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Ahh so its the opposite of what I thought. What about my other question about capacity? If everyone is defaulting to LTE 1900 and it starts to get congested, would any new connections connect automatically to LTE 800 instead?

I'd say congestion will be a non issue for quite a while. Sprint is deploying 1900 LTE on every tower which means there are more towers for everyone to connect to. It's going to be very hard to bring these new towers down to where LTE 800 will need to be actively used. In fact, if it even gets to that point then I would imagine that Sprint will tell CW to blanket the area with the 2.5ghz LTE goodies which are capable of handling huge loads.

TLDR: Sprint would probably get CW to put 2.5ghz LTE in that area before 1900 LTE gets to the point of bogging down

Not to mention you have to find the individuals with the skill set that sprint needs to renovate its towers alongside additional training on company rules & equipment installation procedures. Money can only do so much. Logistics, training, and planning matters a lot. Throwing money at a problem doesn't solve it.

Except other then the spectrum refarm to 1900, isn't that mostly a software upgrade?

Pretty sure you need sufficient backhaul. IIRC, DC= dual connection or something like that makes it HSPA+42 rather than HSPA+21

That's bs lol att still calls there's the skyrocket haha

 

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Because they have two galaxy s2 versions.

They have one with the original guts like ours which is the i777 which is known as the att galaxy s2 . The other is the skyrocket which is the GS2 with LTE capabilities and a qaulcaum chipset rather than an exynos and is simply called

Samsung Galaxy S™ II Skyrocket™. They have to have something to identify it as a modified GS2 as they have two versions of the phone.

Also the skyrocket is identical to the t mobile version and they call their the T-Mobile Galaxy S2.

Probably building material. Every building near an airport that ice been to had very weak signal inside. Yet e I walk out and literally stand 5ft from the door, full coverage. It has to be the heavy soundproofing against aircraft noise.

Yes and its still called that

 

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Not really. You have to remember that these are units and boxes that were made well over 6 months ago before the launch of the GS3. The GS2 sold so well that by the time the GS3 came, Samsung had the power and it resulted in little to no differentiation between the models sold in NA and the world. The GS2E4gt was shortened from E4GT to simply GS2 in recognition of the fact that samsung is a manufacturer to behold.

There is a reason the Boost gs2s are not called "Boost Epic 4g Touch" but instead Boost Galaxy S2and the sprint was made simply as GS2. Reason is samsung is now the big dog..

Adding to that, Robert has said before that he has 0 sources within shentel and rely mainly on member observations. As shentel is an affiliate of sprint and maintains its own hardware / towers, his sprint sources have nothing on that specific region/market..

Not really. Frankly the days of needing to master a game by playing it a lot are long gone. Nowadays all you need to do is just sit at one spot and kill people and "unlock" overpowered perks like calling in airstrikes or shenanigans like that which kills people / buffs you and makes you obscenely powerful with no skills involved.

Not to mention the annoying people on XBL and PS online is just... man. I'll stick to my indy / small studio / valve / Bethesda games where it's actually fun to play.

Read the books & watched the game playthroughs - cutscenes for every game after halo 2 since they didn't release it on pc anymore. Fairly interesting back story that you don't get from just playing the game. You can just play the games and it'll be fine but if you read the books then you'll recognize a lot of things that are in the games and you'll go "ohhhhhhh" when you see them.

The Halo books are part of two trilogies and written by two different authors.

Halo Glasslands and Halo Thursday War relates more to Halo 4.

Halo Glasslands and Thursday War talks mostly about after the events of halo 3 and deals more with ONI and backside deals and stuff like that... It's part of the Kilo-Five trilogy

Halo Cryptum and Primordium are part of the Reclaimer Trilogy. You learn all about the past eras. The Forerunners and their dirty politics, technologies, civil war, human-forerunner war, and meeting the Primordial and learning about the ultimate forerunner betrayal *which is a major hint at the ending of this halo 4/5/6 trilogy*.

Halo Primordium follows that of an ancient human who was imprinted with a geas / memories of ancient-defeated humans who was abducted and then dropped onto a halo and forced to fend for thyself from the flood, mendicant bias, and primordial. A part of this ancient human... becomes a major character in halo. Also the revelations in it are daunting.

Halo 4 has gotten great initial reviews so far.

Halo 4 has gotten great initial reviews so far.

I don't buy these big title games anymore and mainly get good ones from steam sales and indy providers (my latest one is Chivalry Medieval Warfare and it's damn fun!).

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Anyways regarding halo 4... I've been an avid halo follower since Halo CE. In fact I still have the box for the PC version next to my desk. Good times...

About Halo 4. Read the Halo books and halo 4 will be even more amazing. Especially Halo Cryptum, Halo Primordium, Halo Glasslands, and Halo: Thursday War. Read those books and the game will be amazing story wise and you will recognize so many things and come to so many realizations that just playing the game doesn't give you.

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I'm concerned how this election will play out competition-wise in the wireless market. If either of the duopoly companies lined anyone's pockets, it could sway enough power to end monopolistic restrictions set in place in 1983, and we could see consolidation at a tremendous rate, and at&t and verizon could merge to form a super carrier to bring Sprint & T-Mobile/MetroPCS to their knees. If that were to happen, innovation would stop, and wireless networks would crumble from lack of proper repair, and there would nothing anyone could do about it. Then rate plans would sky-rocket out of this world.

If i'm not mistaken... ATT and Vz have lobbyists in both republican and democratic circles.

Yep just checked it up.

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000076&year=2012

$223k to Romney and $180k to Obama, $100k to boehner and some other R's / D.

I would say the att is hedging bets on both sides rather than one. I would say that the rest of the telecoms are buying into both camps as well. No one wants to be the loser than all ins to one side who loses and thus loses power.

I'd probably say that the status quo will remain mainly the same.

What's involved when they have to go back to the towers to install equipment for LTE 800? Is it just an additional carrier card or are they actually going to have to go up the towers and do a lot of additional work? How labor and time intensive is it compared to the original network vision upgrade of sites? I'm just curious as to, when they actually start rolling it out, how long that overlay will take. Also, what are the FIT markets for LTE 800? Is it Waco again? Do they have it up?

Basically if you look at the images of the numerous network vision panels posted around here, it's quite simple. The basic NV panel is 2 1900mhz on opposite sides while the 800mhz is squashed in the middle between the two. The 800mhz is not hooked up yet but everything is already there. All you need to do is go back to the towers and phsyically hook it up and do a few "magical" things and it's up and running. Should be much quicker than completely replacing all the old panels, dig up the T1 lines and get the fiber lines all set up, and replacing the old / outdated / inefficient hardware on sites. It's like 6 old boxes to 1 compact boxes.

In short, much easier/faster than the initial deployment.

The plan was to decommission any and all nextel towers with only a select few to remain. But now that SoftBank has put billions into sprint... we really don't know now. Hopes are that nextel towers in areas where there is bad coverage or no coverage will be converted via network vision to be a sprint tower as plans for everything else is being shuffled thanks to the investment. But don't be sad if they just took it all down.

How about vision on nextel only towers...no sprint CDMA. Is that part of the 100? I'm curious if anyone has information or prediction on what they might do with locations like these when they shut down IDEN?

Word beforehand was that all of the towers will be scrapped. Now we have no clue but we're hoping that the investment by SB will allow sprint to use these tower locations in order to increase coverage or service in areas that dearly need em.

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The Galaxy S2 isn't going to be End Of Life'd for a loooooooong time. They jut started selling the rest of their stock on their Boost and Virgin prepaid plans. You can see the rest of sprints old 4g wimax lines on their prepaid mvnos as well. But basically, the s2 is still supported and sold by sprint and its subsidiaries. In fact... they're actively working on a JB build for it as we speak... too bad all the leaks are 256 bit aes encrypted.. =\

Some questions come to mind after reading through all the 800/1xA info on the site today. I read too much, just need some clarity:

1. Is the term 1xA being used only to differentiate it from the old 1x in that it will operate on the 800mhz? Or is the term just being used to signify the 800mhz voice sites with no 800mhz LTE? Or is it because it will be like the old 1x but plus a step up in speed, over 800mhz? -- I did see Robert's comment about using 1xA in Waco and pulling 135kbps, but just wanting to clarify the use and meaning of the term. And, I assume no svdo over the 1xA right?

 

2. Robert said some sites are being converted for voice over 800mhz, and I see that on the interactive maps; and that more would be added probably in the next 6 months..what is the method to why/when they decide to update an area's towers for voice over 800mhz? Do you think Sprint already has an idea, or its own internal map, with a rollout schedule on converting sites to voice over 800mhz? I understand why an area like Chicago is getting the 800mhz/voice upgrades - they need it now. And I see that for Premiere Sponsors you might have NV Schedule maps..do those at least show the rollout schedule for NV 1900?

 

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1.Yup. There's two different things we're talking about. CDMA 1x-Advanced for Voice on the 800mhz band (better coverage/penetration into buildings & whatnot) and LTE 800mhz for data speeds. 1xA speeds should be consistent but it should be around 100kbps as they don't need much capacity for voice.

2. 800mhz deployment, to my knowledge, will be dependent on area, geography, requirements, etc. They're going to use that low frequency band to cover areas like Vz and ATT. Since 800mhz travels farther and penetrates better than 1900mhz, you don't need it on every tower. If i remember correctly, only about 70-80% of sprint sites are going to have 800mhz up and running with significant overlap etc being the reason that not all sites are going to have it.

More like the suburbs cover more people per tower and would have the greatest effect on customers. When people get home after work, they get leisure time and the first thing they'd probably do is use their phone to play some games or two, check social sites etc while they do what ever. Then you have the kids who have smartphones. Keep the kids happy with their smartphones (downloading apps, streaming music, surfing web etc) = less complaining to parents = less complaints to sprint = sprint -> happy.

Then you get the actual city. In my city, these "towers" are on 10+ story buildings out on the edge (or on the side) of the buildings. These are much harder to get to locations than a suburb tower which you can literally park next to and use a crane to do whatever. Can't really do that on these tall buildings easily. Not to mention there's more of them and they will likely only be heavily utilized during the daytime when everyone is at work. Inner city areas usually become quite devoid of people when the business day is over as everyone is going home to the suburbs. So i suppose they're focusing more on the easy spots with the most obvious impact on customers then tackling the inner city areas where there's much harder to reach places.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is just my interpretation. Of course this may not always happen and they'll go to wherever a location is ready so take it with a grain of salt.

Like you can give an idea to sprint where a location for a tower could be.

Absolutely not. These things are preplanned and scrutinized by dozens if not hundreds of professionals who take into account the local geography, penetration requirements due to buildings etc, local ordnances and rules regarding towers (pita in a lot of areas), etc etc.

If they need a tower then they'll get one. Plus sprint has nor tmobile owns no towers. They sold them long ago (tmobile sold em about a month or two ago) and lease it.

I know of some very recent towers that were added and they were not NV. I believe the reason is the amount of time it takes to get a new site done, so when the process was started they were not deploying Network Vision. I agree it doesn't seem very smart to put up new equipment that will be replaced shortly, but it's just a reality of the way Sprint works.

If you're talking about the bandaid fixes then it's a waste , sure, but its part of the contract so better now then never. Any help would be useful for those stuck in a pre nv market.

So I live in Northwest Indiana (one of Sprints most advanced NV area's). I just discovered today that CDMA 800 is apparently already deployed! (the coverage maps aren't showing it yet) My phone has been showing band class 10, channel 476 constantly. driving south on route 41 then heading east on route 30 I stay on CDMA 800 constantly. Also around Munster too.

I was wondering why my indoor coverage has been so good! in my home office I stay right at -70 to -76 db all day long. Even in the basement I keep a strong signal.

 

I do see that EVDO is still on 1900 at the same time. I haven't read it plain and clear anywhere, is EVDO ever gonna get to use 800 as well?

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