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Its just that all we have at this point is just hints from Sprint about a possible triband LTE GS4. With the BOGO free GS4 promotion going on right now that tells me that Sprint is aggressively trying to attract customers as well as get rid of their existing inventory. Also the announcement by Samsung about releasing FDD/TDD LTE dual mode GS4 models in the Fall makes it even more plausible that it may come. However I am just not totally convinced until I see a FCC filing of a GS4 model that supports Sprint's triband LTE frequencies with the phone dimensions of the GS4 sometime inn the Fall. I would like an alternative choice which would be a triband GS4 in case I suddenly have 2nd thoughts about getting the Note 3 which is currently my first choice.

It doesn't matter if they don't run LTE and Wimax side by side, the fact is that all the current RRUs on the Wimax sites only support Wimax since they were installed before LTE existed. The current RRUs on all Clearwire sites need to be replaced with new RRUs regardless since the new RRUs support LTE techology. The side benefit of these new RRUs is that they are dual mode Wimax/LTE and can be run at the same time.

Depending on how old the antennas were installed, Clearwire plans to reuse them for LTE since it has the supported 2.5-2.7 GHz frequency range. However all the RRUs on the current sites will need to be replaced with dual mode Wimax/LTE RRUs so it can support Wimax and LTE networks at the same time since all the current RRUs on Wimax sites are only single mode Wimax.

So I was looking at the spectrum map below under Sprint and BRS spectrum, I noticed that Albuquerque is not listed as having any BRS spectrum. Is this true? http://specmap.sequence-omega.net/

I trust you since you work with the Clear partners. I just thought you read it somewhere. This is good news. Any way that Sprint can get rid of the Clear brand and try to shut down Wimax ASAP I am all for it. I just want the 2.5 GHz spectrum refarmed into TD-LTE.

Do you have a link to confirm this? How did you find out about this?

That spreadsheet looks mighty familiar. I wonder where he got the info from for the green blocks.

recently its $199 after rebate. If you bought it in the first 2.5 months it was $250.

Its just 2 bucks. Buy the app for your wife. I am sure Mike would appreciate your contribution.

Yeah you got that right. I am not sure if this is something everyone would want.

In their feature video for the Moto X, they show a guy waking up and he says "Hey Google Now" and Google Now window pops up and then he says "wake me up in 20 minutes" and sets and alarm or "note to self, remind me to buy coffee" and sets a reminder. Here is the video of it. I don't believe any of the current Android phones have this feature or else Google wouldn't be advertising this as a feature for the Moto X. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXyCbrdQEyA

I wasn't too fond of the customized Motorola X8 chipset which is basically a Qualcomm S4 Pro chip and the fact that i has a 720p display. All the customization features such as the back cover should not just be limited to AT&T customers but all carriers. Motorola really needed to offer all the options to try to obtain market share and they failed. I'll be curious to see how this always on Google Now feature works when tech blogs get their hands on it.

I think the pricing at $199 with 2 year contract is a deal breaker. If they really wanted to get some market share away from HTC and Samsung, they needed to price this lower like $149 with 2 year contract. Why would anyone want to get this Moto X phone when they can now get a GS4 and HTC One at the $199 price given the specs of the Samsung and HTC devices. Motorola dropped the ball on this one and I can't wait to drop my Moto Photon for a Galaxy Note 3.

I don't see Sprint bidding on the AWS-3 spectrum especially since they'll probably be participating in the PCS H block and 600 MHz auctions already. A 600/800/1900/2500 network is good enough. Let Tmobile/ATT/Verizon fight for the AWS-3 spectrum. At some point the FCC should enforcing LTE roaming on all the carriers.

I know it cleared the FCC already but I am just thinking from Sprint's marketing and product team's perspective that the Moto X will be released first and I am not sure if they want to have the Moto X and LG OG2 smartphones released at the same time. That is why I think early September would be a more realistic time frame of when the LG OG2 will be released. But I could be wrong and the LG OG2 is released first and the Moto X in September.

Ehh I don't view it that way and I think the general public would also because we are talking about iOS vs. Android which are 2 completely different operating systems. If you are a die hard Android fan, you won't consider the iPhone because of its walled garden, lack of customization, tiny 4 inch screens and if you are a die hard iOS fan, you won't consider Android because of its battery life, sluggishness and huge screens. Besides anyone who is waiting for the iPhone 5S is not all of a sudden going to buy a LG Optimus G2 just because it was released 2 weeks earlier or vice versa. If people don't have the patience to wait 2 more weeks for the smartphone of their choice to use for the next 2 years needs help.

No wonder the fiber backhaul has been delayed because of AT&T. This sums it up.

What is the "report to server" setting that I should have enabled to ensure the data I captured during the trip is uploaded to the Sensorly servers? I want to be able to upload the data while I am out and about as soon as I am done with my trip. I only see the following options: - Only when charging - Only over Wifi - Wake to report to server

I apologize if someone has posted this already but Robert's speedtest results in Denver have made it to an article on the GTI website. S4GRU.com given a shoutout at the GTI website. http://www.lte-tdd.org/second/index.aspx?nodeid=88&page=ContentPage&contentid=781

Its funny that you ask about 700 MHz because you really need to hear the Tmobile representative that spoke before the Energy and Commerce committee and do your research as to why Tmobile didn't bid on 700 MHz. Here is a little history lesson. The first thing you need to remember is the pre-iPhone (before 2007) era where data traffic demand was not that high throughout the US. People would do occasional email or web browsing but certainly Youtube and Netflix traffic did not taken off in 2007 since there was no such thing as a Youtube or Netflix app on any smartphone. The only way you could view Youtube or Netflix was through your computer or smart TV (which were pretty rare back in 2007) at home. We know now that video takes up over half of the mobile data traffic. In 2006, Tmobile went real big and bought a ton of AWS spectrum which the current incumbent was the US government (particularly the DOD). Tmobile was so busy spending the next 2-3 years working on with the US government and the DOD to ensure that spectrum can finally be used for wireless mobile technology. Sprint did the same thing beginning in 2008 to spend the next few years working with the US government to reband the Public Safety SMR band so that it can be used for other purposes. So now comes 2008 and the 700 MHz auction has arrived. Sprint and Tmobile are so busy spending the cash and their time working with the US government on relocating their DOD/public services off of the SMR and AWS spectrum band respectively that they didn't bother bidding on the 700 MHz spectrum. Even with the first generation of the iPhone, the data traffic profile wasn't to the point where they needed 5x5 or 10x10 blocks of spectrum just to compete. So you can't look back knowing what you know now about how the mobile industry has changed dramatically in terms of data traffic profile and blame Tmobile for not bidding on the 700 MHz spectrum. There were other key players in MetroPCS, Leap and US Cellular at the 700 MHz auction and they pretty much came up empty due to the financial power that both ATT and Verizon had to outbid any 700 MHz blocks that they were interested in. This is why Tmobile and the smaller carriers are fighting so hard to have the FCC impose some stricter rules on ATT and Verizon for the 600 MHz auction to ensure ATT and Verizon doesn't try to come in again and flex their financial muscles to outbid the rest of the mobile carriers into getting some 600 MHz spectrum that every mobile carrier badly needs. Yeah right. Try selling Tmobile customers on those 1 Mbps HSPA+ speeds. If Tmobile HSPA+ were only 1 Mbps, they would rather go to Verizon or ATT since that is the average 3G speeds anyways. Tmobile and ATT have a 3G speed advantage over Verizon or Sprint because of the HSPA+ speeds. You take that away from Tmobile and you'll see some PO customers who not only have to deal with slow HSPA+ but poor in building penetration.

Well whether Tmobile has enough AWS or not will be determined if they participate in the AWS-3 auction in the next 2 years. I think AT&T needs the AWS-3 spectrum more than either Verizon or Tmobile but I don't like the fact that ATT would be getting more spectrum. I agree that Tmobile's next block of spectrum they need to obtain is 600 MHz rather than more AWS. However the fact that HSPA+ 42 requires 20 MHz (10x10 block) of bandwidth is a lot of spectrum from Tmobile's perspective.

Someone mentioned the fact that Sprint is having this BOGO free Galaxy S4 promotion right now could hint that Sprint is trying to get rid of all their existing inventory quicker so that it can start shipping in triband Galaxy S4 models to stores for the Fall. It makes sense to me and the timing seems to be pretty good right now. I guess we still have to look out for a Sprint galaxy s4 triband model hitting the FCC to be completely sure.

Getting rid of GSM for Tmobile won't occur still for several years. I don't see Tmobile deploying or refarming PCS spectrum for LTE until it has exhausted all available AWS spectrum resources for LTE. Since there is upcoming AWS-3 spectrum for auction in the next year or 2, you can bet that Tmobile will try to expand their AWS holdings as their main spectrum band for LTE. What Tmobile needs to do is phase out all HSPA+ on AWS spectrum and shift all HSPA+ to PCS spectrum. Then Tmobile can extend their 5x5 LTE markets in AWS to at least 10x10 LTE in many markets to provide more relief. Tmobile has been refarming PCS spectrum for HSPA+ since early 2012 at the same time as they deploy LTE on AWS spectrum. Unfortunately Tmobile for the time being has to keep a HSPA+ carrier on AWS due to older smartphones (pre 2012) that can only connect to HSPA+ on AWS spectrum.

Nice dual speakers are great only for those times that you want to share a video on Youtube or Netflix with your friends or family and it will be nice to hear the sound not from the tiny speaker on back side but rather with dual speakers on the front. But like you said, if I am at an airport, public bathroom, library etc I don't need dual stereo speakers to playing something out loud to annoy people and would use headphones or earphones instead.

First off, keep in mind that AJ's article was written before Tmobile announced their new Challenger strategy which changed their strategy of what technologies are going to be deployed on their AWS and PCS spectrum holdings. At the time, Tmobile deployed HSPA+ on AWS and GSM on PCS and Tmobile did not have a strategy to move to LTE given it just came out of the failed ATT/Tmobile merger. This LTE network sharing partnership idea would have been great for both companies had Tmobile not decide to deploy its own LTE. However, given the new direction of Tmobile from the Challenger strategy to deploy AWS for LTE and maximize their PCS spectrum for HSPA+, I don't see this happening anymore. At this point, both companies have gone far in their separate directions and Sprint needs to focus on their own network to deploy LTE on 800/1900/2500 and not worry about creating a LTE network sharing partnership.