bigsnake49

Why? SMS is an extremely low overhead protocol riding on top of the control channel. MMS yes, it can replace MMS.

For those espousing RCS. It will never supplant iMessages on the iPhone. There might be a gateway to RCS so that they can communicate with RCS users on Android but that's about it! Now I have both an iPhone and an Android phone bu that's because I am a geek and my android phone is my backup phone. As far as T-Mobile is concerned kudos to them for expanding coverage. I can't wait to see what they will do with Sprint's spectrum/network.

I thought there is a 3Mhz of B26 available on the Canadian IBEZ.

My opinion is that they're doing this to test getting off EVDO and reallocating those carriers to LTE. It's about time, roaming or not. They will probably issue a new PRL so that instead of prioritizing AT&T they prioritize T-Mobile after August 1st. 1x800 will stay for a while. I just hope with or without the merger they put 1x800 and LTE 26 on all their sites, old and new. That way they can minimize roaming.

As far as Dish implementing NB-IoT on their spectrum, here's an article on the poor economics of NB-IoT: https://www.fiercewireless.com/iot/editor-s-corner-unenviable-economics-dish-s-nb-iot-plans From the article: T-Mobile launched its own nationwide NB-IoT network this week. As T-Mobile’s Dave Mayo explained, the network currently covers 2.1 million square miles and 320 million POPs, and offers real-world download and upload speeds of around 15 Kbps. And how much is T-Mobile charging for NB-IoT services? That would be $6 a year for up to 12 MB per connected device, which T-Mobile has said is roughly one-tenth the cost of Verizon’s Cat-M plans for IoT devices.

Digicomm is repurposing CDMA450 for electric utilities. https://www.digicomm.de/en/news/cdma-new-mobile-network-for-utilities/

Both B12 and band 26 should be the preferred bands for VOLTE.

You need B26 for VOLTE both for coverage and capacity. B41 as it is configured right now is great for cruising the net and downloading. Not great for symmetric traffic like voice. Well, when I am talking to my wife, it is highly asymmetric but that's neither here nor there?.

KDDI in Japan still has their CDMA network. Verizon is tired of paying Qualcomm royalties on top of paying Billions of dollars for Qualcomm equipment.

They (Verizon) will not activate CDMA only devices after July 1, 2018. They will shutdown their CDMA network to consumer devices on Dec 31st 2019 but will keep their CDMA network available for M2M customers until 2022. So Sprint customers have until then to roam on them.

When will Qualcomm stop putting it in their chipsets? Intel? When will Apple or Samsung stop supporting in their handsets?

They really need to deploy band 26 on all their sites, no excuse anymore.

Hey, I'm all for network sharing if they cannot merge.

You mean like merge with T-mobile?

I think the days of really cheap data plans with really generous data allowances are over. Sprint, T-Mobile and the Big 2 have all raised their prices. It was not a sustainable situation and it ended up hurting Sprint most of all because they had to compete on price which meant that they had no money to speak of for Capex.

Greeeeaaaaattttt!

At what point, what threshold of signal strength does it switch to T-Mobile data roaming? -120dbm RSSI?

The FCC is asking Dish for detail plans on their buildout: The head of the FCC’s wireless bureau fired a wide range of questions at Dish Network about the carrier’s wireless network buildout plans. Importantly, the FCC’s Donald Stockdale stated that “I am contacting you to request updates and more detailed information on your buildout plans for the 53 megahertz of low- and mid-band spectrum that is apparently lying fallow in these bands.” The implication of Stockdale’s questions is that the FCC may begin to take action against Dish for collecting spectrum licenses but not using them. In his letter to Dish, Stockdale noted that Dish told the FCC earlier this year that it had not met the applicable interim construction deadline for its AWS-4 licenses, its 700 MHz Lower E Block licenses and its H Block licenses. As a result, Stockdale asked Dish to provide a wide range of specifics about how exactly it will build out a wireless network using its vast spectrum holdings. Stockdale asked for details on Dish’s buildout plans, technology choices, coverage area plans, handset strategies, and any additional delays that the company may encounter as it runs up against the FCC’s spectrum license buildout requirements. https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/fcc-wireless-chief-peppers-dish-wireless-network-buildout-questions

Nowadays, it does.

Sprint contributed their 60MHz of BRS to Cleawire along with Clearwire's leased EBS. Cable cos invested in the venture. Clearwire's original business was fixed wireless, using pre-Wimax OFDM and then Wimax. Sprint had to deploy something on their 60MHz of EBS as a condition of the merger with Nextel so they chose Wimax which at the time was much further along than LTE. The window to deploy something on the spectrum was closing fast. They should have just put up protection sites but...

You're right about the 800 but not about 2500GHz. Sprint already had 30 MHz of BRS. Nextel brought another 30MHz of BRS. The vast majority of Sprint's 2500MHz holdings came from Clearwire's BRS.

I have been advocating setting that as a condition for the merger, within 3 or 4 years, although it will probably be sooner since they can clear rural 600 Mhz easier than in the big cities.

Hopefully they will install B26/1x800 voice in the site very close to me. Oh and make the single B41 carrier into 3CA. and eventually a 15x15 B25.

Hey, you're a Sprint customer, you should be used to it by now . Hell I will be satisfied, at least temporarily, if they cover what they cover well with no holes and with consistent signal. Implement all three bands on all their sites. Maybe even cover interstates?

I agree with you but Sprint needs to prioritize. How come you were not roaming on somebody?