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I've never had a big problem since I guess the beginning of NV, which at that point Sprint was shit to be honest. But I watched it improve significantly, and to the point now that I never have to worry about not having reliable service, the people bitching are still stuck on Sprint from say 2012 when it wasn't anything to talk about and they haven't given it another chance.

It varies. Some parts of the country spring doesnt have anything like reliable service.

 

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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.

 

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Whoa!

 

I almost thought you were joking or were stuck in time on April 1st transmitting through a time travel device or something, RedSpark.

 

How on earth can Sprint do this? There is no doubt this is damn awesome! Now I've got some thinking to do.

The merger is near.

 

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Marcelo said it would be happening: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4075474-sprints-ceo-marcelo-claure-presents-j-p-morgan-global-technology-media-telecom-conference

 

"What are we doing from distribution? We are tremendously under distributed at least from a company-owned, so we are growing from a 1,000 company-owned store to what 1,800, so it’s a big growth for Sprint. We are going to add 100 stores. We are going to add over a 1,000 boosters in our prepaid business. So that’s big growth. I mean, Sprint hadn’t open stores in many years. At the same time we are growing through dealers. So it’s a combination of direct and indirect growth."

Marcelo says alot of things, not all of them come to flourishen.

 

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You can bet Dish is speaking to both. They need the infrastructure to deploy their spectrum and are probably trying to diversify their portfolio now that cable TV is dying.

 

I also wouldn't rule out foreign investors.

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.

 

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http://www.philly.com/philly/business/comcast/philly-and-suburbs-brace-for-attack-of-the-small-cells-20170601.html?mobi=true

 

 

Apparently Mobilitie is at it again regarding those ugly poles.

Ugly according to who?

 

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You know, Arysyn, your boundless posting capacity would be better served if you used it not to gush over imagined mega mergers, but to protest against excessive vertical and horizontal integration. Because massive consolidation will not get you what you want, just the opposite. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by a media-network complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

 

AJ

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.

 

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I think it makes sense in areas that don't need gear that can do more. Cheaper, lighter, etc. I'd rather see more of those then fewer 8T8R gear.

 

40MHz is 160Mbps. If they change to Config 1, that's 220Mbps. Even more if this stuff can do 256QAM.

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.

 

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You make it sound as if Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile do not run into planning, permitting, or engineering issues. The majority of Sprint's cell sites have LTE its just a handful that do not. Up until about two years ago Verizon and AT&T had a couple of sites here that were only 1X/3G EV-DO and HSPA respectively. They will all get done...Soon^TM

This is exactly what I havw been thinking as well. It seems like a band aid not a permanent solution.

I wonder how long term those mini-macros are meant for.

 

3/4/5xCA seems like it's going to have to come from upgraded Macro Sites... and Sprint doesn't seem to have invested in many of those new sites for densification from what I can tell.

 

Mini Macros and Magic Boxes don't put out those higher order CA.

 

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I still do not agree with a merger. Prices will increase and innovation will slow.

 

TMobile is doing well enough on their own and Sprint is improving everyday albeit not fast enough for some, but improving.

 

At the end of the day, these companies are here to maximize profits and having only 3 major players in the field will impede competition.

 

Shuffling 130+ million customers apiece will suffice for the most part.

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.

 

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Agree with all of this. They should actually make their network usable across their current footprint first. Then work on expansion.

 

 

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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.

 

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Look, let's be honest. Sprint has made absolutely no promise to expand coverage to match either of the big 2's coverage footprints, nor should that even necessarily be their goal. Why is it so important to some of you that Sprint match that footprint? The ROI per square mile diminshes GREATLY as a function of population density. Hence there really isn't much incentive for Sprint to expand (as they already cover super dense [urban cores of huge cities], moderately dense [most other urban areas], and even the slightly dense [think suburbs and some exurbs] population centers). Why stop there? Because THE MONEY STOPS THERE.

 

So why even insist on Sprint matching either of Verizon's or ATT's footprints? It may simply just not be their goal. And ya know what? I'm perfectly fine with that. So should be the vast majority of you.

 

...unless you live in a corn field. In that case, go to Verizon!

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.

 

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this about Sprint suing the FCC. Not a good decision if it expects to get a merger deal approved :

 

http://www.insidesources.com/sprint-windstream-sue-fcc-over-business-internet-deregulation/

They wont take that into consideration. They are forbidden by law.

 

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If Softbank hands over Control to T-Mobile parent company then Marcelo will be the one to go. They want to keep John.

 

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To be fair, John has done a better job with his company that Marcelo has done with his.

 

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Imagine how we feel in So-Cal with Sprint. We still get 3G indoors in many places and its 2017! And Sprint is dead last on Root.

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.

 

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So I guess root is useless for folks who live and work in NYC.

Whatever, you know best. Lol.

 

 

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Ok cant wait till they decide that San Fran is not big enough and just add Seattle for no apparent reason.

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.

 

 

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Nobody is debating whether Sprint should fix their network or not. My point is, if your like an average New Yorker, you almost never leave the city. I know a ton of folks who barely leave the island of Manhattan, let alone another state (NJ)

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.

 

 

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Nope, In nyc they have gone gangbusters, those other places not so much.

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.

 

 

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The problem is, that a ton of NYC patrons do not venture to those places. Basically giving a false negative for those folks.

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.

 

 

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There is, they need to separate NYC with those other places, very frustrating that they do that!

I think a better rout to take is for sprint to fix their network in all of those places.

 

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You will be on 1 channel or set of channels while the magic box to cell link will be on the other, if both links are in same channels then you have a collision problem. Same way for radio repeaters have a input and output frequencies.

 

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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.

 

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That is what a repeater does. Wither it be radio or cell repeater.

 

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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.

 

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Yes it is, especially when all magic box is doing is repeating the cell signal and just using your electric power to do it.

 

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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.

 

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Well, SBC dropped their name, along with Cingular, to become AT&T. So far by all reports, that rebranding seems to have worked, or at least it could be considered as a successful brand re·shifting.

It worked because AT&T was an established brand with a good reputation. Also, there was nothing wrong with either SBC or Cingular, AT&T just tested better. Not exactly the same circumstances in which Sprint would be executing a brand change.

 

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