9erHater

Another thing to slow down T-Mobile, and they're not even deploying LTE for another year. Hope Sprint's NV towers don't have this problem.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Phallic-cell-tower-gets-a-makeover-3741742.php

Here's a before pic:

http://castrovalley.patch.com/articles/poll-hideous-eyesore-or-humerous-cell-phone-tower#photo-8928567

Who wants to bet on if the bootloader is locked down tight... Sad

I saw an article that said this will be the first device from Motorola where the bootloader can be unlocked. I'll link to that article when I get home.

Looks like a mid-range Galaxy device is headed to Sprint called the Galaxy Reverb. Probably has LTE. A pretty unexciting device, seems to have lower specs than even the LG Viper.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3177890/samsung-galaxy-reverb-sprint-leak

How about a compromise? Dan Hesse would remain the Sprint spokesman, but he would wear the pink dress.

 

AJ

NOOOOO!

How about a trade of Dan Hesse for Carly Foulkes instead?

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/06/this-is-googles-new-nexus-tablet-the-nexus-7/

Nice price. Tegra 3 + IPS. No mention about MicroSD or dimensions just yet.

I like it.

One advantage slide-out keyboards have to this type of device is that you still have the full real estate of the screen, but it is an interesting technology.

I'm surprised at the pricing. I didn't expect it to be available on a $30/month plan. I hope Sprint has enough band-aids for its 3G network until Network Vision is widespread.

Lol, I believe every smartphone that has Wi-Fi can at least do that.

There was no mention of pricing in the article, but it makes no sense for Sprint to subsidize the iPhone and allow it to be used on the $35/month plan. It would be hugely popular, but not much of a money maker. Sprint doesn't have to undercut Leap which is putting a small subsidy on the phone and servicing it with a $55/month plan.

New rumors about the Google Nexus tablet, which will be made by ASUS, have hit the interwebs. The supposed product name will be the Nexus 7.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/google-nexus-tablet-pops-up-on-benchmark-site/

If it has an IPS screen, it sounds like a very exciting product.

Right now in Honolulu Hawaii? Lately' date=' I average about 400KB download.

The signals are pretty strong all over. Before last December 3G used to be 500-700KB max.

There was a time between December and couple of weeks back my speeds wouldn't go below

1.4 MB download max of 2.4MB. And now it seems if Hawaii was updatd last December? My question is?

What was acutally updated? Because the it seems like the speed went back to what it used to be.

And so what will 3G speeds theoretically average after NV completion?

 

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I was in Honolulu last week and got at least 1Mbps on Sprint's 3G everywhere except the airport. I also saw at least a faint WiMax signal, but performance on 3G beat WiMax everywhere except the airport. WiMax was actually pretty zippy at the airport, around 4Mbps.

Reports are that the LG Viper can also do SVDO.

One new tidbit I just read is that Verizon customers will have to move to the new tiered, shared data plan when they upgrade to a new subsidized device. Those who don't upgrade or upgrade without subsidy can keep their unlimited plans.

You don't say...who would have thought there would be permitting issues in SFO market!

Damned hippies! Why can't they sign off on the permits and go smoke some weed

I'm not eligible for a device upgrade until December, but as a matter of pride, I'm disappointed that LA will get LTE before the Bay Area. C'mon Samsung, get your act together!

The FCC auction for 700 MHz had some complicated rules to it. The result is that Verizon ended up with near nationwide coverage in the upper C block along with some A and B blocks scatterred throughout the country. No one has engineered an antenna that can use both upper 700 MHz and lower 700 MHz bands in a compact form-factor. Verizon logically chose to create devices that use its upper C block. That leaves Verizon with a lot of A and B blocks that are not being built out, so the decision is to sell off those blocks.

This probably benefits AT&T the most. AT&T picked up many A and B block licenses, but not enough to have nationwide LTE coverage. Picking up Verizon's licenses will give increased LTE coverage.

It doesn't make any sense for Sprint to bid on the licenses because adding a patchwork of 700MHz doesn't improve Sprint's plan to already use 800MHz, 1900MHz and (Clearwire) 2.5GHz. T-Mobile has stated that they're not interested either.

SpectrumCo's AWS coverage is coast-to-coast, but there are many holes in between. These licenses do complement Verizon's AWS licenses which is mostly in the Eastern US. While building penetration is not stellar, Verizon could aggregate the AWS band with their 700MHz band (once they upgrade to Release 10 of LTE) much the way Sprint will aggregate Clearwire's 2.5GHz band.

The FCC is rightly asking why the 700MHz sale is contingent on the AWS license transfer being approved. Really, Verizon has no interest in using that spectrum anyway, but they're trying to present an incentive for the AWS approval, when they're really not related.

Just saying that all the articles around the web are just pointing back to this single WSJ article with no independent verification. The WSJ does make mistakes from time to time...

Isn't this a dup of this topic?

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/995-verizon-to-end-grandfathered-unlimited-plans/

It would not be a complete surprise if AT&T were to follow Verizon's lead in this.

Well, Clearwire has a market cap at around $559M, so 46% of that is around $257M. If Sprint actually tried to buy Clearwire, they'd have to pay a premium price over the market cap, so maybe $400M. The problem is that if you buy Clearwire, you also assume Clearwire's debt, which is at least $4B (I didn't look at their detailed report). I don't think Sprint would be adversely affected if Clearwire gets delisted.

Well, first of all, this isn't an official announcement, so let's wait until it actually happens.

Second of all, Google needs to overcome the problems that happened with the first phone they tried to sell direct, the Nexus One. The lack of retail sales and distribution channel, high unlocked price and problems with delivery and activations all led to pretty underwhelming sales. I read a lot of comments on other sites mentioning bypassing the carriers and selling directly to consumers, but Google should be careful not to characterize this a Nexus vs. carriers battle because the carriers have been key to the growth of Android. There's no reason not to let the carriers sell the Nexus devices under subsidy and under contract as they do now. They should simply allow unlocked phones to be sold directly, but not make that the exclusive sales channel. While they're at it, stop the silly carrier exclusivity. The Galaxy Nexus was hot when it was first announced, but now it has rivals in the Evo 4g LTE (One X) and Galaxy SIII.

Blackstone??? And greater than 5%???

 

Blackstone is known to either come in and chop up a company for its assets, or in some cases (like Hilton), they come in on undervalued companies and sit on them a long time and play operator. Interesting. Could be very good or very bad.

 

For some reason, I think this has more to do with spectrum assets. And most likely Clearwire spectrum. But you can't really buy out Sprint without Sprint's permission or control of Sprint. Although they cannot take more than 20% control of Sprint...at least initially. My thoughts are extremely preliminary, but my head is reeling!!!

 

Robert

I think the SeekingAlpha comments might be wrong. I can see some documents related to BlackRock and Sprint, but I don't see anything about Blackstone and Sprint. BlackRock was right around 5%.

At 12mm thick, I'm guessing it's a qwerty device. It would still be slightly thinner than the original Epic 4G. Pretty close in specs and dimensions to the AT&T Samsung Captivate Glide, but with a S4.

I haven't seen any revelations about the price that T-Mo will pay for MetroPCS, but the $8B that Sprint was going to pay seemed too high at the time. I hope Sprint puts that money toward the PCS H Block auction (whenever that is) and pushing forward NV instead.