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15 minutes ago, derrph said:
I think it’s nice that Sprint has a roaming agreement in the event the merger is rejected. From a network perspective, Sprint has a lot of roaming. I wonder what the roaming map looks like and how much Sprint pays?
I wonder if Sprint will drop most of their roaming partners in areas where there’s T-Mobile service?
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.
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32 minutes ago, red_dog007 said:
As long as you are on a new device, I bet the integration will be fairly seem less on the network side. Beings the underlying technology for both companies is LTE and the changes of a local TMobile and Sprint site going fully down at exactly the same time I doubt will happen.
And right now with the roaming agreement they are already getting to jump ahead, getting the networks at least a little integrated with each other now. Depending on their confidence level of the merger happening, I would not be surprised if they do even deeper integration to allow them to turn on with a "switch" once the merger is approved.
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.
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1 hour ago, PythonFanPA said:
Is there any kind of rough idea on how long the consideration process could/would take now that they've officially filed with the FCC?
A maximum of 180 days.
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1 hour ago, derrph said:
oh wow I didn't think they had that many. I was guessing around 55k.
The New T-mobile will end up with 85, 000. 10,000 Sprint sites and 10,000 new sites.
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1 minute ago, derrph said:
How many towers does T-mobile currently have?
65,000
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24 minutes ago, chamb said:
Yep, Sprint's CDMA 1x800 is GREAT. I sure hope they keep it around as long as possible. Right now, VOLTE will not have the same coverage that the 1x800 does. Band 26 LTE(800) will never match the coverage provided by the 800 1x coverage, not even close.
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.
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17 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:
The merging of networks shouldn't be a big pain. They largely overlap, and where they don't those sites will not be going anywhere. With most recent phones supporting the majority of LTE bands offered by both carriers, you probably won't see much in the way of service disruptions, especially with VoLTE and SMS going over LTE as well.
I'm not entirely sure how billing will go, but assuming plans don't get touched during the transition, I don't see it being a huge hassle.
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.
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8 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:
I'm sure there will be some that have to be replaced. Especially any that are probably around two years old or older. But they mentioned that they exelected to have some sort of replacement program or at least heavy discount for those that are forced into a new phone.
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.
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13 hours ago, Flompholph said:
I just don't want to be on t-mobile's network. If I go too deep it would go way off topic. If all big three are evil and no little guy to hope to for. I might as well go to the one that works the most in my house even though I only use wifi at home.
I have had a lot of dropped calls lately on Cricket. 1x800 works really well in my Faraday cage of a condo.
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19 hours ago, Flompholph said:
I know one way to covince me that the merger will be good for me. Call me unreasonable, stupid, really stupid, and lazy.
If the merger goes through I will be jumping to ATT.
You could do that now, nothing is stopping you.
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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.
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1 hour ago, greenbastard said:
As did I. Midband 20x20 FDD LTE + 15x15 FDD LTE will do that. They also have a very dense network and are pushing ahead with small cells (without being sneaky like Mobilitie as well).
Add n41 to all of their towers, and Verizon & At&t won't be able to match the speeds and capacity the New T-Mobile will provide. This truly is setting up the be one scary urban network.
Add another 15x15 or even 20x20 in some markets for Sprint's band 25 and you have a very nice midband network.
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18 minutes ago, tommym65 said:
Dish = Charlie Ergen. Nope. I would change carriers instantly.
Plus Dish is up to their necks in debt right now.
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2 minutes ago, IamMrFamous07 said:
Yup and we could have Sling for free lol
Not a bad thing ?!
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20 minutes ago, IamMrFamous07 said:
Looking back I wish Dish acquired Sprint too. I think the two would have been great since they could offer many services to consumers and not to mention Dish had a good amount of Spectrum at that time.
What Sprint and T-Mobile are trying to accomplish right now is what Dish and Sprint could have done years ago.
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.
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1 minute ago, derrph said:
I skimmed the report and alot of good things were said said that made me excited for the merger. I don't want Sprint to go but it was really a eye opener as to the state of Sprint and their network going forward. I would like to keep my plan but worse case if I can't i'll just jump onto my T-mobile One All In promo plan that I currently pay for my parents which would be an extra $35 per month.
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.
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18 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:
So much juicy info in the Public Interest Statement that T-Mobile and Sprint put together for the FCC. Page 23 and 24 have some maps that show the projected extent of 5G coverage on both networks in 2024 if they were to go at it alone. Beware, the document is over 600 pages long so if anyone has free time and wants to go through the whole thing, please do!
I'll keep editing as I find more cool stuff.
Edits: I'm still reading but something to note is that on their own, it is expected that by 2021, Sprint will cover more POP's in high-speed 5G than T-Mobile. So while T-Mobile would have greater overall coverage by a long shot, Sprint would be capable of providing 153 Million POPs with speeds greater than 150Mbps compared to only 10 Million from T-Mobile.
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.
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8 hours ago, nexgencpu said:
I fully expect prices to increase within 24 months after the merger is settled, and a stalemate between the big three. Alot of budget minded folks will turn to half-assed prepaid services with unreasonable limitations. I also fully expect a shit ton of new plans with lots of nonsense ways of overcharging us. With three huge competitors, all of similar size, why bother truly competing.
Complacency will be the name of the game for quite some time.
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.
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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.
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On 6/15/2018 at 11:09 PM, centermedic said:
Trying to keep it as cheap as possible. IP based, displaying a message only using a monitor/tv with some type of adjunct/adaptor to receive the message.
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:
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.
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1 hour ago, RAvirani said:
I think we are starting to see Sprint shutdown 3G in favor of a 1x/LTE only network.
Today, I drove south in I-57 from Chicago to St. Louis and a large majority of the towers along my drive were only broadcasting 1x and LTE. I noticed this a few weeks ago in rural Indiana as well.
Wider channels for VoLTE, I guess, and exciting times for Sprint
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I have not seen EVDO for at least couple of months.
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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.
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19 hours ago, centermedic said:
Hopefully somebody here can help. I am looking for a way to push messages to TV/Monitors in remote locations. In other words, using my phone or computer I can send a message to a monitor several miles away.
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?
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38 minutes ago, though said:
eh?
He's bragging about his WiFi connection probably via cable or fiber.
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Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread
in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment
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The only difference being, CDMA?