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    Costs billions, takes years; maybe if backhaul costs increase A LOT so that Sprint actually sees payback in a few years and not decades.
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    That's obviously a Softbank injection.
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    Would the cost of additional backhaul possibly cause Sprint to transition to Sprintlink? What timeframe would that be?
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    Yes, I think. That's the whole point of NV: all protocols run on the same (flexible) hardware, again I think. That's why you saw the PR photos showing before/after pictures of the size and number of cabinets for the basestations.
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    Explain. Is it just a matter of hooking up to more ports at the fiber backbone?
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    Yes. I think Sprint will add TD-LTE EVERYWHERE. Otherwise, what's its differentiator? Unlimited - or large amount of - data but they won't be able to sustain it without TD-LTE AND more backhaul. Currently, their sites have ?100mbps? backhaul but if you do some quick math: 3 sectors x 25 mbps (PCS) x how many 5x5 blocks Sprint eventually has + 3 sectors x 25 mbps (800MHz) = 150mbps, assuming only the current G block for LTE Wanna add TD-LTE? It'll be at least 61 mbps per sector but the company's managing director of networks Günther Ottendorfer said that the network has achieved speeds as high as 61Mbps http://www.zdnet.com/au/optus-readies-td-lte-network-in-canberra-7000015581/ 3 sectors x 61 = 183 183 + 150 = 333mbps Oops. Looks like we need more backhaul.
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    Yes but he was replying to the comment specifically about the recent USC transaction.
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    Cover 100mil+ with contiguous TD-LTE. Then 200mil+.
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    So re authorize it. With google's billions, how much could it possibly hurt them to pay for the reclassification? It's not as if they care whether you buy Nexus 4 or 5.
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    I think he may mean "how many of the 39k sites will eventually have 800?" To which I think the answer is "as long as you're not in IBEZ, you'll see 800. Also, some urban sites, being spaced at closer than PCS, will not ALL have 800, though you will see 800 assuming not in IBEZ"
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    According to TMO's Metro merger slides, it's pairing down GSM to 5x5, keeping it for M2M and voice-only customers (like my mom on GoSmart for $30). If it were to drop smartphones to GSM upon breaching a data limit, TMO would destroy its GSM network.
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    Former.
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    My situation: two iphones, one texter. TMO: 50 + 30 + 10 = 90 for plan 20 + 20 + 5 = 45 for the phones Total: $135 Sprint: Everything Data Family 1500 $170 Too big of a difference. Is it possible Sprint will give me a discount if I call and say "I'll pick you over Tmobile if you give me $20 discount"?
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    If you add costs of two phones (2x$20) it's $160. Sprint's unlimited everything for 2 lines is $210. The roaming situation sucks but that's why I'm gonna keep my VZW iphone to use with Page Plus Cellular's 2 week plans when I go to Florida.
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    Interesting, so you can actually stream Netflix on 3G? I've tried it a few times on NV sites, and the experience has been varied. What speed test results do you get?Also, it's not possible EVERYWHERE. At my actual house, I'll get dropped calls and horrible audio quality.
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    I was lookin at tmobile for a while also, but there plans didn't work out to be cheaper when you factored in either financing the cost of the phones or buy them out right. Tmobile was 50 +30+ 10 then another 30 to have 2 gigs of 4g or 60 to have unlimited 4g (after that down to edge speeds) which either way is cheaper than the 180 with sprint but then the phones where 400 more each. That is 1200 over two years that adds 50 ( with out a discount rate, the idea that money today is worth more than money tomorrow) to the bill if I bought them out right our 60 if I financed them. That brought the price of tmobile's plans to 170 for 2 gigs a line or 200 for unlimited 4g. So, more if you compare apples to apples.All that is correct. But I will be getting cheapest option possible. 50 + 30 + 10 = 3 phones 20 + 20 + 5 = 2 iPhones and a texter Total: $135 Unlimited talk, text, 500 MB/line + unlimited throttled If it were just me, yes I'd get Sprint with unlimited data.
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    Did you say that LTE R12 would strengthen the airlink? Or is that only for VoLTE? Can't wait for Verizon to release LTE-only dumb-phones!
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    As far as I know, there will be no dual band devices. They are going straight to tri-band. Source/link/reason?
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    First, "they" would be 3GPP, not AT&T. Second, band 4 and band 2 are very similar, so they tend to go hand in hand. AJ What about band 4 and 29? I thought 3gpp only standardizes things it is asked to standardize. My point is that 4 and 29 was mentioned in an article specifically about ATT but we thought it was going to drop AWS, right? How are 2 and 4 similar? They don't share any frequencies in common.
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    I still do not follow the "all this work" question. AT&T will downlink carrier aggregate band 29 with band 2. AJ Why would they care about band 4 and band 29 aggregation if they're gonna drop 4?
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    What work? AJ From the article: aggregation with Band 29 (D,E blocks).
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    According to the 3GPP, the work item for WCS has been completed, as of June 11. The final draft documents for the band spec were released on June 20. It is expected to be formally included as Band 30 on July 14. Once it is released, AT&T will begin modifying its RFPs and RFQs to vendors for 2014 deployments to include WCS. Handsets released by mid-2014 (summer launch), should include WCS. There are still rumors that AT&T will drop AWS for WCS, but it may not happen now, because of Canada and Latin America. AWS has become so important as a band that AT&T cannot afford to drop it now. Sprint is the only stick-in-the-mud, but it'll be forced to include it too, at some point. I don't get it. Why would ATT need to keep AWS? It's so big! If it wants 2,5,17,29,30 and not 4 then who's gonna say no to them? Though I JUST read something that pretty much proves you're right. approved technical specifications for aggregation of a downlink Band 29 with an uplink frequency band in Band 2 (PCS 1900 MHz) or Band 4 (AWS 1700/2100 MHz). Read more: AT&T: Carrier aggregation woes slow launch of ex-Qualcomm 700 MHz spectrum - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/att-carrier-aggregation-woes-slow-launch-ex-qualcomm-700-mhz-spectrum/2013-06-26#ixzz2YHNpulfQ Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Why would they go to all this work for 4 if they're gonna drop it eventually? Sprint will get it just because Verizon has it.
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    The WCS band, last I heard, is expected to be released by the 3gpp this fall while unless things have changed they haven't even decided how their going to use 600 MHz and even when all that is finished they still have to wait for TV stations to voluntarily give up that spectrum. What I'm trying to say is, I would expect to see WCS before 600 MHz. Do you have the article for WCS?
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    Wait, wait, wait, wait for just a moment!!!! You need an LTE network already to utilize 700MHz block E? Holy chyte!!! Seriously though, can AT&T buy it and aggregate with their own unpaired D block? The more I look at Dish's spectrum holdings, the more I think that AT&T should buy them from Dish. Then AT&T does not need to participate in the 600Mhz auction. ATT might need the 600 MHz far more than Verizon cause its WCS is years away and it doesn't have any band that's free and available nationwide. Verizon at least has loads of AWS and if they'd densify their network, they'd be sitting pretty. But their 700 MHz network has shown that, as someone else has stated, they're only going to put AWS on current 700 towers.
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