maximus1987/lou99

How would the benefit to Sprint be worth the added cost of demanding Band 12 inclusion? Apple might force Sprint to pay extra for having its own version of the iPhone. I think Sprint would prefer to own nationwide 5x5 600 than put their hopes on fragmented A block. Behold your A block exclusion zones.

Verizon has 850 and 1900 spectrum so Sprint naturally benefitted because its 1900 is a subset. What's Sprint gonna do: REQUIRE phones to NOT have 850? They already existed with 850 because of Verizon. What you're saying is that Sprint should demand all phones to have a band it doesn't even own and one which Verizon doesn't use either so that Sprint customers can roam on Band 12 LTE on networks that are not guaranteed to be built - unless Sprint buys it all - and that is encumbered with Channel 51 which will EVENTUALLY get moved? Why not just do what I suggested? Lease out SMR to rural carriers and they'll be able to not only deploy 5x5 LTE - Band 26 - but also 1xRTT and they can choose how many 1x channels to deploy at the expense of LTE; Lower A 700 MHz is 5x5 so no CDMA voice. All Sprint CDMA devices being sold now have CDMA Band 10 support and after the rural carriers have transitioned all voice to CDMA-800, they can refarm current voice spectrum for LTE. All bands they are using for voice today are supported in all versions of current iphone 5 for LTE use: 850 is Band 5, PCS is Band 2/25 and for Leap, AWS is Band 4. All those bands are all supported by today's iphone 5 and probably other phones but CDMA 800 is and has been supported for years so transitioning voice users to CDMA-800 should be trivial. The rural carriers get Sprint's economy of scale and Sprint will probably even help them get their networks running and then Sprint's map will show NATIVE LTE and voice almost everywhere Doesn't that sound easier and smoother?

What does it take to get the roaming rates? I'm surprised you at least haven't gotten them given how much info you're able to get for NV.

Verizon has 850 and 1900 spectrum so Sprint naturally benefitted because its 1900 is a subset. What's Sprint gonna do: REQUIRE phones to NOT have 850? They already existed with 850 because of Verizon. What you're saying is that Sprint should demand all phones to have a band it doesn't even own and one which Verizon doesn't use either so that Sprint customers can roam on Band 12 LTE on networks that are not guaranteed to be built - unless Sprint buys it all - and that is encumbered with Channel 51 which will EVENTUALLY get moved? Why not just do what I suggested? Lease out SMR to rural carriers and they'll be able to not only deploy 5x5 LTE - Band 26 - but also 1xRTT and they can choose how many 1x channels to deploy at the expense of LTE; Lower A 700 MHz is 5x5 so no CDMA voice. All Sprint CDMA devices being sold now have CDMA Band 10 support and after the rural carriers have transitioned all voice to CDMA-800, they can refarm current voice spectrum for LTE. All bands they are using for voice today are supported in all versions of current iphone 5 for LTE use: 850 is Band 5, PCS is Band 2/25 and for Leap, AWS is Band 4. All those bands are all supported by today's iphone 5 and probably other phones but CDMA 800 is and has been supported for years so transitioning voice users to CDMA-800 should be trivial. The rural carriers get Sprint's economy of scale and Sprint will probably even help them get their networks running and then Sprint's map will show NATIVE LTE and voice almost everywhere Doesn't that sound easier and smoother?

It may be more than we think. In this thread, I asked "where does Tmobile have no EDGE and still disallows VOICE roaming" and I got two responses detailing where. And one of said locations, Muskegon, I've actually experienced it, or rather my sister did, on a vacation. If voice roaming were truly cheap, TMO wouldn't be blocking it in edge of EDGE markets.

Sprint will never have Band 12 unless they get some Band 12 spectrum. And they're not going to because they have enough 800-LTE for now and they're saving for 600 MHz that won't have any interference concerns with TV and will be ubiquitous because every carrier is getting some. If they're so concerned about rural LTE, they can open their 800 MHz to rural carriers same as what Verizon did with their 700 MHz. That would make far more sense and be way less complicated than the Band 12 nonsense. As an added bonus, this spectrum can support 1xRTT. If the rural carriers want more voice capacity, they can go down to 3x3 LTE and have 2 1xA carriers or 1.4x1.4 LTE and 3 1xA carriers. And if Sprint doesn't have enough 800 SMR in a certain place then it can buy whoever has it. Now THAT is a feasible plan.

I had ATT from 2009 to 2011 for the iphone. Then I switched to Verizon (still iphone) because their data speeds were more consistent. In retrospect, I'm glad I switched because their throttling policy (of unlimited users) is less heavy-handed than ATT's non-intelligent throttling. Next year, I will become responsible for 3 lines and with current pricing, I'd switch to TMO: $135 for 2x iphone + 1 slider. I work at an automotive supplier. I mention AIO because in my view, some people here seem to adore, if not worship, Sprint and Softbank as if they will reciprocate. We're talking about a corporation whose legal responsibility is to get as much money from you while giving you the least it can.

Do you think Google Fiber will meaningfully affect competition?

Do you really expect even his twitter handle to actually honestly respond publicly? Anything he says ATT will skewer. "Well Andrew, we're never gonna upgrade to 3G past the 228 million we currently have now cause DT won't let us spend the money".

Sounds like premier sponsor info.

Before they revealed this new plan, I'm sure many said the same thing about introducing a more expensive - in some cases - plan with NV still 1 year away from completion. Greed causes people to do things they don't normally do. To whom would you switch if Sprint pulls a Verizon and takes away your subsidy unless you switch to a new plan when upgrading?

"AT&T 4G LTE is expected to cover 300 million people by year-end 2014." http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=2943

People want the best deal and the best network. Sprint is free to supply both. I'm very informed. I get that there is a reason why duopoly exists but at the end of the month, it's my total expenses that matters. Am I supposed to add an item "Sprint goodwill" as an income line? Sprint has daddy Soft-bucks now. No more excuses. In 1 year when it's time for me to choose TMO or Sprint or AIO, I will choose best deal and best network for my 99% of the time. When I go to Florida, I'll dig out my iphone VZW and add page plus cellular 2-week plan for the ride down there.

We're talking about video on a phone screen: unless you have a 1080p screen, you won't hit the 1mbps in the first place, I think. You can get one for ?$10? per month. Consider it part of your cost to have un-throttled video on the Sprint network. Likely not since that data is not unlimited so Sprint would want you to have full HD 1080p video so you can use it up faster.

Use a VPN and they won't be able to detect you're streaming video.

Why would ATT or Sprint add band 12?

You said you might switch cause of the lower roaming limit. Who else has reasonable prices and awesome coverage? $55 - 2GB and no overage charges. It's disappointing that new Sprint plan doesn't have a "throttled after limit is reached" but instead charges overage $15/GB . . . just like the duopoly. The consumer-friendly thing to do is to offer an option like TMO: throttling or you can pay for more full speed data.

From the complaints here, it seems Sprint should address its PCS coverage, which millions of phones can access, instead of TD-LTE which no phones can access. Hmmmm?

Eliminate corporate (and union) bribes err ... campaign contributions and maybe it'll happen. But while there's so much power concentrated in so few hands, a company would be irresponsible (to its shareholders) to NOT spend a few mil to get a bil $ payoff. The reward/risk is just too high to ignore.

If anyone buys this spectrum it's gonna be ATT. It's already prepping the infrastructure for Band 29 and Band 2,4 aggregation. Look at some posts above: ATT is well underway in deploying bands D,E (supplemental downlink) that Dish is using. Sprint is already going to need to add 600 MHz to its network, bringing us to 4 LTE bands, so I don't think it wants to add a fifth.

Here's another out: Sprint eliminates the guarantee itself on current customers cause it's not legally binding lol! Also, I'm guessing Dan "the savior" Hesse put in an arbitration clause LIKE THE "EVIL DUOPOLY" that precludes class action lawsuits, further cementing the DIS-incentive to actually keep that promise.

I heard AIO has good coverage Which city are you in? I wanna check the planned NV sites.

How is everyone getting all these discounts? If I were to say to Sprint,"I'll sign up if you give me a 20% discount", would they do it? Don't see why not if so many other people have discounts.

Why can't Sprint do PTT over LTE? http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/10/11/bells-ptt-lte-network-to-go-live-in-the-first-half-of-2013/

Besides Telus, is there anyone else in Canada who is hindering with Sprint in IBEZ? Public safety? Other Canadian carriers eh?