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24 minutes ago, dkyeager said:
Or T-Mobile, especially since they now would not have to buy it of AT&T.
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I think that T-Mobile has plenty of 600Mhz spectrum.
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56 minutes ago, Cubbiefan82 said:
I don't understand the value of this, it seems a little pricey to me. It has a few major cities, but they are all 10mhz markets in the major markets
It is valuable to somebody like Dish or Comcast that might want to beef up their presence in some of those markets.
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On 12/17/2017 at 12:05 PM, RedSpark said:
So are you saying you would support more competition for backhaul?
What government-level policies would be conducive for facilitating this?
Well, actually buying a company/companies with Metro fiber loops is preferable. Zayo comes to mind. Level 3 was just bought by Century link. The other solution is to partner with Cable cos. For example in addition to Verizon in Comcast's wireless MVNO, they could use Sprint and use Verizon only where Sprint does not have coverage. Something like Google is doing with Project Fi. Government should be the last resort. Although as part of infrastructure spending, I wish there was a government funded initiative to run fiber everywhere. Then a non-profit corporation would rent capacity on the network to all comers for a price just high enough to only maintain and expand the network.
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17 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:
This entire thing falls apart when you see that the top ranked carriers are all Sprint and T-Mobile MVNOs despite Sprint getting the lowest ratings. All you have to do to see that BGR loves to fan the flames on the Sprint hate train is search for Sprint on their website. Literally every article where Sprint is mentioned is an attack on them. Searching for T-Mobile shows an article for every single deal they have. They even have an article telling readers that a T-Mobile BOGO deal ends in 8 hours. The site borders on T-Mobile advertisement.
Even TmoNews isn't that biased and they're a site strictly about T-Mobile.
They're just parroting what Consumers Reports study concluded.
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Meanwhile, Sprint came last of the 4 carriers in customer satisfaction according to a Consumer Reports survey:
http://bgr.com/2017/12/21/best-wireless-network-2017-sprint-vs-t-mobile-consumer-reports/
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1 hour ago, JossMan said:
But I thought people were gonna die from the Tax Bill, reeeeeeeeeeee!
In all seriousness its about damn time the corporate tax rate gets lowered, we are competitive again! Hope to see Sprint use the extra money it saves from lower corporate taxes and puts it towards network investments.
Too many companies do not pay taxes. I would like something like a VAT based on revenues rather than profits. No loopholes, no exemptions.
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10 hours ago, utiz4321 said:
I think they should explain to people what the lowering of the coporate tax rate means for their company and their future plans. Taxes aren't paid by companies anyway, all corporate taxes are paid by some combination of consumers, employees and shareholders. If we were being Really honest the corporate tax rate would be zero and if we wanted to tax wealth we would have a progressive consumption tax.
Sprint has not paid taxes in forever so there are probably not going to be affected by this bill for a little while.
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1 hour ago, RedSpark said:
Consumer protection is reverting to the FTC:
Here’s the signed MOU between the FCC and FTC linked to in the release:
The MOU details the responsibilities of each going forward. It also details how the FCC and FTC will work jointly.
Local governments can help encourage last mile competition. Unfortunately, they haven’t done that as much as they should or have done the opposite in cases. Ultimately, I believe the last mile problem will be addressed and solved by Fixed 5G Wireless. Local governments should do what they can to expedite it: improved permitting process, etc.
Fixed 5G will not solve anything when the backhaul provider will charge you an arm and a leg and is the same provider whose ox you're goring by providing competition for his last mile fixed wired connection.
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1 hour ago, utiz4321 said:
Ummm... I think you dont understand what is going on. If ISPs want to charge you more, they would raise your price. There isn't anything in title 2 that prevents that. Pay lanes are nothing to be afraid of, it just garantees that services that are in high demand don't suffer during peak times.
I have no problem paying more if it gets me more speed. Not that I have any choice. It's either Charter with 100Mbits/sec or AT&T with 25Mbits/sec.
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9 minutes ago, utiz4321 said:
Why do you care that big content can use the government to rig the industry in their favor against big telecom? The market is more than capable of dealing with a two sided industry.
No, I, as the consumer do not want to be charged twice, once for the connection and another time for streaming or consuming content by my ISP. The content provider pays for the connection on their end and I pay for mine. I also do not want my ISP to use paid lanes to favor certain content over others.
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19 hours ago, tommym65 said:
Charlie Ergen, Charlie Ergen, and Charlie Ergen: That would be the case against a merger. He nearly wrecked the Softbank acquisition of Sprint [not that the acquisition has been a total success], and has done or said nothing since that would lead anyone to believe that he would be any more cooperative today. He and Masa would probably get along badly, as both of them would insist on running the whole show.
Yeah Charlie Ergen might have screwed Sprint in the past with driving up the price for Clearwire and then Sprint but sometimes you have to sit down and break bread with your former enemies. If the two of them want to offer ala carte wireless TV it would behoove both to cooperate. Sprint has the network assets and 2.5 spectrum and Dish has midband and low band spectrum and content. It will take a lot of spectrum to offer ala carte content starting and stopping at any time. Also require caching video servers "close" to the ultimate consumers. But it will also take either acquiring or partnering with a fiber rich company such as Zayo or Level 3 or even some cable cos. Didn't Level 3 just got acquired by Century Link?
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2 hours ago, utiz4321 said:
Scale, spectrum and content relationships. That would be the case for a merger.
Not to mention midband and 600Mhz spectrum. Then Sprint can take advantage of the combined assets to offer ala cart TV. Or they can partner with cable cos and together offer video to cord cutters.
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37 minutes ago, kg4icg said:
Why do you think Apple and Qualcomm are going thru a patent battle now.
Because Apple thinks that they're asking too much for their patents and that the patents are asking for a percentage of the phone price. The more expensive the phone even if that is due to more memory or bigger screen, the more money Qualcomm makes even though they don't have anything to do with the components that contribute to the additional cost. Qualcomm is mad because they lost out on the half of the LTE modems that Apple is sourcing from Intel and that Apple is not using their processors instead of building their own. As soon as Intel modems catch up to Qualcomm and include CDMA for Sprint/Verizon, I predict Apple will no longer use Qualcomm. It would not surprise me if after CDMA goes completely away Apple does not start making their own LTE/5G modems or acquire a company.
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49 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:
Does LAA require new equipment?
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It depends. LAA is only going to be found in small cells probably implemented along with massive MIMO for high traffic areas. It will be a supplement to band 41. That's why Sprint is not chomping at the bit to implement it. Cable cos will probably implement it as strand mounted small cells and would have the upper hand since they don't need permits for those.
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Sprint achieved 120-140MHz using just 5Mhz of 3.5GHz spectrum using LAA in conjunction with SpiderCloud. LAA is in Sprint's long term plans.
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2 hours ago, kg4icg said:
Don't forget that Apple and Qualcomm are back and forth suing each other, and and the features that you want initiated in the iPhone are all Qualcomm ip, and until that mess gets settled, you aren't going to see it in the iPhone going all the way back to the iPhone 7.
The problem is that until Intel also implements the same features in their chipsets, Apple will not include them in their feature list even if Qualcomm did already. Plus Apple does not want to be the leading edge guinea pig.
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13 minutes ago, lilotimz said:
All 600 MHz equipment are 4x4 radios (4x2 at UE level).
Att and Verizon and in some siteareas Tmobile they're retrofitting sites to 4x4 eNB setups on 700 and 800mhz by using two lowband antennas + two sub 1ghz radios.
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I wonder how they're getting around the isolation/correlation problem at the low bands. Antenna design has totally changed since I took the class :).
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25 minutes ago, RAvirani said:
Not exactly impossible. Verizon and T-Mobile both have widespread lowband 4x2 MIMO deployments in the Seattle area....
Lots of compromises to achieve it. Are you sure that those are 4x2 low frequency antennas and not mid frequency?
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20 hours ago, lilotimz said:
Separation required for sub 1 ghz frequencies is troublesome. It's why low band inter and intraband CA has not been implemented and 4x4 MIMO on sub 1ghz frequencies at UE level is almost impossible.
Heck it's almost impossible at the site level.
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11 minutes ago, S4GRU said:
It still would only be available when PCS or AWS makes it back to the site. If you don't have a synchronous link back on the CA frequency pairing, you lose connection and it will look for another band or band combo. In order for that 700MHz downlink to be used, it must be actively paired and communicating with the midband CA channel. Thus making the 700MHz channel only as effective as its midband pairing. So to claim that 700MHz downlink only channel as not truly low band spectrum is profoundly accurate, despite its low frequency number.
Just remember, all cellular, whether data or voice requires a circuitous connection, up and down. Whether CA or not. If your data is coming to the device via CA (700+AWS or 700+PCS), it can only go back by AWS or PCS. If you are out of range for the AWS or PCS uplink data return to the site, your device will have zero bars/no signal or switch to another band altogether. And throughput will cease. A circuitous connection is required. Your device would not be able to ask for the site to get data for you. You're out of range. The lowest common denominator is in effect when you pair low band DL only with midband or highband. And currently 700MHz cannot be paired with other low band.
It would be better for range to have 700MHz to be the uplink, actually. Since the site can broadcast signal much higher than they do. But your device is a weak transmitter. It would function better the other way around. Because the site can extend the usefulness of PCS and AWS much further than they do now, it's the device capability of returning the signal is the limiting factor. Having 700MHz on the uplink and a strong PCS or AWS signal pairing for DL would provide greater range scenario. But that's not in play with the current scenario with Dish.
I have also advocated using Band D&E as uplink. But I think it is better for Dish to trade it's Band E holdings for AT&T's 600MHz holdings. Also get hold of Comcast 600Mhz holdings in some kind of arrangement so that Comcast can roam off Dish's 600Mhz after WiFi and 3.5GHz CBRS. Then horse trade some of that abundant urban spectrum to T-Mobile for a nationwide 5MHz slice for the rural areas to add to its already existing 5Mhz for a respectable 10MHz nationwide and much more in the cities. I also don't believe that Dish wants to deploy its' network for IOT. There is no money in IOT certainly not enough to deploy a $10B nationwide network. I believe that Dish wants to appeal to cord cutters and sell them skinny bundles or even ala carte video. Will its midband holdings be enough even though they're very decent? Maybe in the beginning but in the end I would think that a partnership between Sprint and Dish makes way too much sense. Dish's deployment cost will be cut substantially if they partner with Sprint. Sprint gets access to Dish's midband and low band spectrum and content. Dish gets another outlet for their video offerings and can offer triple play for their customers.
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22 minutes ago, chamb said:
Have fun trying to get all the various phone manufacturers to agree to add this mess to their phones. Then figure the expense to add it to all the cell sites for very little benefit.
Band 29 is already supported by phones as far back as the LG G3 and iPhone 6. According to Fiercewireless:
"AT&T is quietly deploying a 10 MHz block of 700 MHz spectrum in New York and other markets, according to Walter Piecyk of BTIG Research. And that could position it to swing a spectrum deal that would benefit Dish Network.
The deployment is being used for increased capacity and faster data speeds, supplementing AT&T’s PCS and WCS spectrum. It’s a combination of two adjacent 6 MHz blocks of spectrum D and E, Piecyk noted in a blog post. AT&T owns both blocks in some markets, covering one-fourth of the population in some of the nation’s biggest cities."
Later on in the same article Piecyk supports a spectrum swap between AT&T and Dish of AT&T's 600MHz winnings and Dish's 700Mhz Band E.
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12 hours ago, S4GRU said:
I believe AJ's point is that since it can only be used aggregated with midband, it is essentially midband, If midband doesn't reach back to the site, you won't be using Dish 700MHz downlink only. So its usefulness will be only where midband is present, and not a low frequency band at all.
If it is used as a supplemental downlink to AWS and PCS then the primary band in that aggregation scheme will be the AWS band or PCS band. I would use it as downlink for coverage at the coverage edge (exurban, suburban, rural). Have it deployed with 700Mhz spacing. Use it when you're farther from the site or inside a concrete bunker. In this way it will be used only where needed.
AJ also forgot that Dish won nationwide licenses in the 600MHz auction. Now granted some of them won't be available for a while (2020?).
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16 hours ago, SprintNYC said:
http://maps.spectrumgateway.com/dish-600-mhz.html
They won a nationwide license in the 600MHZ auction.
Now granted it's only 5x5 in the vast majority of the country except around cities.
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5 hours ago, Trip said:
If 700 isn't low-band, then other than 600 (which they also hold), what is? FM? Shortwave? Except for 600, there's nothing lower than 700 even licensed to cell companies.
The problem with the E-block isn't that it's not low-band, but that it has no matching uplink spectrum.
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Not to mention that the parent corp forgave $5B when Metro and T-Mobile merged.