bigsnake49

We have plenty of natural gas and it emits a lot less carbon dioxide/MBTU.

Well, unless they offer data along with nationwide roaming, I foresee them losing some of their non-Solinc employee customers. At that time, when the network is basically used solely by Southern Co, does it make sense to operate a network without anybody else sharing it?

No, I think the sensible path is for them to do whatever they are doing and provide roaming on AT&T with new IDEN/GSM handsets. Eventually, they, along with everybody else will move to an LTE based PTT.

I'm not sure if they have enough spectrum for that. But they probably have enough to do video on demand. Now if they can get Clearwire to sell them some spectrum, then they will have plenty of spectrum for OTT and VOD.

Dish does not need a full 20MHz of uplink bandwidth, since most data workloads are highly asymmetrical. So they're not really giving up a lot of useful bandwidth as eric suggested. Also remember they have 6MHz of unpaired lower 700MHz E-Block that they can pair with their AWS-4 spectrum.

Yes, they just want to get going with devices for the new network. I wonder who they're going to choose to partner with. T-Mobile?

Dish Network would be willing to accept changes to its spectrum holdings that would effectively make 5 MHz of its radio waves a guardband to protect spectrum that Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) has indicated it wants to bid on next year to use for LTE. However, Dish said that such a change would be acceptable as long as it was allowed to move ahead with the terrestrial deployment of the rest of its satellite spectrum as soon as possible. The disclosure was made in a recent FCC filing by Dish that detailed meetings Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen had last week with FCC commissioners on the issue. Dish's new position represents a softening of Dish's stance from earlier in November, when it lambasted a proposal circulated by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Genachowski's draft proposal would define rules for Dish's spectrum band, known as AWS-4. The proposal would set power limits on the lower portion of Dish's spectrum to prevent interference with the adjacent 1900 MHz PCS H Block. Separately, the FCC also said it will propose auctioning the H Block in 2013, and Sprint has said it would like to bid on the H Block and use it for LTE. Read more: Dish relents, says it will accept 5 MHz guard band - FierceWireless http://www.fiercewir...4#ixzz2E6hEmjZH I think that the FCC will put the band out for auction in 2013 as planned and Sprint should have a 10x10 LTE network real soon after that. Add in the USCC spectrum purchase and whatever leftovers from the MetroPCS-TMobile merger and Sprint will be sitting pretty.

First of all, you only have eHRPD, but have two separate measurements for 1x and EVDO. It could be that you are connected to two different sites for 1x and EVDO.

Just from a pure data point of view, just the fact that you're transmitting 8Kbits vs 64Kbits has some effect on the power consumption. More data usually means more power.

I hope it happens as well, even if it just forces Metro to divest the markets you mentioned to Sprint.

Yes, they can, but let's not burden the rest of us with PTT features on all the phones. Those that need it should pay for it. I thought that Sprint made a major mistake lowering the price of plans for Nextel subscribers. It did not make them feel special enough .

I think that the chipsets support it. But you still have to support it at the basestation level. For data, why would you go with Rev. B when you can use LTE?

I am sure that Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have already performed these tests and that's why they aren't rushing to deploy VOLTE. The only one that jumped the gun is MetroPCS. Even they will cool down once the merger goes through.

Nothing earthshaking, but confirming out worst fears: http://gigaom.com/mo...2g-voice-calls/ The good news is if you're using LTE data and VOLTE at the same time, then it is more energy efficient than using CDMA voice and LTE since it requires two separate radio paths.

AJ, I thought you said in another forum that Solinc allocations are in the SMR expansion and guard bands, so Sprint may have a full 7MHz throughout the country. Do you want me to look for your post:)?

Clear only uses 10Mhz channels for their Wimax deployment. They will use 20Mhz and potentially 40MHz channels for LTE.

There's absolutely nothing GSM abt LTE. Not the air protocol nor the backend.

No more than broadcasting over a wider (10x10) or (20x20) channel if one is allowed to use all the subcarriers. On the handset side, I don't see a reason to use all the subcarriers on a wide channel or both channels simultaneously in a CA scheme. Basically what I'm trying to say is that there is no free lunch, you get what you pay for, RF power is RF power.

Depending on whether you want to stream from a NAS or a computer with itunes on it, I would have different recommendations for you. AppleTV works great for me. I use it to stream rented movies, play internet radio, it's an Airplay target for music stored on my iPhone, etc. If you're not Apple centric, Roku would be my recommendation. My wife would kill me if I tried to introduce anything bulky like an X-box. I'm also partial to low energy consumption devices, so the Apple TV fits that bill rather well.

Well it looks that the FCC will be protecting the H block and will be auctioning it in 2013. Yay Sprint!!!! Between the H block, USCC spectrum buy, possible divestitures from the Metro/T-Mobile merger and possible Leap spectrum buys, Sprint will be set for years! They can then possibly buy back some of their spectrum from Clearwire and they will be set for the next decade or so.

I think Tim knows a lot of the players and the insiders in this industry and his blog is never boring:). The Wall Street Journal also chimed in on the FCC keeping the PCS H on the auction block: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578123394143197134.html (Subscription required unless you Google "FCC Close To Granting Dish Spectrum Rule Change" and thenfollow the first link:))

I would like to think that the part about the FCC wanting to generate $1B+ for the treasury from the sale of PCS-H is true. Dish's accumulation of the AWS-4 spectrum did not generate a penny for the feds. I think that they are pretty mad that people generate profits by speculating on spectrum. If they had their druthers they would make Dish pay the equivalent of what a 20x20 allocation would have brought either in the PCS or AWS auction. I don't like the backdoor way that Dish obtained their spectrum.

Yeah, I just don't see a Dish network hosted on Sprint's NV. Sprint could definitely use the money, but they are not as desperate as they used to be. Lightsquared was a special case when Sprint was cash poor, Clearwire was behaving like they owned the world and the spectrum, absent interference concerns, was lower frequency than Sprint's PCS. I also don't think that Sprint appreciates Dish reportedly snapping up $900M of Clearwire's debt to trade for spectrum. Again, I recommend everybody read Tim Farrar's blog: http://blog.tmfassociates.com/ From it: "Over the last 36 hours there has been a constant stream of stories about DISH Network’s negotiations with various players to launch its proposed wireless network, in what appears to be a last ditch attempt to deflect the FCC from its declared intention to impose strict interference conditions on DISH’s spectrum in order to make the H block auctionable. First we saw reports of DISH’s “exploratory stage” talks with Google, which unsurprisingly led to massive speculation about Google’s desire to get into the wireless business, largely omitting any mention of Google’s previous (financially disastrous) investment in Clearwire, which was motivated solely by a desire to create more competition and cheaper wireless service and had nothing whatsoever to do with enabling Google to become a wireless operator. Now we’ve seen reports about DISH’s unsuccessful bid over the summer for MetroPCS, as revealed in MetroPCS’s preliminary proxy statement filed last night. We also saw DISH highlighting that 3GPP standardization work has been completed, with the implication that DISH could move forward very quickly if the FCC approved the network without new interference conditions. However, it seems clear that the FCC is having none of it, with officials briefing that they are close to a decision, which is expected to confirm that the H block will be auctioned for high power use and therefore the lower part of DISH’s uplink band will face significant powwer restrictions. In other words, the FCC is placing a higher priority on ensuring Sprint has sufficient LTE spectrum (i.e. can extend its 5x5MHz G block LTE network to a 10x10MHz network) and moving forward with an auction of the H block to raise $1B+ than they are on trusting DISH to become a new entrant in the wireless market. In light of the Sprint-Softbank and TMobile-MetroPCS deals, the FCC has achieved its goal of having four viable players in the US wireless market, and so presumably does not see as much need to encourage a new entrant. Indeed I would expect the FCC would be relatively content to see the DISH spectrum go to AT&T, if it could then “encourage” AT&T to sell some of its PCS spectrum to Sprint (along the lines of Verizon’s AWS spectrum deal with TMobile). We might even see a similar “swap” in the PCS band between TMobile and Sprint (with Sprint getting more of the spectrum and paying some cash to TMobile) as an alternative to a potential rival Sprint bid for MetroPCS. After all, TMobile has far more spectrum per subscriber than any of the other three major players (if Clearwire’s holdings are excluded)." Interesting!!!

Since we veered off into efficient use of spectrum, I was fascinated by this article: http://www.fiercebro...ency/2012-11-14 It would basically allow the use of current FDD spectrum allocations as two TDD channels both carrying bidirectional traffic. Time-domain transmit beamforming is the key to doubling the efficiency of wireless networks, according to researchers at the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. The method enables the use of full-duplex radios, which can double the efficiency of spectrum, rather than the currently employed half-duplex radios. Full-duplex radios are not ideal in 3G networks and beyond because they suffer from interference between the transmission and receiving functions. However, time-domain transmit beamforming enables the digital creation of a time-domain cancellation signal and couples it to the radio frequency front-end to allow the radio to hear much weaker incoming signals while transmitting strong outgoing signals at the same frequency and same time. "The new solution not only has a sound theoretical proof, but [it] also leads to a lower cost, faster and more accurate channel estimation for robust and effective cancellation," said UC Riverside.

I think that Apple plus Microsoft could team up and take Google head on on search.