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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    3 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

    Permitting to swap from 8T8Rs to M-MIMO antennas is surprisingly easy. On many sites in my market, Sprint replaced the 1900-only antenna with a hexadecaport and left the 8T8R antenna unconnected to an RRU. This is so that they can easily one-to-one swap that antenna for a M-MIMO antenna when they're ready. 

    That’s pretty interesting! I had no idea it would be that easy to do that. Smart strategy.

    In the DC metropolitan area, it seems much more stringent. @Trip and @grapkoski are the permit experts around here. 😀

    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

    in Markets

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    11 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

    Front page article says Clearwire conversions are happening. It's likely that it'll be repurposed for one of the hundreds of Clearwire sites we have in the NYC market.

    Yes, but why did they bother installing the 8T8R at this site in the first place if it wound up only being there a month before swapping it for Massive MIMO equipment?

    I’d imagine they had to go through two permit processes with the time and associated costs?

    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

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    On 3/15/2019 at 1:33 PM, RaigekiNYC said:

    Here is the picture of M-MIMO just been added and function, this site was Samsung Clearwire before it got replace by 8T8R Antenna build only lasted for a month before Nokia M-MIMO added. Location East Broadway and Catherine Street Building.

    20190315_132604.jpg

    Wow. Why did they bother doing the 8T8R replacement if it was only going to be there for a month?

    I hope that 8T8R gear has been repurposed for another site?

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    T-Mobile acknowledges its patronage of Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint

    “T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month.”

    “Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump’s hotel, with one overnight stay each in August 2017.”

    It’s the way things get done around here...

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

    in General Topics

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    8 minutes ago, greenbastard said:

    Am I the only one that feels like these maps are a huge letdown? Sprint holds the spectrum advantage with their EBS/BRS spectrum. They have the ability blanket most markets with wideband 5G.

    Yet they aren't. Why? Why not go scorched Earth on their competitors and widely deploy 5G? That DFW map is a joke. 

    For a preliminary launch, it’s a good start. Assuming Capex isn’t the obvious limiting factor here, Sprint may be limited by available 5G equipment, by regulatory/permitting process or by work crew availability.

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

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    8 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

    Wonder when they start testing 5G in Samsung Markets?

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    Chicago is a Samsung market for 5G and it’s already on-air and being tested/optimized for commercial launch in May.

    https://newsroom.sprint.com/sprint-announces-commercial-5g-service-to-launch-in-may-starting-in-chicago-atlanta-dallas-and-kansas-city.htm

     

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