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I wonder if Boost Mobile will lower it's price for unlimited now that a single line costs the same as a single line on Sprint.

I'm assuming this is for the m2m (machine to machine) market? I think last year we heard AT&T was shutting down their 2g m2m network?

Any chance the G5 Plus has hpue?

Adding small cells adds capacity without needing extra spectrum, and Verizon has been leading the way with small cell deployments.

We know the LG G6 is the first official Sprint phone to have HPUE, but is there any word on the Moto G5/G5 Plus? This isn't officially a Sprint branded phone but it will be compatible with all 4 major US carriers.

Nice, Sprint found their funding source for the $200 million Tidal purchase.

So does mean ping times are the same as AT&T now? If so Cricket is very attractive especially since they will soon have VoLTE.

They should have at least upped their max speed to match Cricket at 8mb/s.

Weren't there limitations on that 'H' block that make it not as useful? Something regarding max transmission power was limited compared to the G band.

I'm kind of tired of hearing about Sprint's spectrum position. We've been hearing about that since NV started.

Oh ok, good to know. I'm also using Hangouts integration. I'm not sure if RCS is available yet but at least Google confirmed it will be added to Google Voice. I wonder when that happens will it be added for both Hangouts and the Google Voice app. For now I'll stick with Hangouts.

Do you see any options for RCS aka advance messaging? I read Google plans on adding RCS to Voice and I wonder if Hangouts will have it too.

And none of this matters unless Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music all start losing customers in droves to Tidal. But that's not happening because people don't care.

I have a backup Ringplus line (it's free!) and just put a Moto G4 on it. The advanced messaging options appeared. Is this the first known case of an mvno with RCS? Anyone want to test it with me?

Haha just messing with ya.

I don't know what that means but it sounds good so I'll agree!

5g is more about covering crowded spaces. The person you spoke to has no idea what they're talking about.

About Ookla - Since T-Mobile whitelists it and doesn't count against your data allotment, if you get a 100Mbs+ speedtest you're more than likely going to keep doing speedtests to see how fast you can get. Those 100Mbs+ speedtests use a lot of data, and if it is counting against your data (Verizon, AT&T, or a Sprint non unlimited plan) you're not going to waste your data doing this. This skews the average. Same goes for people that are throttled/used up their data.. T-Mobile used to not throttle people when they speedtest, but normal activities like streaming video or downloading an iOS update are throttled.

Didn't Marcelo make this promise 2 years ago?

This and Google needs to implement it for people who moved their numbers to Google Voice and use Hangouts for sms.

The auto pay discount is not the problem. It's the advertised price for the plan. For instance, T-Mobile's Unlimited One Plan is advertised as being $70, Boost's Unlimited Unhook'd plan is advertised as $50. Upon further inspection T-Mobile charges you an extra $5 to make it $75 if you don't have auto pay, while Boost is still $50. Sign up for autopay then T-Mobile gives you the advertised price, while Boost gives you a discount and you're paying $45 which is below the advertised price.

Thanks T-mobile for starting the trend!

No, anyone with any semblance of comprehension skills understood what it meant.

That seems pretty good and similar to T-Mobile (T-Mobile says up nearly 4x from last year). https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/iphone-7-and-7-plus-shatter-records-at-t-mobile.htm

http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-music-streaming-service-tidal-accused-of-not-paying-its-bills-2016-9?r=UK&IR=T For the tens of people paying for Tidal high fidelity on Sprint that are concerned about Sprint's new unlimited plan capping music streaming at 500Kbps. Tidal has its own issues.