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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?

Well, now I am interested. Seems that modern-day Birch Communications is actually a company named Access Integrated Networks(Atlanta-based). They acquired Birch Telecom(KC-based) back in July of 2008 for an undisclosed sum of money. AIN then renamed themselves Birch Communications, which runs Birch Telecom. http://www.bizjourna.../30/daily6.html I guess Birch Telecom re-emerged after their bankruptcy in 2002 and made themselves a good acquisition target a few year later.

If it helps... http://www.fiercetelecom.com/tags/birch-telecom

That services Georgia. Can't find anything else.

How did you come across them?

Kinda redundant if work already includes a Dental Plan.

I live in the city, so I should be fine.

Is there any out-of-pocket co-pay?

For my mobile broadband needs, It's Gigabit, or nothing.

So what happens to Clearwire's LTE build-out/Network Vendors?

You'll have to put into consideration that Clearwire doesn't "own" a lot of their spectrum. Don't remember the specifics, but I think they only own about ~45MHz. The rest is leased from College/University spectrum holders & churches. Might as well just ask AJ

Nevertheless, SoLinc has no intention to move off of iDEN anytime soon.

I doubt any change in their network technology is going to result in savings passed on to the customers. I would love one of those $10,000 hammers though :achoo:

Simply the fact is that SoLinc has no interest of shutting down their iDEN network in the near future. iDEN still is the most reliable PTT solution on the market, and I don't see them moving on from that until they see QChat or whatever other equivalent is up to par. When that happens, they might just decide to sell-off their wireless operations or just upgrade to a iDEN-like service. This can be an interesting opportunity for Sprint to work towards a Shentel-like relationship with SoLinc, in which SoLinc continues to operates and own their QChat(CDMA)/LTE network, and excess capacity is sold through Sprint. Time will tell.

http://i.imgur.com/wKLQe.jpg

I just bought an Overdrive Pro. LTE must be coming.

My 4G icon entry. much, much better.

The round table format ate hairy spiders when drunk. Its towers became bloated after swallowing a mouthful of baby formula. The baby ate his poisoned barbeque chicken ribs without A1 steak sauce. Fix the chair leg before somebody trips and breaks their sister's glass. It peed shards of LTE droppings from bubbly fermented apples. Doctors gouge the helpless when options appear dangerously silly for perpendicular slicing. Around 2pm there was another explosive diarrhea attack that drove Dan to SMS SoftBank, which viciously countered MetroPCS;s audacity to compete. Meanwhile, Mexicans discovered sparkly water of Rio which tasted like rainbows. LightSquared, however, beamed sparkly clusters of spectrum at GPS, causing multitudes of bananas being paranoid about world domination. This exacerbated an enormous flock of pelicans into your mother's house. Then seagulls confronted Darla with weapons

The round table format ate hairy spiders when drunk. Its towers became bloated after swallowing a mouthful of baby formula. The baby ate his poisoned barbeque chicken ribs without A1 steak sauce. Fix the chair leg before somebody trips and breaks their sister's glass. It peed shards of LTE droppings from bubbly fermented apples. Doctors gouge the helpless when options appear dangerously silly for perpendicular slicing. Around 2pm there was another explosive diarrhea attack that drove Dan to SMS SoftBank, which viciously countered MetroPCS's audacity to compete. Meanwhile, Mexicans discovered sparkly water of Rio which tasted like rainbows. LightSquared, however, beamed sparkly clusters of spectrum at GPS, causing multitudes of bananas being paranoid about world domination. This exacerbated an

Not quite in the case of AT&T. Their LTE deployment hasn't exactly been blazing. This, along with their lack of spectrum in many markets(only a few cities with 10x10 @ 700MHz, a couple cites with 5x5 @ 700MHz, and insufficient AWS spectrum due to the failed buyout), I don't see AT&T going anywhere fast until WCS spectrum is ready...which will not be the case for a few years. Or they do something crazy and bid on PCS H Block.

Only difference is that in the U.K.(and the E.U. as a whole), you can use the device on virtually any carrier.