bigsnake49
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They could not afford it. Sprint has basically not been able to afford anything since the ill fated Nextel merger.
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It was/is still a capacity layer. As more sites get b41 and/or wider band 25 carriers, its capacity role should be diminished.
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They are trying to swap with other carriers to create 10x10, 15x15 or even 20x20 adjacent blocks. I wonder if Dish migh e willing to let go of PCS F block for peanuts (which the only things that Sprint can afford nowadays )
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Oh believe me I am just as critical of T-Mobile as I am of Sprint even more so because I think they exaggerate their coverage. I get both band 12 and band 26 at my condo but both of them are flaky and I drop to 1x and EVDO quite often on Sprint and HSPA+ on T-Mobile. Sometimes I lose signal on both.
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Yes, and 2.5GHz is not exactly the right spectrum for it. Now 2.5 is fine when you're out and about but it will not penetrate very far into a cement block house in Florida. You will/do need mid and low spectrum or small cells. Suburban and exurban is where a lot of us live. Sprint needs to expand its coverage both in pops and area by whatever means possible. The network matters. As Robiatti so succintly put it, 50% of churn is due to the network. So Sprint,work on it!
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I drove my wife to the eye doctor yesterday and I was bored so I used my 5x to gauge the signal strength at the docs ofice. T-Mobile was at -116 to -120, Sprint at -103 to -106. It just shows you that nobody is great everywhere. What concerned me is that Project Fi hang on to a relative weak T-Mobile signal instead of switching to a strong Sprint signal.
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It really depends. If you pass your phones down to other members of your family then leasing is not for you. You also can buy the phone outright and then sell it in the open market.
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"However, Goemmer said that Charter owns the Billings and Rapid City Economic Area 700 MHz A Block licenses and the Montana 5 - Mineral CMA Area 700 MHz B Block license. “The Montana 5 B block license overlaps counties that T-Mobile already controls the 700MHz A-block spectrum,” he noted."
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They have no problem financing the iPhone7 and iPhone 6s. So it tells me that the residual value of the Android phones is too low to make money on them. Same thing on the 5SE. I wonder if Samsung or HTC or LG will pick up the slack.
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T-Mobile acquires Charter's 700Mhz A block in Montana. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/as-charter-ramps-mvno-t-mobile-buys-charter-s-700-mhz-spectrum-montana Montanans rejoice, all 15 of you .
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According to Fiercewireless, Sprint has stopped their leasing program for Android phones and the iPhone 5SE. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/report-sprint-discontinues-leasing-program-for-android-phones How will that affect their financials? Were they losing money on it?
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I wonder why they have not decommissioned the Nextel sites? Well they show they are decommissioned but why are they still listing them. Has sprint decommissioned them but have not removed the equipment?
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But they're doing gradually, not all at once and without massive disruptions like Sprint.
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It's exactly what Verizon did.
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Ha, ha, ha...
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Really? Network vision cost them $24B, I would think they could have spared a few billion to do what Verizon did.
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So why couldn't Sprint do the same?
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Yes they are.
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I fully agree with that. Or Sprint should never have gotten rid of their landline division. Quid pro quo.
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Yep, I can vouch for that. They overstate their coverage on I-10, I-80, US 287, CA 128.
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How did Verizon do it?
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They will do very well if they can acquire 10x10 of 600Mhz spectrum for coverage, supplemented by WiFi and LTE roaming in the beginning. Then they can buy Dish's spectrum.
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No more rip and replace. It was too ambitious an effort for a cash strapped carrier and very disruptive to customers. It should have been done as an LTE overlay like everybody else.
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A pretty complimentary article from rcrwireless: http://www.rcrwireless.com/20160919/carriers/kagan-sprint-comeback It's about time the tech press started taking Sprint seriously.
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Where are you seeing this Terrell?
