bigsnake49

For those that think that if Sprint/T-Mobile merge the end of the wireless world is near, look what happened in Japan. Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant is constructing a greenfield wireless network. Who says that some kind of consortium involving Dish won't be able to do the same here?

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/rakuten-builds-a-greenfield-wireless-network-japan

Basically what this means is you skip the first generation phones powered by the X50 chipset and go for phones with the X55 in them. Which means waiting for 2020. Which is OK since the 5G networks in this country will have minuscule coverage in 2019.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/carriers-struggle-to-make-business-case-for-5g

It seems that the carriers are having a hard time making a business case for 5G, given the massive infrastructure costs to upgrade to 5G. I still believe that hotspot duty in high traffic areas should be all that the operators should invest in with much slower adoption rate than 4G.

2 hours ago, dkyeager said:

I do agree that the rollout of 5G will be far slower than the pundits imply.  The 2x speed advantage of 5G will be gobbled up with 2 years at current data growth rates, which is the real reason for the push IMO (need for more capacity, installers say all the recent radios installed by the duo are 5G ready).  CDMA disappearing will be the real killer for Sprint given its vast coverage over rural areas.

At least for Sprint 5G will be added capacity to existing 4G (up to 60MHz more in many major metros with much faster uploads since it will be one carrier, 15MHz possible in many rural locations with only LTE 2500 CA currently).

No 2x capacity advantage for 5G over 4G over the same spectrum absent massive MIMO which can be used by both. Maybe 1.25x-1.5x? Now latency will be much lower for the tower to the handset portion of the network. Network slicing, virtualization, massive amounts of spectrum becoming available for 5G...

7 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

What would another carrier have done differently?

As for 2xCA, that’s a good question.

Money talks, Sprint does not have any.

I also discovered a singe channel band 41 site and it is not a SC or an MM and the nearest full build tower was decommissioned and replaced by an MM. I can't wait till the merger is complete.

34 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

I still feel like tmobile would have had this taken care of by now. Also why is Sprint still building new towers without b41? What happened to them saying they dont have to go back for more tower visits? Why is Masa so quiet? What happened to 4XCA that they said was going to happen in a statement almost a year ago?

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Everybody but Sprint would have taken care of it by now.

Forget about 4xCA, why is a major tower on a major intersection in Melbourne still have only 2xCA?

12 hours ago, Johnner1999 said:

 

 

Idk if that’s true.... I pay $140 for two lines (could drop to $120 but give up some features) that includes taxes and Netflix. With vzw it would be $180 plus taxes. Sure it’s $40+Netflix.

I’d rather Tmo and sprint charge a fair price and offer s kick ass network.

Not saying you’re wrong

Just my perspective.



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Look, I am paying $15/month+taxes for a kickstarter line on Sprint. I am sure Sprint is not making any money on that line. There are other limited duration deals that other people have taken advantage of. But the trend has been to raise prices.

5 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

From Fortune Magazine news:

T-Mobile's John Legere Promises Rates Won't Increase If the Sprint Merger Gets Approved

 

In addition, Legere is asking FCC to speed up the review process quickly...  

T-Mobile's rates have risen to almost Verizon/AT&T levels so him promising they will not rise is a rather empty promise.

22 minutes ago, ingenium said:

That's the original software that it launched with. It's likely saying limited connectivity because it's unable to use it, and is probably falling back to LTE.

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Then it has never been updated.

Mine never moves from WiFi. if I reboot, it never completes the boot up process.

My release numbers: 15.16.0.533, 60.9.83.0

5 minutes ago, though said:

it does at times when not on wifi backhaul, so doubt it would be any different...

There's nothing to optimize. You tell it which WiFi AP it should use, give it the password and off it goes. On LTE backhaul it has to optimize which Band 41 channel to use from which tower.

Just now, though said:

It could take a day or 2 to connect back to the MB. try rebooting your phone, then give it a day or 3.

On WiFi backhaul?

7 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

Yeah, I pay for 250/12 internet and I got 77/8 through the Magic Box with a 19ms ping.

What is your signal out of the MB? How about your release numbers? I wonder if mine did not receive the update. Mine shows me connected to Band 26 after I select WiFi backhaul. I am on the 100/10 tier but I usually get 120/12.

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

If you have a Gen 3, it should work now. I have my Magic Box connected to my home WiFi right now. I don't know why it's saying Limited Connectivity though.

I did try it and my LTE signal on my phone went back to 110-114dbm instead of -85 at my favorite chair which means the Magic Box is not working on WiFi backhaul. Mine also shows limited connectivity. Have you tried doing a speedest?

8 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

I spoke too soon.

So I guess we have to wait a little bit longer...

Maybe can be used in downtowns, malls, stadiums. I am more interested in CBRS, "C" band and 6GHz band. 

Good luck on 5G on 28GHz penetrating my cement block building.

12 hours ago, mattp said:

is it ok to ask in this topic or should i start a new one 

i have a moto g4 play  witch doint seem to have voice over lte unless it is not enable how to tell how long it would work on the network  it is on  tello

Well, if CDMA will go away, VOLTE will be enabled on all. If the merger goes through, T-mobile will sunset CDMA quickly. They might leave 1x800 on for a little while longer. I would not worry about it right now. I am sure they will offer generous incentives to purchase a new handset.

16 hours ago, RedSpark said:

Transcript from the Earnings Call is up: https://s21.q4cdn.com/487940486/files/doc_financials/quarterly/2018/Q3/S-US-20190131-2200667-C.pdf

Some good questions/answers in it!

I am encouraged by the fact that they are spending money on their network. No matter what happens with the merger they are investing in it. I am sure they are spending wisely with an eye towards investments that won't be stranded. One question that was not asked is why they are not working with the other major cable operators on strand mounted small cells. A CBRS/2.5GHz small cell would be a win/win for both Sprint and Comcast/Charter.

4 hours ago, dkyeager said:

So many groups have made up their minds first, find facts to back them later.  In a more straightforward article would want to see the models assumptions in detail.  The article quotes Dish, whose role is typically to drive up the costs of mergers.  Without Dish doing that for the purchase of Clearwire, there possibly could have been billions more for Sprint network expansion or lower prices.

Or bidding up the price of Sprint itself. Or driven up prices of AWS-3.

Prices will never be lower. Long gone are those days, whether or not the merger goes through or not.

It isn't political when we're just complaining about the shutdown of the government affecting the Sprint/T-Mobile merger. We're not assigning blame, we're just frustrated that it happened, not just this time but all the times in the past.

2 hours ago, sunmybun said:

I have 15.16.00.533

Do you have 2 ca? I only can get only one b41 carrier when the tower it relays from does 2 ca

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I have the same firmware version.

5 hours ago, dro1984 said:

Interesting... in the following CNN link, T Mobile Indicated the Justice Dept, Homeland Security and Defense Dept all withdrew a request for a merger delay.... "Cleared key hurdles"...   I like the video feed, if you can see it... with Marcelo and John.    John is always the key spokesperson.    Marcelo is kinda just in the background mostly...

Could this mean that the merger is very quickly drawing to a close?    What's your take?   How soon do you think this can this happen?

T-Mobile and Sprint just cleared key hurdles to their huge merger  

It's basically up to the FCC now. I expect it to be approved in the first Quarter of 2019 and close soon thereafter.

10 minutes ago, dkyeager said:

This all depends on what the FCC decides to do with 2.5GHz (Band 41).  Currently these groups exist because 5% iirc is to be held back when 2.5 EDS is leased to a commercial firm.  Some of the new proposals will allow the EDS licenses to be sold (which may interest Verizon) which would end this practice.  This reexamination of 2.5 by the FCC is supposed to be occurring about now.    It would also allow the 2.5 that is not licensed to be given away to the non-profits/tribes or sold.  Many of the places that only have CA is because the FCC has not put more 2.5 on the market.  Of course the FCC may choose to delay this until after this merger question is decided.

The EBS spectrum is a big boondoggle. In the 70s and 80s it was actually used for remote learning by actual educational institutions. For example in the Dallas area there were quite a few educational institutions that banded together and offered classes to students of other institutions and private companies via TV broadcasting. I remember attending couple of those classes. The majority of educational institutions and non-profits never implemented anything and have been squatting on the spectrum for 40-50 years. Others were obsoleted by the advent of the web. They need to clean up the EBS spectrum pronto. There is no reason for Sprint to be paying the Catholic Church billions of $$$ to lease the spectrum. I'd rather they paid the government.