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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    19 hours ago, RedSpark said:

    So T-Mobile will have to keep filing those monthly "Band Reconfiguration"  status reports to the FCC until the rebanding is complete.

    Here's the most recent one: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10402116410705/800 MHz Report April 2020.pdf (Dated April 2, 2020)

    Still one public safety licensee and one non-public safety licensee remaining after all this.... Hopeless.

    Though they've been dragging their feet, I imagine that the city of El Paso will be taken care of sooner rather than later. License Acquisitions, on the other hand, has been a constant PITA throughout the rebanding process. I'm guessing that they've been hoping for some financial windfall from Sprint in exchange for their cooperation. They've been stalling for years. Whatever it is that they're looking for, they need to just go away at this point.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    5 hours ago, RedSpark said:

    I’m against the merger because Masa clearly has the resources to revive and sustain Sprint, as he stated in his own words that he could pay off/down Sprint’s debt.

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/sprint-can-survive-without-t-mobile-ex-ceo-claure-testifies

    From that article:

    ”While T-Mobile and Sprint have cited the debt as a major reason why Sprint can’t survive on its own, the states presented email evidence demonstrating that that Sprint’s controlling owner, SoftBank Group Corp., was prepared to pay off Sprint’s debt if necessary. “If we need to pay back most or all of bonds, I’m willing to pay back all of those,” Masayoshi Son, the Tokyo-based technology conglomerate’s founder and and CEO, said in a Dec. 11, 2017 email to Claure.“

    Masa’s inexplicable unwillingness to do so should not be absolved with a Merger that will have an anti-competitive effect on consumers.

    That's over two years ago though. Who's to say that say the Son is still willing or even able to do that in 2020? The business world isn't static, things change. There's a thread in this very forum questioning whether Softbank is in "deep doo-doo" due to the all of the money that Son has spent and investments that he's made.

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    Costa Rica

    in International Networks

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    21 hours ago, ingenium said:



    It's interesting that your phone dynamically switched between them. I was able to force mine to use any provider with my Sprint SIM, but when left on automatic it always preferred Movistar. Even after locking it to a provider, it would eventually go back to automatic on its own and switch to Movistar. Movistar is generally Sprint's preferred roaming partner in any country where they have service. Sometimes that's great, and sometimes it's awful haha.

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    I thought that it was pretty interesting too. But using Signal Check Pro every so often if I wasn't actively doing anything, I would check to see which carrier and frequency band I was using and often it would be different. I have nary a clue as to the rhyme or reason why it was switching between all three carriers on the fly.

    Costa Rica

    in International Networks

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    I've spent the past 8 days in Costa Rica and have found the service pretty decent. My experience was limited to Liberia and the Guanacaste province so I can't speak to the rest of the country. My phone was on kölbi & Movistar for about equal amounts of time. It also parked on Claro, but for a much lesser amount of time than the other two. Being able to access all three networks meant that coverage was excellent. I don't recall a time that I saw 'No Service', but to be fair I never went all that deep into any rain forests. If memory serves, I was accessing B7 LTE with kölbi, B3 LTE with Movistar and W-CDMA with Claro. Speeds were typical of Sprint's free slow data 0.02-0.03 Mbps and pings a little above 350 Ms.

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