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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Trip said:

    I've been in half a panic about this merger because there's been no word at all about what happens to Shentel.  I found this article this morning, which is making me feel better, though I want to wait to hear something for certain:

    https://seekingalpha.com/article/4096992-real-winner-sprint-t-mobile-merger

    The link to the agreement being discussed in the article is here:

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354963/000114036115031058/ex10_2.htm

    The summary seems to be that in the case of this merger, Sprint either has to buy out Shentel at a premium, sell the T-Mobile customers and network in the Shentel region to Shentel at a discount, or shut down the T-Mobile network in the Shentel region.  One of the latter two options would make me happy.

    - Trip

    Fascinating.   Shentel bought nTelos for $640 Million..  Current market cap of SHEN is almost 2 billion right now....   Buy some SHEN stock!

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    The problem in Baton Rouge wasn't speeds, it was coverage. AT&T literally has 2-3 macro sites for almost every Sprint site in the area, whereas you still in 2017 can't drive across the city without ending up on 3G. They added a total of TWO (EDIT: THREE) new macro sites during Network Vision, and cancelled about two dozen planned builds.

    I wonder what ever happened to that site downtown that gave him fits and they never upgraded.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    SPRINT AND OPEN MOBILE SEEK FCC CONSENT TO THE ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF LICENSES AND AN INTERNATIONAL SECTION 214 AUTHORIZATION IN PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

     

    https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-527A1.pdf

     

     

     

    Sprint PR Spectrum LLC, Nextel of Puerto Rico, Inc., Sprint Puerto Rico Holdings LLC, and SprintCom, Inc., as subsidiaries of Sprint Corporation (collectively, Sprint), and PRWireless, Inc., d/b/a Open Mobile (Open Mobile, and together with Sprint, the Applicants), have filed applications pursuant to Sections 214 and 310(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,1 seeking Commission consent to a multi-step transaction resulting in the assignment or transfer of control of licenses and authorizations to a new limited liability company, PR Wireless PR, LLC (PRW). At the conclusion of the transaction, PRW would be jointly owned (indirectly) by Sprint and Open Mobile. Sprint would have a 68 percent economic interest and a 55 percent voting interest, and Open Mobile would have a 32 percent economic interest and a 45 percent voting interest in PRW. Sprint would have majority control of the governing Board of Directors and the owners of Open Mobile would be represented on the Board and continue to be active in the management and operations of the company.

     

    Open Mobile would assign its two Personal Communications Service (PCS) licenses, one Lower 700 MHz C Block license, microwave licenses, and an international Section 214 authorization to PRW. In addition, all of Open Mobile’s operations, including wireless network assets, employees, retail stores, and retail subscribers in Puerto Rico, would be transferred to PRW as part of the proposed transaction. Sprint would contribute seven 1.9 GHz PCS licenses, constituting all of its 1.9 GHz spectrum covering Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), two Broadband Radio Service (BRS) licenses and its interest as a spectrum lessee under a third BRS license (the BRS licenses and spectrum leasing arrangement provide coverage only in Puerto Rico), and microwave licenses to Sprint PR Spectrum LLC, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of PRW. In addition, Sprint would convey all of the related wireless network assets, employees, retail stores, and prepaid subscribers to PRW, and would pay a revenue-based fee to PRW for managing all post-paid subscribers.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Horizontal integration is purchase of someone in the same business arena. Vertical integration is purchase someone up a business/supply chain. Time Warner is a content producing company, and T is a content provider company. Thus, monopolistic concerns are less in these acquisitions, but doesn't mean there aren't concerns with T and Time Warner merger. I expect this will sail through after rigorous review by regulators and intense lobbying efforts from T and Time Warner.

     

    Paramount Pictures used to control a movies production, distribution and the exhibition (the theatre). In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that level of vertical integration violated anti-trust. One could argue this merger could be a modern day version of this integration. Time Warner/ATT could in theory control HBO (production of a movie) and then only allow it to be shown on U-verse/ATT wireless devices.

     

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.

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    Network Vision/LTE - LA Metro Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    Well, I made a FCC complaint, Not really  against Sprint, but San Bernardino County.  Here's Sprint's response...

     

     

    See attached.

     

    In short, Sprint places the blame for the slow San Bernardino retune on the the IBEZ and the Mexico side not rebanding their 800mhz  Apparently SB County can't reband their 800mhz Safety freq until Mexico side rebands first.   And Sprint can't deploy 800mhz LTE until SB County rebands.  A domino effect.  So until the IBEZ is rebanded, and than SB County, LA Metro and other So Cal areas will have to wait for 800MHZ LTE.

     

     

    Did you know that Trump promised that his proposed wall will not only block people from entering the country, but it will also block all RF to/from Mexico?  Problem solved!

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    Sprint Wifi Calling.....

    in General Topics

    Posted

    This is a very long thread so I apologize if this has been covered earlier earlier in the discussion -- but has this been happening to anyone else?

     

    WiFi Calling has been practically useless to me on both my iPhone 6 and HTC One M9. The iPhone 6 is on my work phone and account and the HTC is my personal line -- so the accounts are completely different, so it has to be a network level thing...

     

    So has anyone else had these types of problems -- and more importantly, have you found a solution?

     

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    Honestly, I've never had one issue with wifi calling on my iPhone..    Anything unique to your home network setup?

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    RF Analyzer, SDRTouch, and RTL-SDR

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I have a little USB SDR that I picked up for $35. I run it for a ADS-B receiver (airplane traffic). Never tried it for what you are thinking but it should work just fine.

     

    The most important thing on those is the proper antenna for the frequency you are looking for.

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    All of Washington IBEZ?

    in General Topics

    Posted

     

    Washington has 800Mhz Rebanding problem. Public Safety 800 rebanding is way to slow in WA.   WADOT and Department of Correction are the offending agencies.

     

     

     

    http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/partners/region43/Default.htm

     

    There next meeting just couple days away.

    • Meeting date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
    • Meeting time: 10 a.m. or Immediately following the 700 MHz RPC meeting.
    • Meeting location: Sparling. Directions are available here.

     

     

    Don't hold your breathe --

     

    Improving Public Safety Communications in the 800 MHz Band Request for Waiver by the State of Washington - EDOCS
    May 13, 2016 - ORDER

    Granted the request of State of Washington for an extension until December 31, 2016 to complete the rebanding of its 800 MHz system

     

     

    http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0513/DA-16-537A1.pdf

    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    No. I typically bus down since it's closer to my school. I have thought about taking Acela recently though since I have a few friends that often do that.

    Just curious. I took the Amtrak from DC to the city once. What an enjoyable ride - and of course it was fun watching the phone change towers and sectors.

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    Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    I drove from Boston to NYC again last night. I had LTE throughout Massachusetts until I hit the CT/MA border where I was on 3G for about 20-30 minutes. There was sporadic LTE that was pretty weak as if I were at the edge of a cell until I got just northeast of Hartford, CT. From there until I got to NYC I don't recall dropping LTE once. There were a few areas where the signal got low but then it jumped up pretty quickly again. This is something that I envied since my mother is on Verizon and never seems to drop LTE. Well finally I can say that I took a long roadtrip and barely dropped LTE too!!!

    You ever take the Acela train from Boston to NYC?

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