RichardXy

 

 

Regardless, your protests, Richard, strike me less as concerned altruism about use of public spectrum, more as sour grapes over the dearth of WiMAX in San Diego County.

This is true. I really do HATE HATE HATE Clearwire. With that being said, it really has opened my eyes to the practices of all the cell phone companies. They basically can hold a community hostage. They milk every last dime they can out of the consumer and don't give a damn about fairly using the public airwaves. Not providing adequate cell coverage can give an entire region an economic disadvantage. What business would want to operate in an area without proper 4G coverage? I doubt I will be any less bitter until Sprint 4G is widespread in San Diego.

 

 

You know that Clearwire fully intended to deploy in San Diego. They had the design complete and started permitting. They ran out of money.

Clear didn't JUST run out of money. They had a policy of delaying WiMAX in order to milk every last dime out of Sprint that they could.

 

 

Just so I have a clearer understanding of where you stand, VZW acquired AWS spectrum licenses at auction back in 2006. Here it is, a full six years later and to the best of my knowledge they still have not deployed ANYTHING, ANYWHERE on that spectrum. According to your dogma, they should be forced to return those licenses to the government, correct?

Yes, VZW should use the spectrum or give it back. There needs to be a timeline. What VZW is doing is anti-competitive and they are trying to create a duopoly with AT&T.

 

 

Colleges and universities did not have any use for it and are leasing it to Clearwire. I don't know how many times we can say this. This spectrum is really a mismatch for the demographic makeup of the US, except for hotspot duty. Now, it is perfectly suited for fixed/nomadic broadband, but you have to account for backhaul costs, if you are going to use it like that. In fact, I had Sprint Broadband for both my office and home at one time, a year or two before cable internet.

It doesn't have to be colleges or universities. Maybe the next great invention will be able to use that spectrum. There's no reason for it to be wasted with BS protection sites that don't serve the public. the airwaves are a national trust and I would like to see them used or given back to the people.

 

 

RichardXy and all the others who feel spurned by WiMAX need to get over it, grow a pair, and stop making these kinds of pointless, bitter posts. You act as if Clearwire is just standing pat on all of this spectrum, while some angel is waiting in the wings to deploy if only it could gain access to the spectrum. Wrong. No other carrier wants the spectrum unless it can get it for pennies on the dollar. The FCC set reasonable, population based BTA construction requirements for BRS/EBS 2600 MHz spectrum, and Clearwire met those requirements. Anyone who thinks that Clearwire shoulda, coulda, woulda deployed WiMAX across the entire Sprint footprint is living in fantasy land and/or has little understanding of wireless propagation.

 

AJ

I totally disagree. While Clearwire may not be able to justify wimax in extremely rural areas, they could have justified full implementation in major markets like Phoenix, Detroit and San Diego. Instead of deploying protection sites in rural America, they should have returned those licenses to the government. There doesn't need to be an Angel in the wings to swoop in and use the spectrum. Surely, this 2600 MHz spectrum could be put to use by colleges, universities, local governments, or some other use. Just because no other cellco's want it does not mean that it's useless. I still believe the government should look into the 2600 MHz utilization as part of SoftBank, Sprint, Clear deal. If this happens maybe Sprint can get an even lower price.

It doesn't benefit any of us for Sprint or anyone else to be sitting on so much spectrum. In my opinion, Clearwire's usage requirements were set too low resulting in a very limited network. Sprint should either deploy in every market or sell those markets to a company that will provide coverage to more people. Protection sites should not count as an active deployment and the government should fix this loophole.

I hope the government will put some milestone requirements on the Clearwire spectrum to make sure that Sprint uses it more than Clearwire did. I think it should be something similar to those imposed on Dish.

 

The article also suggested that both Sprint and Dish may bid for the H block.

I hope this means bidding together and not against each other.

I'd prefer to see a T-Mobile and Clearwire merger that would result in Sprint owning 25% of the combined company. Sprint would then be in a good position to merge with that company later.

its not going to happen and that is why as said in this thread that they are a quarter behind which is about 3 months I bealve

I was pointing out that the math doesn't really add up for just a quarter behind. At the current rates of deployment, it seems like they are more than 3 months behind.

Wasn't the plan to have 12,000 sites completed this year? There's only 34 days left this year and you need to factor Christmas into that. I don't see how that number is possible.

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm very thankful for this site and all its contributors especially the ones that get all the information to us.

I haven't seen too many speed increases in north county. It looks like Sprint is following that lame strategy of starting in Chula Vista and working their way north. They had stated that they would spread the upgrades out so that different areas could share in the benefits but if you take a look at the network.sprint.com site, it becomes obvious that they are following Verizon's strategy of south to north.

Will this free up contractor crews for Sprint?

This is awesome for people in the Chicago area!

Clearwire should sell half of the spectrum to Sprint and then Sprint should cut its ties with Clearwire once and for all. Yes, I am bitter that San Diego was to be one of the launch launch cities for XOHM (wimax) before the whole Clearwire fiasco. Nothing would make me happier than to see Clearwire in bankruptcy and Sprint with half the spectrum for itself.

Orange and San Bernandino/Riverside began deployment on time.It was not any delays I dont know about San Diego schedule date to begin.

I was referring to the information from the premier section maps regarding deployment dates. Most of Orange County's dates were after San Diego so it makes me wonder why you would claim Orange County started on time and San Diego was not late.

Obviously this isnt Alcatel-Lucent since they've been sped up. Samsung is doing OK as well. Ericcson is the one doggin it.

I'd have to disagree. It looks like Alca-Lu is behind in Southern California. There should be 100's of live LTE sites in San Diego, Orange, and San Bernadino/Riverside. There's not much progress in their second round probably because LA is sucking up all the resources.

There is a new tower in north San Diego County near the town of Rainbow, CA. No marker appears on the map however the new tower is listed in the legend in the lower left hand corner. I might have to drive out there and investigate.

I am just curious to know if Sprint will start hosting Clear spectrum in areas like San Diego that never received a full wimax deployment. Do you think they will add antennas or other radio equipment that can host that spectrum as they roll out network vision?

the old maps were a lot better if you live in an area with few recent upgrades. I used to have nearly 150 planned upgrades in my area and now I have just 12 completed ones! If they are trying to find more ways to discourage their customers than they can add a nother check to that list! Also, i love how they always leave Los Angeles off the drop down list.

It looks pretty nice. Thanks for the heads up. I'm still trying to test every part of my hometown and will be moving on to the areas around my work soon.

Clearwire would never be nationwide, but if this combines Sprint and Clearwire, then devices can be properly configured to hit the high bandwidth 2600Mhz LTE-A carriers first, then 1900Mhz, finally 800Mhz. Since Sprint wouldn't be paying on used bandwidth contract.

Well the nationwide part was just a thought. I'm really just concerned about the towers that they had approved in my area but didn't build because they ran out of cash. Selfish me.

Let's all be honest. The only Sprint coverage that matters is the Sprint coverage where you live. If you didn't get wimax and you still don't have LTE, its not like you are going to be jumping for joy that some other area has their first LTE signal. Try T-Mo out for awhile. You can always come back to Sprint when your contract is up and maybe by then they will have some 4G coverage in your area.

It's great news. I hope they combine Sprint and Clearwire and stop this blame game split spectrum nonsense. Finally we might get nationwide Clearwire coverage including all the planned towers that Clearwire was supposed to build in the San Diego market.