bigsnake49

Really? Increasing profits? Profit is measly. Yeah ii's less measly, but still measly.

Maybe Sprint can benefit from this if they want to get rid of some spectrum? Like PCS-H or some PCS in places where Sprint's holdings are weak. I wonder what the combined debt load of the new entity will be.

Metro would have plugged in some major holes in Sprint's PCS holdings. Places like Florida, Dallas, San Fran, etc. Leap would have added to the spectrum trove. Leaps CDMA network in some places like Houston or Austin was actually better than Sprints. In Florida, Metro's was actually better than Sprint's. Together they would have allowed Sprint to horsetrade AWS spectrum for PCS. Plus bring in about 13M more customers.

There is one in 700Mhz, adjacent to the broadband 10x10 allocation. Eventually they will merge the two into a 16x16MHz band. Six years later and nothing has been done. Having dealt with PS it's so frustrating, the delays and the bureaucratic red tape.

Yes, isn't $44.9B enough?

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This is only for broadband. There is a 700Mz public safety voice allocation as well (a 6x6 MHz band that's adjacent to it).

Only a 5x5 slice was auction off that way. The other 5x5 was unencumbered. So they now have a 10x10 slice for LTE.

I want to see Dish developing their own network using Artemis Networks technologies. That would be truly disruptive. Or Comcast and in general cable using Artemis Networks and EBS spectrum for video and VOLTE.

It's a laudable goal, but unless the federal government builds it and then hands it over, it will be rife with delays, cost overruns and corruption. Will it ever be inoperable? Maybe, but doubtful.

While I can't dispute that, Verizon's coverage in Florida is excellent!

Yeah, they just started using and it came about right before the 700Mz auction. Actually they need to move all of PS away from 800MHz and put them on 700Mz, right next to the 700MHz public safety broadband allocation. That way Sprint can expand to 10x10 in 800MHz.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprints-euteneuer-were-looking-600-mhz-auction-dont-need-participate/2015-05-19 WTH Sprint??? Where did you get this guy? Unless you can get the 800MHz SMR extended to a full 10MHz, it will be a disaster. Now if they can densify their network tremendously so that 800 is user for coverage and penetration and not for capacity, that's OK, but this is the last chance you get in a long, long time!!!

Antennas can be retuned and so can filters.

It will be interesting to see what ends up happening since Dish has flirted around with Sprint, T-mobile and now ATT. Verizon must feel left out ????

It would make much more sense for Sprint to host the spectrum adjacent to PCS G (PCS H + 2000-2020MHz)

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Wow, so all the T-Mobile love is just posturing? Are you talking about a spectrum sale? Hosting? How will it play in terms of the ATT/Directv merger? Coopetition?

According to Fiercewirelees Dish is looking to hire a CMO first to start up the wireless part of the business. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-dish-looking-hire-cmo-help-jumpstart-wireless-push/2015-05-14 The fact that they are hiring a CMO first means that they will probably be an MVNO to either Sprint or T-Mobile. Probably lease Dish's spectrum in exchange. Sprint makes sense because of the available 2.5 GHz spectrum. If Dish markets video as the selling point of their service, then they will need vast amounts of spectrum and Sprint has plenty. On the other hand, Sprint does not really need Dish's spectrum. They could use Dish's spectrum near their PCS Block G. T-mobile makes sense because they need Dish's spectrum a lot more than Sprint, so it will cost Dish a lot less. I don't think Tobile's network currently can accommodate Dish's demands. Maybe they can start by being an MVNO of Sprint and then choose either or both providers to host their spectrum.

The merger/network sharing should have happened before both of them laid out beaucoup bucks for network expansion/modernization and incurring all the debt. Now it's too late.

I think that both parent companies do not want to reward inefficiencies by just funding their subsidiaries blindly. But I think that both will have to pitch in some money for the 600MHz auction. They both have to develop their networks to compete with the big two and it is not cheap. I am pretty sure that by the summer of 2015, they will both have debts in the neighborhood of $40B excluding the auction. Verizon has not really started competing on price yet and I am waiting for them to start within 3 months.

Both T-Mobile's and Sprint's financial condition is not rosy. Neither is laden with cash and both are laden with debt.

Or Artemis Networks?

The Nexus 6 has had a lot of quality problems with coming apart at the seams, battery bulging etc. They need better/more handsets.

So is the Sacramento area suffering from the concentrated attention to the Bay area? I am in Folsom quite often for work.