bigsnake49

With or without the merger, prices will go back up. Right now price is what Sprint competes on. After they expand their network and have a network that can compete with others, they'll no longer have to compete on price.

2 hours ago, gusherb said:

I meant everyones prices, not Sprint. Sprint's prices now are clearly unsustainable. 

T-Mobile raised theirs already.

2 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

Because as of right now it's still pretty high value with only one device that supports it and pretty much undeployed/unable to be deployed in many areas for another 2-3 years. I'm not suggesting that they should divest it, but it would likely be one of the first things on the chopping block.

No, I don't think so!

If Sprint and T-mobile do not merge, I hope that Sprint, once they are on their feet financially and have their network in order,  enters into some kind of agreement with Dish with respect to some of their spectrum, namely their 600Mhz spectrum. It would not hurt if they sign an agreement for a discount on Dish's Sling service.

31 minutes ago, Swordfish said:

How will this work with Sprint being CDMA and TMobile being GSM ? To be honest, I've been considering leaving Sprint. I've been using Sprint for awhile, but I'm tired of not having access to other unlocked phones I want to use and the service where I am at is pretty bad. I can understand in the middle of nowhere, but in Orange County, CA the network is more developed and comprehensive, yet everytime I've checked speed test scores with T-Mobile and Sprint mine is always consistently slower. If they merge I'd wait, but I think regulators will halt it.

 

Been with Sprint awhile, but just really getting fed up.....the recent breaking point was last week I need to make an emergency call and was inside my house....yep "no signal".

I think that Sprint's customers will be migrated to WCDMA and VOLTE. CDMA will go away pretty soon and WCDMA will follow in a bit.

21 minutes ago, SprintNYC said:

I don't want this merger to happen, and I could care less about the Magenta fans saying that Tmobile is too good to merge with Sprint. The fact is Sprint is finally picking steam. They don't really need this merger especially with that massive amount of spectrum for 5G. Massa is wasting his time, the Germans and Legere won't want him to have a say in a combined company period. News like this distract the people that work in the field from executing the company's goals. A combined company will be saturated with debt and will slow the rollout of gigabit class LTE, and  5G.

Maybe this is Verizon leaking false information since they are the ones that would benefit from this merger. They are eager to go back to raise fees and eliminate unlimited again. 

Actually the combined company will be the least leveraged of the Big 3. Something tells me that the Newco will keep unlimited plans as a pressure point to the other two. And if they keep their plans to match Verizon in coverage, Verizon can no longer use coverage as a differentiator.

2 minutes ago, danlodish345 said:

It was just a thought that's all

For me that's what makes T-mobile attractive. I don't think they will have to divest some spectrum. The resulting combo will have some great spectrum assets.  Now if I am the FCC and FTC, as a condition of the merger, I will force them to match or exceed Verizon's coverage. 

1 hour ago, danlodish345 said:

wouldnt tmobile have to divest the 600 mhz spectrum if this happens?

No, why?

Just a note related to Hurricane Irma. T-Mobile has fared pretty well in my area. There was a brief interval of about 2-3 hours when the site battery back up failed but then it roared back up. The speeds have been excellent. Severely disappointed with AT&T which had a very bogged down network. I suspect that AT&T lost the site nearest to me during the storm although that site is both battery and generator protected. Both data and voice were iffy on AT&T. I have no idea how Sprint faired since I no longer have Project Fi. 

I sort of agree that if you are getting that quality of signal and speed without, then you probably don't need one.  However,  I don't think it's anyone's business on this forum, to tell someone that and say "Send it back!".    Most of us who have requested a Magic Box have a specific issue with indoor data issues.  For me, it was I rarely get B41 in the house and am on the crowded end of B25.  Further, we are all Sprint paying customers and nobody is getting denied one because someone else has it.   Sprint goes through a process to determine if you are a candidate.  Let Sprint make the decision.    

If you are having signal or congestion problems, I have not problem. But if you are already getting 60Mbps from the macro network, I don't see how a single channel B41-relayed MB will improve your signal. 

Possibly. But they may not have a signal in a portion of their house, or a basement. And if these are indeed due to an upcoming VoLTE play, Sprint may want these people to have them. But I don't disagree with your sentiments in general. Just wanted to add that caveat.

 

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People that are getting 60Mbits per second on the macro network should probably not get them. Just saying...

All of you that are getting lower upload and downloads from the MB than from the macros please send them back. They are not intended for you. You did not need them in the first place. Sprint should do a better job screening candidates for these MBs so that Sprint's coverage is increased and speeds are also increased.

Sprint should intersperse Magic Boxes and their bigger brothers at apartment complexes, big box stores,  large businesses, etc where their coverage is less than optimal. They do pretty well out in the streets but not inside.  If there is a gap, stand mount femptocells work really well. If there should be something coming out of the talks with cable cos, it should be an agreement for discounted fiber prices and strand mounts in exchange for bandwidth.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to do that. Sprint has a mountain of debt. T-Mobile has much less that and actually has cash coming in positive cash flow. I know that Sprint just posted a profit again for the first time in 3 years. So it's interesting to see what's going to happen.

 

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Actually with their newest spectrum purchases, their debt is pretty close to Spint's although it may have later due dates or better terms.

Centurylink has a very small footprint.  Won't really benefit Sprint in terms of reduced tower backhaul costs. 

 

I'd be surprised if Centurylink has fiber to any node in my market. 

 

But I would love for them to buy Centurylink.  Increased tier 1 backhaul.  Could help a lot with making their wireless core infrastructure better, faster.  I think tier 1 is also a solid business to be in. I'd love for them to deploy FTTH in existing CenturyLink residential markets.  I'd have three 1Gbps options.

Level 3 has a lot of metro fiber and so does Zayo.

Sprint already is a tier 1 backbone.  They have a lot of fiber.  They would actually have to buy CenturyLink as CenturyLink recently purchased Level 3.  So that is a LOT of fiber.  They'd get CenturyLinks small last mile business that I hope Sprint wouldn't be forced to upgrade.  Most of it is old DSL they have never bothered to upgrade. 

 

For last mile, a company like Charter would be a lot better as they have a large last mile footprint.  The towers would more than likely still have fiber, but this will not largely push FTTH.  Coax still has a lot of life in it.

 

If Sprint bought CenturyLink and got all this tier 1 fiber, they wouldn't be deploying this directly to towers.  They'd have to run hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber just to serve their towers, and that would be costly. 

There's fiber to the nodes in DSL deployments.

Softbank will do well to acquire Level 3 and Zaya for backhaul/fronthaul.

That should be Zayo   

Softbank will do well to acquire Level 3 and Zaya for backhaul/fronthaul.

Congrats to Sprint in getting its financial house in order. That being said, I am still in favor of T-Mobile and Sprint merging because of the tremendous fixed cost investment it takes to have a nationwide network. I hope that Softbank at some point or another invests in acquiring the 600Mhz spectrum from Dish, Comcast and some smaller companies and then lease it to Sprint. 7Mhz is not enough to compete with the other three.

HPUE will make absolutely no difference with the downlink. However it will make a lot of difference when Sprint turns on VOLTE.

The only way they will be formidable is if they put 600mhz on every tower, and have enough site density to cover the folks that the big 2 do.

They already have excellent site density in urban/suburban settings. It's the exurban/rural settings where the big 2 excel. That's where the 20x20 Mhz low band comes in handy. I mean yeah it helps in urban and suburban settings for overflow, indoor coverage but it really shines in less crowded settings.

Thanks.

They only have 5x5 band 12 not totally nationwide. T-Mobile will be a formidable competitor to the Big 2 once the 600MHz spectrum is clear. It is already clear in rural areas.

T-Mobile picked up a 5mhz sliver of 600mhz, right? And not truly nationwide?

15x15Mhz pretty much nationwide.

No, it definitely is true.

 

Go to T-Mobile's coverage viewer.  Click Choose Device, and try to select a Google Pixel.  Not an option, only some Nexus handsets.  So, the remaining option is "My device is not in the list."  Select that.  Click See My Coverage, and watch the coverage map erode.  At the top of the map, note the disclaimer:  "You are viewing coverage without Extended Range LTE.  For the best experience, check capable devices here."

 

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map

 

As for T-Mobile paying Pixel users to port in, T-Mobile cares more about continuing to swell its overall subscriber numbers, less about each subscriber being able to use T-Mobile to its full extent.  Besides, T-Mobile knows that most wireless users are located in urban areas, where band 12 may make some difference in actual coverage but will make no difference in depicted coverage.

 

AJ

My Nexus 5x was on Band 12 quite a few times when I had it on Project Fi. Are you sure you were not on prepaid?

Nexus / Pixel devices don't have wifi calling. So it's not an option. In many cities the density is fine for VoLTE. I'll go months without dropping LTE. It would be nice to at least have the option.

 

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They certainly do when the carrier supports it. Project Fi supports it and so does MintSIM that runs on top of T-Mobile's network.