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I wouldn't call it a flop.  Having 70MHz sold is about what was expected as far as I can remember.  There is still a need for low band spectrum for coverage.

It looks like the requirements for this round are met https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/1000

Well looks like the 600mhz auction turned out to be a flop.

 

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3235805-fcc-airwaves-auction-goes-tepid-bids-fail-match-broadcaster-supply?app=1&uprof=45&utoken=f668ff9d9034ae0f8d27f692efe25258#/email_link

 

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It hasn't finished yet and I'm pretty sure that article is just wrong.  The auction doesn't need almost $40 billion to finish and of course the TV station rep isn't happy that the stations will be getting less than the $86.4 billion finish would have brought.

I've been using this for about a month as my main internet connection.  I've mostly used the Franklin R850 it came with and the signal strength is pretty low but I get about 8Mbps down 2Mbps up most of the time.  It also supports IPv6, which is useful for me.  I used it for a little while in a Mofi 4500 SIM4 V2 and it seemed to work except I didn't get IPv6 addresses and I was not sure if Sprint would cancel the line for using an unapproved device, so I put it back in the R850.  The Mofi was definitely faster and had better signal strength and since it has external antennas I could probably increase that significantly with some better antennas.

Best part, Speedtest.net is of course excluded from any sort of throttling.

T-Mobile does throttle fast.com, so that's good way to get realistic speeds.

As I read it, content providers have "three choices" as listed.

 

If a content provider doesn't provide Sprint with information, then by default "The Sprint Network will optimize streaming rates utilizing the above respective limits for customers on the Unlimited Freedom Plan."

I guess my question is about how Sprint will know what the data is.  If you're receiving data over a TLS encrypted connection, how does Sprint decide that it's video and should be throttled to 2Mbps or audio and should be throttled to 500kbps or neither and shouldn't be throttled at all?

Here's how it works.

What if providers don't "work with Sprint to identify respective traffic keys" and just send encrypted data streams?  Since the plans are unlimited won't that mean that people just get unlimited full speed video streaming?

 

Lastly, when I ordered, I was not logged into my account.  I tried that route, but I could not get all the way through to the point of sale.  Sprint could cross reference my supplied phone number to see that I am a current sub.  However, I do not think that Sprint cares.  Handing out free SIMs even to non subscribers may be a way to entice them to BYOD and port over to Sprint or at least try out Sprint.

 

AJ

I am not a Sprint subscriber and I tried to order a SIM yesterday and today.  Both times my order failed with the error "There were errors processing your request. Please verify your information and try again, or call our order support team can assist you at 866-275-1411."  

Did anyone tried to roam on Verzion using Project FI? Mine seems won't roam.

I was on Verizon 1xRTT in a couple of places and used a little bit of data, but in other places where I've been on Verizon 1xRTT I haven't had any data.

Yes, no one could have seen that coming. 

 

I still do not understand why they did not just make slow unlimited data an extra cost add-on option to their new Pulse plans for use when the high-speed Pulse data has been used up.  Many people want their data to continue even at slow speed after they hit their cap.  That is just a way to make data caps not suck quite as much. 

 

Pulse is their new monthly plans where the user purchases 5GB/$40, 10GB/$75, 20GB/$140 and it renews each month. if you do not use all your high speed data, you are refunded the amount you did not use.

From the blog post it sounds like you only get refunded for the extra data you purchase that isn't used.

 

If you add extra data and don’t use it all, you’ll be credited the difference.

So the new plans seem like they're worse than Sprint's hotspot plans in almost every way.