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History only goes back to late 2009 when they refinanced debt. Strange. They must have been called something else.

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

I would say that they are a local telephone and internet provider that is also a MVNO of Sprint offering mobile internet on a USB stick.

That services Georgia.

Can't find anything else.

How did you come across them?

So they're going to bundle?

 

 

 

 

It will be interesting to see what type of applications they come up with.

Kinda redundant if work already includes a Dental Plan.

...only if you are roaming outside of your preferred provider network.

 

AJ

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

The 80 GHz band can provide over 1 Gbps to each device. And when you hold an 80 GHz phone up to your mouth to make a phone call, it also offers a free dental X-ray.

 

AJ

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?

Could it be that Sprint is buying Clearwire to sell their network and some of their spectrum to Dish, while keeping let's say about 80-100MHz that they brought in to themselves?

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

Sure, we have at least 500 of them and never use any. LOL

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

Doing what is smart and/or in the best interests of their customers' pocketbooks is not necessarily important to a government regulated monopoly. Southern company can do whatever it wants with southernlinc and pass the costs on to its customers. The cost is "justified" as operating expense, and southern company still takes their profit margin. Meanwhile, the customers, who have no choice in their power needs, subsidise the poor decision making. Anyone who approves the decision-making of southern company should also approve of the "10,000 dollar hammers" that the government is known to buy.

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.

Lmao

 

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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

No ATT and Verizon have been lightyears faster at deploying. Sprint will likely be 3-4 years behind Verizon here and 2-3 years behind AT&T. Sad but true.

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.

Isn't that what they do in the U.K.? Pay top dollar for phone but just pop in sim card?

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

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

Those Voyager Mobile handsets are expensive. I guess it helps subsidize those monthly rates.

Might give it a try once tri-band LTE handsets start coming out.

One last hookup with iDEN before the breakup?

 

AJ

Damn right.

Is it still possible to sign up for iDEN service on postpaid?

So I guess those in areas where only iDEN is available get the ETF-free boot?