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  1. bigsnake49
    I always thought that Sprint would partner with all the cable providers, not just Altice and Cox to deploy strand and pole mounted band 41 small cells since they lacked the site density of the other providers. They still can just as long as the small cells also include CBRS.
  2. bigsnake49
    Cost of Buying Nextel: $35.5B Cost of Buying Nextel Partners: $9.1B Cost of Buying own Affiliates: $6.5B Cost of Rebanding: $5B Total Cost of Merger: $56.1 10 years worth of Capex at $5.5B/year.
  3. bigsnake49
    The spectrum getting swapped is not worth $533M to lease. Something else is going on with the leases.
  4. bigsnake49
    No, T-mobile wants the 2.5GHz spectrum for 5G. But they could trade the 700+800MHz to Dish for Dish's 600MHz. I know that Dish has only 5x5Mhz nationwide but they have some choice holdings in some critical cities (NYC).
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    Well this has nothing to do with the reciprocal $533M spectrum leads then. Just your green variety spectrum swap. I know that I might be harping on this too much but is there some thought of simplifying their spectrum holding at some point after the merger?Let's see, they will have holdings in the 600MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz, AWS-1, AWS-3, PCS+G, and 2.5GHz bands + CBRS next year. Lot of antennas on the combined sites. I'd be horse trading like crazy.
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    Thanks, I found it int the earnings report. It's what they should have been spending every quarter. I wonder how much of that is making every site triband vs new macro sites vs small cells.
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    I do believe that once the merger goes through, the combine company will have to offer deals on devices that accommodate all the bands.
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    What did they spend this quarter?
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    I wonder what would happen to band 26 after the merger is complete and the two companies are fully merged. Will it be sold to AT&T and Verizon to attach to their 850MHz holdings? Traded to those two or Dish in exchange for some midband spectrum? Devoted to IoT? Similarly what will happen to 700Mhz Block A holdings? Sell it or trade it to AT&T, USCC and other regionals? Block A for AWS?
  10. bigsnake49
    An all stock merger will not need external financing. Dish still has a decent cash flow and that could have used to finance some of the network investments. Also Dish would not have needed to lay out so much money for spectrum (AWS-3, PCS-H).
  11. bigsnake49
    Look I hate Charlie Ergen, but at this point I think that it would have been much better if he had acquired Sprint or rather merged with it. At least he would have brought some spectrum with him and would have invested some money in Sprint.
  12. bigsnake49
    Sprint has not had any money since they merged with Nextel. They had to borrow heavily to buy their affiliates and the Nextel Partners affiliate of Nextel. Then they had to pay for the rebanding. That was such an ill-advised merger.
  13. bigsnake49
    They will be re-auctioned but probably in a separate auction from mmwave. I have a hunch that CBRS PAL frequencies will be auctioned first.
  14. bigsnake49
    I am so impressed with how fast they have deployed first band 12 then band 71. That's why I want the merger to succeed. Those boys know how to get shyte done!
  15. bigsnake49
    The lesser the magnitude the better (closer to zero). So -107dbm is generally better signal than -118dbm. But if I'm not mistaken RSRQ and SNR are the statistics to watch because they measure the quality of the signal not just how strong it is. RSSP includes noise from co and adjacent channel interference, thermal noise, etc.
  16. bigsnake49
    True.
  17. bigsnake49
    If he's getting 22.75Mbps with his signal at -118 he's doing great!
  18. bigsnake49
    Some of us are in secondary markets. They are probably improving in the largest cities. The other thing you have to take into account is that rootmetrics has trucks that roam the main roads. They don't go into every neighborhood and most of all they don't go inside the houses and workplaces.
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    I don't know what happened to the network in the last three months. I had a site near me (.5 mile) shared with T-Mobile on the top of a tall building. That site is either down or decommissioned and I am mainly getting Band 26 from 4-5 miles away. I sometimes get Band 41. I almost never get Band 25. I get quite a lot of EHRPD connections.
  20. bigsnake49
    Not to pat my own back but I have been advocating that for ever now.
  21. bigsnake49
    I have come to the conclusion that Sprint would have been much better off if Dish had acquired them. At least they they would have brought in midband spectrum and might have even invested in the network.
  22. bigsnake49
    The small cell strategy would have worked if Sprint had partnered with the cable cos for strand and pole mounted small cells like they did with Altice. The New T-Mobile still can particularly if it also involves CBRS. The cable cos are going all in on the CBRS band. A small cell that combines WiFi, Band 41/5G and CBRS will be a winner.
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    Oh, we bought the iPhone 8+ from them.
  24. bigsnake49
    I finally ported my wife's number over to Spectrum Mobile. The experience was relatively painless except for a minor glitch with respect to shipping address.
  25. bigsnake49
    If they update/upgrade all sites with B26, VOLTE should be fine. Of course they might still need more sites for garden variety data.
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