tommym65

It is questionable whether the states have any case at all. Interstate communication is the sole purview of the FCC and interstate commerce is overseen by the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission. States - even acting in concert - basically have no standing on either the communication or the antitrust aspects of the merger. At some point, the Federal courts will make this finding. It remains to be seen whether they delay so long that the merger fails.

The story is behind a paywall. Could you summarize it or cite an alternate source? Thank you.

Then imagine inflicting Comcast pricing on top of their customer service. Their current pricing is totally out of line for people who actually use data.

What he said ^^^. Sprint lacks the capex. Sprint also lacks the financial support from Softbank. For the past several years, Sprint has lacked the leadership, primarily because Claure was obviously brought in to cut the company to the core in preparation for a sale or merger. Sprint lacks the brand image, and the probable hit-and-miss effort Sprint will be able to mount to implement 5G will not improve that: It will almost certainly be too little, too late. Sprint lacks the ability to continue to meet its debt service requirements and meaningfully expand coverage or service, because the debt service is simply going to eat away at future capex. In sum, Sprint simply lacks the resources to compete as an equal with ATT, Verizon, and the still-growing T-Mobile. Let's be totally real: Within a very short period of time (1 year? 2 years? Less?), Sprint as we know it will no longer exist. Either the merger will be approved, or Sprint will enter Chapter 11 and be totally reorganized, or some 3rd party outside of the telecom industry will purchase the company in a fire-sale and change it drastically. But the Sprint we know today is doomed. That saddens me, because I have been a Sprint customer for over 20 years, and a combination of stupid moves by the Board of Directors, muddy objectives and execution on the part of Masa Son and Softbank, and a cutthroat competitive environment have forced a future that is very bleak.

Option 3: Unrelated business purchases it (Dish, cable operator, Warren Buffet, General Motors, McDonald's, ???).

That is not what I said, and you know perfectly well that it is not what I said. Do not pretend to know what my politics or my motivation are, and do not put words in my mouth that I have not said. You are obviously spoiling for a fight. Cut the shit, learn to read what other people actually say, and try to be at least a little respectful. "Did i hurt you feels?" Really? Why, I'm asking myself, am I even bothering to react?

1. I recognize the site rules regarding political discussion. This political topic is directly relevant to the pending Sprint/T-Mobile merger. 2. The previous administration was known to be broadly opposed to large corporate mergers, including AT&T/Time Warner, a fact well known and not germane to this discussion. 3. The reality is: Many sources (including, but not limited to: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Market Watch, Slate, CNN, PolitiFact, NBC News, Politico . . .) have reported that the President personally instructed Gary Cohn, formerly director of the National Economic Council, to contact officials at the Department of Justice to attemp to intervene in the merger, reportedly because of the President's extreme antipathy toward CNN. 4. The US House of Representatives is reportedly investigating this interference, which certainly lends credance to the whole story.. No, I don't have "proof". My "paranoid and basely claims" (I can only assume you meant "baseless") are, in fact, neither paranoid nor baseless, but are widely substantiated. Moreover, insulting me, however vaguely you do so, is inappropriate on this forum.

Actually, it is a real issue. While presidents are not supposed to be involved in merger approvals, this one has already (so far unsuccessfully) tried to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger (for apparently personal reasons), and who can predict where he will go next.

Cat-6 cable is thoroughly shielded and is designed to block interference even from 120/240V AC (e.g., fluorescent lighting). You will have no RF interference problems whatever.

Dish = Charlie Ergen. Nope. I would change carriers instantly.

If it was Comcast, go in to one of their Xfinity stores and talk to a customer service rep -- they will almost always roll back pricing.

Respectfully disagree. By hyping up the synergies of the merger, Sprint has basically said it doesn't have the resources to go it alone. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, simply because by saying it, Sprint will cause the analysts and financiers to believe it. The cat is out of the barn, or the horse is out of the bag, or something like that.

If the merger is blocked, Sprint will almost certainly simply crash and burn. If the merger fails, it will take months, or years, for it to actually finally fail, and during that time, Masa-san and Softbank will not invest any money in capex, just like they haven't invested any since they bought Sprint in the first place. Internal funding and independent borrowing have been, and will continue to be, incapable of keeping Sprint competitive. No intelligent lender will risk loaning any money to the disintegrating shell of Sprint. Expansion will basically die and Sprint will wither. Data and phone service will deteriorate, and customers will leave in droves. By the time any viable corporation would be able to buy the leftovers, whether it be a cable company or some other company, Sprint would be so non-competitive that it might as well just turn itself off. So, one way or the other, the T-Mobile/Sprint merger will result in 3 mobile companies surviving: Either Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile/Sprint, or Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile alone. The actual fact of announcing the proposed merger has left no forward path for a stand-alone Sprint.

All of our mapping - - gone forever! ???????

Interesting that he didn't say a single word about Sprint.

No, with the public WiFi spectrum that you need for your business or home network.

"For example, Sprint noted that it had recently received tribal review fee demands totaling $90,000 to review antenna modifications at six sites in Chicago." Could someone please explain if this means that Native American tribes, which have no legal presence in Illinois, are somehow holding up the approval process. Or, is this a mis-print? Very puzzled!

The bottom 3 results were also at O'Hare H Concourse, on Thursday morning. Very impressive, especially since they were on my aging GS7. (The top 3 were in Las Vegas, but that's another story for another thread.)

Charlie Ergen, Charlie Ergen, and Charlie Ergen: That would be the case against a merger. He nearly wrecked the Softbank acquisition of Sprint [not that the acquisition has been a total success], and has done or said nothing since that would lead anyone to believe that he would be any more cooperative today. He and Masa would probably get along badly, as both of them would insist on running the whole show.

Does anyone know what it does???

Has anyone else noticed that, since the latest update, their GS7/GS7 Edge screen randomly "flashes", and then seems to revert back to what was on display 3 or 4 seconds before the "flash"?

Is it really necessary to be insulting? Especially to a moderator? David is a "real" meteorologist, and also happens to have acquired a huge amount of knowledge about Sprint and the wireless telecom world in general. I don't know about anyone else, but I would be more tolerant of your opinions and posts if you would donate to S4GRU and then take some time to actually learn from some of the very informative Sponsor posts.

Beta results after Mike fixed the band identification bug. On my GS7 Edge, summary of 718 sectors sighted between 6/10/2017 ~1:00PM CDT and 6/20/2017 ~830AM, between Crystal Lake, IL, and Fenton, MO (mostly rural areas in Illinois along US-20, I-39 and I-55; mostly suburban areas around St. Louis): Clearwire B41: 21 sectors Clearwire B41A2: 24 sectors Sprint B25: 140 sectors Sprint B25A2: 28 sectors Sprint B25A2 10x10: 28 sectors Sprint B26: 142 sectors Sprint B41: 121 sectors Sprint B41 MM: 4 sectors Sprint B41 MMA2: 4 sectors Sprint B41 SC: 3 sectors Sprint B41 TB: 7 sectors (What are these: They aren't in the glossary.) Sprint B41A2: 178 sectors Conclusion: The recent betas are doing a very good job of identifying bands.

I know the coordinates are there. It would be convenient if Mike could add the geolocated address.

I am about to give the Beta a workout, driving from northern Illinois to St Louis and back over 2 days. Should see lots of data. A thought: Mike, would you consider adding geolocation to the "strongest" latitude and longitude points in the data base? Doesn't need to be on screen, but would be very useful in sorting through the data base spreadsheet. Thanks again for all your work.