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6 hours ago, S4GRU said:

I also would not be shocked if the States were thrown out of Federal court for now.  They technically do not have a case until the Feds APPROVE the merger.  They have not been harmed until that point.  Suing because the Feds might approve a merger may not be sufficient.  Actually harm most likely is required, not potential.

Robert

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. 

32 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

T-Mobile merger bid has cost Sprint $346M

Not cheap.

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

Thank you.

46 minutes ago, belusnecropolis said:

Imagine inflicting Comcast customer service + Sprint customer service on a customer base.

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. 

1 hour ago, bigsnake49 said:

Great but they will lack the Capex to innovate. Metro was able to do it because they targeted a lower income demographic and covered those cities using DAS. Sprint can't. Can they survive? Yes. Thrive no. How much money is Sprint making on my $15/month unlimited BYOD plan? How much out of that can they devote to Capex? 

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.

6 minutes ago, jroepcke51 said:

Honestly depends on how they file bankruptcy.

Option 1 smaller carrier purchases it  

Option 2 customers will be divested in markets to potential buyers to pay debt.  I say this as DOJ antitrust or FCC says no, Tmo would still be able to buy assets and or customers but only in certain markets. 

I could also see the spectrum is sold 

Who knows really. 

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

10 hours ago, utiz4321 said:

So a justice department under obama started an anti-trust investigation because trump wanted it? Weird.

Did i hurt you feels, i am sorry but grow up. You are making wild and dumb claims. Both Dems and Rs are for and against this merger and two admins tried to stop it and you want to blame Trump because "orange man bad". Any insults you feel you earned. 

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? 

14 minutes ago, utiz4321 said:

That doesn't make any sense and you are confusing what you see in the media with reality. The DOJ under Obama stared the process of stoping the Time warner/ATT merger. The Trump admin merely continued this policy.   Your paraniod and basely claims are why we can't have nice things on the internet. 

Unless, you have proof Trump personally  intervened in this case? I mean I doubt a random person on the internet does but you never know.

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.

1 hour ago, utiz4321 said:

Trump isn't invovled in the approval process, no president is. So, it is completely a non issue. And your "orange man bad" comments have no place here. 

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.

16 minutes ago, tybo31316 said:

I hope not. At this point if the merger doesn’t go through. I hope SoftBank sell Sprint to DISH.

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

12 minutes ago, greenbastard said:

Hidden behind the last speed increase was also a price increase for me.

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.

2 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Sprint was rolling along decently without a merger. Things have been looking much better for months, and we've already seen the results of the capex increase. There is NO indication that they are going to pull back on capex while this process is unfolding, so I believe your concerns here are unwarranted. 

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. 

47 minutes ago, SprintNYC said:

If Softbank didn't own over 84% of the stock they would be massive class action suits against Sprint right now.

.  .  . 

I hope the DOJ blocks this merger then it would force Softbank to sell Sprint for half the price to a cable company.

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.

19 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

Colocated and the 10,000 of Sprint sites that T-Mobile will keep.

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

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

CNBC made a video about Softbank.

 

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

8 minutes ago, kg4icg said:

With what? A string and 2 tin cans? 

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

4 hours ago, RedSpark said:

Looks like Marcelo recently met with Ajit Pai, FCC Chairman of the FCC:

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1020841294284/Ex parte 020618 Pai.pdf

Hopefully the FCC can accelerate the 800 MHz rebanding process so that Sprint can finally put this chapter behind it.

"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!

On 1/17/2018 at 9:45 AM, shaferz said:

Indeed - I have seen 120's on my local home tower on b41, but I have never seen over that.  I nearly crapped my pants when i saw it in the 190's! 

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.) 

3 hours ago, utiz4321 said:

Scale, spectrum and content relationships. That would be the case for a merger. 

1 hour ago, bigsnake49 said:

Not to mention midband and 600Mhz spectrum. Then Sprint can take advantage of the combined assets to offer ala cart TV. Or they can partner with cable cos and together offer video to cord cutters.

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.

another update released.

 

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"? 

A real meteorologist? Or a TV teleprompter meteorologist?

 

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 believe it's already there. There should be strongest coordinates and last seen coordinates.

 

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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.