bigsnake49
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If it is confirmed then mea culpa. I thought they were making a huge mistake.
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On the other hand, it was only $300 and now only $199. Yes it's not a top end phone, on the other hand it is not $700.
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I think they have already maxed out the AWS band.They need to refarm the PCS band to LTE from WCDMA.
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They need to implement small cells that will offload the macro site. How long is anybody's guess.
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Heads up. Google has the Nexus 5X on sale for $199 when bought in conjunction with Project Fi.
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The nexus 5x is being offered for $199 if you signup for Project Fi right now. I'm guessing not a rousing take up of the previous price plan.
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In the old days, MetroPCS had a lot of macro DAS that had not base station associated with it, just the equivalent of ground mounted RF and amplifier units. Since Metro did not have that many customers they wanted to cover as many square miles as cheaply as possible by extending the range of an expensive base station. Verizon used to use smaller range indoor DAS in big package stores. Current day DAS are pretty much small cells with limited range.
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The classical thinking is that small cells are for urban and not suburban settings. Additionally, large buildings, malls, package stores, department stores might benefit.
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CDMA will be phased out when both Sprint and its roaming partners have densified their networks enough to so that VOLTE coverage is equal or better than CDMA coverage. Of course they might be M2M contracts that also come into consideration.
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Not just with AT&T, Sprint swaps spectrum with T-Mobile and VZW, too.
bigsnake49 commented on lilotimz's blog entry in The Wall
1x will probably remain until 2020. Probably be limited to 1x 800. Voice will start being offloaded to VOLTE after the network is densified. -
Not just with AT&T, Sprint swaps spectrum with T-Mobile and VZW, too.
bigsnake49 commented on lilotimz's blog entry in The Wall
Yep, as soon as they get rid of EVDO and 1x on 1900MHz -
Not just with AT&T, Sprint swaps spectrum with T-Mobile and VZW, too.
bigsnake49 commented on lilotimz's blog entry in The Wall
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No everyone of us lives in downtown San Fransisco or Manhattan. A lot of us live in the suburbs with NIMBYs. Plus there is no tall buildings around and the towers are spaced for 850 AMPS. We could hardly get 1x and EVDO signal inside our homes and we only get weak LTE outside. So we are hoping that 600 will finally allow us to get LTE on our couches. We'd love to get signal inside the buildings we we work. So yes we need 600 MHz for coverage although a 10x10 nationwide chunk does wonders for capacity. We advocated that Sprint get the 700MHz A block instead of T-Mobile. Hell we'd be satisfied if some way, somehow Sprint extended its 7MHzx7MHz to 10x10. So yes Sprint acquiring lower spectrum would be great.
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Sprint will be available much cheaper than T-Mobile. Comcast would do Sprint a great favor if they go involved in the 600MHz auction. The only problem with Comcast getting in bed with Sprint would be that it would force Dish to get in bed with T-Mobile.
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I don't think they owe SoftBank any money. It's owed to banks and SoftBank is the guarantor.
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Yeah, but one forgave debt so that T-Mobile can borrow more.
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Wishful thinking! T-Mobile is way too expensive. It probably carries a 30% premium from people speculating that it will be acquired.
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Hopefully they can trade spectrum so that they end up with 20x20 or at the least 15x15 of PCS C+G spectrum. That's nothing to sneeze at.
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SoftBank has not been feeding cash to Sprint at all. They have allowed them to borrow money. Contrast that with DT which forgave about $5B of the combined T-Mobile/Metro company debt.
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Not free. They can become MVNO's
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No need to do CA on adjacent blocks.
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My comparison is unloaded channels. I am sure that Sprint can configure their 20MHz channels anyway they want. 6:3:1 is the current configuration. I am sure they can configure them as supplemental downlinks if they wanted to.
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The only one that covers the highways faithfully is Verizon. Not AT&T and not T-Mobile.
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Most of the time ROI does not include goodwill in its calculation. Repairing Sprint's reputation by covering the interstates and major thoroughfares might be such an example.
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Actually equivalent in performance to a 12x6 FDD channel.
