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Democrats in the Senate are a minority. ...   I don't think it means much.  Also, I don't believe Congress has much say in the overall plot as it's up to the FCC and the Dept of Justice.      If you all remember, Sprint and T Mobile already met with Senators back in May or June.   Don't really know what else can be done.   The FCC has a 180 Day "shot clock".   It can go over 180 days, but not 2 years?!    I'm hoping there is some word/ communication this week or next.     

Octoport 8 port 4T4R 800 (2x RRUS11) + 4T4R 1.9 (RRUS32)

No it appears they're using 16 port antennas, so tri-band. M-MIMO antennas will be separate and much smaller. 

Sprint co location taking place in El Paso.. I’ll get better pics, but I hope it’s not a band 25 only set and received band 41/26 later.. hope they add it all to the site


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Where is this site? Are there any other antennas visible?

Not sure what you mean by that. Nokia is still there. Ericsson was the original and continued provider of B25 and B26 equipment for your area, and now provides B41 equipment as well. Where is the NV (B25/26) antenna?

Are you certain that's new? That looks like a PCS only antenna. Unless there is a SMR capable antenna there as well, I don't see why that would have been installed, if it is in fact a Sprint antenna. 

The article confuses that point though by stating this:
"Some parts of the FCC operation avoid the cut-off of federal funding. These include FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the three FCC commissioners who collectively will decide whether to allow the nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier to merge into the third-largest. Money for their posts comes from sources other than congressional funding, according to the agency’s shutdown plan."
If they are the ones deciding and their job funding isn't tied to congressional funding, then they should be doing work and keep the clock running IMO

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article223821080.html#storylink=c

Will a magic box from ebay work or does it have to be registered with sprint

Sprint going back to band 41 sites and installing new panels.. this is the most active sprint has ever been lol this panel I haven’t seen before


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[emoji91][emoji91][emoji91] .... Wow....

Less competition, higher rates, no thanks.

Ironically enough I have T-Mobile. but now TMobile is also under investigation as well as Verizon for lying about coverage.

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I'm still waiting to see whether spring falls through with the promise of expanding coverage. I've gotten to the point where I will only believe it when I see it. So when I start seeing full LTE service with Sprint at my parents place which gets pretty much Verizon roaming and only one bar of 1 x then I will believe Sprint.

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I'm still interested in seeing if this merger gets cleared I'm not saying yes it's going to happen no it's not going to happen I just leave the odds at 50-50.

 

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Yup, ether way the sprint customer is going to get a better network .. merger or not .. carry the same amount of capex into fiscal 19 should work wonders for sprint and might actual show native coverage expansion .

Sprint has 4 years of T-mobile roaming and can close the gap in the 4 years it took tmo 5

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They have not. The government is on their behinds and may soon start repossessing some o that spectrum.

I really don't have anything else to say about this merger at this point. But I can definitely relate to c-spire though in terms of what's going to happen to Sprint CDMA. Other than that no further comments.

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The FCC historically takes the longest.  Rules on coverage retention, transition of customer phones, area where spectrum must be divested are all to be expected.  It could be turned over to an administrative law judge and possibly take a year based on Shentel-nTelos merger.  I would expect DOJ will add something for the MVNOs.  I expect Dish to be ignored.

With the current administration, all you need is a nice bribe, but I don't want to get political on this forum.

Ya, it’s just seems like everything discussed behind closed doors is coming to light .. TMO: we will spend big in the 600mhz auction dont worry. sprint: don’t worry we will raise our capex And have all of our sites ready with band 41 / some mimo equipment.. so all you gotta do is move the equipment to your sites... Tmo/Sprint: we will both participate in the mmwave auction it’s a win win .

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Yikes, The auction that they needed to participate was the 600mhz one, but since we know they were colluding with Tmobile for a proposed merger it doesn't matter anymore. Sprint has plenty of unused spectrum for 5G, that 120mhz of band 41 would allow them to bring peak speeds of 4Gpbs as 5G mature. Tmobile paying 26 billion for Sprint I would say they got it on the cheap. 

T-Mobile is going to do as they wish, subject to FCC limitations.  The Sprint executives will likely be on some beach figuring out whether their drink umbrellas are adjusted correctly while they watch their enhanced investment portfolios and figure out what they want to do next, if anything.  The joys of golden parachutes!
Most of the Next gen sites I have seen are rural locations often with only Sprint on the tower.  This fits Sprints historical pattern of doing rural areas first.  The comments could point to collusion if the merger review drags out for another year like I think and urban former Clear sites are not Tri-banded as permits indicate.  
The more interesting paragraphs:
"So we've recently improved the liquidity again by expanding the term loan B by just over a billion dollars and more importantly in many regards from my respect putting in place this amendment to the term loan B documentation which then allows us to potentially significantly up size the spectrum notes if the merger didn't get approved, and if we had to pay for standalone life."
"...this last quarter we returned to wireless service revenue growth year-on-year. We expect that level of wireless service revenue growth to continue for the foreseeable future...  ...Now we don't expect that level of growth to expand materially, but we do think that the level of growth that we've now got is sustainable. So once you get through a few quarters of that, all of a sudden you start to generate year-on-year wireless revenue, service revenue on a full year basis. So there's a revenue growth story."
source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4226498-sprint-corporation-s-management-presents-bank-america-merrill-lynch-leveraged-finance?part=single
 

"Free agents", this implies that a person could go out and buy a top of the line phone on lease or installments or 24 month contract that they can not really afford and expect that when the merger is approved in the first half of next year, as mentioned by Legere, their outstanding amount would be forgiven.  Is that really what you meant to say?  I could not find it in the article or transcript (perhaps I missed it).  I would hate to see others get in trouble based on this.

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Again, I posted it earlier , but Braxton carter said: at the beginning if merger is approved sprint customers will remain on the sprint network and resume as normal.. anyone new signing up with sprint will automatically be placed on the TMO network.. Once TMO feels enough capacity is added to the network ( current sprint customer) become free agents and can sign up with the new TMO( which is believe current sprint customers will receive an enticing deal). Those were Braxton Carter’s words at a conference.. So, sprint customers will not be able to keep there plans according to this strategy. TMO roaming will remain open to sprint customers as well in the mean time .. as T-Mobile works on integrating the networks.. also , the new T-Mobile will become a self funded company

 They will issue bonds in dollars and Euros for $19 billion of debt refinancing,  $4 billion for liquidity, $7 billion for loan B debt. This includes bi-lateral with Deutsches Telekom, for a total of $19 Billion.  That will give the new T-Mobile $70 billion in high yield debt.   They do have consents for Sprint and T-Mobile bond holders.

This article also mention $10 billion of integration spending.

So, expect higher pricing , as the new tmo is going to be spending big money the first few years into the merger

 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2018/12/10/t-mobile-braxton-carter-sprint-takeover-strategy.amp.html

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I'd imagine that B41 on LTE will be used for a while while 5G equipment gets deployed.  Especially by the time the merger wraps up Sprint will have B41 on a vast majority of their macros.  Already near 70% aren't they? Until a large chunk of phones support 5G, adding ~50million customers while removing 60MHz of LTE seems crazy. 
I imagine this will be a slow multiple year process. 
It took Tmobile 2 years with Metro, ~10million customers and shutting down 10,000 sites.  Yeah, Tmobile has experience here, but this is 5x the project, nationwide, and they are talking about taking it at a per market basis while getting it done in the same amount fo time?  Plus we don't even know any restrictions the FCC may place on Tmobile that could mess with timelines. Seems very optimistic.  If they can pull it off, more power to them, but it's a huge project!

Well well well! We getting some love! Spotted at Montano finally!