bigsnake49
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HPUE will make absolutely no difference with the downlink. However it will make a lot of difference when Sprint turns on VOLTE.
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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.
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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.
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15x15Mhz pretty much nationwide.
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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?
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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.
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Be careful with the $13B in losses. That is not necessarily cash that they have lost.
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Softbank is prohibited from investing further in Sprint by the banks that loaned them the money to buy Sprint.
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If they buy some/all of his stake in the company and no new stock is issued, that does not provide Sprint with new capital for investment. Just Softbank getting some of their money out of Sprint to pay back the banks. If new stock is issued by Sprint when money is invested directly in Sprint then money rolls into their coffers to pay back debt and to invest in the network.
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If Buffett buys Sprint stock it will probably be from the 80% that Softbank owns. It will not be new stock so there will not be a dilution.
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I have no problem with having Sprint keep a partial WCDMA channel for voice fallback. Not CDMA 1x though. CDMA 1x is dead. WCDMA is not yet plus they can roam on AT&T or T-Mobile.
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Yeah Malone owns Liberty Media who owns a substantial chunk of Charter.
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Supposedly Buffett wants to invest up to $10B.
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Because credits does not equal real money. Equipment charges need to be paid with real money since Apple or Samsung need to be paid with real money and not Sprint credits.
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Sprint will raise their prices too, maybe not to the level of the other three but they will. They need revenue to pay down their debt. I, unlike you, think that T-mobile and Sprint should merge but as a condition for the merger they should cover 99% of the land area of the US with usable signal.
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The rest of the technology implementation we have seen before from T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon but the implementation of C-RAN is a first for this country. C-RAN as Centralized RAN communicating with RRHs at the remote sites via fronthaul. Now it is my understanding that they have only implemented what they call 5G Evolution but it's really LTE Advanced in a few high traffic sites but I can see them implementing it all over their network. I like the C-RAN technology since it allows you to centralize your base stations in one central location and maybe colocate them with your MSC in a data center, where you can have fault tolerance, large UPS's, backup generators, much easier updating, etc. I believe that it will also lead to educed rents to the tower companies. "Citing network upgrades that include centralized-RAN (C-RAN), 256 QAM, 4x4 MIMO and 3-way carrier aggregation, AT&T is launching 5G Evolution in parts of Indianapolis today. AT&T said it worked closely with the city of Indianapolis to make sure AT&T’s network and infrastructure are ready to support the “technology of the future” to prepare for things like self-driving cars. The operator invested more than $350 million in its Indianapolis wireless and wired networks during 2014-2016." http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-launches-ultra-fast-5g-evolution-indianapolis
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Well I think Plan A was pump and dump as in pump up the numbers and then get acquired/merge (see Nextel). Now since Sprint is putting on the brakes on a potential merger and is flirting with the cable cos, T-Mobile went with plan B and increasde prices to recover some of the lost revenue.
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Verizon unlimited customers getting the boot.
bigsnake49 replied to danlodish345's topic in General Topics
First of all let's distinguish between bandwidth consumed or consumption rate which is measured in MB/sec and and monthly data consumption. Pretty much every wireless technology has a fairness algorithm that does not allow one user to consume all the bandwidth to the expense of all other users. So even at the peak of bandwidth demand one user does not hog the bandwidth. On the other hand you have total data consumed in a month. Putting a limit on total monthly consumption is ineffective way to battle congestion at peak times. I personally think that the carriers should go back to differentiating between on peak/off peak data consumption because who really cares if you're watching a movie on your iPhone at 3am. Nobody else is on the network. -
Nope, Sprint made a lot of very costly mistakes.
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Yeah, imagine that! Imagine if they did not spend $35B+ on Nextel + $9B For Nextel Partners + another $9B on Affiliates. Imagine that they had actually merged with Alltel, Metro, Leap and other sundry CDMA providers instead.
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SprintNextel owned and sold off their 18% share of NII holdings.
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Yes, if you go on Motorola's page for the G5 Plus, it says it does support bands 25, 26, 41. Plus other bands that Sprint may roam on.
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Yeah the G5 Plus supports a lot more bands all over the world.
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An article on Fiercewireless advocates for a 4-way tie-up between Comcast, Charter, Sprint and T-Mobile. I really don't care if Sprint and T-Mobile merge, all I want is for them to share a network. It is a lot of fixed cost and it should be a shared fixed cost. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-could-join-a-sprint-tie-up-comcast-and-charter-analysts
