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5 minutes ago, imex99 said:

Is this just speculation or what?

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As part of the Softbank purchase of Sprint, they were restricted to the max percentage of Stock they could own.  If they went over that limit, they are required to buy up all of the remaining stock.  I can try to find a reference if someone else does not post it first.

As I understand it, if Softbank wanted to put an extra 5 Billion Dollars in Sprint, they would also have to buy up the remaining shares of Sprint stock they did not already own.  How much would it actually cost to add/upgrade enough towers, add/upgrade backhaul, and acquire enough low band to have a network anywhere near the networks of the big two?

22 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Which is crap

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You may be right.

I just thought that the New TMobile would still have less customers, less towers, less low band, less backhaul and less available cash.  If true, then wouldn't that translates into a higher cost of business per unit of income, already?  Just asking.

It almost looks like an attempt to weaken the combined company to prevent any real competition for V and ATT.

I know everyone has different needs.  30-50 download and 20-40 upload seem to be sufficient for me.  Coverage is my biggest concern.  I hate to get out on the highway somewhere and not get a signal.

The Att and TMobile merger would have left us with 2 large carriers and an underfunded Sprint. The Sprint and T-Mobile merger could provide a third strong competitive carrier.  That seems like the difference to me.  Is there another way to look at it?

Is it true that Sprint would need double the number of towers as Verizon and ATT to get the same coverage due to their lack of low band?

I don't see a standalone Sprint as a major competitor to the big two.  A merger with Dish or someone else would probably take some significant time.  The big winners would be the Verizon and ATT.  Not sure that is best for the consumer.  Just my opinion.

Didn't SoftBank have a provision where they would be required to buy all of the Sprint stock if they ever went over the 85% mark?  I thought that was why they couldn't just put more money into Sprint. Just asking.

17 hours ago, Brad The Beast said:

According to https://maps.t-mobile.com/pcc.html?map=mvno-noroam-34l there is no band 71 deployed in that area yet. 

Thank you for the update.

4 hours ago, NYC126 said:

If they migrate all customers to PCS and AWS they better have a state of the art small cell network in every city  since that is what Verizon did with their PCS and AWS holdings here in New York City and congestion is a thing of the past.

This merger is the most idiotic decision in the history of the business, especially when the 5G era is about to begin and Sprint was going to have the upper hand.

Would Sprint have the money to implement 5g with their debt and low customer count?  Just asking.

There are many phones out there that have all of the necessary bands to roam on either network.  They range from inexpensive phones like my moto E series up to my lg7.

Has anyone found band 71 in the Hilton Head island area yet?

Very light rain for a few hours yesterday and virtually no wind in Beaufort SC.

Dozens of cherry pickers and other power company maintenance vechicles gathering here yesterday.

Praying for all of those who were/are not so fortunate.

We may not be out of harms way after all.  Will keep an eye on the projected path.

They came by with a loudspeaker and told everyone to get out ... Then about an hour later the Governor cancelled the order to evacuate.  Glad I stayed put.

Walmart covered their windows with plywood yesterday.  We are not in the projected path of the eye, but people are getting ready.

I am near Hilton Head SC.  It is projected to hit anywhere from Charleston (about 60 miles away) or on up the coast a couple hundred miles further North.

Looks like the hurricane eye may track north of me.  I will report anything I see from this end.  Praying for everyone in its path.

I don't appear to have those changes yet.

12 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

I've noticed that now if you put the phone on vibrate or silent, it now shows constantly next to the WiFi indicator instead of disappearing after a second. That is a welcome change. Now if they would just put the clock back on the right so that more notifications can be shown.

On 7/27/2018 at 4:08 PM, Dkoellerwx said:

Anyone get a system update today? Wondering if it's just security updates or anything else.

I got an update a few days ago.  It appears to be just the security update for July.  Note that I am on TMobile if that makes a difference.