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Old map data courtesy of dsatrbs posted to /r/sprint: https://mega.nz/#!dcJEjRJS!2olvjpP-E699qe-bIENZykrfGtPKt8HdhNpSFfTMiTo They also posted t-mobile tilesets and did a comparison map. https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/3y546q/tmobile_1115_to_1215_bonus_sprint_maps/ (edit: They aren't very zoomed in, but maybe you can compare larger differences.)
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How is that not true? If you are being served by a Band 12 cell site (and no others), you can only place a call if VoLTE is turned on. Having VoLTE off is going to kill their "call blocking" statistics.
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Telesales orders in Atlanta can get the deal, just not retail ... Not sure why.
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Meh. The guys life sucks if I'm recalling previous posts correctly, so I'm okay with him getting a good deal on a better network. But it is a bit hypocritical to slam a company and its leadership so hard and then desperately try to get service there.
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Why would you hold the dog instead of taking a capital loss and investing that money in a more worthwhile stock that could produce a higher return? You are falling victim to sunk costs.
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I agree, having gradients is much better. Plus now from desktop you can toggle 700MHz on or off by selecting "device" at the top right corner. Pick "Other phones" and then "My device is not in the list". (I think from Mobile you can do something similar)
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4 for $120 is a limited time promo. Promos ending are always bad, but not unexpected in the least. The base non-promo rates were doubled from 3GB to 6GB.
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Unlimited LTE customers finally got a gift... 14GB of LTE hotspot data included. 14GB!!
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Praise be to Legere. May his blessings be upon you.
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Asus RT-AC68U is a great router. If you want something cheaper and N-only, the Asus RT-N66U is a great performer.
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T-Mobile has coverage in Iowa through iWireless, but they don't count it as native coverage on their maps (even though T-Mobile owns half of iWireless and they have no restrictions on roaming on the iWireless network).
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T-Mobile is port-positive against all carriers. In Q3 2015: 2.1 to Sprint, 2.0 to AT&T and 1.3 to Verizon The opposite ratios are easy to derive. (0.77 T-Mobile to Verizon, 0.5 to T-Mobile to AT&T and 0.47 T-Mobile to Sprint).
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160 million people (half of the US population) live in just the blue counties shaded on this map: http://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-united-states-lives-in-these-counties-2013-9 300 million is trickier, but just imagine that another substantial portion of people live near/around those blue counties. The last 20 million people live in the boonies. T-Mobile is building out 300,000 square miles of brand new coverage by year-end 2015. This includes parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota (three states where they never had any presence), the northern half of Michigan including the Upper Peninsula, and new sites randomly throughout their existing markets to bulk up coverage. 700,000 square miles of LTE will be coming from 2G->LTE and HSPA->LTE conversions on their existing footprint.
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Ouch. In other news today, they are acquiring additional A-block spectrum from AB License Co. No that's not 2.07%, that's 2.07x. For every 100 customers that go from T-Mobile to Sprint, 207 customers go from Sprint to T-Mobile.
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Then lets see some numbers, Marcelo. Analysts don't seem to like it. Yeah, the perception that the service is popular. That's a perception Sprint desperately needs.
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I refer you to post #8545. "If we were in 2009-2010? Great idea." There are great ideas that exist and are simply "before their time" or "after their time". Sorry if you fail to recognize that. I believe that Sprint sees it as becoming revenue generating. Nobody knows for sure, but if it was a smash success or turned out to be a major revenue driver, I'm having a hard time believing they wouldn't be shouting it from the rooftops. There's the additional overhead of cars, equipment, logistics, etc. that are involved with the mobile service that you wouldn't have if you simply hired another person at a store. If there is an issue of tying up store resources, are the stores understaffed? Wouldn't that be a problem easier solved by hiring another person? Or improved demand planning/scheduling?
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On the contrary. I think it's a great idea that arrived 5-6 years too late.
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64% of adults in the US have a smartphone according to the latest Pew survey. This includes 85% of those 18-29 and 79% of those 30-49. The large untapped market of non-smartphone users? Age 65+, with 27% of those owning a smartphone. If Sprint wants to spend untold amounts of money targeting people with one foot in the grave, I guess everyone here thinks that's a smart business decision. You don't have any access to that data either. For all you know, Sprint's internal data may very well show it to be a money losing proposition, but I am not using absence of evidence to base my argument. Do we really need to argue that the older, flip-phone owning demographic is probably not a goldmine? It wouldn't be the first time a large corporation continued to throw good money after bad.
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Direct to you is a waste of money. If we were in 2009-2010? Great idea. 2015? Everyone and their grandma has a smartphone now. I'd bet most current flipphone owners today don't have long for this earth, aren't gonna be long term customers. Not the market Sprint should be targeting.
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As of the end of Q2, Sprint had 30,016,000 postpaid branded subs and T-Mobile had 29,318,000 postpaid branded subs (Sprint has 698,000 more postpaid subs). We know that Legere pre-announced his subscribers for Q3, they gained over 2.1 million net and had 1 million postpaid net adds. Even if Sprint announced that they doubled their net adds from last quarter, T-Mobile would still surpass them in Postpaid, Prepaid, Wholesale, and Total subs as of Q3, making Sprint solidly #4.
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At $5/share, 2.96 billion dollars.
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My armchair analyst opinion of this is that T-Mobile will bid heavily for 10x10 blocks nationally, including in major metros (as both AT&T and Verizon are screened from participating in the reserve portion there). The other 5x5 in the spectrum reserve will go to squatters. Verizon will try and pick up 10x10 or perhaps larger in the non-reserved portion. AT&T will probably bid cautiously, picking up a patchwork of spectrum.
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Well, it does have the disclaimer "Projected by end of 2015" and it is pretty similar to their DT Capital Markets EOY map, just stylized. We still have a little over three months to go. I'm sure they've been working on the expansion all year and we will see large pieces of it come online in the next few months.
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Well, it's currently trading for $3.20/share. If they swooped in today and gave you a $1 premium they could force the sale without issue. And if it went into the $1 range it would be delisted. No use throwing good money after bad.
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They may have to deliver a premium to you, but certainly not three times its value, and they can certainly force you out. By the way for anyone looking, Sprint is now trading where it was pre-earnings and is looking like it will be going lower.
