Hmight
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"Howard's forum" LOL
I was thinking the same thing. haha
Reminds me of what Tim Cook said recently. "Don't listen to the trolls, and for God's sake do not be one."
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Oh well I didn't know they consider there standard version a premium. IF that's the case then the only good part about this is the 6 months free. But it is a very nice offer.
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I read the press release. There's no typo. Sprint only offers 6 months of free Tidal service. No discount after the trial period. They could have done better to retain customers on Tidal and Sprint.
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"After six months, Sprint customers can pay $9.99 per month for TIDAL Premium." That's 50% off the premium version and makes it the same price as the standard version.
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I hope Sprint marketing is saying hifi is 50% off, which makes more sense. It's really stupid if they mistyped this.
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Nice to see Sprint making investments in the New England Area, but I don't understand the need for additional store locations.
Good progress on the network though.
This is a 18 month plan. Not really an expansion any time soon.
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Sprint has been struggling with massive debt, they've cut jobs and costs across the board, and they've neutered their CAPEX down to a fraction of what it should be. All this done in the name of penny pinching.
Now tell me, how is a $200 million investment in a failing music streaming service a "drop in the bucket"? I'm all for moving on, but let's not try to apologize on behalf of Sprint for a terrible move. Let's call this purchase for what it truly is thus far; a huge waste of money.
As far as I know, Tidal is still around. It's not a successful company thus far, but who to say that it will not be successful in 5 years from now. To say Sprint spent $200 million is a waste is not true as none of you can predict or know of Tidal potential.
Low CAPEX or not, Sprint is not standing still, 3xCA was rolled out and VoLTE is around the corner. I do believe the hiccup with small cells roll out has made a dent in Sprint's CAPEX last year.
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"Couple hundred millions" what? It won't give them new customers and it won't do anything for the bottom line. All it does is allow them to use their spectrum more efficiently.
I hate calling people names....
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Very nice! I think Tarek said these swaps will net Sprint a couple hundred millions as they had done/received the previous year.
"Operating income is expected to be between $2 billion to $2.5 billion in fiscal year 2017. We expect non-cash gains from spectrum swaps in fiscal year 2017 similar to the $350 million we recognized in fiscal year 2016. As you know we exclude this non-cash spectrum gain from our adjusted EBITDA, but it does still impact our reported operating income just as it did last year" source -- 1st Quarter call transcript.
http://s21.q4cdn.com/487940486/files/doc_financials/transcripts/S-US-20170503-1941373-C.pdf
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Very nice! I think Tarek said these swaps will net Sprint a couple hundred millions as they had done/received the previous year.
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Ranting = telling you what I experience on a regular basis? That's ironic.
I actually live here. You don't.
We're done here.
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I have a sprint line in Boston with a family member. Like I said, keep on ranting...
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Let's just say your experience does not come to anything i have experience with Sprint. I have been in Kansas and Chicago, definitely had great service there. Definitely dont know what you talking about, Willis! Last yime i was in Boston, speeds were usable, except in brick buildings. Anyways, keep on ranting...Hmm... you should tell that to my Lyft driver the other day when I got picked up in Chestnut Hill. His Sprint LTE connection was dead, so we had to drive down the block before his app would start the ride.
Beacon Hill? I work at MGH and that's simply incorrect. Around the hospital, Sprint is overloaded. Data almost never works. Inside the hospital campus? Nope, only AT&T/Verizon are on the DAS network. Keep in mind, Mass General Hospital is routinely considered a top 3 hospital in the US.
A few of my colleagues live on Beacon Hill and if you're not on Charles Street, signal is weak with Sprint. They are the only carrier not on the Extenet oDAS system.
Another major trouble spot is DTX. Again, during peak times, Sprint is crawling and nothing has been done to alleviate the issue. This has been going on for years. I even tested it last week and no improvements.
Even in the city and its neighboring suburbs, their biggest problem is density, density, and density. Sure, Sprint might work great on Beacon Street or Newbury, but what happens on the side streets? Signal weakens quickly. Even T-Mobile is slowly adding their equipment to the hundreds of Crown Castle/Extenet/American Tower oDAS nodes. Why doesn't Sprint do the same?
IMO the issue with Sprint is that they simply don't care about New England. Boston is a major biomedical hub and Sprint service is only adequate, not great, like Kansas or Chicago.
T-Mobile simply destroys Sprint on every metric around Boston (network reliability, call quality, data speeds, and data performance)
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I heard this during the webcast yesterday and was wondering..who could the cable company be?
http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-confirms-trial-small-cells-cable-company
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What are the odds of Softbank getting involved in this?
ATT might after failing to get straight path.
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"Yes, you can actually get worse cell service than Sprint"
That is the headline, yet the article is not even about Sprint. Knuckleheads.
http://bgr.com/2017/05/09/best-wireless-network-2017-t-mobile-vs-verizon-avoid-straight-talk/
AJ
Someone from Sprint must have done something to his family. It's like a personal vendetta with Sprint at everything he writes.
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Sprint just announced this:
Interesting move. 9% is a pretty high interest rate.
Sprint's Investor Relations Page has a good breakdown of Sprint's Upcoming Debt Maturities.
FY '18 shows $6.032 Billion due.
Good sign. This shows they are in a good position financially. This also makes me believe they could have positive net income this quarter.
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I guess my concern is: will Sprint be at a disadvantage in term of cost when it comes to 5g because they will need lots of fibers since verizon and att have been laying fibers for years?
Unless anyone has the fiber muscles of Verizon, ATT, or cable providers, everyone will need a lot of fiber build out for 5G. Sprint can use spectrum as backhaul for now, but eventually fiber build out will be needed. Softbank is toying with providing satellite backhaul with their investments. I don't know how will this work or how feasible this is, but fiber backhaul is the reason why many people think a merge with a wireline service (cable) is inevitable.
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PCS (1850-1995) does fall in that range.
Yep...I was thinking about AT&T 2.1 mhz for a sec.
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Those are CCI Wideband Bi-Sector array antennas for 1710-2170 MHz.
I'm guessing 6 sector split with one antenna for LTE (4x4 MIMO) & one for CDMA
So this not a sprint tower based on the spectrum noted? ATT??
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It sucks big time for those that were expecting the bonus, but it's probably a good thing for the cash strapped Sprint. 8 Million was the bonus just for Claure.
That's not chump change.
The bonus has no impact on Sprint's cash or any of its numbers. It's all stock options for Claure and the Chiefs. Claure could still get a salary increase though later this year. We will see. His base salary compensation is the lowest out of the big 4.
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I can imagine Masa doing this for the entire flight all the way back home to Japan.
haha I didn't think the stock would sink this much...but I don't feel too bad for Marcelo. He bought like $25 million of the stock at $5 when he first joined Sprint, it's still already 50% higher.
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I'm not sure why Sprint chose Lombard as their testing area source. Not that Lombard is a bad area for Sprint, but its not their best. Sprint ought to have chose Schaumburg, which was amazing back when I had Sprint.
Unless things have really changed around here and Lombard is even better now for them than Schaumburg. If that is the case, then perhaps Sprint is doing something right around here. After all, mostly what Sprint needs to do is to deploy band 41 on at least 95% of its sites with 3xca. That ought to be enough until they get around to densification.
huh...why would you pick the BEST place to test a technology to help you see how much improvement can be made?
I would think it's the opposite, but that's just me.
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Sprint posted this chart in the CTO blog. They're really small areas but it shows what Sprint can achieve when they invest heavily in an area.
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The idea of the magic box is pretty cool. Sprint is having a hard time erecting small cells to densify the network. Why not just give everyone one! 100 meters of outdoor coverage is a length of a soccer field from this small hardware.
I got my pre-order in. Hopefully, I will get one.
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Just pre-ordered one. lets see if approved.
I am going to get one too.
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I see, but it still seems shady though. It's like they are trying to demote or make Sprint look like a Prepaid service.
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Tmo can market anything they want. It's how Sprint responds to this or even needs to respond to this on their postpaid side. If a customer is leaving for prepaid, they are not meant to be postpaid customers (low quality - for a lack of a better word) to begin with. Sprint has responded by using Boost to attack MetroPCS. Also, Tmo prepaid's growth has declined dramatically this quarter compared to last year. It's a telling story that Metro's prepaid strategy is not working on Sprint. The icing on the cake could be next week, if Sprint is positive on prepaid then I would call Tmo's strategy a bust.
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There's more where that came from:
Marcelo calls out AT&T:
"COME ON @ATT THIS ACTUALLY BEATS FAKE NEWS. CALLING LTE 5G"
https://twitter.com/marceloclaure/status/857112319419133952
Marcelo calls out Verizon:
"Hey big mouth @JNels what happened last quarter ? Your company @Verizon lost 307k postpaid and 17k prepaid customers
#goingdown"https://twitter.com/marceloclaure/status/857059800110309376
I think we're going to see some good numbers!!!
Yea. It sounds like it.
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#goingdown"
Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread
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You are the "bias". In case you didn't "get" it.