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  1. bigsnake49
    I think you hit the nail on the head. Since Softbank started pumping some money into Sprint, Sprint does not desperately need hosting deals to help with its LTE deployment costs. So Sprint is playing hard to get. Plus if Sprint acquires Clearwire, they don't really need Dish's spectrum or the capacity, so Dish does not have a buyer for their product. AT&T, between getting WCS approved and acquiring lower 700MHz B licenses from Verizon and other sundry owners have no immediate need for spectrum. Verizon also has no need for spectrum and neither does the Metro/T-Mobile consortium. The market is getting saturated and does not really need another entrant. So, again, what does Dish do. They paid almost $4B for the spectrum and they will probably need another $4-5B to develop it even if somebody else hosts it with no real market or demand for the bandwidth. Sprint or any other co-host does not really want to make it easy for yet another competitor. Dish is really stuck between a rock and a hard place and wants somebody to bail them out. The only one that's left to co-host their spectrum is Clearwire and Sprint has controlling interest.
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    StraightTalk will have the iPhone 5 for the same $45/month price for unlimited talk, text and data. I wonder if that is for the LTE or HSPA network?
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    I did not mean their virtual channel numbers, I meant their actual channel numbers. So you can still have VHF Hi and UHF Lo for at the most 20 channels that you need to avoid interference between adjacent markets. Nowhere near the 50 channels we have now.
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    Interesting take on this by Tim Farrar: http://blog.tmfassociates.com Basically, he's saying that Ergen is doing this to piss off Sprint. Should Sprint launch a bid to acquire Dish? Maybe merge with DirectTV? Could Sprint be playing tough so that they can get a swap of AWS-4 for BRS+cash? I have been hearing a lot of chatter that Sprint/Softbank is studying whether to launch a bid for TMobile/Metro after the Sprint/Softbank merger closes. How does this play with those plans?
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    They have 30MHz in Florida:).
  6. bigsnake49
    Most of major networks use channels 2-14.
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    I have long advocated using the BRS/EBS spectrum for fixed broadband/OTT video. Plenty of bandwidth for that and you don't have to worry abt handsets. That would definitely put the squeeze on Dish. Maybe he's trying to eliminate a potential competitor?
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    Also, Dish said they would provide financing for part of the network buildout. What percentage? 25%, 50%, 75%? How do we arrive at that number?
  9. bigsnake49
    So basically Sprint would have to pay $2.2B to buy back it's own spectrum from Clearwire since they have the right of first refusal.
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    Which part, the BRS part or the EBS part?
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    Yes, but the spectrum price is separate from the bid for the outstanding shares. I have no seen how many MHz they are proposing to buy.
  12. bigsnake49
    Actually they are going for 25-100%, but Sprint is definitely not interested.
  13. bigsnake49
    If they get all of Clearwire, they assume the debt.
  14. bigsnake49
    Ergen is just pissed. Sprint has the right of first refusal on the spectrum, so they could just buy it themselves. I just think that Sprint could just swap some of that 2.5 spectrum with Dish for Dish's AWS-4 spectrum and get some money for their 51% share of Clearwire. Not at $3.30/share but at $4.00.
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    The Firefox OS is coming in two weeks: http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/mozilla-firefox-os-two-weeks-completion/2013-01-08
  16. bigsnake49
    Have you seen Tim Farrar's 12/27/12 blog. Some interesting theories in there.
  17. bigsnake49
    Yeah, solid, except on his insistence that Sprint owns spectrum in the 2.5GHz band. Unless he has information that Sprint stills owns the spectrum and somehow leases it for $0 to Clearwire, he's wrong.
  18. bigsnake49
    Your mind got waterlogged?
  19. bigsnake49
    Shame works. The threat of regulation does as well. http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/att-customers-can-start-blocking-stolen-devices-on-july-10/
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    AT&T and T-Mobile just recently agreed to blacklist, I think by IMEI number.
  21. bigsnake49
    Yes and no. I had no problem with that when I went over to Europe. I purchased a sim that was also authorized for data. Did not need to enter anything. Now, when I used my AT&T iPhone on StraightTalk, I had to enter all that stuff.
  22. bigsnake49
    There are SIM locks and phone locks. It can also be blacklisted.
  23. bigsnake49
    They work pretty well in Europe. I don't know abt Nextel. They are supposed to contain all the info that you need to have the services you want. If you want to add services, then you can have them provisioned separately. The SIM is supposed to contain all the authorizations for services you contracted for.
  24. bigsnake49
    I meant somebody like XO communications or Level 3 or other such CLEC's
  25. bigsnake49
    You can switch Sprint phones at will.
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