ericdabbs

It is a known fact that 3G and 4G Wimax handoff does not exist. I think its the fact that Wimax was still in its infancy with only Sprint as the only carrier to support Wimax and never took off. I assume that if Wimax had been successful, the chip makers would have found a way to do SVWimax between Wimax and 3G. I guess the reason why it bugs us Wimax users of the lack of SVWimax is because Wimax coverage is just so flaky at best and its a pain to switch between 3G and 4G manually even with 3G and 4G widgets on your main screen. I found out this fact early when I first got my Photon 4G last year and tried to do 4G to 3G handoff and was unsuccessful.

To your first bullet point, why should the iPhone 5 include support for LTE at AWS frequencies when the FCC just approved it late last month? Do you understand that it takes months of testing out the antennas for the AWS frequencies and Verizon nor Tmobile has yet to deploy LTE on AWS frequencies so why the rush? Not only does it take months to test out the antennas for AWS frequencies, it would need to be FCC approved at least 2 months before deployment and the iPhone 5 has been in final production for at least over the past month or 2. I don't think you have an understanding at all at how complicated it is and its not just as simple as adding some band classes to a phone on the fly. To your second point, why should AT&T have PCS 'G' block support for LTE? Sprint is the only carrier that has access to broadcast LTE in the 'G' block and is a CDMA carrier so it makes sense to me that the CDMA version of the iPhone 5 should only have band class support for the PCS 'G' block. I don't understand at all why you think the AT&T phone should have this band class included. I think you need to do a lot more research to find out more about how band classes and phones work. I don't think anyone on this board is surprised that the observations you posted are not included.

After looking at the updated schedule completion for the first round markets based on the current monthly completion rate, it makes more sense now that big cities like LA, NYC, Dallas, Washington DC, Boston, etc will take another 6-12 months to complete the market entirely. I was really starting to wonder how the heck can these vendors make up so much time especially San Antonio which originally was suppose to be 100% by October 2012.

great to hear about Boston LTE sites coming online.

I played with the Motorola Photon Q this past weekend at a Sprint store and I must say its a pretty solid device. At first I was adamant on not wanting another QWERTY keyboard smartphone since they add thickness. As I started playing with it, I actually kinda liked typing on the QWERTY keyboard again since the keys are nicely spaced out thanks to a 4.3 inch screen. It reminded me of the days I was using a HTC Touch Pro with the QWERTY keyboard. I will never be truly satisfied with a touch screen keyboard since I find the buttons to be too close to each other. Some small beef I have with the Photon QWERTY keyboard is that since it is on a 4.3 inch screen vs. a 2.7 inch screen on my HTC Touch Pro that I find my thumbs to be reaching a bit to type horizontally. Also I don't like the fact that the battery wasn't much larger than 1785 maH (should have been at least 2000 to 2200 maH minimum) and the fact that it only has 8 GB ROM storage (about 5 GB after Android software). Nevertheless, I do like the phone and comparing it to my Photon 4G, I say its a solid device and definitely would suite the customers who have been looking for high end QWERTY smartphones.

I really wish Sprint would hire some web page design folks and create some better looking coverage maps. They look like they were created by a 10 year old. For one thing they need to make a national map that takes up the whole web page on the screen like Verizon does it with tabs to show which cities have LTE. Not only that but they also need a dedicated page to show which cities currently have LTE. They used to have a page dedicated to show which cities have Wimax but they took that away.

I don't know about HSPA+ but wasn't part of the AT&T/Tmobile break up deal include a roaming agreement with AT&T? So I at least for voice, Tmobile voice should be enhanced with AT&T roaming for coverage. I am sure HSPA+ was part of the deal as well. I mean if you think about it, if Sprint can benefit from 1x and EVDO roaming on Verizon why can't Tmobile do the same thing with GSM and HSPA+ on AT&T.

No I don't think Sprint will lower their prices since the Sprint Everything plan is already cheaper than Tmobile's proposed unlimited data plan. Sprint's Everything plan is $79.99 ($69.99 + $10 premium data) while Tmobile's new unlimited plan starts at $89.99 on 9/5 which is $10 more than Sprint's plan. Until they can beat Sprint's plan I don't see Sprint lowering their prices.

+1. I totally agree with all your sentiments.

Al Going back to the 3GPP to ask for a new band class should not deter Sprint from pursuing the H block. If they need to get it they should do it. What about the AWS-4 bands that planned to be auctioned. Aren't they going to require a new band class when LTE will be deployed on them. Other carriers are going to have to go back to the 3GPP to create a new band class for AWS-4 spectrum.

The only rant I have about your post is that this is not in the General Topics section. Try to keep Network Vision related discussions and news in this forum and all other stuff in the General Topics section.

I can tell you without a doubt right now that the Sprint iPhone 5 will only support 1900 MHz LTE. No LTE phones in 2012 thus far have supported 800 MHz LTE. Sprint is still in the process of doing lab testing with 800 MHz in remote areas where there are no Nextel customers. Since 800 MHz LTE will not start to come online until 2H 2013 since iDEN will be shut down by June 30, 2013. Expect the Sprint iPhone 6 in Fall 2013 and Android LTE phones in 2013 to include 800 MHz and 1900 MHz LTE support.

+1. I use SVWimax all the time on my Photon 4G.

I am glad that Sprint is deploying indoor and outdoor models for small cells. Definitely any small cells indoors or outdoors that can relief the macro network is more than welcome. Not only that but since Sprint primarily deploys LTE in the 1900 MHz spectrum, hopefully small cells can increase the overall coverage of the LTE footprint.

Robert. Based on what you know right now, is A/L still on track for up to 110 sites a month in Los Angeles as listed in your article? It doesn't seem like Los Angeles is moving fast enough for a end of september launch. Are the stinkin birds holding up progress in LA?

Yes I agree with your assessment. If anything Sprint should buy all their PCS spectrum licenses and nothing more. If Sprint can't buy all of the PCS spectrum licenses, I would much rather have Sprint try to acquire all of Leap's PCS 'C' block spectrum (1902.5 - 1910 MHz, 1982.5 - 1990 MHz). I just looked at the omega map below to see which PCS spectrum licenses would be most lucrative and used AJ's Sprint PCS spectrum Google docs for reference. If the all of the PCS 'C' block spectrum were to be purchased, it would help increase some of those larger markets that have only 20 MHz like Houston, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Nashville, Memphis, Fresno, Raleigh, Cincinnati, Tulsa. Also some of those 30 MHz markets would be enhanced such as Phoenix, San Diego, Austin, San Antonio, Tucson, Portland, Kansas City, Louisville, Syracuse, Little Rock, Wichita. http://specmap.sequence-omega.net/

So Kentucky could be on the list as a potential late 2nd round market just like Phoenix, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Missouri, Milwaukee?

Please refer to this thread. I know you guys are new but please look at the stickies that contain articles for each of the upcoming first and second round markets including (Nashville and Memphis). It can avoid a lot of forum clutter when many of these questions have been asked over and over. Also if you guys become sponsors, you can get exclusive access to a map Robert has been making of all active LTE sites as they come online. Thread of info for all upcoming first and second round markets http://s4gru.com/ind...t-running-list/ Nashville market update http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-285-nashville-network-visionlte-deployment-schedule-update/ Memphis market update http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-280-memphis-network-visionlte-deployment-schedule-update/

Love this news. So I guess Sprint is going to use these Alcatel Lucent's lightRadio Metro cells as their picocells in malls, stadiums and areas of high traffic demand to relieve capacity of the macro network. I don't know if any other carrier has announced plans for picocells yet.

AT&T should be forced to shut down way sooner than that. They should move everyone to at least HSPA+ by now. Too bad the FCC or some body can tell AT&T to shut down sooner. I would have given AT&T by end of 2015 to shut down 2G.

Well if that is the case then I hope the deal gets cancelled and screws up Verizon and Comcast. I have a feeling Verizon would somehow persuade Comcast to accept the deal even though they may not want to. Not to mention that AT&T and Tmobile wants this deal to approve so that Tmobile can get the AWS spectrum swap and AT&T can buy up the 700 MHz 'B' block spectrum. I thought Sprint had some conditions it wanted to be included as part of the deal if it were to be approved to be something like fair access and reasonable backhaul rates from cable companies so that Verizon is not given favors. Maybe someone can chime in on this topic.

Josh....I'll let AJ explain the details but yes you are right in that the 14 MHz slice is not nationwide and the region of the US that I know for sure that has less than 14 MHz slice is in the southeast region of the US like Atlanta. Since SoutherLinc owns a decent portion of 800 MHz that hugs right next to the ESMR band and doesn't provide enough guard band between iDEN and CDMA so Sprint has to move up their center freq of the CDMA carrier and LTE carrier to a higher channel number than what they would do for a market which has the full 14 MHz slice . I think this is why people say those regions have less than 14 MHz of useable 800 MHz spectrum. If anything those areas that have less than 14 MHz slice could still deploy a 1x Advanced CDMA and a 3x3 MHz LTE carrier to still supplement the 1900 MHz LTE. Dan Hesse has said in most areas that have 14 MHz slice that they anticipate to deploy a 1x Advanced CDMA and a 5x5 LTE carrier.

Alright I'll tell you despite what Odell has said about sometimes things better left unknown since you are so darn curious. You probably going to laugh at this but hentai is essentially Japanese cartoon pornography and usually its hardcore. Think of a porn video in cartoon form and that is hentai. Not sure why anyone would prefer cartoon porn over real porn but I'll just leave it at that.

Hahaha he stream his hentai collection over LTE. Thats funny. I don't know anyone that has ever downloaded hentai.

Where is this post that you are referring to? San Jose should not have started yet.