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Also announced LTE is launching in Vegas this month.

http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mobile-cto-neville-ray-drops-hints-that-las-vegas-lte-market-launch-happening-before-end-of-january/

Are there additional fees on top of the prices given?

I just hope the HW would the up-to-date for the time they release it(S4 Pro).

 

Apparently so.

I'm honestly shocked.

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Fierce Wireless has received confirmation from Sprint that Sprint as you Go is indeed launching later this month and that the Samsung Victory will indeed have access to the LTE Network.

 

http://www.fiercewir...d-th/2013-01-04

Wait, wait...

People have affinity for the Sprint brand?

Why do current devices(regardless of carrier) only have one or two bands (of the many it has for CDMA, GSM, etc.) with LTE capabilities?

Wouldn't one good advantage of having SIMs is the ability to use devices not sold by Sprint(contingent on the device supporting one of Sprint bands)?

I don't believe that there is anything in stone in regards to LTE roaming. If a carrier is offering a phone with PCS & LTE, why not just put BC 25 on it? No harm done, and maybe, just maybe, begin a trend of the creation of LTE devices that are cross-carrier compatible.

But I'm only one man

I see it's existence as pointless.

It might be possibly that the internet connect on the Boost device is being run through a Boost proxy that is further away than the one used by the Sprint device. AFAIK, this was, and still it, the case for Virgin devices(at least for 3G).

Any updates on the 800MHz LTE FITs?

If one has the SERO plan, why would they give it up? If offered, why not accept it? SERO was never publicly advertised, thus the amount of people on those plans are limited. I see SERO has a loyalty perk at this point, since there isn't such a program at Sprint(or much of the industry) anymore.

SoftBank can shake-up the marketed plan pricing as they please(like their Double White plan in Japan), but if the new offering isn't much of a benefit to subscribers on older plans, why change?

Whatever happened to everyone's BFF Russ McGuire? Does he still work for Sprint? Or is he resting in a cubic yard of cement at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay? Or is he like Keyser Söze?

 

AJ

From looking at his blog, yes.

He's also alive.

http://mcguireslaw.com/

Wow the HTC Mogul!!!! I wouldn't have thought the HTC moguls could last this long. That is very impressive indeed.

The Mogul is one tough cookie. Unfortunately, I lost mind to water damage

Staying on topic, maybe SIMs would be available with the tri-band LTE devices that could be arriving later this year(it's after midnight of the east coast). Any word on those 800MHz LTE FITs?

How does killing SERO help Sprint? The only possible upside is that they can collect more revenue per customer. However, how many of those SERO customers(in which Sprint will have to void their contracts) will actually stay?

There is also the possibility of SIM-swapping between Sprint-proper devices and the SPG(Boost & Virgin) LTE devices that will be released in the new year. Doesn't do much for Sprint, but it would be nice for me

I'm assuming you guys mean SIMs that include LTE & CDMA provisioning. In any case, was it really necessary for Sprint to lock down the SIM slots on LTE devices(excluding the iPhone)? Sprint has continued to sell World Phones with user-accessable SIM slots even after the Nextel merger so many years ago. However, this seems to have ended with the release of the Photon Q.

So...how about that WCS guys?

Sprint got some of that, right?

I think it's a possibility. But if no spectrum goes with it, I'm not sure Dish would want it.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Not is not for the spectrum, it's to make it easier for them get their network deployed on their own. Yes, Dish will have to get new equipment, but it does make the whole permitting & building process a lot easier. That, and Sprint will be able to offload those site leases. My only thing is how much will Sprint have to pay Dish to keep WiMAX running, since there's no way in hell Sprint would deploy brand-Spanking-new WiMAX equipment as part of NV.

Not sure if this was already discussed, but why not sell the Clearwire infrastructure to Dish?

Well, then, he must be wearing Superman tights because supposedly WiMAX 2600 cannot penetrate even a wet paper bag.

 

AJ

This would be a great article.

Signal Propagation: WiMAX vs. the wet-paper bag(pt. 1)

The first lien holder is Mother Nature. The second is the American people. And that holds true for all electromagnetic spectrum.

 

AJ

I don't think AT&T would be okay with one entity owning that much spectrum. Must keep Stephenson up at night...

Who currently leases the rights to that block of spectrum from the FCC?

Just one more place that gets LTE before Phoenix

Assuming that bars(1x/3G) and LTE is coming from the same tower, signal strength seems to be quite good(dependent on how far off the coast she was).

Who owns the J Block?