bigsnake49
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I think they average about 3MHz per market nationwide. They used it for the overflow during rebanding. It is not contiguous. It would be great for IDEN or two way type communications. Or Sprint could give it back to the FCC and try to get some credit towards 1900Mhz Block H.
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First of all, I did not upgrade to 6.0 so it does not affect me. I let the bleeding edge folk debug it for me. Second, Google Maps when first came online waylaid me plenty of times. Third, I actually paid for Navigon which happens to be the best navigation package period end of story. Fourth, if your still want Google Maps go to maps.google.com and then put a link in your homescreen. Problem solved. Fifth, the Google provided Youtube app is the one that sucks not the one that Apple removed which was Apple's Youtube app. Same with the old Maps. It was Apple's interface based on Google's data. Sixth, Apple has added a lot more channels including Hulu, NetFlix and Vimeo to their AppleTV product. They're not removing, they're adding. It's not Apple's problem that Netflix offers old and unknown movies.
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Actually, SouthernLINC is quite a bit more spectrum constrained than that. For example, in the Atlanta BEA, which is by far SouthernLINC's largest market, its rebanded SMR 800 MHz spectrum is contiguous but limited to 3.75 MHz x 3.75 MHz. In some of its smaller markets, SouthernLINC does retain up to 4.5 MHz x 4.5 MHz, but what SouthernLINC can do in Atlanta will almost certainly dictate what it does in all markets.
So, despite any oddly placed admiration for the Southern Company in this thread, SouthernLINC is in a bit of a pickle. It cannot stick with iDEN long term. Roaming agreements are expiring as Sprint shifts entirely to CDMA2000 and LTE and Nextel International reportedly intends to transition to W-CDMA. Furthermore, iDEN has effectively reached its end of life, such that even maintenance will become a challenge; thus, SouthernLINC cannot simply stay the course with iDEN for its somewhat backwards, simplistic internal/external communications service.
On the flip side, SouthernLINC really has relatively little spectrum for a transition to CDMA2000 and LTE or even LTE alone. Such a transition would likely require dual or even tri mode iDEN/CDMA2000/LTE handsets or a flash cut with overnight replacement of devices. Good luck with either one of those approaches.
In the end, SouthernLINC is a bit of an annoyance to Sprint in the Southeast region. But SouthernLINC may need a spectrum sharing agreement more than Sprint does.
AJ
It would definitely be beneficial to both Sprint and Solinc if they cooperate on the buildout of an LTE network. They could also swap spectrum, Sprint's 900MHz for Solinc's 800Mhz.
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And I went with the don't get burned by Samsung rule this time after the Epic4g GPS and radio train wreck.
That's why I avoid all phones except the iPhone:). Still have my 2007 iPhone working like a champ. Take it to overseas trips and have it on prepaid on AT&T.
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Why do you
Yeah, they are so good in looking ahead that they managed to fragment both the PCS and AWS bands. Not to mention the 700, 800 PS band. Does anybody want to guess how many PS bands we have up and down the spectrum?
Why do you think it will only be those two?
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Yeah, they are so good in looking ahead that they managed to fragment both the PCS and AWS bands. Not to mention the 700, 800 PS band. Does anybody want to guess how many PS bands we have up and down the spectrum?
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It's just possible that a decision made earlier this week by the Mexican authorities could have a significant impact on the 4G spectrum decisions of other countries in Central and South America and even elsewhere.
The country's regulator, the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Cofetel), is to license the 700MHz band for 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) services and is adopting the APT (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity) model for segmentation, judging it to be more efficient than the scheme used in the U.S. in the 700MHz band.
According to Cofetel (translated from the original announcement in Spanish): "As the APT 700 plan segments the band in two portions of 45MHz with a 10MHz block between the transmission and reception sub-bands, it provides greater flexibility in spectrum use and caters to the future demands of mobile broadband services. In addition, this model has guard bands to protect adjacent spectrum, both the television in the bottom of the band and the cellular at the top."
http://www.lightread...&doc_id=225148
I like it much better than the US model that managed to fragment the spectrum into way too many bands and small allocations.
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BTW, my world clock does not show that design. Do I have to put in a Swiss city? Oh, never mind it's for the iPad. I have not upgrade yet.
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I am sure they will change their design of their clock. Not a big deal! Probably some junior designer saw a clock design that he liked and was not aware it was copyrighted. If the money demands are not exorbitant, they might elect to pay. Either way the guy will probably lose his job.
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And the antenna is only one piece of the puzzle. People think you just hook the chip to the antenna.
Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge
There are people working to simplify and make the "RF glue" a lot more programmable that it is now. RF filters are now programmable. Other parts are getting worked on as we speak. There are also software tunable antennas (not necessarily for handsets yet)
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No idea. Maybe she has it wrong, she is just the CFO.
Listening to Dr. John Saw was much more interesting.
bigsnake49 - take a listen to Dr. John Saw at the Clearwire/Sprint event the other month. They talk about mock hosting and some other cool things.
Thanks, I will.
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It is switchable antennas on the iPhone. There are antennas (not on the iPhone) that are tuned to multiple frequencies simultaneously that look like branches on a tree, each branch to root length defining a different frequency (or they can be made to lokk like "F"s with multiple horizontal lines.
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It was sort of interesting to read clearwire's Hope saying that a 5x5 FD-LTE channel can do 7TB of data a year while a 10x10 FD-LTE channel can do 23TB of data a year. Hope was saying that clearwire's TD-LTE channel can do 29TB.
e-bragging aside, the benefits of a 10x10 channel vs. 5x5 + 5x5 seem substantial.
I don't see it. Where are the efficiencies going to come from? The internal guard band(s) add up to the same percentage.
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CA may require antenna diversity of four antennas. If you need two MIMO to each different carrier, that makes four. You could have less than four, but that would reduce performance. And that would defeat the purpose. I don't see CA as a miraculous panacea for LTE in smartphones. Not while trying to cram in a whole bunch of other LTE bands, too.
Robert
Carrier aggregation is really a solution for the carrier end and not the handset end. It's already crowded in there.
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To an LTE Release 8 terminal, each component carrier will appear as an LTE carrier, while an LTE-Advanced terminal can use the total aggregated bandwidth.
http://lteworld.org/blog/carrier-aggregation-lte-advanced
Now granted this is a blog and not a spec. Unfortunately I can't raise up any of the specs at work. I have to wait till I get home tonight.
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If half of the 10x10 is outside of what existing phones support then I don't see them being able to use any of that spectrum. Any phones that don't support H probably wouldn't work on that spectrum at all. That's like all LTE phones sold in the first 2-4 years. But my understanding is limited.
I think that the old phones will still be able to access the subcarriers in the lower half of the 10x10 block while newer phones will access the subcarriers in the whole 10x10 block.
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About time for Clearwire to recognize which side their bread is buttered on. From the same article:
Cochran said that nothing about Clearwire's relationship with Sprint legally forbids Clearwire from striking wholesale partnerships with other carriers. However, she said that Clearwire does need to think of its strong relationship with Sprint when looking at other deals. "I do feel that Clearwire and Sprint are very aligned," she said, adding that Clearwire's LTE buildout benefits both companies.
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Anandtech just published a Sunspider benchmark making the new iPhone5 the fastest smartphone ever, even beating an Atom based smartphone
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-performance
Let the benchmark wars begin!!!
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This a pretty old subject.
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If the iPhone 5 lacks the independent signal path hardware to support MIMO in SMR 800 MHz, then LTE 800 capability is never going to happen. No firmware update can fix that.
AJ
MIMO on 800 is very hard to do. Period. You don't need MIMO for LTE. Now, an independent signal path is high desirable!
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Really?
So bc you can talk on a freq then you can be able to get LTE on said freq????
That's saying that the EVO and SGS3 and all other LTE phones that can talk on 800MHz can also do LTE on it too....
Gotta disagree with that logic there...
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
Just remember that it's all firmware nowadays. Firmware can be flashed. Will it? Probably not. But it is doable. Not like the old days.
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I'm still in shock over this. I didn't see this one coming. For me, simultaneous voice/data is a novelty. However, a lot of people around here value SVDO as a high priority. This seems to be quite an oversight.
Robert
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Me, I rarely, if ever use the functionality. However public facing people like my wife, an attorney, real-estate agents, financial consultants really love the functionality. Between Sprint and Verizon I had hoped they had enough pull so that the functionality was included.
If I was to make an excuse for apple, the way they designed this phone with the battery off to 1 side while the motherboard is on the other side, it seems that there's a limited amount of real estate in there and a separate radio path for EVDO was a tradeoff that they could have been limited by. Anyway,like I said, they could have sucked off some of the professionals that highly value SVDO and other GSM telephony features from AT&T. Missed opportunities.
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I'm disappointed for Sprint in that there could be some converts from AT&T (like my wife) that really beat the crap out of the SVDO functionality as well as merging several phone calls into one. On the other hand she's not eligible for an upgrade and neither am I nor are we off contract. Hopefully iPhone 5S or 6 will include both of those. See, she does not need quad core CPU or GPU or high MHZ she needs basic phone functionality to get things done. Bad Apple, even worse Sprint and Verizon!!!!
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I use my phone to stream music while working out. It's in my shorts pocket. A larger phone would force me to buy a belt carrier of some sort, or an arm carrier or I would have to carry it in my hands. I also carry my phone in my pants pocket all the time. A larger phone would force me to buy cargo pants to carry it.
Sprint primed for acquisitions
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Nothing really new here and we have talked about it here before. I think that Leap would be the first one to be absorbed, then Metro. Sprint can then trade their AWS spectrum with the AWS gang for 1900PCS spectrum particularly adjacent to their holdings. I just don't see the FCC or FTC allowing them to absorb T-Mobile. I still don't know about USCC. I would like for Sprint to acquire them, then sell the 850MHz and AWS spectrum to AT&T or Verizon and obtain either 1900PCS spectrum, or roaming rights or both.