment than an actual sale... 

Cool, I was planning my next vacation for Afghanistan!!! 

SoftBank definitely gave Sprint much more leverage and resources to set up these new International Roaming agreements (Numbers more than 110 countries at this point per the Announcement). Sprint is inching closer and closer to T-Mobile which states it has 140+ countries covered. Good stuff Sprint!