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Aw man... Hate hearing stuff like this.

iPhone Forever got an overhaul: Link: http://www.sprint.com/landings/iphone-forever/index_p.html 18 Month Lease Term is the only option. Now requires making 12 payments to upgrade. You can accelerate your payments to upgrade sooner. For Current Customers: If you joined iPhone Forever before 1/8/16, you can upgrade to a new iPhone whenever it's released.

Nowhere in writing. But we do know that the iPhone Forever Trade-In Credit Offer is ending... so something else will have to replace that.

Apparently, a whole bunch of changes and promos are set for tomorrow morning: For now, Sprint has finally confirmed that it will no longer offer a subsidized purchase option on handsets for New Customers, effective January 8th. End of an era.

Some good discussion about the 600MHz auction... Tarek reaffirmed that Sprint isn't going to participate.

1739 initiatives for cost take out that they monitor everyday.... That's a lot...

Nothing too specific. He was glad that people didn't see activity because Sprint has been trying to do this under the radar for the most part. He's basically said that the Engineering Team is working flat out and that a lot has been accomplished through software upgrades, which are cheap and done in clusters overnight. He said Sprint didn't have to spend a lot of money to accomplish a lot. He also said that Mobile Leasing Co. (Handset) will do multiple transactions per year to ensure additional funding as necessary. What's coming next is "Network Lease Co" apparently... in a few months.

Who knew... Fabian Cortez is a Mutant Supervillain.

From the Livestream: "Network Lease Co".... coming "soon"... when pressed, Tarek said a "few months"....

LOL. It sure does... But combined with "Dancing in the street"....

There you go... Rocking out to that groovy hold music myself...

I don't think it'll be any different than Sprint's usual hosted Earnings Calls with analysts on the phone asking questions. Lots of info seemed to come from the session with T-Mobile yesterday: Reddit Link

It'll be interesting to hear what Tarek says today.

It seems that Sprint's investment in the DAS there was well worth it.

According to this Newsroom Article, it seems it's been successful:

CES 2016: BlackBerry PRIV Coming to Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon How about that...

Perhaps the CFO will comment on this tomorrow?

So what's the variance between and FCC certified lab and their internal testing Lab? Sprint does similar kinds of testing as part of the certification process. Just want to understand this process better.

Interesting. Why doesn't Samsung do its own testing? How about HTC? Does it do its testing in-house or contract out? The HTC M9 as I recall has horrid real-world RF Performance... and they just shipped it anyway?

And Samsung is fully aware of this RF performance when the device ships? I guess Sprint is as well per its device certification process?

I don't think the non-profits want that. They want Unlimited/Unthrottled per the terms of the original contract for WiMAX service. We'll see what happens at the end of the 90 day period...

See these S4GRU articles: iPhone 6s vs. Galaxy S6

Let us know! Hope you get good speeds/coverage on that DAS too!

Sprint's CFO is speaking on Thursday at 5 PM ET at the Citi 2016 Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference in Las Vegas. Livestream Link: www.sprint.com/investors. We'll get more context during his address, but I thought this was an especially revealing sentence in the article for Sprint's funding plans going forward:

Here's the Court Order (PDF). So as I understand it, Sprint has to maintain WiMAX at the same service level for the duration of the injunction. It had to cease shutting down additional areas. WiMAX runs on Single Mode Legacy Gear (which it has to keep in place to keep WiMAX on. This gear has to be swapped out to upgrade to LTE.) WiMAX also runs on newer dual-mode Clear Gear, which can be switched over to LTE and not require an immediate swap-out. The Karma Hotspot is an LTE device. The issue was the non-profits were receiving Unlimited Data for their hotspots over WiMAX and wanted that level of service to continue over LTE after the switchover. Apparently, Sprint wasn't offering the same deal. So, I'm saying, just send them Karma LTE hotspots which have an Unlimited Data Plan and use Sprint's LTE network. Of course, they're capped at 5Mbps... It's also worth noting: