bigsnake49
-
Posts
3,790 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
43
Content Type
Profiles
Blogs
Articles
Media Demo
Gallery
Downloads
Events
Forums
Posts posted by bigsnake49
-
-
12 hours ago, ingenium said:
I mean we get roaming now for the most part. Ideally it would be able to use Tmobile sites in the same was as Clearwire was, but I suspect that roaming onto TMobile will still result in a hard drop of the data session.
Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk
You get T-mobile roaming only for some markets. Not in my market.
-
Whatever, get this thing moving and closing on April 1st. That's all I care about.
-
1
-
-
They could have had the same concessions six months ago. The bastards...
-
2
-
-
They want to close on April 1 because it is the beginning of the 2nd quarter and accounting is much easier if you do it at the end of the quarter/beginning of the next boundary.
-
While the result of the CPUC meeting is a foregone conclusion, the timing is not optimal. They will just be behind the other states.
-
1
-
-
21 minutes ago, dro1984 said:
T-Mobile Sprint Merger can proceed per California
California's Becerra will hold a press conference (@12:30 ET) Wednesday to announce a settlement with the companies.
and from another report / news source:
Yeah but does that mean that the CPUC approves?
-
14 hours ago, RedSpark said:
The latest...
Sheer speculation on their part. I have not seen the suggestion that they won't close on April 1 elsewhere. They might delay the integration in California but they won't stop it for the rest of the country.
-
3 hours ago, S4GRU said:
I went looking for a little more detail on the 3.5 GHz licenses. Here is a link for those interested: https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/35-ghz-band/35-ghz-band-overview
Robert
Thanks Robert. I expect that the cable cos will be all over this spectrum auction while I think that the Big Two will be more active in the C-Band auction because more spectrum (up to 280MHz will be available). I don't know what T-Mobile is going to do. Probably sit out the CBRS auction and bid on the C-Band. For the cable cos if they get some CBRS spectrum it will be a good way to reduce their MVNO payments to Verizon. If they want to be serious about wireless they have to also bid in the C-Band auction. Both of the bands are great fits for strand and pole mount small cells. I wonder if they are forward looking enough to offer spectrum hosting for all other winners. No sense in somebody else expending so much money to develop the infrastructure that the cable cos already have in place.
-
1
-
-
Sprint has about 45,000 macro sites, T-Mobile 65,000 and Verizon and AT&T 85,000 each approximately.
-
4
-
-
7 10MHz TDD licenses are available per county license area for PAL (Priority Access License) holders. You may win up to 4 of the licenses per county. There is also incumbent license holders such as DOD coastal radars and fixed satellite providers which have the highest priority. PAL licensees must yield to the incumbents and GAA (General Authorized Access must yield to the incumbents and PAL licensees.
-
1
-
-
It's nothing new, after all GoogleFi has been offering a similar service for a while now (I actually had it for a little while). But GoogleFi has not been advertised or promoted much and you always worry that it will be become abandonware. Tracfone is the nation's largest MVNO at approximately 21M. They have MVNO agreements with all four carriers (3 after April 1). Google had to build their own core so Tracfone is probably doing something similar. They also had to build a line of phones with special firmware (Nexus and Pixel). I know that Apple also took some patents out detailing their approach. I think it is exciting that somebody like Tracfone is following in Google's footsteps.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/tracfone-prepares-a-nationwide-smartsim-program
-
It would behoove T-Mobile to acquire Shentel at some point in the future, maybe in 2-3 years when the capex will slow down a bit.
-
2
-
-
8 minutes ago, briank86 said:
Do u know for a fact they haven't received some concessions already, and are negotiating further?
We don't unless somebody leaks something to the press.
-
2
-
-
24 minutes ago, dkyeager said:
I am not certain this number is still true. With Dish getting the sites they abandon, the inclination would likely be to retain more Sprint sites. FCC may have forced more rural coverage given 1x800 coverage compared to VoLTE. We know T-Mobile went through several revisions after those numbers were made public. Might be better numbers in the merger court decision.
The combined carrier expects to save $26 billion in network costs and another $17 billion in other operating costs while increasing network coverage, particularly in underserved markets; and speeding up its expansion of 5G. Those network savings include $4.2 billion in opex savings from retiring Sprint’s network. New T-Mobile will add Sprint’s mid-band spectrum plus 11,000 cell sites to its network, and those will “provide it with enough additional capacity to meet the markets’ projected growth in data consumption and thus avoid the erosion in quality of service that would result from saturating its existing capacity.”
Dish “may utilize any and all cell sites that New T-Mobile would otherwise decommission, gaining access to tens of thousands of cell towers ready for almost immediate use,” and it will also have access to retail stores that New T-Mobile would otherwise close, so it can expand its distribution. Marrero also said that in addition to at least 20,000 towers that New T-Mobile will make available to Dish, Dish “has also identified and signed master service agreements for 32,300 towers that do not need structural reinforcement and thus could become operational in relatively short order.”
-
3
-
-
10 minutes ago, dro1984 said:
Thanks snake... do you still think all lights are green for 4-1? (I'm hoping.)
Yep it's a go no matter what.There is another case pending against the merger. From the article above:
"The merger also faces a legal challenge from the Communications Workers of America, which argues that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its statutory authority in approving the deal. That case is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Oral arguments have yet to be scheduled.
Communications Workers of America v. USA, D.C. Cir., No. 19-01254, filed 12/5/19."
-
2
-
-
The California regulator, which hasn’t set a date for a vote, has until July 12 to make its decision. The CPUC could vote on the deal at its March 12 meeting, Blair Levin, policy advisor at New Street Research, said in a Tuesday note.
If the Californians are as smart as they think they are they would extract some concessions such as rural coverage and maybe contributions to some economically disadvantaged fund.
-
2
-
-
1 minute ago, dro1984 said:
Yeah, I heard that yesterday too. The 16th is the end of the 30day period. Something happens before then on March 12 or 14th... can't remember what. I'm trying to find info on it... where are you seeing it? My normal sources are turning up empty.
Sprint subreddit
-
CPUC T-Mobile/Sprint meeting scheduled for April 16th:
-
2
-
-
8 hours ago, JDP121 said:
I would say that they are very very salty about it. But that’s just my two cents.
I would like to see what the overlap is between USCC and T-Mobile.I think that C-Spire might be hurting more.
-
I wonder if Dish will be deploying their equipment on decommissioned Sprint sites immediately or wait. From what I understand their capex for this year was going to be around $500M which will probably not be conducive to immediate deployment on decommissioned Sprint sites.
-
Just remember that T-Mobile and Sprit are colocated on a lot of sites or the sites are very close. They will only use 11,000 of Sprint sites to host T-Mobile equipment for either capacity or coverage.
-
1
-
-
43 minutes ago, dro1984 said:
Was on one of the tech channels on YouTube...
A Sprint tower tech was saying speaking in anonymity that on closing (April 1) they are setting up to open the networks. Meaning, via software update, Sprint will have access to T-Mobile and vis-a-versa... on April 1st. Hoping this is true!
On Tower Integration...
They are setting up Integration do begin nearly immediately as they are set to do market by market tower integrations (combining towers/ moving equipment to best site). They will be doing massive mimo upgrades as much as possible at the same-time on 2.5, band 41, Band 25 (1900 sprint) band 2 (1900 T-Mo.) and Band 4 (TMO 1700/2100) According to him, they have the maps ready and will only be combing towers that are very nearby each other to avoid interference. The network integration will take approx 2 years, but realistically less. Again, this is market by market... (Metro area- by Metro area). Thoughts? ...
Sounds about right. We know they have been stocking up on M-MIMO antennas and they will try to minimize the number of visits/climbs on the same site. So something tells me they will be probably be staging all the equipment somewhere in a warerhouse in a particular market and then hoisting them on each site. Roaming on each other's networks is a great first step towards integration.
-
1
-
-
-
My iPhone 10XR is and so are the all the models of iPhone 11. We will see if the iPhone 12 is a 5G phone or not.
Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread
in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment
Posted
Yes immediately after they close.