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I live in Minnesota. Sprint loses signal or LTE in places. Including Wisconsin also. I'll be driving thru Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana then Florida.

 

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I have driven from Wisconsin to Florida mulitple times.  I have not lost any signal, 3G yes, but never a no signal on Sprint.

I don't like Sprints take on that. Tmobile wanted it for coverage. While Sprint has the holdings to do with B26 T-mobile will have the bigger advantage with 15x15 vs 5x5 on Sprint.

 

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While it would be nice to have that extra bit of spectrum, it really isn't much of anything in 2 to 3 years. Maybe for those who need it in the mountains!?

Higher spectrum is needed for 5G, 4K and IoT.  The positive I see out of this is they can merge with Sprint, combining low and high band spectrum, but the price tag for Sprint will not be cheap. And this will take at least 5 years to complete the roll out nationwide, but I'm sure Tmo will brag as soon as one tower is live with 600mhz. 

People having been saying lately in other forums Sprint should have done FDD instead of TDD. I'm starting to agree. With their holdings FDD will give them a theoretical 75 upload on one 20x20 carrier

 

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So you would live in a society of having only 1 option versus many options? Short sighted enough??

New plan removes the promotion of free lines but keeps the 1 yr promotion at $50 for the first line, and yes 10GB hotspot is included. 

SC and VA are NOT in the southeast. I livr in south Florida and have tsken road trips from fort Lauderdale to atlanta. I only lost LTE when I het close to I-10.

I have also been to Tampa and Florida. Speeds are more than usable. On LTE all the time. Granted i dont check my phone every minute of the day. But whebi do, i always have LTE and usable data.

On a side note...Japan Roaming is awesome.

https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2017/02/sprint-cto-says-gigabit-field-trials-coming-spring-or-summer-2017

On the network side, Saw said that following the roll out of 3CA, a tweak to the network configuration will be next, as Sprint’s TDD setup allows it flexibility to allocate more spectrum resources for the downlink. But overall, he observed, the shift is already in progress.

Though other carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile have also announced plans to roll out Gigabit LTE in 2017, Saw argued Sprint’s nationwide spectrum depth would be a differentiating factor.

“You need to ask them, one, are you using your actual licensed spectrum or are you also adding in unlicensed spectrum as well. Some of them would have to use License Assisted Access, which is using unlicensed spectrum as well. There’s nothing wrong with that except you have less control with the use of unlicensed spectrum,” Saw said.

“The other thing you need to be asking is the ubiquity of what they’re trying to do. Can you demonstrate gigabit class devices only in the lab … or are you able to demonstrate gigabit class devices only in certain markets in Arizona and not nationwide?” he continued. “For Sprint we have always been clear that we have a lot of 2.5 (GHz spectrum) nationwide and we have the right technology that is optimized for data, which is TDD. So when we say we’re going to roll out gigabit class devices, I mean all our phones once they can support 4x4 MIMO and 256-QAM will be usable nationwide.”

NICE!

Have you ever heard of reporting financial statements at the end of the FISCAL year? Which ends in MARCH?

The only one who has no idea WHAT they're talking about is you.

Sprint's fiscal year has not ended as of December 2016, Mr. Smart. Tmobile has as of December 2016.  

Add up the last 4 quarters of Sprint's data from January to December 2016 if you want to compare apples to apples. You pull the data on march 2016 (Sprint's last completed) fiscal year and tell me Tmo completed fiscal year number dated Dec. 2016. 

Why am I wasting my time! I wonder sometimes why we rank at the bottom of the chart in STEM for developed nations.  I am experiencing it first hand today. LOL

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-and-ericsson-to-demonstrate-live-high-speed-gigabit-class-data-speeds-over-lte-tdd.htm

This gigabit speed -- does sprint need to update the towers or everything is ready to go, except for backhaul?

Sprint's annual income statement posted in March 2016:

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/s/financials?query=income-statement

You are terrible at this.  You are comparing March 2016 (Sprint) data to December 2016 (Tmobile) data. 

I am going to stop responding to you until you know how bad you are at this. 

Sprint does the same thing though

Sprint does it with reliability, not coverage.  But it is still the same case. 

I didn't say quarter, I didn't say anything. It was for the entire year, so don't assume I don't know how to google and read English.

Read your English again, you are comparing Sprint's one quarter to Tmo's ENTIRE year.  Again, leave it to the pros. 

It's an exciting time for LTE if you're with T-Mobile, they never seem to miss a beat. VZ and AT&T are trying stuff, but they're too fixated on 5G right now to pump more out of what they currently have.

I find it funny when Tmobile trying to make people think their coverage is AS good as Verizon or AT&T.  Let's be real. 

Yet Sprint's operating income is $310M, while T-Mobile's is $3.8B. Those numbers, IIRC, wouldn't be affected by debt repayment or taxes, only net income would be.

Tmobile operating income for the last quarter is not 3.8 B or any quarter in the company's history.  Leave your financial numbers analysis to those who know.  

Not really a fair comparison. Hesse had to deal with the after math of the awful Nextel merger, one of the worst recession in American history, condensing three networks into one, the iPhone exclusive, NV 1.0 etc.... Marcelo walked in with all of that behind sprint.

 

 

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Marcelo didn't walk in with all of that behind him.  He walked in when Hesse pretty much screwed up NV roll out and customers were defecting left and right.  Marcelo walked in to fully appreciate the effect of the defection and he had to clean house to reverse it.  

Sprint now is much better than Sprint's  2 years ago.  Son bought Sprint because Hesse needed a life line. 

I like how they still have the fine line of it going to be only available till March 2018

They should have just gone with 1 year of free data for line 3 and 4.  It sounds better for marketing. 

Sprint Launches Best Unlimited HD Plan Ever

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-launches-best-unlimited-hd-plan-ever.htm

 

Unless I'm missing it, no mention of anything for current customers... :-(

I think current customers can choose the upgraded 60/per line, 2 for 100 and 4 for 160 with HD and 10 GB hotspot or choose VZ or TMO.  It's already a significant upgrade in my opinion. 

It looks like Marcelo won't join in the fray. 

https://twitter.com/marceloclaure/status/831507181040177152

I don't know if that's enough. It might not be.

that's a lot of money saved per year.  Rural is still a struggle for Sprint, but if you don't live or travel to rural area, 20 bucks a month or 240 a year per line might very well be worth it. 

Even the 5 line for $90 promo is not going to be good enough since after a year it goes up to $180. Verizon is 200 for 5 lines and HD streaming with no extra charge. Add in increased coverage, data speeds faster (in more places) VoLTE, the most small cells of any carrier, free phone with trade in, 10 gb hotspot and unlimited 3g after. My god I dont know what to do. I wonder how long Verizon plans to keep unlimited around and how much damage its going to do to the network? I will say this again Sprint spending less than 20% on network capex compared to Verizon is not doing them any favors. They say surgical network deployment but there are so many towers in need of capacity upgrades this method is going to take forever.

 

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Sprint needs to adjust its pricing and offering to match Verizon on hotspot and remove the 480p cap, put it at 720p for HD and still can keep the price at 60 for the first line, 40 for the second line etc.  

There is no right or wrong answer to the argument.

 

But I would love to know how successful the "Cut Your Bill In Half" promotion has been after the promotional discount offer ends on subscribers. How many stayed after their prices go up?

There is a right or wrong answer. You just have to know where to look.

All you have to do is look at the churn rate in the past 2 years. Spoiler alert: it is significantly lower than 2 years ago.

So am I but I am seeing it as a series of moves trending towards what I think is an end game.

i would agree with you if this was 2 years ago, but things have changed. A company with growing subsribers and improved liquidity would not seek any interest in an "end game".

But I will let your limited knowledge determine your reality.

That they are but not using desperate measures which this one reeks of.

Oh, so putting out a plan that is cheaper than everyone else is desperate. And if they put out a plan that's "not desperate", im sure you wont have anything positive to say either.

Cant win with you haters! im glad Sprint is running this aggressive promotion.

I remember Nextel doing the same thing before they merged with Sprint. Pump up the numbers before the merger.

Oh and I thought Sprint is in the business of adding more subscribers. 

Pretty aggressive promo for new customers: http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-announces-five-lines-of-unlimited-data-talk-and-text-for-90month.htm

 

Line 1 is $50/month

Line 2 is $40/month

 

Lines 3-5 are free until March 31, 2018.

 

Fine Print:

 

Savings until March 31, 2018; then $60/mo. for line 1 and $30/mo. lines 3-5. Mobile optimized: video streams at up to 480p+ resolution, music at up to 500kbps, gaming at up to 2Mbps. Data deprioritization during congestion. Pricing shown with $5/mo./line AutoPay discount applied within two invoices. Requires eBill and new account activation. Other monthly charges apply.

I like how aggressive they are this quarter.  Usually, 1st quarter doesn't have a lot of promotions.  They are serious about accelerating. 

I hope they aren't that behind. The user sample size was pretty small. But too, I want to know the distribution of users per each carrier and the places tested. Was it all in city or a combination of both city and rural?

 

 

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Exactly! Rootmetrics actually does a test drive.  This relies on users based that could be skewed to the carrier with the population that has the most or least users of the app, and where these users are based.