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  1. maximus1987/lou99
    That's their "guaranteed average" speeds, though with Verizon their "5 to 12" is turning into "upper limit" lol. In theory, if speeds go below the 6-8mbps, Sprint would add a new site or small cell.
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    Does your contract not end till Sep 2014 or is that when your going to upgrade? My contract just ended today! But I'm being prudent with money, saving for new roof, etc. Sep 2014 is when I'll start being responsible for 3 lines instead of just my own. And, if current prices hold, I'll switch to TMO. Best value for 3 lines, if they have coverage where you're located, though the whole "block roaming on ATT even where we have no 2G" is retarded. I do hope, though, that Sprint be at least be no more than $15/month more than TMO so I can justify it Sprint. I'd love to play around with PRLs.
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    I'm still on Verizon 3G with iPhone 4 in metro detroit and I can stream Netflix easily in most locations. I'll be on Verizon 3G until next year Sep 2014 so it'll be nice to have faster and faster 3G speeds.
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    I think one reason why ATT has been so dedicated to their 700 MHz network is because they don't have a trove of AWS like VZW. With their 700 MHz supplemental downlink, ATT has anywhere from 10x5 to 20x10 total in 700 MHz. AT&T: Carrier aggregation woes slow launch of ex-Qualcomm 700 MHz spectrum 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#ixzz2YE6YQH9y Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless I'm too lazy too figure out where ATT has 10x10 Band 17 and where it has 5x5 but the above article says: The acquisition included 12 MHz of Lower D and E Block spectrum covering more than 70 million POPs in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco and 6 MHz of Lower D Block spectrum covering 230 million POPs across much of the rest of the country. ATT is gonna kick 700 MHz behind! Also, they learned their lesson from losing Round 1 with Verizon in the network battles. If that's Verizon's plan then I guess the only - and easiest - way to bring VZW down is to hope they get many, many, many, many, many more LTE customers.
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    Can you estimate the radius of one of those coverage circles?
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    What I don't understand is why Verizon doesn't increase their site density like ATT? From what I've read on here, ATT is making extremely dense 700 MHz deployment while Verizon is spacing them as far as possible but deploying AWS to "make up" for it. Why?
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    So you can't have 5 MHz FDD LTE device connected to the same 10 MHz FDD of spectrum that is being used to run 10 MHz FDD connection?
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    This is why I hope TMO survives: the advantages (to us) of having 4 national competitors. "French price war drives mobile usage to new heights" Read more: French price war drives mobile usage to new heights - FierceWireless:Europe http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/french-price-war-drives-mobile-usage-new-heights/2013-07-05#ixzz2YCsuPbDZ Subscribe at FierceWirelessEurope
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    It's different now. With Sprint, and their associated prepaid brands, soon having access to 250mil (or 277 mil) LTE coverage, I'm not sure Deutsche Telekom can afford to be too stingy with their upgrading. What do you mean "only targeting"? Their coverage is nationwide, though they're only allow you to buy service if you're in one of 3-4 areas. In any case, ATT can use AIO to crush TMO.
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    I'm curious: what does Verizon say when you send them these screenshots? Also, at that location were speeds ALWAYS this slow or is this new? How fast were speeds when you first did a test at that location?
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    We will cross that bridge when we come to it. By that point, S4GRU may have run its course, so we call it a wrap. Alternatively, S4GRU may have built up enough groundswell to transition into an ad supported general purpose Sprint or wireless industry site. AJ If you shut it down, can you provide a torrent of the entire site? So much knowledge. I'd especially be interested in the maps????
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    Nope, guys, accepting ads would mean that S4GRU is a commercial site, and that might mean the party is over. Forget the ads. Do you not think that we have considered these possibilities already? If circumstances change, then we may change our funding methods, but not right now. AJ We will cross that bridge when we come to it. By that point, S4GRU may have run its course, so we call it a wrap. Alternatively, S4GRU may have built up enough groundswell to transition into an ad supported general purpose Sprint or wireless industry site. AJ We can or can't have ads?
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    Are you saying that it's because of power issues or because there won't be enough devices able to support that for Sprint to bother? Its not because of power issues with the current devices. Its because none of the LTE devices currently dont support the H block spectrum. Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G using Tapatalk 2 So why should that preclude Sprint from offering future devices that are capable and correspondingly upgrading their network?
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    Actually, Tmobile wants ATT to have 600 MHz for that whole economy of scale thing.
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    These are all downlink-only: the D, E blocks that are each 5 MHz. ATT is using them for supplemental downlink "The acquisition included 12 MHz of Lower D and E Block spectrum covering more than 70 million POPs in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco and 6 MHz of Lower D Block spectrum covering 230 million POPs across much of the rest of the country." 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#ixzz2YCIT2tP5 Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless And assuming ATT's and Dish's licenses are complementary, Dish owns 12 MHz covering 230 million and 6 MHz covering 70 million
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    It's called LTE broadcast. If a bunch of people, in a sector, are watching the same thing the network notices this and automatically consolidates those streams into one stream.
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    Now what'd make the Triplets REALLY freak out is if ATT were to jump in and buy all 10x10 of Band 17 AND the unpaired (Band 29) D,E blocks, for 10MHz of supplemental downlink, leaving only one 5x5 of Band 12 spectrum for the triplets. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf10572.html Table 1 If that happens, expect some CDMA refarming to occur pronto.
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    Are you saying that it's because of power issues or because there won't be enough devices able to support that for Sprint to bother?
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    If they have to compete with Verizon on speed then they might need to repurpose the CDMA spectrum for LTE and increase the W-CDMA coverage (if they feel like it).
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    There's no objective measure of "quality" that Sprint can use to say "our quality is 9.1 on the Merchersmitt scale".
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    That speed is for an unloaded sector i.e. with very few people using it. The more people use it, the slower it gets because the capacity - in megabits per second per sector - gets divided by the number of people using it. That's like saying "HSPA+21 is fast enough because even if the real-world speed is 8 mbps, that's fast enough for me".
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    Comments?
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    Yes but this is what they really need to do and for reasons specified in my post above, I think they're going to. That's what I really want people to comment on.
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    Can't wait for Rootmetrics to do their next round of reports! It's gonna be delicious showing Verizon having < 1mbps
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    If we're talking about locations near metro areas then doesn't Tmobile already have at least 2G voice in those areas? Can you point out a specific location on the map, near metro areas, where Tmobile doesn't have voice coverage and doesn't allow roaming? http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-coverage
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