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    Dish Network/Boost Mobile cell/5G buildout thread

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    1 hour ago, dkyeager said:

    Their systems were actually getting better. Unknownledgeable store clerks were the issue (and customer support if you had a problem).  Then their systems were hacked (ransomware).  Wonder if they had good insurance?

    Good points here.

    Here's the summary/aftermath of Dish's Earnings Call today: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/dish-updates-liquidity-situation-5g-build-800-mhz

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/spectrum-will-be-among-many-interesting-topics-dishs-q123-earnings
     

    I guess we’ll see what happens here…

    Some great detail in this piece.

    800 MHz

    Under the terms of the Department of Justice's Consent Decree that allowed T-Mobile to buy Sprint, Dish has the right to purchase 13.5 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum from T-Mobile for $3.59 billion. The option originally expired on July 1, but Dish has requested a 60-day extension. The timing isn’t great for Dish because the company has a lot of capital needs at the moment.

    If Dish does not exercise the option to purchase, it will instead have to pay T-Mobile $72 million. Then T-Mobile can either apply for a waiver to keep the spectrum, or the FCC might want to auction it.

    600 MHz

    There was some confusion this week when Dish notified the FCC that it was canceling some 600 MHz licenses.

    It turned out that Dish had made a clerical error. Instead of canceling the leases with T-Mobile, it accidentally clicked a button to cancel the licenses.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobiles-merger-with-sprint-everything-thats-changed-3-years-later

    Good read. There's a whole lot here...

    Also: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-continues-growth-streak-with-1-3-million-new-customers/

    It gets increasingly difficult to reach the last slices of the American population given geography constraints, said Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile's executive vice president of network. "I would say it's about three times harder for every 10 [thousand people] you add," he said.

    Ewaldsson noted that T-Mobile has 150MHz of dedicated midband 5G spectrum, and as the carrier shifts more frequency from 4G LTE to 5G, it'll end the year with over 200MHz on midband. "We're very confident that we'll reach [our year-end goal] with the build plan we have today," he said. 

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    Industry-Leading Postpaid and Broadband Customer Growth(1)

    • Postpaid net account additions of 287 thousand, best in industry
    • Postpaid net customer additions of 1.3 million, more than AT&T and Verizon combined and raising guidance
    • Postpaid phone net customer additions of 538 thousand, higher share of industry net adds year-over-year
    • Postpaid phone churn of 0.89%, only operator to improve year-over-year
    • High Speed Internet net customer additions of 523 thousand, more than AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Charter combined for the 4th consecutive quarter

    ......

    T-Mobile Reigns as Nationwide Overall Network Leader and Largest, Fastest and Most-Awarded 5G Network

    T-Mobile’s 5G network covers 326 million people with more geographic coverage than AT&T and Verizon combined. 275 million people nationwide are covered by T-Mobile’s super-fast Ultra Capacity 5G, and the Un-carrier plans to reach 300 million people with Ultra Capacity this year – nearly everyone in the country.

    Q1 2023 Investor Factbook (PDF): https://s29.q4cdn.com/310188824/files/doc_financials/2023/q1/Q1-2023-Investor-Factbook.pdf

    Page 14

    Merger-Related Synergies Guidance

    Merger synergies are expected to be between $7.3 billion to $7.5 billion in 2023:

    • ▪  $2.6 billion to $2.7 billion of SG&A expense reductions

    • ▪  $3.1 billion to $3.2 billion of cost of service expense reductions achieved through network efficiencies

    • ▪  Approximately $1.6 billion of savings related to avoided network expenses

     

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/mobile-world-congress-2023-wrapping-up-the-first-quarter-of-5g

    Surging 5G Usage and Adoption

    Our customers are moving to 5G at an incredible rate and we’ve seen a fundamental shift in the way people use their devices. More than 60% of the smartphones on our network are 5G capable, and a whopping 70% of our network traffic is 5G. Many operators around the globe are not even at a tenth of that! And our customers on Magenta Max – our smartphone plan built for 5G – are streaming about 40 hours of video every month – twice the amount streamed by other customers. They're gaming 4x more, streaming 3x more music and using 2x more data on social media apps.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    15 hours ago, floorguy said:

    Nothing on mine, biz account 10 lines....Makes it a pain to upgrade phones, still goes through sprint.  The last one, the idiot CS guy billed me for the whole phone instead of the credits, and return package for the old device credit.. smh, Even when I reminded him to send out the device return kit.

    On the flip side, called in, got the credit out right, kept the s-20 ultra... soooo I guess I'll use it for the next 1

     

    IF they ever switch ours

    The Sprint website is basically being EOL'd at this point and it's a real pain in the neck.

    I had to go into a local store to deal with an issue only to be told when I got there that they never received the equipment to service Sprint customers... So I had to hike over to another store which did.

    This has gone on long enough.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    On 2/15/2023 at 9:29 AM, jreuschl said:

    https://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-x75-modem-released/

    Wondet how T-Mobile will support newer features

    My guess is that Apple won't have it in the iPhone 15 this Fall. Probably came too late in the design cycle.

    iPhone 14 Pro has the Qualcomm X65. I'll bet the iPhone 15 has the Qualcomm X70, which was announced in February 2022.

    See Page 71 of this Settlement Document, which shows Apple's launch of new products with the Snapdragon X60 modem between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022 (iPhone 13/iPhone 13 Pro). Apple has also committed to using the X65 (iPhone 14/iPhone 14 Pro) and X70 modems in products launched between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2024:

    Apple intends to commercially launch (i) New Models of Apple Products during the time period between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021 (the "2020 Launch"), some of which use the SDX55 Qualcomm Chipset, (ii) New Models of Apple Products during the time period between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022 (the "2021 Launch"), some of which use the SDX60 Qualcomm Chipset, and (iii) New Models of Apple Products during the time period between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2024 (the "2022/23 Launch"), some of which use the SDX65 or SDX70 Qualcomm Chipsets (each a "Launch" and collectively the "Launches").

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