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Maybe they will release it in that ugly purple color like the GS3.

This is one of those long stories that gets repeating many times in the forums. Maybe someone on this forum will want to explain it.

I don't think it will be called any different than the Galaxy S4. I am not sure how Sprint will pull it off even if this were true given that they would have to get rid of existing Galaxy S4 inventory without tri-band LTE to make room for the Galaxy S4 with tri-band LTE. I certainly would not want any Sprint store manager to just stock non tri-band S4's with tri-band S4's and hope for the luck of the draw when I go to upgrade. I am still a bit skeptical about it but I know everyone is going to point to Samsung's S4 announcement in March about FDD/TDD dual LTE support models coming later in the year (aka Fall time frame) so it must be coming.

To be honest, I have been very disappointed in Motorola high end phones thus far. I wouldn't be surprised if they flop the next Sprint LTE phone since Motorola seems to only do well with Verizon. As a Moto Photon 4G owner myself, I was initially excited for the phone which is why I got it but the lack of software updates and the failure of Motorola to provide the Photon 4G with ICS upgrade has really rubbed me the wrong way. Heck the Photon Q 4G LTE just barely got Android 4.1.2 in May 2013.

I wonder how soon can Sprint begin to deploy the US Cellular spectrum in Chicago to add more capacity relief on their NV towers.

They do but Sprint felt the need to include that statement that those 3 companies are still on board and aligned with the Sprint deal at $3.40 to Clearwire investors in hopes that they will enough votes over to approve the deal. I think its more of a public relations thing to show that not only Sprint and Clearwire are in favor of the Sprint deal but a group of minority shareholders that make up 26% of the vote are also in favor of the Sprint deal. I mean why would Comcast, Intel and Bright House say no when they will get more money.

I think Robert said in the link below that a release of the Galaxy S4 tri-band LTE model will be coming in the Fall. Post #5222 http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1120-comments-related-to-nv-sites-complete-thread/page-262

I thought I heard from this forum that a re-release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with tri-band LTE support was suppose to in the Fall time frame (maybe October along with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 release)? I hope that is true. I am not sure how Sprint will convey that message if a re-release of the Galaxy S4 does occur. Has Sprint had any history of re-releasing a device to support additional cell phone bands? Also about the Galaxy Note 3, it could have the Snapdragon 800 chip but from looking at the Galaxy Note 2 which came with the Exynos chip, the Galaxy Note 3 may come with the Exynos 5 chip like the Galaxy S4 international versions.

Just 1x and LTE. Not enough spectrum to add 3g to 800 mhz Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

The 600 MHz auction is still several years from reality because there is no 600 MHz band plan yet. The 600 MHz band is a reverse auction where the FCC is trying to provide incentives and pay the TV broadcasters to give up their 600 MHz chunks. We don't know which broadcasters are keen to the idea or not. So since that variable of how much 600 MHz spectrum will be freed s up in the air, the 600 MHz band can not be defined yet for 3GPP. Once the FCC knows how much 600 MHz spectrum it was able to free up due to the auction, only then can the 3GPP standards be developed for the band classes and such. Tmobile has proposed a 600 MHz band plan but that is just an assumption of how much 600 MHz spectrum will be freed up. So its still going to be several years away.

I have never done a sero upgrade online. I have always done it over the phone OR at a corporate store (ymmv depending if the reps know wat they are doing) Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

Thanks for clearing it up. I hope Sprint does near 100% 800 CDMA and LTE for NYC and LA as well . I think NYC especially as a city being mostly urban with thick buildings, I think its important to be able to get a signal indoors so hopefully 100% of 800 CDMA and LTE.

I think no matter what happens with the Sprint/Softbank deal, Sprint will continue to have Wimax service up until 2015. Since Sprint is still selling Wimax phones on its own brand and its prepaid divisions I don't see how they can shut down Wimax before then. Sprint will have to have every tower upgraded to Network Vision with LTE before they even consider shutting down the Wimax network. The longer Sprint can leverage capacity off its Wimax network instead of putting stress on its current LTE network , the better it will be for user experience until they can deploy LTE on every Network Vision tower.

I think with all these current delays and potential future ones, I can see Network Vision not largely completed until end of 2014.

I thought I read on this forum that both CDMA and LTE at 800 would be on 80% of the towers due to potential interference. If it was just LTE on 80% of the towers and CDMA at every tower that would make it even less sense. I think CDMA has a stronger airlink than LTE so it won't travel as far. I was just wondering with proper downtilt, can that be mitigated to the point where you can have 800 CDMA and LTE at every tower? If that is possible, I don't see why Sprint wouldn''t do that because it will make each Network Vision tower very robust with capacity.

So is it still true that 800 mhz cdma and LTE will not be deployed on every tower? I hope thats not true...maybe will downtilt control you can have 800 mhz cdma and LTE at every tower. Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

Hopefully the LG Optimus G Pro will be a hit on ATT even when it is exclusive. It would be nice to have a formidable challenger to the Galaxy Note phone series. If the G Pro series takes off then LG has more leverage to try to sell it to all carriers.

Well hopefully with the Softbank transaction approval, Sprint should be in better shape financially. I don't really Sprint to get in bed with Lightsquared again after this fiasco. They already have enough spectrum with the Clearwire transaction and if anything they should be relinquishing some of the EBS spectrum which isn't needed.

At this point, I don't think it is worth the high costs for equipment to upgrade EVDO from Rev A to Rev B nor the spectrum wasted to bond multiple EVDO carriers. Like Robert said, since there are not many worldwide carriers that deploy Rev B so there would not be good economies of scale. The best time for Rev B theoretically would have been back in 2008 where Sprint could have deployed Rev B to improve 3G as a fallback to Clearwire Wimax. However without Verizon's backing of Rev B and as we now know the lack of sufficient Ethernet backhaul at legacy Sprint cell towers, it didn't matter if you had Rev A or Rev B since the average user did not achieve speeds even close to the theoretical maximum of Rev A of 3.1 Mbps so the costs of Rev B would have been wasted.

What I have noticed is the majority of Ohio cities like Cleveland, Cincinatti, Columbus, etc are in the Samsung NV region but they use Motorola legacy hardware. I wonder if Sprint is going to do anything similar to speed up deployment in these cities like Chicago so that customer service does not suffer like it did initially in Chicago due to the call handoff situation between NV and legacy hardware.

Looks like Tmobile is picking up the pace on deploying its LTE network. It seems to be hitting a lot of high pop cities which Sprint has currently deployed or partially deployed. Honolulu, Cleveland, Cincinatti, Columbus being listed is a blow to Sprint customers since those are cities that Sprint has not begin NV or have any LTE. Tmobile can make Sprint a run for its money and make them a viable competitor. The lack of sufficient backhaul for LTE in place at all Sprint legacy sites is really hurting their deployment schedule. Atlanta – Sandy Springs, Marietta, San Antonio Austin – Round Rock, San Marcos (May Launch) Part of the Carolinas – Charlotte, Rock Hill Chicago – Joliet, Naperville Cincinnati – Dayton Cleveland Connecticut – Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk Columbus – Mentor Dallas – Fort Worth, Arlington Denver – Aurora, Broomfield Detroit – Warren Honolulu – Maui (May Launch) Long Island, New York and New Jersey – specific areas unknown Los Angeles – Pasadena, West Covina, West LA, Metro LA, Burbank, Beverly Hills Oklahoma City Orlando Miami – Fort Lauderdale Minneapolis – St Paul, Bloomington (May Launch) New England – Boston, Cambridge Philadelphia – Camden, Wilmington (May Launch) Sacramento – Arden, Arcade, Roseville, Fresno San Diego -Carlsbad, San Marcos San Francisco – Oakland Seattle – Tacoma, Bellevue Tampa Tulsa – (May Launch) Phoenix – Tucson (May Launch) http://www.tmonews.c...r-may-and-june/

I am curious what is Tom's view on the spectrum discrepancy among wireless carriers particularly between the big 2. I really hope that Tom will crack down on Verizon and ATT on the amount of low band spectrum they can obtain as well as the total amount of spectrum in their holdings in general. If Tom can help the smaller carriers in Sprint, Tmobile, US Cellular, Leap, etc bring some parity to the big 2, then I would be very happy with this FCC chairman.

I don't know exactly when Sprint began applying to the FCC for broadband operation in SMR 800 MHz. If it took several years then you are correct in that it wouldn't have made much of a difference since the earliest Sprint could use this spectrum for CDMA/LTE/EVDO is now. However if it was possible to apply back in 2008 with a plan to shut down Nextel in 2010 and could have gotten approval for SMR 800 MHz broadband usage say in 2010 or 2011, it would have been nice to have used 800 MHz to enhance the Sprint network with 800 MHz CDMA and EVDO for better voice and data penetration.

I have no problem with Sprint selling Wimax devices like the GS2 on prepaid with Virgin and Boost Mobile since it is still a decent phone. I just don't want to see Sprint postpaid customers who can be tied for another 2 years with a Wimax handset. While Sprint has the obligation to support Wimax until 2015, the goal isn't to continue to load the Wimax network with new customers but to support those current customers who have Wimax access until its time for them to naturally buy a new handset. Sprint can't add new Wimax customers if the option isn't there. Sprint should be encouraging postpaid customers to buy LTE phones regardless even though they don't have LTE in their area because LTE should be hitting every mid to large city in some scale by mid 2014. Ideally Sprint would want to shut down Wimax sooner if it could and refarm that Wimax spectrum for TD-LTE use so it doesn't have to support 2 different networks. Remember that if Sprint owns 100% of Clearwire, those contracts to support Wimax to 2015 would be modified if Sprint sees fit that it is ready to move to TD-LTE quicker.

Tick tick tick...nextel iden users, time is running out. I can't believe there are people still on the iden network given that they have had over a 1.5 years notice that its going to be shut down in June 2013. I guess people like to ride stuff to the end with no exit strategy. Personally if I was an iden user, I would have either switched to Sprint Direct Connect if I liked the price point or switched to Verizon or ATT with good PTT services. Hanging on for this long hoping that Sprint would suddenly change their mind is ridiculous. Sprint should have added the $10 premium data charge in 2011 to get the iden users off quicker.