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http://online.barrons.com/articles/sprint-may-have-spurred-nokia-alcatel-lucent-deal-1429282538 Interesting speculation

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Perhaps not at the moment because it's not absolutely necessary. However, if push comes to shove, whoever's sitting in the governor's mansion won't let Clark County whither just because Nye, Esmerelda, White Pine and the other rural counties don't want to share.

He's not the only one unfortunately.

Even if what you hypothesize is true it wouldn't just be Sprint. Verizon and AT&T use ALU gear as well. Plus, the security concerns that forced Sprint to remove Huawei equipment from Clearwire's network after acquisition would be just as applicable to other Tier 1 operators.

Probably because John Legere's de facto press secretary, Roger Cheng, didn't write it.

Probably not for much longer with AT&T buying Iusacell. Regardless, Sprint's value roaming partner in Mexico is Telefonica which is a GSM/W-CDMA carrier. The Sharp Aquos wasn't and isn't a flagship model. I mean it debuted on Sprint for $239.99 without subsidy. Also, the limitation is in the fine print. http://www.sprint.com/landings/international-value-roaming/

I remember us having a brief discussion about this awhile ago. It looks like the Sharp Aquos still hasn't been updated with the international wifi calling feature so, sadly, that's not too surprising. Yep, that's exactly why. I went to add the international value roaming on a line that has an ancient iPhone 4 on it and it was no dice. Every other line on my account that has a device with a GSM/W-CDMA radio had the option and accepted it with no problems at all.

It's always been free for me, but I wish they'd just make it free for everybody. It would increase adoption and perhaps be a differentiating feature. Edit: I also wonder what the international direct connect can be used for. I know that SDC could direct connect with Sprint's iDEN users before they shut down Nextel here. I wonder if it's still possible to direct connect with the remaining iDEN networks in Latin America and elsewhere and/or other QChat networks out in the world.

Good question, Thomas. I've wondered about this myself. Generating incoming roaming revenue could only be beneficial to the bottom line. For that matter, perhaps they should also enable Band 2 LTE via MFBI when they inevitably begin to re-farm their PCS spectrum for LTE.

Ditto. Digicel would or could add a lot of Caribbean roaming coverage as well as some in the South Pacific.

Add to that SK Telecom in South Korea and VimpelCom in Russia.

Now that WiFi calling is enabled for your iPhone 6, why do you even still have the Airave turned on? For other members of your household that don't have wifi calling capable handsets? If that's not the case, then chuck that thing!

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Nor do you. There's just too much that's unknown for you to be making declarative statements about what is or isn't going away soon. Naturally. That's why I didn't understand the connection that you were trying to make to this recently announced roaming agreement. And while the O2 Ireland sale may have been consummated in Q4 last year, the acquisition was announced back in the middle of 2013. I doubt that Hutchinson Whampoa would've appreciated Telefonica making a commitment for O2 Ireland while they were in the middle of buying it. On the hand, the deal for O2 UK was made in January of this year. Now as you've already opined in regards to the Sprint-Telefonica roaming agreement: So it seems quite possible that they were already deep in negotiations well before the buyout for O2 UK occurred. You're trying to pull from disparate scenarios to prove a point, but in actuality the stark differences in the timing of the O2 Ireland & O2 Slovakia+Czech Republic deals makes it difficult, if not impossible, to determine what will happen in this situation. At the end of the day, Que Sera, Sera.

Yet it's not as though Sprint had value roaming with O2 Ireland or O2 Slovakia+Czech Republic and then lost that agreement upon sale of those entities. Those entities were sold well before Sprint announced value roaming and possibly before negotiations for value roaming even began. So of course they never announced value roaming in those areas, but I don't really see how that validates your speculation. They did, however, announce value roaming in the UK and while it is certainly possible, it seems counterintuitive that they would announce their value roaming in an area knowing that it would be vanishing in the near future.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but do you know that for a fact? Oftentimes in business a new purchaser inherits contracts that they have to honor even if they were made by prior owner.

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Already reported on last month: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6319-marcelo-claure-town-hall-meetings-new-family-share-pack-plan-unlimited-individual-plan-discussion-thread/page-179&do=findComment&comment=410741 http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6319-marcelo-claure-town-hall-meetings-new-family-share-pack-plan-unlimited-individual-plan-discussion-thread/?p=411113

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