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This is the best thing ever. Eventually Dish is gonna either have to sell at a loss or just lose the licenses.

We have routers support WiGig which is 60GHz, they're small. It's only time until laptops, then tablets, and finally phones support 802.11ad. When phones support 802.11ad, they can easily do 39GHz phone networks. Edit: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2016/01/05/qualcomm-80211ad-products-lead-way-multi-band-wi-fi-ecosystem There's already a laptop that can handle WiGig and smartphones are apparently in the pipeline for this year.

10x10 of a low band frequency that won't be available until the 2020s, also roughly the same time 5G is supposed to begin to go live, will never help Sprint. The money that would be wasted on 600MHz is better suited on small cells and the initial purchase costs of 5G technology. Everyone here keeps suggesting 5G is gonna be this new, crazy tech just like how LTE was a leap from 3G tech. It isn't. It's gonna be LTE (Long Term EVOLUTION) that's revised to use high band frequencies, much larger carriers, and by default use higher level MIMO, beamforming, greater level QAM, and other new techniques being used currently to make the most out of small spectrum. Until there's an announcement that suggests OFDMA isn't as efficient as a newer method, LTE isn't going anywhere. Just lots of revisions.

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I don't know. Even if messing around with mmW frequencies is complex, I don't think Verizon or AT&T are gonna give up. Like nexgencpu always says, they're feeling the spectrum crunch. If there's the slightest chance in hell they can make it work, they'll find a way, especially since Verizon has easy access to major license purchases right now. Samsung, NYU, and multiple other organizations have conducted studies basically saying "yeah, we can totally do this"

Sprint got spectrum from the government too - the spectrum that composes everyone's band 25 signal, as part of the Nextel deal. If VZW got spectrum, it was either through auction or a deal.

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Virgin USAOr if the Carlson family ever gives it up to Sprint, US Cellular

True but deciding not to put 2.5GHz on every existing macro was a terrible decision that is affecting them right now.

The low band Sprint got was plagued with issues due to rebanding for public safety which Sprint had to pay money for, and it didn't save their network because it's congested to hell. On top of all this, Nextel lost goodwill almost instantly so Sprint had to write off a lot of assets. Had they not bought Nextel, they could have densified for PCS LTE in the get go or had simply participated in Auction 73 to get 700MHz, and they wouldn't be using boutique LTE bands.

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Sprint could arguably be in a much better place if they never bought Nextel and only bought Clear, AWS

That seems like a MAJOR missed opportunity to simplify their product lineup. They could have just made one 800MHz RRU that does ESMR and CLR to sell to Sprint VZ and ATT.

Agreed. This is the United States we're talking about. You don't make big profit without risk. And whenever you look at companies that swung back around, they took risks. Just looking at Cingular's iPhone deal and T-Mobile's plan of Uncarrier and buying MetroPCS, they took risks. Sprint took major risks too, and they've been burned. Nextel, WiMAX - the reasons they're in this situation. But they pulled through and they're still alive, and they know what they gotta do. They can't keep saying we have the fastest speeds in some areas and hope that brings postpaid adds, they gotta put their money on the table, densify at extraordinary rates, and let their LOYAL customers do the talking. A lot of customers who've been around say "you get what you pay for" or "it's just okay", and they get mad when they're burned by lack of deals. T-Mobile's Uncarrier gives everyone gifts and that's why their satisfaction is so high. Not saying I want free stuff, but knowing my data is cheap and the network is 8x faster than my wifi all across NYC would be reason for me to get all my friends to switch, as opposed to "it depends where you are/what you do"

I'm not particularly concerned with the estimated capex, I just want Sprint to meet their promise of putting 800, 1900, and 2500MHz LTE on every site (IBEZ excluded). If they can do that this year and get a reasonable amount of small cells up in the major markets, I'll be happy.

Ouch, got in on a glaring issue as it stands with Sprint

Well US Cellular is a public company so it's really up to the majority owners & if the FCC approves. And yes it could work but Sprint already has good spectrum holdings, they can cell the cellular license to make some money (or a spectrum swap) and just layer the USCC network with B26, B25 (possibly 10x10 or more 5x5 carriers), and B41.

Hell yeah only worth $3.2B in market cap! Slap a little extra dressing on that salad and it's an easy postpaid subscriber gain as well as spectrum. In the case of Sprint getting USCC, they can sell the 800MHz and 700MHz to the other 3 which sweetens the pot. And due to access to cheaper goods/services due to the size and the bulk deals a larger carrier would make, they can reduces expenses and make that sad USCC income go up up up. Furthermore, in the case of Sprint, it might also be helpful to see if operating under the US Cellular name improve net additions.

Well keep in mind every site is gonna be redone completely for NV, it's possible that the new sites as well as the current get a higher elevation! Shentel can nail the Virginias, I have total faith in them

Looks good to me. Heavy capacity and enhanced coverage? Can't cover the state completely, I'm impressed

While a true and major innovation, I don't think it would add much value to the company given that by the time it's perfected and live nationwide, Verizon would have fixed its VoLTE problems

ONE THING I gotta give them though - more 70-100' poles means far less DAS locations than Crown Castle - so Orlando won't be small cell block by block. So while rollout might be a bit slower, the cost won't be as high and coverage should be well coated. My one question - and I'm sure this has been answered - but can these sites do CA?

One major takeaway from this is that Sprint is gonna be hit with a slower rollout compared to others due to the requests for 70-100' poles to get LoS signal. I wonder how the permitting is gonna go.

Absolutely, but there is an extremely high chance they'll be experimenting with handheld radios to see results.