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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    I'm sorry, I just don't see this as a big problem.  Assuming they can line up good partners, like Shentel, I don't see why Sprint couldn't become a federation of smaller, local companies that each run their own little regions, but under the Sprint umbrella, the way Shentel does it.  Maybe people will tell me that partners didn't work out in the past, which raises the question of what makes Shentel so much better than the others, and how can it be replicated? 

    - Trip

    I agree! It’s what sprint should do and it could help them build in cities and then expand out if they so choose to do so

     

     

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    Believe him?https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/congress-challenges-t-mobile-sprint-merits-merger

     

    While Claure said Sprint is “no longer in dire financial straits,” he told lawmakers the company cannot upgrade its network on its own because it lacks low-band spectrum and capital.

    Claure testified that Sprint would need up to $25 billion to build a 5G network as a standalone company, and without positive cash flow the company would have to take on more debt and raise prices to pay off that debt.

    I watched the whole thing .. this was a easy win for sprint and TMO .. no real scrutiny or challenges presented . Question were very easy to answer.

    As to Marcelo : yes, he right and I believe him .. sprint is still till this day spending billions on capex just to get the band 41 rollout completed (75%)... if no merger he said: “sprint will be a different company turn into a suburban/urban only carrier “

     

     

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

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    Backhaul has always been a very weak spot for Sprint.   I remember talking about this 6 or 7 years ago or more, back in the 3G upgrade days.... every time a cell site was added.    It gets old having a company suffer from the same problems year after year.   Is T Mobile a bit more successful on getting backhaul to a site?         

    Tmo is now starting to get better at it ...

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    They returned to this site to removed microwave backhaul and added fiber

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Albuquerque market (including El Paso, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Roswell)

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    3 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:
    Yeah doesn't look like there is any B41 at this point. Where is this site exactly? Any live signals yet?

    4652 Barney St, El Paso, TX 79905. The site is close to the university medical hospital where sprint has the DAS inside.. no signals live yet, but will help fill in coverage much needed. I guess sprint will return at a later time to add band 41

     

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

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    Ya...I saw that!

    AT&T is misleading consumers and deserves to be sued!

    I am, however, concerned that it is Sprint who is suing since they are in the process of trying to get approved for their merger with T-Mobile. Personally I would think that Sprint wouldn't want to make too many enemies at this time. But who knows, maybe they use the law suit as leverage to help prove that they can't compete against large operators like AT&T.

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    The issue is : sprint is using this as a marketing strategy from what I been reading.. att already said they are fighting back in a official statement and they have much deeper pockets than sprint


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

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    Think sprint should stop at  60 mhz band 41 lte . Start adding  band 25 aggregation.  Galaxy s 10 be able do 7 carriers . 

    Now this I agree 100%, but is sprint really in a position to make that happen ? Ya, capex is up and mostly everything can be done via software.. but will they even pay for the increase to match backhaul to what’s the deployed? I’m sure they don’t want there overhead to inflate. Increasing backhaul per site can be very expensive. I mean new sites ( co location) are still going up with out band 41. I think for mean time as the merger is getting ready to close.. can’t really take much of anything serious coming from both tmo or sprint until we ether get a yes or no

     

     

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

    in General Topics

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    I’m asking specifically about the 800 MHz rebanding. Would another carrier have been able to get public safety entities off of 800 MHz faster than Sprint has/did?

    If you ask me, Sprint should have participated in the 600 MHz auction. T-Mobile has been rolling that out at an incredible pace... and Sprint could have done the same.

    Of course, one of Sprint’s justifications for the merger is that it lacks low band spectrum.... go figure.

    Well, TMO in the meantime has been able to clear two low band licenses and roll them out . One virtually complete ( band 12) and band 71 is on going at a rapid pace .. I’m sure the 800mhz rebrand had a cost involved. Maybe others would have paid whatever it costs to make it happen sooner ( we will never know), but it has take a long time . I think sprint not having any significant network expansion is Justification.. look what tmo has done with band 12 5mhz .. sprint has 800mhz 5mhz just about nationwide .. and some regions they had to cut that a little, but it could of worked

     

     

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

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    It is worse than what the article states.  When I looked at the mmWave spectrum for some of the Verizon and AT&T 5g markets I saw heavily fragmented licenses with only occasional 100Mhz chunks, the rest being 50MHz.  Licenses swapping and the standard being raised from 100MHz to 400MHz maximum channels is really what is needed for them.  Likely awaiting the outcome of the 28MHz, 24MHz, and 39MHz auctions.
    T-Mobile has an ideal mmWave spectrum position in most of Ohio with 850Mhz contiguous of 28GHz spectrum including Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, but their marketing message has all been 600MHz 5GHz which won't come until the second 5G chipset from Qualcomm.  Unfortunately for them so will other mid-band spectrum.  Tower hands told me a number of months ago that almost all of the radios they were installing for the duo were 5G upgradeable. My local T-Mobile network contacts have told me that they have not been working on mmWave.  This could be a strategic mistake by T-Mobile unless they plan on selling this spectrum or worry that it would contaminate their marketing message.  The downtown and university areas should have enough density.  They might need Sprint sites and small cells to pull it off.  The merger could be almost a year off imo, if it occurs.  Even then there are penetration issues in an area with lots of trees, although I tend to discount much of these concerns about mmWave given the same has been said about 2.5GHz.

    I personally think : TMO must know something we don’t. It seems they are very confident that the merger gets approved : possible video service a free one at that .. there network can’t handle that kind of traffic.


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

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    [/url] 2.5 GHz has been deployed on approximately 75% of its macro sites.  Lots more info in the materials on the Investors site: https://investors.sprint.com/Home/default.aspx

     

     

    Decent quarter .. sprint hit revenue and less customer loses, but I still don’t like that they lost 141 million in the quarter and only a What about a 5% increase on the completion number of 2.5 for the quarter [/url]

     

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