maximus1987/lou99

Do you think Sprint buying USM is a done deal? What about VZW and ATT snapping it up?

How is your response related to the quote?

If Sprint buys USM, will it trade the 850 for PCS? That'd be its only market with 850 and the whole ATT, AWS and scale thing comes to mind.

I think ATT's statements regarding keeping the Cricket brand is total BS. Cricket pricing does not line up with ATT. Hopefully, they're required to divest some PCS AND they sell the customers to Sprint. Sprint won't need additional CDMA CAPEX but it gets additional revenue. It can probably even keep the CDMA subs on existing CDMA spectrum and use divested PCS spectrum for more LTE channels. Sprint can use ATT for AWS LTE roaming for the cricket subs with AWS LTE and after 2-3 years, all Cricket AWS LTE phones are out of circulation. An extra 5 mil subs will help Sprint a lot more than ATT.

FDD.

Are you talking about 6k Metro DAS? I posted above article stating TMO is removing 10k out of 12k Metro cell sites and keeping its 6k DAS. Why didn't TMO select more vendors?

Samsung?

The issue is backhaul. Robert said (above somewhere) that unless they started last year (or two), then it's gonna take them 2 years to get fiber backhaul to all 14k rural i.e. 2015. But yeah, if they get all 52k + 2k (metro) LTE, that'll be an insane density. Sprint has 39k sites and it covers about-ish (AJ) area of TMO.

The advertisement is ironic.

Tri-band is not a rule that Sprint is gonna follow. They're gonna deploy all 4 bands. A mod thinks Sprint will, long term, shift all data traffic to 600 MHz LTE and use 800 for 1xAdvanced. Then, when VoLTE reaches equal robustness as 1xA, VoLTE will be deployed on 800. 1900 will be "main" band in the sense that it'll get deployed on every tower and 2500 will go where there's capacity constraints. But 600 MHz won't come into the equation for 3 years at least which is why "triband" is thrown around so much. Clearwire IS strictly TDD. WiMAX is TDD.

That has nothing to do with TDD vs FDD.

This article explains why Qualcomm says TDD is a bad idea for 600 MHz. http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=M6fmRR0Bv3tbMt62yPSWwnr2jLNc2fCkwvhg0yN7dDMvz6vgKk5p!-1272756975!1291806534?id=7520926650

That doesn't prove there is no area in a given city that lacks TMO coverage. It merely proves that in at least a few places, TMO doesn't lack coverage. The major gripe with TMO on this thread is they have no (public) plans to upgrade their 14-15k rural towers. Somewhere in here is quoted TMO execs staying that only 37k of their towers - current 3g/4g footprint - will be upgraded to LTE. TMO has 228 million HSPA+ http://www.tmonews.com/2013/07/t-mobile-announces-huge-lte-expansion-116-markets-and-157-million-people/ They had 225mil HSPA+ 4 months ago http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251624&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1809846&highlight= so I guess they're making good progress. In another year, they may have 237mil LTE. No one is faulting them for their lack of 300mil coverage but they should at least upgrade the 14k towers that are currently only EDGE. If they'd upgrade all 52k with LTE, they'd probably have 250mil LTE. Have you looked at their coverage map, zoomed in enough so you can see 2G vs 3G/4g? The 2g area is ginormous. If they'd upgrade all towers to LTE, all that would be LTE.

H+ 7.2, 14.4, 21 all use 5 MHz FDD.

There's still some remote cities where clicking pops up 3G, indicating it's below HSPA+21. What does it take to go from H+: 7.2, 14.4, 21? Is it a pure software update?

T-Mobile proposes sliding spectrum screen rule for 600 MHz auction http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-proposes-sliding-spectrum-screen-rule-600-mhz-auction/2013-06-25

I don't have enough technical background to have an opinion on that. In the articles I've seen, the cost of the downlink duplexer/filters has been a driving force in the debate. Also, interference may doom TDD. See Qualcomm's position: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=M6fmRR0Bv3tbMt62yPSWwnr2jLNc2fCkwvhg0yN7dDMvz6vgKk5p!-1272756975!1291806534?id=7520926650

In really rural areas where there's only one or two stations in operation, who owns the fallow tv spectrum. The government?

Look at my pic: the FCC is already planning for an uneven number of blocks. Their solution: have a constant number of downlink blocks nationwide and variable number of uplink blocks per market. All downlink blocks that can't be paired will be used as supplemental downlink. If they can't clear at least X-5MHz for downlink in all markets, FCC said they're not gonna clear any in that market and carriers will be expected to use other spectrum holdings; they haven't set the X yet.

Hasn't the FCC already come up with a preliminary proposal?

I thought there was an issue with harmonics and GPS interference?

They'd probably get a new band class cause there are already devices with b25 in circulation but yes, I'm interested answer to this also.

Good old Dirac delta.

I agree but my point is that TMO takes the obfuscation to a whole new level: it forces you to zoom in, all the way, and click on a point to learn if that point gets LTE.

I don't have Tmobile (yet) but on this thread, AJ and some other people gave examples of in city coverage that TMO lacks.