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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Trip said:

    In this area (DC), at least, the Massive MIMO gear has continued to go online.  I can see it in the MLS data.

    - Trip

    I’m glad to hear that. Hopefully this continues.

    However, there are too many places I’ve been in DC where Sprint’s indoor coverage is totally inadequate. I have to attribute that to Sprint’s relative lack of lowband spectrum vs the other carriers and not having enough cell sites.

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

    It seems like Sprint has been doing a lot of work  for 5G but has been holding back on announcing any new cities. I have a strong feeling that when they announce that the merger is complete, the new T-Mobile will start announcing a lot of these cities and take credit.

    This also helps to sell the narrative that the merger is “necessary”. Can’t have Sprint looking too good now you know.

    This merger is only “necessary” because Masa wouldn’t open his wallet to put Sprint on a competitive footing after he acquired it.

    You have to give credit to Marcelo and the PR folks. They really sold a story that Sprint wasn’t salvageable and that a Merger was the only way home. Somehow they were able to shroud the fact that Sprint was merely a part of Masa’s vast asset holdings. Hey, it’s what they get paid to do.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    23 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

    I did run into some 5G, it was amazing I even stayed connected indoors. Guess it's a soft launch in some parts of Philly here but I'll take it for now.

    I hope Sprint’s upgrades now aren’t about just keeping the lights on and doing the bare minimum until the Merger. Saw’s reply to Sascha’s Tweet gives me that feeling however.

    At this point, I can’t wait for T-Mobile to take over, enable roaming and finally put some capex into the combined spectrum holdings. This has gone on long enough.

    I didn’t use to feel like this, but now I do.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    10 hours ago, belusnecropolis said:

    They are trying to divide us by plans tiers now. Speed rating is coming soon, it has already made it's way to AT&T business plans. 

    One of the reasons Sprint is in its current predicament is that not enough “free year” or kickstart customers upgraded to higher tiers of service. Instead they churned out In droves, which cost Sprint a lot of money over the years.

    You can’t offer everything at each service plan level. Not offering 5G on the cheapest service plan is simply plan differentiation.

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted · Edited by RedSpark
    Narrowed my guess and clarified

    8 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

    Wow the backstory on Masa Son's ignorance and arrogance is amazing. His refusal to invest in the network and his choice to invest in small cells instead of full sites doomed Sprint. You can use small cells to supplement, not to replace full sites. He thought that the same strategy that worked in Japan would work in the US. He did not understand that strategy would not work besides NYC, maybe San Fran and the downtowns of large cities but would not work in the large suburbs and exurbs.

    It’s simply incredible isn’t it? I wonder who the Sprint “source” is in the article.

    “Our government affairs team made it very clear at the time it was the wrong move,” a former high-ranking Sprint executive with direct knowledge of the talks said. “It never occurred to us that he would not listen.”

    If I had to guess who the source is here, I’ll bet it’s Kevin Crull: https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/12/06/sprint-crull-chief-strategy-officer-leaves.html

    People talk about Nextel being a business failure case study. This should be as well.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    23 minutes ago, twospirits said:

    Wow

    I believe Masa and Marcelo’s combined incompetence and arrogance managing Sprint post-acquisition rivals Gary Forsee’s during Nextel. There, I said it.

    At this point, I’m for the merger to close quickly so I get better coverage. I’ve now crossed that inflection point because it’s abundantly clear to me that that Masa and Marcelo had no intention of and still have no intention of making the changes or investments necessary to make Sprint competitive.

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    Sprint Super Bowl Coverage/DAS

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    9 hours ago, Flompholph said:

    https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-customers-record-amounts-data-super-bowl

    Verizon's numbers are out also with 21.5 TB in and around the stadium. 

    This is the first time in 5 years data has not grown massively. Sprint for example 2015 754GB ,2016 1.6TB, 2017 5TB, 2018 9.7TB, 2019  25TB, and now 2020 7TB.

    That is interesting.

    Unless I’m missing it, T-Mobile only released this information: 

     

     

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    Sprint Super Bowl Coverage/DAS

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted · Edited by RedSpark
    Updated

    12 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

    This is surprisingly slow. Not sure why that would be. I don't believe the NR airlink would have been saturated...

    From the Sprint Newsroom Site:

    At the Miami stadium where Sprint’s hometown Kansas City team and San Francisco will face off, we’ll provide even more Sprint customers with improved capacity and faster speeds on Game Day (as well as future games, events and concerts). Based on the huge increase in customers’ data usage last year and in 2018, we’re using two different technologies this year to help meet fans’ demands to stream, download, video chat, text and connect on social.

    • In and around the stadium, Sprint’s Massive MIMO radios using our fast 2.5 GHz spectrum and breakthrough “split-mode” feature will enable us to simultaneously deliver our most-advanced LTE service and Sprint 5G for customers attending the showdown in person.
    • In addition, we will be providing 4G/5G dual connectivity within the stadium, transmitting 4G over a state-of-the-art distributed antenna system (DAS) with more than 1,800 antennas and 5G through Massive MIMO radios.

    Together, these solutions will provide the equivalent of 10 macro cell towers at the stadium. That will give fans the coverage and capacity they need whether they’re in their seats, at the concession stand or tailgating in the parking lot.

    .........

    Was the backhaul saturated? Not enough Massive MIMO radios?

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