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Not going to have anything to do with Sprint /T-Mobile. Different industries and the fact that GM can't sell their cars doesn't mean much in the overall economic picture by itself. 

Unfortunately Sprint is likely to fail if the merger doesn't go through. 

FCC to resume "Shot Clock" on merger early December:
FCC to resume review of Sprint T Mobile merger
And:
Look near the bottom part of Article for the DOJ standing as of now....  
CNBC Exclusive: CNBC Transcript: U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Division Makan Delrahim Speaks with CNBC's David Faber

I dont know what they mean exactly. The networks have already been combined in project fi. A great deal of both subscriber bases have phones that can use either spectrum. From the end user point of view I dont see what would take three years. 

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-inks-533m-reciprocal-long-term-spectrum-lease-deal-sprint?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=rss
 
So spectrum will exchange hands via lease soon. Any ideas which areas will be impacted the most?

This isn’t very good news at all. Sprint is approaching dangerous territory here.   

 

Sprints capex isn’t proportional to their adds .. so they are spending way more then what they are making and adding to the company

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They have 2.5 GHz deployed on roughly 70% of their sites. Dr. Saw said they “remain on track to complete the majority of our triband upgrades by the end of this fiscal year.”

That would be 3/31/2019 and the Earnings Call for last year was held on May 2, 2017.

The network should be mature and ready to compete at its best by that time, but the customers losses are increasing and Marcelo said it won’t get better going into their Q3 as promos are ending customer are leaving .. even after the network improvements posted by sprint and confirmed by 3rd party testing firms

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Sprint posted a post paid phone net loss of 34 thousand

Sprint lost 14K pre paid customers

Churn is on the rise YoY now @ 1.73% good timing to uphold their argument to the FCC and DOJ

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If they update/upgrade all sites with B26, VOLTE should be fine. Of course they might still need more sites for garden variety data.

One wierd thing I saw was that Sprint took a hit in Call Performance. Interesting. I have not noticed this. Perhaps I missed a Calling Plus or VoLTE.

Another Sprint band 41/26 upgrade.. 2 more left

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I read the new T-Mobile's strategy quite differently. Never hurts to have more low band capacity - 5g will about double their 600 MHz speeds. In some areas they may have an untouched 600 MHz reserved for 5g. Their strategy also called for making b41 all 5g. Likely would do the same with other bands as quickly as possible. Also to hold on to enough Sprint sites to cover several years growth (a lot of Sprint sites are cosites). For extra 5g capacity they have started buying 28mm (already have 800MHz in lots of Ohio) and likely would continue an auction. Don't forget more 2.5 will come up soon for auction (mostly rural and small cities).
 
Masa's strategy has always been to get critical mass to compete against the duo. I think Sprint has given various options a reasonable try in recent years. More money would always be nice, but marketing strategy has always been the weakness. In business timing is everything. Can't be too early or too late. T-Mobile sucked the air out of the room as far as Sprint is concerned.
 
Masa could likely buy a larger share at a later date if desired.
 

 
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Are there criteria which determine whether UL B41 CA is active and that disable HPUE?
Is this determined by the network or on the device itself?
Or, will a device like the iPhone XS always have HPUE enabled, which disables UL B41 CA?

5 CA DL for B41. Just double checked the FCC filings. 
Pixels --> https://s4gru.com/forums/topic/7893-pixel-3-xl-in-fcc-oet/
 

The fact a modem supports a technology doesn't matter. It's down to the manufacturer to license the specific technology and engineer the device's RF hardware to take advantage of it.  The iPhones are (not XR) are 4x4, 256/64 QAM, 4 DL CA, 2 UL CA (B7 / 41 2CC). 

 

Btw, Tim are you able to link to to your post about the new pixels not supporting 2xca upload and limited mimo streams

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How about Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL?

Plus that little spat still going on between Qualcomm and apple in which Qualcomm is stating that apple has been forwarding Qualcomm ip to Intel which is a whole other can of worms that's been opened. 

But it was under Qualcomm that sprint worked with to help set it up and tune it, this is the first time Intel has done this and no one knows. 

What’s different about these handsets to enable them to support CA for UL, while the iPhone XS doesn’t?

Sprint showing more improvmemts on root... Boston speed Improvements

Washington DC speed Improvements

Grand rapids Michigan speed

Disregard Fresno CA..... Sprint made absolutely no improvmemts there

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Sprint management dropped the ball again. They had the upper hand going into 5G then decided to surrender to Tmobile when that particular company didn't have the spectrum holdings to deploy it. Tmobile has been selling the myth of 5G in that little slice of spectrum they own in the 600mhz which won't cut it. Massa Son surrendered to the Germans for just a couple of board seats and a minority stake, what a fool. Tmobile then would have to go into a bidding war with the twin bells for 3.5ghz-4.7ghz spectrum which they would lose since the two mentioned have a lot of money to burn.

 

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So if I’m reading this chart correctly, from a 5G front Sprint would/bring speeds that will be competitive with the big two. T-Mobile would be absolutely the slowest (sprint of the 5G world). So this is T-Mobile saying “we need Sprint so that we can keep claiming we are the fastest.” Sprint will be the smallest carrier in coverage but will be able to handle their own in the speed dept and could become a threat. 

I'm more taken aback by the average speed Sprint will have over Tmobile as solo companies. It's pretty staggering, but not surprising..

This is a pretty damning chart for TMobile. Keep in mind this is sourced by Tmobile themselves.

Link to source..

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/without-sprint-t-mobile-will-need-38-000-new-cell-sites-to-meet-demand-analysts-say

 

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So according to Sprint care (who knows how accurate this is lol).. Sprint will give it a shot on a nationwide volte launch middle of next year