bigsnake49

Favorite band of WISPs (Wireless ISPs), cordless phones, smart grid. Remote controlled airplanes and drones. Baby monitors, you name it, it's parked on the 900 ISM band.

Hey, some of the single malt I drink can get pretty expensive.

Not UMTS or WCDMA. They support those technologies. It will not support CDMA-2000 or its derivatives. So Verizon and Sprint are out but there is nothing prohibiting using Intel for AT&T and T-Mobile.

And why not?

Well, they may also be a supplier of chipsets for AT&T and T-Mobile iPhones. Do they have CDMA on their LTE chipsets?

So basically licensed WiFi .

This is the crap that Sprint has been dealing with for the last ten years. I was involved peripherally but I quit in disgust. FCC is spineless. They should have had penalized PS a long time ago.

That and trying not to go into esoteric technology like Hadoop and its offshoots. It kind of limits your audience. Of course if you're a practitioner of Big Data you loved it!

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No, that would be an extremely small sample. The fact that they are only offering on the Nexus 6 is restrictive enough. I just hope it does not become abandonware.

Yep, just as I expected. I think the 5 might get a software upgrade as well.

T-mobile's network can be totally divested to Dish which can host Dish's spectrum. Actually they can start hosting Dish's spectrum before the actual network is divested.

AJ, you're just a cruel man!

BTW, the A block might have been disaggregated so you need to look to the FCC site and pay attention to the different call signs. Those are the actual allocations within the band!

I guess T-Mobile is going to reveal the next uncannier move on the 18th.

Not with a Democratic administration. It aint happening!

You have to go by call sign within an MTA. He needs to increase his granularity because of the severe disaggregation and fragmentation in the PCS band.

At the time of the Nextel merger, Alltel had 12M customers, Sprint had like 23M. I was using email and calendar/contacts sync over the net. Granted it's not video, but people were using productivity applications over their Palm and Windows Phone. Sprint shunned the rural carriers, even significant ones like Alltel, USCC, RCC. Heck they ignored the large prepaid ones like MetroPCS and Leap. All of them bring customers and spectrum. Let's face it. Besides the BRS holdings Sprint is not spectrum rich. It does not hold a lot of midband spectrum. All of these companies would have enriched their subscriber base, their coffers and their spectrum trove. All of them were CDMA, except for RCC with an easy migration path. So they allowed them to enrich their competitors!

You're welcome!

Verizon?

Then why they asked the FCC to allow them to use both the uplink and downlink for band S as downlinks? The power envelope of PCS-H is like that of AWS not PCS. So what the hell are they going to do with their uplink AWS-3 unless they intend to pair it with the Lightsquared spectrum? They must be really comfortable that FCC will allow them to use the L band as downlink for their AWS-3 uplink.

Nobody was going to standardize PCS G or Band 26 LTE either but hey, it happened. Otherwise Dish's spectrum is useless. Yet T-Mobile is practically begging Dish to partner with them. I wonder why? It could not be 700Mhz E block or AWS-3 G block alone, is it? Those are the only two standard blocks of spectrum that Dish has.

The following links will give you a good idea of the spectrum in your state and county: http://specmap.sequence-omega.net http://reboot.fcc.gov/spectrumdashboard/searchMap.seam

B26 will never be cranked to full strength since it is on pretty much every site for capacity.

Only if it can be used with band 2 or 4 in a carrier aggregation scheme. BTW 700 block E cannot be used with with T-Mobile's Block A. So Dish could definitely sell band E to AT&T. Or T-Mobile can use it in a CA scheme with other their PCS or AWS holdings. So can Sprint. So can Verizon. They can sell it to anybody. AT&T has the D block so for them it will be a great combination and will give them a very nice boost in downlink capacity. Then AT&T might not want to participate in the 600MHz auction.