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22 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:

Sprint needs to restructure the debt and it could be more aggressive and build the network. SoftBank need to help a bit if no merger.. Sprint spends $2.6 billion per year servicing its debt. Imagine if they had that cash to plow into network. Sprint will be fine. They just need to make a commitment and stick to it .. news are very negative today and many people believe if it goes to court sprint nor tmo will spend time and resources necessary to fight in court


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restructuring your debt does not mean that you don't pay the debt but you may pay it over longer time period so the amount per year is less. Unless course you declare Chapter 11. Then some of your unsecured creditors might take a haircut.

Sprint if they don't merge will be a distant 4th in revenue and also a distant 4th in the amount it can invest in its network. 

21 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Good question it does the firmware just fine so not sure what the issue it. Only Sprint has this issue. Other carriers it just connects. Another example of Sprints incompetence

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No to mention the fact that Sprint has like 200 different SIMs. Never understood that. Their back end software must really suck.

My last 5 speed tests: 42.1/7.51, 54.2/7.08, 35.4/6.01, 44.1/7.33,  47.9/7.68. Not bad at all!

I don't know what they did but I am getting 35-44Mbps out of my MB where as I was getting 5-10 before. Another carrier perhaps?

BYOD is finally here for spectrum mobile. I added another line with a 6s. I don't see BYOD on their website, I was in their store to turn in a cable modem and I asked them about it. They had just gotten their BYOD SIM cards yesterday. 6s is the oldest iPhone they will accommodate because of VOLTE.

21 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

Going off topic a bit, the merger that I wished would've happened a long time ago is MetroPCS and U.S. Cellular. Their networks would've complimented each other so well and they would've been a decent 5th nationwide carrier with a combined 14 Million customers. 

They could have merged with a few other independents like C-Spire. 

Or I wish that Sprint would have merged with Leap, Metro, US Cellular, Allttel, C-spire and a few other rural carriers instead of Nextel.

12 hours ago, runagun said:

I agree with Robert.  Typically, Democrats tend to focus on helping the little guy.  And with this merger, which ironically I want to happen for Sprints sake-It's going to fuc* all of us in the long term tho.

Now the D's are grabbing on to that platform . I can see some trouble for the merger.  I guess we'll just see what happens.  

Giving back to what I said a few weeks ago. About TMobile team staying @ Trump's place of business is smart. They wash his back. He washes their back.  Pay for play my friends.  

Just remember that Congress has no say in this merger, the administration does. I mean they can talk but they don't get to approve or turn down the merger.

The fault for stopping the clock lies with T-Mobile and to a lesser degree with Sprint. They keep on adding documentation to support their case which then prompts the FCC to stop the clock for public comment. In the end the public comments don't really make a bit of difference. The professionals at the FCC and DOJ have to cross their t's and dot their i's in support of or in opposition to the merger.

7 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:

The change of direction competing against cable the FCC/DOj are already aware that as a merged company they wanna compete on home broadband .. this stoppage is concerning it was unexpected


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T-Mobile has touted the fixed broadband angle before, nothing new. They probably submitted a lot of deployment details in their filings which prompted the FCC to stop the clock.

8 hours ago, JonnygATL said:

As interesting as this is and even though I live in Atlanta, I can't say that I really care. 4G still has room to grow and is a pretty awesome technology. I couldn't care less about 5G in my city anytime soon. I'll wait til it matures I suppose as early adopting usually (always?) backfires, sometimes tremendously. 

That said, good for Sprint. They could use some positive street cred. 

Yeah, I hope they spend their money tri-banding all their sites and thickening their coverage so they can deploy VOLTE.

They need to finish tri-banding their whole footprint, period, end of story.

21 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Band 70 NR could be interesting if Sprint partnered with dish as well...

Or Band 66 LTE/NR.

27 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

At the moment I dont think there is enough 5G equipment

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Or 5G phones.

Although I believe that the merger will go through, what do you think should be Sprint's strategy going forward? 

Here are my suggestions:

1. Finish deploying triband to all of its footprint and deploy VOLTE throughout

2. Continue deployment of 5G on 2.5GHz spectrum

3. Obtain (lease) more 2.5Ghz spectrum from owners

4. Somehow partner with Comcast and Dish to deploy 600MHz spectrum for 5G

5. Somehow partner with Comcast and other cable cos to deploy dual band (2.5GHz, CBRS) strand mounted 5G mini macros

6 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-claims-merger-sprint-will-enable-96-coverage-for-rural-america

If you believe it...

I believe it because it will be one of the conditions for approving the merger.

6 hours ago, RAvirani said:

Not really. Two Clear to NV conversions in Seattle are now shown on the voice map, but that's all I've noticed. 

How many of the Clear sites are left to convert nationwide?

18 minutes ago, jreuschl said:

421 mbps on 5G? The specs for gigabit phones exceed that. Is 5G really going to provide any specific benefits having a 5G phone.

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It depends on the spectrum available for 5G where they tested.

3 hours ago, Tengen31 said:

There not cheap either. The one plus 6t costs 549. I've seen LG in the 800 range.

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And 6 months later they drop to $600.

Just now, Tengen31 said:

Yeah but they don't make many flagships.

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You have LG for that.

15 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Plus Sprint could be in trouble with the high cost of Samsung and apple devices if people start switching to cheaper one plus devices that don't work on Sprint. I'm done with Samsung over their prices.

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There are plenty of cheaper Android devices that work on Sprint, eg Motorola. 

It's exactly why Sprint and T-Mobile should merge. The size of their Capex individually cannot compete, together at least they are in the ball park.

Also remember that Sprint let their Capex lapse and lag for a number of years. It has only picked up lately.

50 minutes ago, Thomas L. said:

Could they have deployed UMTS in the BRS spectrum? It's unpaired spectrum, so it would have had to be some TDD variant like TD-SCDMA in China (which was trash), or am I misunderstanding?

There was a UMTS variant that ran on TDD made by IPWireless that I think it has since been absorbed. Now UMTS TDD is part of the standard.

I am pretty sure that the merger will be approved by the FTC/FCC with some CYA conditions.

8 minutes ago, belusnecropolis said:

I remember trying to watch Sprint TeeVee on my hybrid Nextel flip. It was mostly a rerun of some race, basically an old timey gif on repeat. That was the extent of content available to me. Fun times that OG bloatware.

 

No, I am talking about their TV Venture before then. You needed an external antenna and it was supposed to replace VHF and UHF over the air broadcast TV and cable networks. It was Multipoint Distribution Service (MDS) and Multichannel Distribution Service (MMDS) systems before becoming BRS.

Want to correct some inaccuracies in this discussion:

1. Nextel did not have a lot of 2.5 GHz spectrum. Just 30MHz of BRS. Sprint through their failed Wireless TV venture that later became their failed fixed wireless venture owned the other 30MHz. But that BRS they got from Nextel came with a deployment mandate and that what brought forth Wimax. They could have chosen to implement UMTS on it but they did not. Clearwire leased the vast trove of EBS from educational institutions and the Catholic Church.

2. Sprint was a partner along with Cable companies in the first AWS auction. But they did not have money to deploy it and the cable cos sold it to Verizon for $4.4 B and the promise for cheap MVNO rates. Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile are their children of that sale.