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Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

I could beat the 399 price just for you it assumes however that I will love the Evo (I have not unloved an HTC device before). The nexus however is the first Samsung phone I have ever liked.

If the Sprint GNex ever gets to $399 cash price, then I will buy one. If it doesn't, then, oh well.

 

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I will give you a great deal on mine around June 10th

In the premier sponsors forum there are maps with construction dates for each tower in 10 or so markets that are being worked on now/soon. Robert likely can better explain what the other map means but I will try. The map represents information regarding which towers are active with what. If the Tower says 3g than information says 3g is up but not 4g yet and vis versa "may" is used for all because Robert is likely limited on time to visit each site to confirm personally each site. His information is reliable however and many of the sites have otherwise been confirmed by others. So if you do find a site working make sure to tell everyone in the forum

I did just realize from reading that article that Sprint is going to be the only one with any international roaming on LTE with the 2.5ghz that is unless ATT and Verizon decide to put it in there phones, which I doubt.

Sites upgraded may have to do with equipment as well, I recall a clearwire exec. saying that alot of there later basestations were software upgradable to handle LTE.

http://www.clearwire.com/company/featured-story

"Its WiMAX antennas and radios could pull duty for the LTE network, and on the base station side, Clearwire could easily upgrade to WiMAX [LTE?] with software, adding more baseband processing line cards to support LTE’s new capacity"

http://www.lte-tdd.org/newsdetail/399

Thanks I just was looking for a theorical distance, I know there a lot of factors that can change the distansce and coverage.

There is no limit that I know of, we still get signal from the voyager spacecraft outside of our solar system. EMF is light, as long as you can collect enough of it to differentiate it from background light in that frequency you would be able to have "signal" I made a random cell tower for you with 100 mile radius so you can see the piratical limits with a cell phone https://cloudrf.com/gallery/index.php?id=43699

I get that there is still backlash on Mark's article about the alleged LTE markets which spread like wildfire to other tech blogs reporting the false news. I thought that the idea of prepaid customers getting 4G but of the Wimax flavor to help offload the 3G network and found the article interesting. We should all really hope that it does come to fruition because that would seriously help Sprint offload more customers data off of Sprint's 3G network onto Clearwire's 4G network for those that live in the Wimax footprint.

I do hope its true, just not getting excited until I see it from a more trustworthy source.

Robert, do you sleep?? You're alway look working overtime and giving info and trying to cover all places

 

Just an estime, how much miles in distance does the LTE Coverage reach from the antenna? In a clear line of sight. Or how big is the radius around the antenna.

 

Nervermind: I find the radius on the interactive map.

 

Edil

The radius on the map is just a cut of point for the calculation. How far the coverage goes depends on tower height, weather, your phone, conductivity of the ground, height of phone, interference, and many others I cant think of right now. For line of sight potentially could get signal until the curvature of the earth blocks your los with the right equipment.

I would not trust a word that site says.

And that merger is mainly the reason they've posting losses non-stop for 5 years. They've basically been writing it off since then.

The have written of 31billion of the merger off and paid approx 2.8 Billion in cash

Edited million to Billion

While I understand that Sprint would not have gotten all of the spectrum Tmobile did get a substantial chunk of the AWS. Had sprint participated Im sure it would have gone for more but considering how much they paid for Nextel they likely would have been better off and had more spectrum.

DIdn't sprint pay something like 38 Billion for nextel? That would have been enough to buy every license for both the AWS and 700mhz auctions which brought in a total 33 billion

Hmm..... If I wait long enough that all they have is LTE devices I could get a viper or a GNEX in late 2012 then wait until 800/2500 devices are released to use my upgrade. muahahahaha!

I would be willing to bet that they will have refurbs for quite some time. At least some people will be doing trade ins of working phones they don't just throw them away I imagine they will be sold as refurbs on sprints site at some point as well as giving assurion and HTC a source of replacements.

I read all the posts here instead of studying for law school exams

I am not quite sure what you are proposing ("7x3 and then 3x7 with the 7 being the downlink"), but the reality of the situation is that a 10 MHz x 10 MHz FDD block is a 10 MHz uplink paired with a 10 MHz downlink. In FDD operation, the uplink and downlink must be separated to avoid horrible adjacent channel interference that could lead to receiver overload.

 

AJ

I see

At release there will be no official 4g lte markets. Some sites may be up and operating but going through testing. The last thing sprint needs right now is angry customers expecting lte coverage on a map and not getting it. Instead sprint is simply saying LTE will be available by mid year in particular markets.

Also if early maps are released for particular projected coverage areas and it turns out after testing that area has changed I can see people getting even more upset just because a computer says there will be coverage doesn't mean in the real world it will be there.

http://www.sprint.com/landings/lte/index.html?ECID=vanity:lte

A 3 MHz x 7 MHz configuration? No, not really. You may be confusing a 10 MHz FDD license with just a 10 MHz single block of spectrum. In actuality, it is 5 MHz x 5 MHz -- uplink and downlink -- separated by an offset.

 

AJ

I was thinking along the lines for example that you had a 10x10 chunk of spectrum and you allocated it so that 7x3 and then 3x7 with the 7 being the downlink.

Can LTE be allocated in say a 7x3 configuration? I say that because typically my speeds on evdo are about 50-100k down and 700-800k up. I wouldn't think that all that spectrum would need to be allocated for upload. Most people are used to having under 1mbps for uploads.

Also it looks like LTE is up to 12 times more efficient that EVDO so that should help for the near term capacity problems.

Clear's spectrum precludes that possibility in a lot of locations. The towers are spread too far apart and there would be holes in their coverage

 

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I my thinking was that if all on the same tower you could go from 2.5, 1.9, to 800 as you moved from the tower. I was not aware the TD-LTE wasn't ready yet. I looked at the NV slideshow again and I was mistaken while the slides indicate all spectrum on the same tower at the end of the slideshow they say nothing was worked out with clear at the time.

Am I the only one wondering why 2.5Ghz is not being co-located on NV towers? I thought that when NV was first announced that was going to be part of the plan until light-squared came along? Seems like sprint could be saving money and getting additional spectrum by hosting 20mhz or so for clear and allow there LTE wholesale customers to use the network in exchange. Of course it would be a better idea I think to just buy the rest of clearwire while it is relatively cheap so that it can have full use of the spectrum. The wholesale only model is doomed to fail VZ and ATT are not going to buy capacity from clear they will just wait till the bankruptcy and buy the spectrum.

Today is a really busy day for me, so I will be scarce. I am busy dealing with my real job. But I do want to say I appreciate the feedback.

 

I believe the sponsorship method is superior to advertising in several respects. And we reward sponsors, especially our premier sponsors.

 

We had sponsors and premier sponsors before we had sections for them. The chief reasons for content in sponsor sections is not revenue generation, but content protection. The type of stuff in our protected areas CANNOT be published publicly. I wanted to bring you all some of this great content I have, but it needs to be to a smaller and more manageable pool of people. I would never publish a site by site NV schedule publicly. It would be chaos and Sprint would likely shut us down.

 

I am not a cruel and heartless capitalist. S4GRU was funded out of my pocket for almost a year before I received our first donation. We broke even the first time at the end of February. Our cash reserves equal the increased cost of our growth projections over the next 90 days. I have given lots of complimentary upgrades for people who help us. Even for sob stories I get by PM. I also have a few IOU's.

 

I need to get to the capitol now for meetings. I will check back in tonight.

 

Robert

 

Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

Thank you working on this site.

As far as donations I prefer it much more than the site filled with advertisements and for those complaining about the additional content a small donation (even few dollar a month) is more than reasonable if you can't donate fine there is still boatloads of content on this site (more than any I have found) the sponsor content is really for the extreme geeks among us and if you cant afford a few dollar donation the information will be of little use to you anyway as surly you cannot afford the latest LTE enabled phone or unlimited data plan

How about a compilation article specifically on the small nuggets from time to time, instead of posting the smaller nuggets as they come?

I love that you guys give us so much details when you post articles as well.

Or a sticky thread in the sponsor forum?

You are right the WCS spectrum is pretty much worthless. Unfortunately in this day and age with mobile broadband speeds booming there is a huge demand for mobile services spectrum. I am not an expert in satellite communications but does it really need to use a lower frequency in the 2.3 Ghz band?

 

I feel like the 2305-2320 MHz and 2345 -2360 MHz spectrum is wasted due to Siri operating in 2320-2345 MHz. I wish there was a way to move Siri farther out in the band so that the WCS band from 2305-2360 MHz could be used for mobile broadband.

Would be nice but needed to start that way, satellites are pretty expensive to be changing how it is allocated now.

WCS Spectrum is completely worthless

"The uplink and downlink portions of the WCS spectrum band are separated by the DARS spectrum used for Sirius satellite radio. As a result, the WCS spectrum is subject to power limits and guard band requirements designed to protect these delicate satellite signals. Unfortunately, this renders the spectrum useless for mobility. Thus, outside of a few limited wireless broadband tests, the WCS spectrum remains as un-utilized today as it was when it was first licensed."

http://wirelessspectrumreview.com/wireless-spectrum-bands/wcs/

ATT had been trying to sell theres as well but doesn't appear to have any commercial value.