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Public Safety was granted its share of spectrum this week. I was at a meeting in which a vendor was talking about the capabilities and better uses of interoperability among different agencies with this new spectrum. The conversation of hosting never came up. I think the vendor wants to build a network from scratch (more $ for them) although some towers would have to be in strategically placed, however, no one has the money to build or even pay Sprint until the economy gets better for the Govt side.

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It will probably happen. The 3GS is long in tooth, so the iP4 will become the new value leader most likely for AT&T unless they beg Apple to keep making the 3GS so they can continue to give it away for free. Otherwise, the iP4s will become the $99 model with 8gb of ram.

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Agreed Clear still shows a lot of potential,but not this year. For every iPhone sold by Sprint, that's $10 less going to Clear, and Sprint has sold a lot of iPhone's to people who normally would have bought an 4G (WiMax) phone instead. Clear's 4th quarter performance has confirmed this much. I agree they have signed a few new wholesale partners, but not enough nor at the level LS2 was. Many soon to be ex-LS2 customers are sitting on the fence (for what reason, I don't know) but not enough are coming over from what I've read so far to turn the corner for Clear. I speculate that most don't want to invest in the WiMax experience in a somewhat limited market just to switch out a year later, so most just sit pat until something either happens or something better occurs. Clear needs an LTE network to attract and host its customer base. However, Clear is going to go at it piecemeal and just retrofit towers that Sprint needs. I still can't figure out why they said they need $600 million and a year to retrofit its network. It got that sum and now we'll see a part time network in a year and a half from now. Things will get better for Clear eventually. Although they have money to get through most of this year by their own statements, I'm just being pragmatic. Clear is in trouble and it will get worse before this years out. Sprint has already confirmed it is going to need to inject more money into Clear later this year. At this point, Clear appears to be the millstone around Sprints neck, and both need to get control of this.

Agreed, the boards only job is to provide value for stock holders. If they didn't like how it was packaged then its done. I wonder if they are getting impatient with Hesse? Although this could be nothing, you have to look at the boards reaction and see if they are sending a signal. i guess we'll know more on Monday when the statements and analysts come out.

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Since the Metro PCS/Sprint deal fell through, Sprint should be checking the washer and under the couch for extra change to buy out the other investors. They are going to have to sink money into Clear anyway with its wholesale business drying up, Sprint might as well put it into something it owns outright.

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You've probably read how the carriers want to offload traffic from the network onto WiFi. Now Qualcomm will make the experience more pleasant. Qualcomm has tested VoLTE and graphic inerface on its S4 chip and now its integrating the new WiFi chip onto the S4. This is a refinement from the old standard and will utilize less crowded airwaves. So when the carries kick you off the network, just enjoy fast speeds at home or at your local hotspot. http://www.phonearena.com/news/Qualcomm-bringing-super-fast-WiFi-to-mobile-devices_id27210 Qualcomm bringing super fast WiFi to mobile devices Over the past few weeks, we've seen some impressive things from Qualcomm, or actually, we've seen the Snapdragon S4 a number of times, but each time it's just as impressive as the last. First, we saw the S4's graphical benchmarks, then VoLTE on the S4, and finally more benchmarks of the S4. Now, we're learning that it won't just be the GPU and CPU that will be speedy on the S4, but the WiFi as well. It turns out that Qualcomm is integrating a combo WiFi/Bluetooth/FM chip to the Snapdragon S4 and other 28nm Snapdragon chips. The WiFi in that combo will be 802.11ac, which is a refinement of the 802.11n standard that runs only on the 5GHz spectrum band and not the extremely crowded 2.4GHz spectrum. This means WiFi data speeds up to a theoretical max of just under 500Mbps on a single link, but given the right setup, it could offer speeds much faster. We'll have to see what kind of real world speeds it gets, and we'll likely get some demos at MWC.

Here's a Public Service Announcement since most of us here are on Android. Most of you have heard by now the controversy of Google's new privacy policy. For those of you who are more privacy minded like myself, here are the instructions that will clear you account and no longer track you web actions. Good luck. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57382925-285/how-to-remove-your-google-web-history/?tag=epicStories

Apple may not have as much if they can't sell iPad's in China. Read today a Chinese bank is behind the lawsuit and is one of the backers of the Chinese company starting all of this. Care to bet which way the court case will go?

That's what happens whenever an Galaxy S series is announced in the spring. The U.S gets it that fall.

Yes, wait it out. You've had it for this long so another 60-90 days you can do in your sleep. Plus you'll be out of contract, so Sprint may be in the mood to throw some incentives your way when your ready.

If Egan truly wants to get into the wireless side it will be interesting. He's still talking about doing mobile video and not necessarily a wireless venture with phones. A network sharing agreement with Sprint and T-Mobile would benefit both the carriers and DISH, but if he goes the video route to stream movies, I don't think it would be a sustainable business model with the type of investment he's made.

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T-Mobile was also looking at other options besides trying to stop the Verizon deal. Now that DT is event giving them some money, I wonder if T-Mo will seek alliance with DISH or if DISH will go with Sprint for network hosting? I don't think DISH is really excited about doing anything with AT&T.

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Curious to see how much Apple will be hurt if they begin to lose share in China due to lost sales of the iPad? Perhaps it won't make that much difference in the short term since the 2nd Chinese carrier is going to sell the iPhone soon. That's millions in the bank right there.

Just to show you the carriers can do it to and its not all about the OEM's. Sprint took Comcast to court about several months ago on a couple of patent issues. Now Comcast is returning the favor. Anyone else besides be think this is getting stale? Too bad they can't sit down and come to an agreement. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/22/comcast-sues-sprint/ Comcast sues Sprint with patent infringement, says two can play that game Pro tip: when suing the pants off another company for patent infringement, it's a good idea to make sure you're not violating any of that same company's intellectual property. That's the lesson we imagine Sprint is learning at this very moment. Just two months after it filed a lawsuit against Comcast for getting all up in its VoIP business, the digital services company is now ready to go Comcastic on the Now Network's derriere, as it has filed a lawsuit of its own in a Pennsylvania court. While it's not directly tied into December's case, it seems oddly coincidental that this new suit came into existence so soon after Sprint fired the first shot. Comcast and subsidiary TVWorks, LLC allege that Sprint is guilty of violating four wireless patents: its wireless broadband cards, Vision Pack and other SMS services, MMS transfers and voice and data using IP / MPLS backhaul. That's a pretty hefty portion of the carrier's basic operations, it seems, and we're assuming that a settlement or licensing agreement will be the end result here. Regardless, as the adage says, what goes around comes around.

Looks interesting although I won't be an early adopter on this one. 3G or $G connections with GPS. Anyone think they will try it out? Kinda looks like Terminator vision. "Your clothes, give them to me, Now!" - Arnie - Terminator 1. http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/22/google-to-sell-android-based-heads-up-display-glasses-by-years-end/ Google to sell Android-based heads-up display glasses by year’s end The New York Times claims to have confirmed previous rumors stating that Google is developing Android-based glasses with a built-in heads-up display (HUD). While earlier rumors suggested that the glasses were not ready for a mass roll out, the Times quotes unnamed Google employees who said “the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.” The HUD glasses will reportedly come equipped with a 3G or 4G data connection, a number of sensors including motion and GPS, and they are expected to cost “around the price of current smartphones,” or between $250 and $600.

It is, but it shows so much of the potential RIM let slip away, although at the beginning I sorta agreed with their methodology. They waited too long to respond and got locked into incremental innovation and got away from what RIM was suppose to be about. They think they have a plan to come back and it looks plausible, but if the market decides RIM is irrelevant then it won't matter.

If the iPad has LTE, then the iPhone will have some variation of it. Whether Apple has solved the antenna issue in a secret lab or if it will be carrier specific we'll have until this fall.

As long as there are no gimmicks on this new one I'll be interested. Quad-core will be nice, but if HTC/Sprint keep the annual launch date, then it will come too early. I think quad-cores will be coming out this fall at the earliest, but when they do, Wow!

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