bigsnake49

Nothing more than a money grab by the carriers, period, end of story. On the other hand, I do not condone using wireless as a replacement for a fixed internet connection unless you pay for it.

It has being scientifically proven that zombie apocalypse has absolutely no effect on signals below 3.5GHz.

Dish Network is petitioning the FCC for waiver of certain technical rules governing a terrestrial deployment on its 20 MHz of AWS-4 spectrum as well as a one-year extension for that deployment. In a document filed yesterday, Dish said the waiver and extra time will give it the opportunity to determine if it will use its spectrum (2000-2020 MHz) for downlink or for uplink. Dish promised to take no longer than 30 months to make that distinction. In return for the FCC granting the waiver and time extension, Dish has promised to bid in the upcoming H Block auction for the paired 1915-1920 MHz and 1995-2000 MHz bands. Either directly or indirectly through an affiliated entity, Dish promised to bid “at least a net clearing price equal to any aggregate nationwide reserve price established by the Commission in the upcoming H Block auction (not to exceed the equivalent of $0.50 per MHz/POP).” http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2013/09/dish-agrees-bid-h-block-auction-if-fcc-gives-it-more-time-aws-4-deployment I would love for the FCC to slap them around a bit.

I'm with you!

Neither does Sprint which is putting LTE 800MHz on every 1900MHz spaced tower.

So, put LTE 800MHz on very tower. Oh wait, that's exactly what Sprint is doing. If only because their 1900PCS network is not correctly spaced for 1900Mhz, at least in Florida.

If you want better signal increase the number of rural towers. Or apply to the 3GPP for an exception to increase the power level. I don't see either AT&T and Verizon complaining about it. They might have to built a few hundred more sites for rural areas, but so be it. The super-boomer sites won't reach forty miles they will reach 35. We had to go through the same things with the transition from AMPS to CDMA. Long live 5W bag phones!

So much misinformation, I don't know where to begin. CDMA 1x and UMTS (WCDMA) are spread spectrum techniques, OFDMA is not. Edge perfomance for LTE is enhanced by Inter-Cell Interference Coordination at the PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel). Basically the PDDCH reduces co-channel interference by increasing the cell edge SINR. It does that by coordinating both in the frequency and power domain. ICIC can allocate different resouce blocks to users in different cells to minimize or totally avoid co-channel interference with direct neighbors. LTE also uses a few other mechanisms to avoid interference within the same resouce block, among them HII, OI, RNTP with the first two being uplink measures. On the power domain, the power level on selected resource blocks can be changed to favor cell edge users. On the uplink the cell edge use power levels can be increased. Now, that means that the PDCCH will have to be very robust because all this coordination is processing intensive. VOLTE, is particularly troublesome since you have a high number of low rate users, instead of small number of high rate users.

It is nowhere near Nextel.

I think you will see improvements to LTE's airlink come from the same people that improved CDMA (Qualcomm). They dominate LTE chipsets even more so than WCDMA chipsets.

I think by the time the integration is well underway, VOLTE will be ready. AJ, are you trying to scare the kiddos, again?

I think the stars are aligning for the following things to occur: 1. Sprint and Dish sign a spectrum hosting deal, thereby providing the FCC with the semblance of a 4th competitor 2. Dish gets the Lightsquared spectrum, and gets the FCC to let it use the 2000-2020MHz band as supplemental downlink 3. Sprint and T-Mobile merge 4. Sprint sells the EBS leases to Dish Sprint (NYSE:S) CFO Joe Euteneuer said the carrier remains open to using its multi-mode base stations to host another company's spectrum, provided such a deal was beneficial to both parties. "I think we're still open to look at opportunities that make sense for both sides," he said during an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. Sprint struck an ill-fated spectrum hosting deal with LightSquared that was scrapped after LightSquared's conditional license to operate an LTE network was revoked by the FCC amid concerns about interference between the company's L-band airwaves and GPS receivers. .............................................. "I think in an ironic sort of way, Sprint becomes a really kind of an interesting potential partner for us as well, and I think people just assume maybe that, that's not the case," Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said on the company's second-quarter earnings conference call in August, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript. "But the fact is, we actually understand Sprint and Clearwire probably better than we do any of the other wireless providers." Euteneuer said that "in any type of joint venture arrangement it's going to an arm's length negotiation that has to work for both parties" and that such an arrangement would help get more spectrum deployed for mobile broadband, which he said the FCC would laud. "I would think they would view that positively," he said. .......................................................................................................................................... The Sprint finance chief also talked about Sprint's own Network Vision deployment. He said by the end of the year, Sprint aims to have LTE covering 200 million POPs via its 1900 MHz spectrum, and there will be around 5,000 Clearwire sites deployed using TD-LTE on 2.5 GHz spectrum. He said Sprint is evaluating vendors now to build out a nationwide TD-LTE network on the 2.5 GHz spectrum. Sprint plans to deploy Clearwire's 2.5 GHz spectrum on all 38,000 of its planned Network Vision cell sites and even more sites than that in a nationwide rollout starting next year. Euteneuer did not say how many more sites will be needed to accomplish that, but said Sprint's engineering team is working through those calculations. He said the 2.5 GHz deployment will use both macrocells and small cells. Read more: Sprint CFO: We're still open to spectrum hosting deals - FierceWireless http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-cfo-were-still-open-spectrum-hosting-deals/2013-09-26#ixzz2g1241N9B

I think that both HSPA+ and LTE are about to get 1x type edge perfromance. By the time this merger and integration took place, VOLTE should be perfected.

Yes, Sprint does have 800MHz and in that aspect they are better off than T-Mobile, if they are to remain independent. T-Mobile has the advantage of easier upgrade from HSPA+ to LTE and owning standard frequencies that the big two also use.

It really depends. A 5+5MHz HSPA channel can accomodate both voice and data. Depending on how many EVDO channels you're running at a site, you might better off with HSPA+ rather than EVDO. Now, if your traffic does not require whole 5MHz channels, the smaller channel width of 1x and EVDO is more efficient.

The only way T-Mobile and Sprint can compete is to merge and to acquire 600MHz spectrum. Otherwise they will just be killing each other. Right now, T-Mobile seems to have the upper hand, but next year Sprint will rise again.

Once it's built they will use it. But they have plenty of BRS in the top 100 markets. They can also buy the rest of it that they do not own from the owners.

So keep the one they have. Although they will definitely not need it. Between Sprint and T-Mobile's PCS holdings, T-Mobile's AWS holdings, Sprint's 800MHz, possible PCS H auction winnings and possible lease of Dish's 2000-2020 AWS-2 holdings as a a supplemental downlink, they will have plenty of spectrum. That's not even counting 600MHz

They can keep BRS that they own and get rid of EBS that they lease.

This has been something that I have been suggesting for a long time and I know that people on the Sprint side have been working on the logistics of making it happen for a long time now. If the FCC want to have four national operators, then they need to require the Sprint/Tmobile combination to shed at least the EBS spectrum to Dish. Between Sprint and T-Mobile, they will have plenty spectrum. They might even want to require them to host Dish's spectrum.

T-Mobile has plenty of spectrum for the number of people they have, but you are right, the capex will kill them, unless they score 600Mhz.

No, really? Who would have guessed .

I think they already have partnered with Chrysler. Who did you have in mind?

AJ, are you proposing using the same network/infrastructure for both mobile and connected car?

Can Sprint use the EBS spectrum for telematics/in car entertainment (movie/music streaming, internet gaming). Since they are no longer constrained by power consumption they can increase power and therefore propagation and penetration.