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That is what I am doing. At first, I was set on getting the Galaxy S4 but after seeing that the Sprint Galaxy S4 still only supports 1900 MHz LTE and getting to like the Galaxy Note series more, I am definitely waiting for the Galaxy Note 3 to come out to upgrade. I just hope the Note 3 has tri-band LTE support.

What do you mean the system is being oversold? You mean that too many customers jumped onto 4G LTE causing the LTE experience to decline? Houston is still being actively deployed and since you are not a sponsor, you obviously have no insight as to which towers have LTE in Houston. As a premier sponsor or a sponsor, you will have access to see which towers in any market deployed with Network Vision are active.

What I don't get out of this Sprint/Dish/Clearwire circus is that how can Clearwire be allowed to receive funds from Crest Financial or entertain deals with Dish when it is in the process of receiving approval for a Sprint/Softbank/Clearwire merger. Shouldn't Clearwire be in a state where they can't be messing around with other deals. If Clearwire accepts Crest Financial funding, doesn't it complicate things? It just seems like in a way Clearwire is not happy at all about being bought out by Sprint/Softbank even though they have relied entirely on Sprint for funding for the last few years. If they think they can survive by themselves without Sprint they are drinking some Crest and Dish kool-aid.

All spectrum has a finite amount of time for deployment or else lose it so the S-band is not any different. The point is that S-band spectrum is still useful spectrum given that it has been blessed by the FCC and 3GPP for LTE use. Yes there are no antennas or radios that are built to take advantage of this spectrum currently but Sprint didn't have any of that either when it decided to use the PCS G block and ESMR spectrum for LTE. Its possible and it will be done for whoever plans to use the S-band spectrum.

The S-band spectrum is still valuable in a sense that it can be used for LTE deployment. That is a huge contrast to the L-band spectrum that Lightsquared owned that is basically useless. Sure Dish can demand a huge premium for it and scare the major wireless carriers from wanting to bid for it but if push came to shove, if Dish does not do anything with that spectrum they would either just eat the cost of buying the spectrum and never deploy it or just fire sale it to at least get back their original cost and maybe a small premium. Dish in my opinion has more to lose than anybody. Charlie still thinks he can play hardball and bully the other wireless carriers to coming to his terms. Little does he know that none of the major carriers have any interested in helping him since they are all busy building out their own LTE networks to compete. The sentiment that the major carriers are displaying thus far for their interest in S-band spectrum indicate that Dish has no leverage but that does not mean its not valuable. S-band spectrum is located in nice frequency that has decent propagation and capacity that would be hugely beneficial to any network. All the wireless carriers have made significant spectrum acquisitions recently Verizon (SpectrumCo AWS spectrum deal), ATT(bought Echostar 700 MHz E-block spectrum, 700 MHz B-block from Verizon, WCS spectrum LTE approval), Tmobile (MetroPCS deal), Sprint (Softbank and Clearwire deal) so purchasing additional spectrum in S-band from any of the wireless carriers at this point would be highly scrutinized. A deal for Tmobile/MetroPCS is not going to happen even after Tmobile and MetroPCS goes public for a few years. That is just a pipe dream. The US wants to have 4 major competitors in the market to compete for consumers. Sprint has a better chance of snatching up Cricket before they can snatch up Tmobile/MetroPCS. Analysts can weigh in and stuff and think that Sprint will eventually buy out Tmobile/MetroPCS but I don't see that happening now assuming Tmobile/MetroPCS doesn't fall into an abyss. As for Clearwire, I would like to see Sprint definitely hold onto all of the 55 MHz of BRS spectrum and some EBS spectrum. Although I am not too sure if Softbank would be too thrilled if they just bought Clearwire knowing that they would access to a huge swath of 2.5 GHz of spectrum only to divest 75% of it away despite the complications with EBS leases. Also I don't know if it will be that easy to just sell the majority of EBS spectrum to Dish. Dish is not stupid and does realize that it is intensely fragmented all over the US and would have to deal with all the EBS leases.

The investment in the S-band has worked out for Dish so far in that it was able to get FCC approval for LTE use and got 3GPP approval which is a win in itself. This makes the S-band spectrum valuable. Whether Dish decides to use it build out a LTE network or sell the S-band spectrum, Dish will have made a profit on it.

I think that at the moment, Clearwire is focused on trying to get the Sprint/Softbank/Clearwire merger completed that they have not worried too much about pumping out TD-LTE devices/hotspots out into the market since their major customer will be Sprint. I think once the merger is approved by the FCC hopefully in June and the vote is in favor of the merger, Clearwire will bring more focus back to TD-LTE for 2H 2013. But the GTI effort is still working hard around the world to ensure devices and interoperability between FDD and TDD LTE is supported. Also since Softbank does have TD-LTE working in Japan, they can bring their expertise to Sprint and Clearwire to create compatible 2.5 GHz devices.

Josh, you might want to update your OP for the HTC One. It is going to be on sale for Sprint April 19th with preorders beginning April 5th. http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2547

Clearwire has said in the Q4 CC that they have about 1000 sites mostly complete with their TD-LTE overlay. I am not sure if they are just waiting for backhaul or site approval. Just because Clearwire doesn't have its TD-LTE network enabled doesn't mean it hasn't begun construction. Besides, even back in Dec 2011, Sprint made an agreement with Clearwire with a prepayment that they will begin to use Clearwire's TD-LTE capacity beginning mid year 2013 so there wouldn't be any enabled sites currently anyways. Of course now with the pending merger transaction, Sprint and Clearwire don't need to uphold to their time line of mid 2013. I expect that we may see some Clearwire LTE by late 2013. With 800 MHz LTE deployment, the majority of the hard work is complete. From what I have been reading to add 800 MHz LTE is a carrier card in the BTS and some testing. Maybe in some cases like Ericcson, they may need to add another RRU at the top of the tower to support 800 MHz LTE but I believe A/L and Samsung already have the tower top equipment in place in the initial Network Vision construction build. So I can see 800 MHz LTE deployment much faster than the 1900 MHz LTE rollout given that 800 MHz LTE will not be rolled out at each tower. I expect to see some 800 MHz LTE coverage before end of 2013.

It makes sense in theory that Sprint should begin pushing Tri-band LTE support devices later on this year. We'll have to see with Sprint devices later on this year if they actually include tri-band LTE support. Depending on when the iPhone 5S is released, it could be the first LTE device with tri-band LTE support or it could be the Galaxy Note 3.

I hope this is true that they divert their attention to Tmobile/MetroPCS. LEAVE CLEARWIRE ALONE!!!! to Sprint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

I wonder if latency is better on average between FDD-LTE or TD-LTE.

Its easy to think you are the fastest when the Tmobile LTE network is not loaded. Those speeds are impressive but Sprint had similar LTE speeds when the first 4 markets were released.

Does LTE band class 26 for the 800 MHz ESMR band approved include frequencies from 806-824 and 851-869 MHz OR is it just 817-824 and 862-869 MHz?

That is a no brainer if you can still get $100 for an old HTC TP2.

Until Googlerola can come up with a flagship phone that everyone in the world can identify with like all the other major manufacturers have now like the Galaxy S, Optimus G, or One series, Motorola will be behind. Motorola has done a good job with the Droid series with the RAZR and RAZR MAXX thus far however those phones are only exclusive to Verizon customers. Motorola has not made any significant phones for the other carriers in ATT, Sprint or Tmobile. The trend from phone manufacturers is to move away from exclusive carrier phones to releasing worldwide flagship phones to simplify manufacturing and economies of scale to reduce the number of models produced per year.

Basically all of the major carriers besides Sprint have had all their towers upgraded to fiber/microwave backhaul prior tothem adding LTE. So adding LTE is a much quicker process throughout a market, hence faster release date times. Even Tmobile with their "Network Vision" of adding Antenna Integrated Radios (AIR) antennas has been much quicker to deploy due to having existing fiber/microwave backhaul in place.Obtaining proper fiber/microwave backhaul is a huge bottleneck, besidesthe whole permitting process, and has slowed down or halted numerous Sprint Network Vision sites from starting up or completing. Sprint is using Network Vision to add LTE, improve 3G, replace base stations and add fiber/microwave backhaul to its network so the number of tasks that Sprint has to do for each site is at least 3x more than what other carriers have to do to simply add LTE.

Wow 32 GB for only $200. That is a pretty good deal but of course it doesn't have removable storage so it only makes sense that it contains 32 GB stock. I'll definitely be checking out the HTC One at the Sprint stores but I will not be a buyer.

Yes, you are reading it right, the S4 does not have 800 or 2500 MHz LTE support. See AJ's article for more details. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-343-a-short-time-from-now-in-a-galaxy-not-far-away/

Or at least list the 4G LTE cities by state like Verizon does. Currently Sprint does not have a list of what markets have LTE. The Sprint style coverage maps currently are just so ugly and outdated. I just feel that Sprint can do just a better job of displaying this information to the public.

I really wish Sprint would hire a couple of website developers to revamp their coverage maps. It just looks so old and tiny like in the 1990s. I actually liked their 4G Wimax maps with the flash content enabled which had a picture of the US and labelled which cities had Wimax coverage. I really like what Verizon and AT&T, especially Verizon, on what it has done to show their 4G LTE coverage maps and listed the actual cities by state of where they have 4G LTE coverage. Right now, Sprint doesn't display a list of what markets have 4G LTE coverage and people would have to rely on press releases to find out if it has been officially announced which is not how its suppose to be considering most people don't read or pay attention to Sprint press releases.

I would like to see the nexus 5 and the moto "x" phone come to sprint Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

What tool did you use to verify that you were using 800 MHz CDMA? The engineering screen?

Hey josh. The link is to your post in late jan about a samsung dual wimax/lte rrh passing the FCC Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2

Lg optimus g pro Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk 2