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Public Mobile + Mike would be a very fascinating prospect. Indeed, I have had very similar thoughts, Nat. However, the problem with buying Mike from Telus is that Telus (Nor Bell or Rogers) wants additional competition coming into Canada trying to disrupt their cartel up there. Thus, even if they were to entertain the idea of selling Mike, they probably would try and extract an exorbitant price for it.

The launch of 800MHz LTE won't improve 1900MHz signal. It may free up some capacity on the 1900MHz LTE network as more subscribers begin to utilize LTE 800. Being in the Chicago market with 2.5GHz TD-LTE ready to go, you really would better off trying to finagle some kind of way to hold off swapping devices until a tri-band phone such as the G2 or Galaxy S4 mini is available. Since Apple chose not to include SVLTE (simultaneous voice and LTE) in the new iPhones, there just isn't any advantage, besides time to market, in getting one of their dual band phones instead a tri-band phone unless you just prefer iOS. However, since you currently have a Moto X, I'm guessing that that's not the case.

I'm curious about the old Nextel sites in Alaska as Nextel (and later Sprint) never advertised any iDEN coverage in Alaska to the best of my recollection. However, converting the Clearwire pre-WiMAX sites probably could give them decent coverage in Anchorage and fair coverage in Juneau.

Congrats on your new position and relocation, Robert!

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4564-reality-check-can-sprint-restore-its-luster/?p=196295

I don't really see where the confusion is. Far be it for me to speak for Sprint's marketing department, but Paynefanbro's explanation, while succinct, seems perfectly plausible. From the link that you provided it doesn't seem that they're keep a public count of cities (or communities) so I'm not really even sure what the issue is here. What I'm confused about is that this was your original gripe: You asked to be corrected if you were wrong and indeed it was shown that you were. It would seem that in light of that you would make a correction, retraction, mea culpa, anything here, DSLR, HoFo, Twitter and wherever else, but instead you appear to be moving the goalposts in order to quibble about semantics. That looks really bad imo.

Here's the list of the 185 markets that Sprint is claiming: http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/4glte-launchedmarkets.htm Paynefanbro is correct. Nowhere on it is Queens, Staten Island or Flushing or Jamaica. Thus, this is much ado about nothing.

Wow, that's ridiculous.

Yes, I should have considered the tourist factor. I was unaware of the differences in topography so definitely good information there.

And the two islands have similar population sizes (at least according to Wikipedia) so yeah, that is kind of weird.

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http://www.rrmediagroup.com/newsArticle.cfm?news_id=9922 I found this rather interesting as I know the subject of SouthernLinc has come up on more than a few occasions here.

What is this Samsung device: A3LSMN900P? Single band LTE, I believe SvLTE as well.

They use PCS spectrum as mentioned earlier and Sprint uses PCS spectrum. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 4

Last I checked Hawaii was indeed part of the USA.... Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 4

Well, no. At the most in any given area Sprint has ~14MHz of 800MHz SMR spectrum. In most areas of the country Sprint has significantly more BRS/EBS spectrum than that. In some cases Sprint may have access to as much as 160MHz of the 2.5GHz spectrum. Sprint has considerably more 2.5GHz than 800Mhz spectrum.

I'm a bit perplexed by that as well.

NTT DoCoMo is getting it for the first time. SoftBank and KDDI have already had it.

Just curious, but why wouldn't SoftBank carry these phones? They've been carrying the iPhone since 2008.

The single band iPhone 5 didn't have SVLTE so who knows. As far as skipping dual-band, the iPhone was always mentioned as a possible caveat to that statement.

Mobi PCS has (not surprisingly) PCS spectrum licenses in Hawaii. They also have one AWS spectrum license for Guam & the Northern Mariana Islands.

With these issues that I keep reading about in Ericsson markets I'll have to respectfully disagree.

Have you asked Netgear on their Facebook or Twitter when the dock will be available?

TD-LTE will be used on the 2.5GHz spectrum as opposed to FDD-LTE that's being deployed on 1900MHz spectrum. The most compelling reason for deploying the 2.5GHz spectrum is capacity due to the prodigious amount that Sprint has at their disposal in most parts of the country.