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I can't even... https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnChen/status/719666928218939392 What a comcastrophe, the failure of these guys to get this handset out to us, and in a timely fashion. Sorely disappointed...

Its still possible, but you would need to be usually persistent, or have a legitimate reason to do it. Mazeltov.

To say I am pumped for the first qwerty phone with a relevant spec sheet in two years on this network is a tremendous understatement. I cannot wait to see how she performs! https://mobile.twitter.com/blackberry/status/684818351709917184

After that brief reprieve in the early AM, I'm no longer being allowed to resolve any sites, although the WiMax connection is still fine. End of the road for Clear users?

Perhaps Mr Orange was on to something above. We have sputtered back to life here as well!

I guess I can check again tomorrow if someone doesn't get to it first. I'm also curious about sprint's WiMax users.

I powered on right after Zero hour to check. At first I was slightly surprised to see it acquire signal! But since it has been furtively suggested in other places that the network would remain open to all, not just the non-profit accounts; I must dash those rumblings. It seems regular clearwire accounts are deauthorized.

It was such an advance that you jumped entirely over the EVO 3D, the first dual core HTC in the US!

If I understand you, you are asking why 1x was improved but not LTE? According to the specs of your equipment, 1x (CDMA) is called out as a specifically supported technology, on a specifically supported frequency. LTE is not mentioned (because of the age of the equipment), Although whether that alone would be definitive in the case of a simple repeater I couldn't say. I can tell you however, that the actual frequencies used by the most widely deployed Sprint LTE (PCS G-Block), are not compatible to your equipment.

Color me rainbow'd that AJ's first comment in this thread was comedic in nature. Although I did recently happen across a passage that suggests sucrose acts as an intoxicant to Vulcans?

Seconded.

Somebody call Temporal Investigations?

AppleJack, I think he's saying, on the legacy setup, with multiple carriers spread over multiple (PCS only) antennas, there existed a possibility to have a layered coverage setup by having differing downtilts between the antennas within each sector. With the equipment consolidation (did I see that there were 4 PCS and 2 SMR antennas per Beamwave?) on big sites, the coverage is apparently different to what he had before. I'm wondering if with all the attention now being given to the low/medium/high (SMR/PCS/BRS) solution to the coverage/capacity balance, maybe the objectives are not the same when they are mechanically adjusting the PCS elements since at the very least they are expecting SMR to be along shortly augment range (in addition to the little bit they gained with the RUUs)?

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I thought OFDMA techs didn't do this?

While there is some precedent for phones that might work/have worked on both networks (Galaxy Note II, iPhone 5/4s, Photon Q, Photon 4G, etc...) for them to exercise their combined buying power on the level of any particular handset, I look at mentions of "economies of scale" to mean that together they will have the critical mass to sustain the adoption, improvement, and integration of TD-LTE modem chips and equipment, regardless of the existing voice network, as it is of prime interest to their future machinations. "Economies of scale" is an advantage WiMax fleetingly possessed since it was finished before LTE, but quickly flipped the other way-round

Actually I've had to correct people on sales side who are still advancing the "WiMax will be in your area soon, so buy this today" pitch. Not amazon or 3rd party resellers either, just people who do not pay attention. I don't think this is the same scenario with HSPA however, as people are not openly mooting when that is going to be shuttered. I'm not even sure if blue and magenta are done with their 3G overlays. This, though, is a bit too far. Sprint has paid for WiMax access into 2014, and if that covers the area people use, there is no problem with them selling and using it, millions have gone into that infastructure. The thing that might cause trouble is their intent with Clearwire going forward. If they intend to milk the existing network, fine and dandy; but if they ARE going to scrap all the Clear sites, then selling WiMax phones past a certain date smacks of the startSTOPstart that they have done with Nextel over the years. It doesn't hurt for anyone to be using WiMax phones, but it would be less than ideal if WiMax was killed while people on an active contract were using it, and then had to be offered targeted handset deals like the Nextel lot because their service was "adversely affected". Ah, a middle of the road response! I like it! OT- Ok you guys, what should I look out for on the Photon Q? /OT

Please no? If Charlie's antics and near senile OCD behaviour were confined to the realm of superfluous and expensive tv delivery I would feel much better...

Needs more undulating neon stripes to be on the Now Network My friends used to joke when they revamped the F1 opening sequence a few years ago that it "must have been sponsored by sprint" because there was neon flying everywhere.

You mean SMR, not 700, right?

Not sure if I should start a new thread about this, but the Voyager is part of my inquiry, we'll try here first. As some others have commented, Clear sales people have been pushing the current generation device (Voyager included) out the door with a promise that they will be "LTE ready" when Clear's network is upgraded. Most of us here on the forums would immediately dismiss this chit-chat as people not knowing what they are talking about, much like promises of LTE by a certain date from Sprint sales people. However upon interviewing sales associates and a "manager", who readily admit they don't have any idea what TD-LTE is, or by what nature the devices they are selling would be "upgraded", it was revealed to me that the "LTE ready" line was actually put in their sales literature. This indicates to me that someone several levels removed from facing consumers made this decision.. So how about it? I was and still am of the opinion that handset sized TD-LTE chipsets are not on these fine shores, mostly because i haven't seen any FCC docs about them. Is it possible that the hardware is there but inactive? Or is Clear about to have another class action on their hands?

This is an extremely legit point, I paid $28 on amazon for my 32gb class 10, and it follows me from phone to phone so my crap is always there...

Plus Clear still seems to be of the opinion that they are going to lease out bandwidth to other players on their non-existant network

Well I'm sure that they would want to keep that off their total if this is the motivation, 55mhz is still a lot even if the spectrum cap is supposed to be different now.

opps, you're much faster than my touchpad's keyboard with the feed running in the background!