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Nothing. It requires you to bring your own equipment. Sprint would claim they want people to try their network and have a shot at converting them to a paying customer, but see as this "marketing effort" would likely drive up churn a year from now I think it is clearly a pump and dump scheme. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

It varies. Some parts of the country spring doesnt have anything like reliable service. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

I dont know if anyone has posted about it, but Sprint's coverage map is displaying a massive expansion in pseudo native coverage in the south west and Nevada. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

The merger is near. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Marcelo says alot of things, not all of them come to flourishen. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Dish, sprint and t mobile tie up would be ideal. That company would be a beast, even if they had to divest some spectrum. I think ATT is proving the value of a TV provider and wireless network. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Ugly according to who? Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

That isn't necessarily true. Have you heard of a concept called return to scale? Can you think of many industries that has as large fixed cost as wireless and wireline? If an industry has high fixed costs you actually get lower prices and better quality with fewer players. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

I guess it depends on the life time cost of these things. But we will see. If sprint is replacing this stuff with 8×8 and equipment capable of doing 3xca and higher in a year or two I think it will be safe to think of this as a bandaid. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

This is exactly what I havw been thinking as well. It seems like a band aid not a permanent solution. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

There is not reason to think any of those negative things will happen. Lets go back to late 1990s to early 2000s, how many companies where there providing wireless services? 8 or nine or so, who "cheap" was it? Do you remember regional plans? Compare the innovation of the wireless market from then until 2007 and 2007 -2017, which saw a faster pace of innovation? Which had a greater number of wireless players? There are huge returns to scale in the wireless industry and thus the most efficient structure on the industry and thus the structure that will provide the cheapest services at the best quality will be one with a relatively small number of players. Is that 3 or 4 players? How would I know, but the market seems to think it is 3 and I would bet it is right. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Their network is "usable" with in their foot print and large areas out side their footprint they have very usable pseudo native coverage and roaming agreements . They just don't have a competitive offer in some areas and for people that travail to rural areas often. The problem for sprint is they are heavily indebted and can't spend the money for something like a project ocean and their original densification plans. They should have be allowed to merge with T-mobile a couple of years ago. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Then sprint eitber needs to be the fastest carrier (something sprint has promised and failed to deliver on), become the bottom basement carrier (I don't think their cost structure will allow it) or need to merge with t-Mobile. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

They wont take that into consideration. They are forbidden by law. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

To be fair, John has done a better job with his company that Marcelo has done with his. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

So-cal they have something of an excuse, but it all comes down to the amount of CAPEX they can or are willing to spend on their network. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Whatever, you know best. Lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok bro, because that is in no way equivalent to what they are doing in NYC. I guarantee you they understand the travel patterns of the people in that region better than you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There a lot that do. Root's job is to proved useful information on wireless carrier to a variety of clients, one of which is wireless consumers and carriers. I think they have that in mind when they design their test areas. The result blows and is predictable given Sprint's choices. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't know why you said "nope", look at their capex. The handful of markets that got some money doesn't disprove my point nor does it show that Sprint made a good call. The Root score speaks for itself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That isn't the problem if sprint fixed their network in those places. Root has their reasons for designing their test areas the way they are and it isn't to make Sprint look bad, Sprint is doing that on their own. They decided to take a year off on spending on the network and this is the result. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think a better rout to take is for sprint to fix their network in all of those places. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Maybe I dont have this right, but I thought that was exactly the problem with repeaters, that they cause interference it the werent used properly. My understading is that if you had a building that had no signal in it they might install a repeater that would rebroad cast the same carrier to cover that indoor space that the macro tower was using. My understand of the magic box is that say you have a macro tower broad cast 3 carriers the magic box would broad cast a 4th to the end user and a 5 for use as backhaul. Is that not correct? My understanding is repeaters can interfere with the signalbeing sent from the tower and the magic boxes can't. Sprint only has to worry about the magic boxes interfering with each other and they have developed network managment tools for that. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

I thought a repeater took the same carrier that the macro tower uses and repeats ut? From my understanding the magic box is utilizing Sprint,s vast b41 holdings creatively. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

Is it a repeater? I thought it was broadcasting its own b41 carrier amd using a separate b41 carrier for backhaul to the tower. That is what I understood any way. Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk