RAvirani

Although I'm not 100% sure, I believe AT&T owns the DAS at Disneyland. Someone can chime in and correct me if I'm wrong.

Man I've fallen behind. Thanks for the clarification.

Didn't know that. Thank you for the correction .

Sprint acquired some AWS spectrum in western Virginia and a 700mhz A block license in Memphis last year. If I were them, I would try to work out a trade with T-Mobile for that 10x10 800 block in Myrtle Beach and/or some PCS spectrum in spectrum constrained markets. The 800 spectrum T-Mobile holds in Myrtle beach is contiguous with Sprint's 800mhz so Sprint could run a 15x15 band 26 carrier (they would need to get equipment recertified) if they were to acquire it.

The 6 was the last one to do so if i remember correctly.

Why so?

I know Sprint isn't doing that now - hell, I'm in a market where Sprint holds the C5 block and they're running a single 10 mhz FDD carrier centered at EARFCN 8640. My point is that they could split it up in the future, and possibly make/save some money off of it. A 5x5 carrier aggregated with another 5x5 carrier has the same capacity as a single 10x10 carrier so there wouldn't be any real sacrifice in terms of network quality. I don't see any downsides - just obstacles (VoLTE).

With HPUE, B41+B25 will not be something anyone wants anymore. HPUE will bring B41 coverage to 99% of B25, so why aggregate B41 with a 5 or 10 mhz B25 FDD carrier when you can aggregate it with up to 5 other 20 mhz B41 TDD carriers?

First paragraph: The whole point of this offering would be to receive reciprocal LTE roaming agreements - this service would not be offered to partners without LTE networks. Yes, VoLTE is an obstacle today but it will be here be ready to use soon. Second and third paragraph: I get the feeling you didn't actually read my previous post but where Sprint swaps for the C block, they have no obligation to set up a single 10x10 or 15x15 carrier. They can leave the C block carrier separate from the G block carrier and aggregate the two carriers (5x5 + 5x5 or 10x10 + 5x5). Fourth paragraph: I definitely agree that today, Sprint does not have the necessary assets to offer roaming to international carriers, but I think that after the next year or two they will be in a very different place.

I was referring to all models of the iPhone 7/6S/6 in my last post. All devices mentioned are compatible (See http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ for more details). Sprint cannot expect international roamers to come with CDMA ready devices, of course, hence my mention of the necessity of VoLTE (any international roaming offering made by Sprint would have to be exclusively LTE). Spectrum contiguity, although important now, will become irrelevant in the coming months as B25 CA is enabled. Even if Sprint swaps for spectrum contiguous with the PCS G block (the PCS C block), there is no need to run a single wide carrier. Rather, Sprint can preserve its 5x5 PCS G block and run CA between that and its whatever other spectrum it has, whether that happens to be the C block or not. Carrier aggregation would only be available to devices that support B25 while B2 only devices could sit on the other spectrum. Yes, this offering would require that international roamers have a B2 capable device, but B2 is one of the most widely used bands in the Americas and if an international roamer's device doesn't support B2, chances are it doesn't support any bands used in the Americas (by AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile).

Well, all models of the iPhone 7 and 6S support B25, B26 and B41 and all iPhone 6 models are triband except one which is limited to B25/B26 only, so the large majority of Apple users would be fine to roam on Sprint. I cannot list off every other flagship phone but would be comfortable saying that the large majority of them support B2 LTE. If Sprint set up MFBI on their PCS LTE, they could run Band 2 (in most markets) and allow roaming on that. The coverage wouldn't be stellar, but if it were cheaper than AT&T and T-Mobile, I'm sure other carriers would love to place their users on Sprint where PCS LTE was available (or other bands if devices are compatible). The only thing Sprint is missing is VoLTE...

1 megabyte over LTE vs 1 megabyte over GPRS are the same to most companies…and every other major national carrier offers international LTE roaming - T-Mobile even does for free. Sprint just is dropping the ball here.

The big one they seem to be missing is China. And the other big thing they seem to be missing is LTE roaming. This was a problem for me when I recently visited the United Kingdom where I was primarily roaming on Three. Three's network consists of 2100mhz WCDMA/HSPA, 1800mhz LTE and 800mhz LTE. Often times I found myself without service while I saw other peoples' phones displaying 3 LTE.

Winners of the 600mhz auction will need to wait for TV stations to vacate the 600mhz band. Sprint has had to do the same thing with their SMR spectrum (Sprint has had to wait on PS to vacate the 800mhz band). SMR rebanding started YEARS ago and it is still not finished. 600mhz bidders don't want to deal with the same problems Sprint has had to deal with and thus 600mhz spectrum is valued low.

Why doesn't Sprint do that on PCS? If they shared the transmit path there, they could do 4x4 without a second antenna…

To be fair, 800 would not have cleared much faster even if Sprint had money. Sprint is just waiting for other entities to rebrand and those entities are taking their time. But if Sprint had 10 MHz lowland FDD, they would be on equal footing with AT&T and VZW in most places (until they start their B5 deployments that is), and we would see B26 tuned for coverage not capacity is many more places.

Well they don't want to upgrade, of course. Upgrading isn't free.

Maybe a 10 MHz FDD chunk?

Ok so PCS: 2 ports for LTE, 1 port for EVDO/eHRPD, 1 port for 1x; SMR: 2 ports for LTE...what about 1x800?

I don't know much about physical antennae but was a bit curious as to how the connectors at the bottom of the antenna were organized. From what I understand, NV panels have 4 PCS ports and 2 SMR ports. Why those numbers specifically? Why couldn't they just have 1 PCS and 1 SMR port?

Should come with iOS 10.2.1.

I thought we already confirmed CA in certain markets.

They did it in large clusters in Seattle...

HAHA FINALLY

Just a quick something I'm not sure you are aware of: there are actually only two national networks in Canada: Rogers and Bell/Telus. Bell and Telus share a single network and the two companies maintain/upgrade different parts of the network. So really, Canada is an example of the most limited form of competition (with only two competing entities) possible without a monopoly. Additionally, coverage area in Canada is not all that large. Most of Canada is uncovered by mobile networks. Here are the links to the Rogers and Bell/Telus coverage maos respectively: http://www.rogers.com/consumer/wireless/network-coverage http://www.telus.com/en/bc/mobility/network/coverage-map.jsp