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  1. bigsnake49
    Virgina is part of the Mid-Atlantic area same with North Carolina and Maryland. SC is part of the South East.
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    Please don't go by coverage maps. They lie. I have AT&T and I drove all of I-10. They have major gaps.
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    I have taken I-80 from Sacramento through Nebraska and also through Pennsylvania to Akron and I-10 from Jacksonville to LA. I-95 from Boston to Miami. Except for Verizon nobody covers the highways well. Well, Sprint for voice through Verizon . AT&T has major gaps in their coverage and so does T-Mobile.
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    Guys there such things as individual antenna element down tilt adjustments. Also send diversity so that you can adjust one antenna element for close and the other for far. Not like it used to be in the 90's.
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    Sprint has joined the CBRS band group that aims to deploy LTE on 150MHZ of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band. With 80 percent of the data consumed indoors and 95 percent of the radio access network (RAN) capex being spent outdoors, the need to address the indoors is pressing. I see it being deployed in large venues such as malls, stadiums, large box stores and in large office buildings. But it has to be deployed in a carrier neutral manner or it will not succeed. now getting all 4 carriers to agree to share will be problematic but it can be done. If we assume that it can be successfully deployed in a carrier neutral way it will lead to a depreciation of spectrum.
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    Masa wants out, period. Whether Sprint merges with T-Mobile or Somebody else, the writing is on the wall. Sprint needed that $5-10B investment from Softbank 3 years ago. The same way DT forgave T-Mobile/Metro $5B with of debt.
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    The guy that just took credit for unlimited plans?
  8. bigsnake49
    Just in case you did not notice Verizon has a massive net debt load, $105B. They can't afford to buy anybody. Merge yes and the talk is about them merging with Charter. They probably would have to ditch FIOS in places they currently compete with Charter or any other cable entity.
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    I agree with respect to their CDMA voice. I don't know that I have experienced VOLTE yet.
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    All of the CDMA carriers are trying like hell to move on from CDMA not because of the technology but because of Qualcomm. They have to double pay Qualcomm twice. First all the equipment has a build in license fee plus the carrier has to be pay a license fee for using the technology. I hope like hell that Intel & Mediatek become alternatives to Qualcomm because Qualcomm are just...bastards.
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    I guess Intel is not ready to move to 10nm process yet. I don't blame them. Not that much of a jump between the 14nm process and the 10nm process.
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    I am sure they will. Is the Intel modem available this year? I just read the pdf. It is sampling in the first half and will be going into production soon afterward. I am not sure it will make it into the new iPhone. But if anybody can do it it will be Intel.
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    Lots of shenanigans in that computation. Firstnet should not be counted. Maybe you can use it when PS entities are not using it but you can't count on it. Also they have been deploying WCS. The only spectrum they have not deployed is AWS-3.
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    You were lucky to have the access fees waived.
  15. bigsnake49
    Amazing what happens when you have to pay back a huge chuck of debt in 2016 and 2017.
  16. bigsnake49
    Massive MIMO will not necessarily improve aggregate bandwidth at the device (you're still running 4x2 or 4x4 MIMO). But it helps with more precise beam forming and is great help at the cell's edge.
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    Actually Verizon has approached Charter and not Comcast. So there's that...
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    T-Mobile is looking to disrupt the pay TV industry. Which might mean that instead of Sprint they might might merge with Dish. Dish has spectrum and they have the content agreements. Sprint has spectrum but also a lot of debt. Hmmm...decisions, decisions: http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-execs-eye-pay-tv-industry Just like cable cos wanting to move into wireless, T-Mobile wants to move into the pay TV industry. Which came first, the chicken or the egg ?
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    That's when the merger with T-Mobile will close .
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    Not unless the 3GPP changes the specs for those bands which it just did for band 41.
  21. bigsnake49
    Now it does say introductory plan.
  22. bigsnake49
    Try it again today. $80 unlimited for a single line. $45/line for multiline plans for 4 lines. No line access fee. Plus taxes of course.
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    So am I but I am seeing it as a series of moves trending towards what I think is an end game.
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    That they are but not using desperate measures which this one reeks of.
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    I remember Nextel doing the same thing before they merged with Sprint. Pump up the numbers before the merger.
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