bigsnake49

They can get the FCC decision in 180 days. I am pretty sure that the DOJ also has 180 days for its review. The only question is do the two agencies do their review sequentially or in parallel.

The only difference being, CDMA?

I do believe that they will drop them after the merger closes. Of course they have agreements with them and it depends on the terms of agreement whether they are protected or not. Remember that Sprint already has a roaming agreement with AT&T for LTE. I am guessing that the roaming agreement with T-Mobile is on better terms/cheaper.

It will be so much easier since Sprint phones could roam on band 4 and band 2 before and after the merger. I expect band 25 to be first integrated into T-Mobile's network, then band 26 then band 41. At least that's the way I'd do it.

A maximum of 180 days.

The New T-mobile will end up with 85, 000. 10,000 Sprint sites and 10,000 new sites.

65,000

They need to add it to more sites. I'm getting 1x800 from site(s) 4-6 miles away not the site .5 mile away. I could definitely use some band 26 broadcasting from that site. While they're at it they need to increase the band 41 to 3 carriers.

For Sprint customers, the merger will be a godsend. The New T-Mobile will have 85,000 macro sites vs Sprint's current 45,000. The average signal improvement for Sprint customers will be 12db. For current T-Mobile customers it will only be improved by 1db. For current T-mobile customers , it is all about the promise of 5G.

A lot of newish Sprint phones support Band 66 but not many support band 71. Is T-mobile deploying both LTE and 5G on band 71 or are they just implementing 5G? T-Mobile phones will probably need to be replaced in greater numbers than Sprint phones.

I have had a lot of dropped calls lately on Cricket. 1x800 works really well in my Faraday cage of a condo.

You could do that now, nothing is stopping you.

Look, they are not saying something different than what we have been saying in these forums. When they do the quarterly reports they tend to emphasize the positive and minimize the negative. In this case they are doing the opposite.

Add another 15x15 or even 20x20 in some markets for Sprint's band 25 and you have a very nice midband network.

Plus Dish is up to their necks in debt right now.

Not a bad thing ?!

Yeah, Dish could have invested all that money that they invested in spectrum on Sprint's network instead. They could have brought the AWS-4 25x20 band of spectrum to sprint to strengthen Sprint's midband position, they would not have needed to bid on the AWS-3 auction and they could have probably acquired a 10x10 band of 600MHz.

Now they are trying to sell this merger so they are painting the financial situation as bleak as possible but I have long said that Sprint is not sustainable on its own without some major investment by their parent who was unwilling to invest in it. I almost wish that Dish had acquired them.

I like the fact that the average signal of the new entity will be 12db better than Sprint standalone. So as a Sprint customer I have a lot to gain. But it will only increase T-Mobile's average signal by one db, which means that they don't plan to increase coverage that much from what T-Mobile covers right now. So the 20,000 additional macro sites will mostly be capacity sites. I wonder if T-Mobile's 700MHz and Sprint's 800MHz will carry VoLTE traffic preferentially.

The prices and phone discounts that Sprint and T-Mobile used to retain/gain customers were/are unsustainable. Verizon in particular and AT&T to a lesser degree depend on postpaid customers that appreciate the coverage and network consistency that Verizon/AT&T offer. Sprint and T-Mobile depend largely on prepaid/MVNO customers with much thinner margins. Those margins need to be fatter to promote increased Capex.

I was able to hook on eHRPD today, in the blackhole of signal, which is our matrimonial bed ;). Nobody has LTE there. Calls drop, websites take forever. But this is the only place I have seen it.

Here is this device that can probably be called an HDMI over LAN extender: http://sgcdn.startech.com/005329/media/sets/IPUSB2HD2_Manual/IPUSB2HD2.pdf Don't be scared by the word LAN. It can be extended over the WAN, just make sure you forward the port on the router to the right device. Google "HDMI over IP" lots of different devices available. What they do is extend/route your display over IP. Look also at this: https://screen.cloud/devices or this: https://www.getmira.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI76jU1a7d2wIVxoCfCh2VhQIBEAAYAiAAEgLpa_D_BwE Which reminds me that with with Chromecast and inexpensive Chromecast dongles you can accomplish what you want at least on a LAN.

I have not seen EVDO for at least couple of months.

So I signed up for Sprint's Kickstart on a line that I had on Mint Mobile, a T-Mobile MVNO. It took 4 calls to get it done but it finally got done. Some observations. LTE is mostly provided by a band 41 3-CA site and then Band 26. Voice is provided by 1x800 with great signal level. LTE signal strength is 3-6 dis lower than T-mobile even though they both use the same site. Speed is half as much as T-Mobile's (10Mbps vs 20MBps). I wonder if they just need 4x4 MIMO and 256QAM.

So many questions, requirements that are unanswered. I am assuming that the monitor is connected to a computing device of some sort that has connectivity to the outside world and also has some kind of video card. Will you be displaying the message itself or giving a command to the computing device to display something else. In either case you need some kind of decoder that interprets the remote command and the performs some local action. Am I on the right track?