maximus1987/lou99

1) How do you know where ATT's LTE towers are? 2) If this fact is true, isn't this negligent on Sprint's part? Or is it commendable on ATT's part?

Can someone explain the difference between Board Region 3 and 71? It's almost as if Border Region 71 is temporary and will be abolished later but Border Region 3 is more permanent-ish?

Will the IBEZ be reduced in size ever? Will Canada/Mexico change their band-plans to synchronize with US to eliminate need for IBEZ?

You do realize that the reason why that zone exists is because of the signal propagation and sharing of the 800mhz range? Yes I know that. Which is why if we had taken Canada in 1812, we wouldn't have to deal with another country's band plan. I was making a joke.

USA - Canada: http://www.800ta.org/_img/figures/img_canadamap.jpg USA - Mexico: http://www.800ta.org/_img/figures/img_mbrmap.jpg That sucks. Detroit-metro is totally wiped out. Will the IBEZ areas be decreased in distance from border eventually? Will they be abolished eventually? This is what happens when you lose the War of 1812 and try to toss them a bone in War of 1848.

Basically the US-Mexico and US-Canada border. How many miles away?

Is there a map where the IBEZ is located?

I just signed up fo AIO last week here in Houston before LTE was announced, and then 2 days ago my phone started showing LTE. Speeds are capped at 8 mb/s according to the website (which is more than fast enough), but since it goes through a proxy server ping times are on the high side for LTE, usually over 250 ms. It's not the true AT&T LTE experience (my friends here in Houston regularly see 30+ mb/s and ping times in the 40-60 ms range), but for a month to month service I'm more than satisfied. Can you post screenshot of speedtest?

Can you post a screenshot of a speedtest?

Since ATT just announced AIO has LTE, Tmobile has a problem. The only value it adds now compared to AIO is its 0% financing.

If it's really an "error", wouldn't they have noticed it by now? How many complaints before they seriously take a look at the coverage maps?

It works on Tmobile/ATT http://gizmodo.com/5992454/t+mobiles-hd-voice-hands-on-a-sweeter+sounding-iphone

Why in the world would you know that you "have to switch to" T-Mobile? AJ Price. I'm on VZW and gonna have to get family plan with: 2 iPhones 1 slider TMO: $90 plan $20+20+5 = $45 phone payment Total: $135 Unlimited talk, text, 500MB data + unlimited throttled After two years, phones are paid off and I'll add unlimited data and price will stay the same. I'd like to switch to Sprint but that'd cost me: $300/month for unlimited everything. Too much. I don't need unlimited everything and if Sprint were to offer a similar plan to Tmobile's where you get unlimited throttled data after certain full speed amount, I'd go with Sprint. Verizon and att would cost me ~$160 and I'd have to constantly monitor to make sure we don't go over 1GB. Too bad Sprint insists on pairing their unlimited talk to unlimited data. Sprint's loss. Whichever carrier I pick for the family plan, I'd end up staying with for at least until the phones die. Although, if ATT's AIO wireless gets a reasonable family plan, I'd probably switch to them from TMO for the coverage after two years.

Is that Sprint?

Or Sprint can keep that 800 1xA channel forever-ish for M2M and/or really cheap cell phones. Of course it depends on the cost to Sprint to purchase CDMA base stations (when Verizon stops providing Sprint the economy of its scale) vs the benefit of being able to provide cheap connectivity. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-strikes-m2m-deal-u-blox-targets-atts-2g-shutdown/2013-04-22 http://www.u-blox.com/en/wireless-modules/cdma/fw75.html But the above FW75-C200 module doesn't support CDMA band 10 which is Sprint's ESMR.

There's more overhead when you have a smaller-bandwidth LTE channel. http://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/wireless-networks-lte-boosts-data-capacity-with-new-wider-bandwidth-spectrum.pdf pg. 9/21 I'm not sure of the math but TWO 3x3 may provide less capacity that ONE 5x5.

How do you know?

Is there even a band class for that? The closest one is 10 AWS Extended2110-2170, 1710-1770 http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php But even that band doesn't contain 10MHz on both downlink and uplink so I think they're gonna make another band? 1755-1780MHz

"According to Wells Fargo Securities senior analyst Jennifer Fritzsche, MetroPCS explained that by eventually moving its customer base over to the joint LTE network it will look to decommission approximately 10,000 of its current 11,500 cell sites at a cost savings of up to $7 billion. The remaining sites, along with MetroPCS’ approximately 6,000 distributed antenna system deployments would be retained." http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20121116/carriers/metropcs-decommission-10000-sites-part-t-mobile-usa-deal/

No, no, no, the document is relevant only to AT&T, not T-Mobile. You cannot come to the same conclusion about T-Mobile based on that evidence. AT&T already had bought up a vast network of rural sites and treasure chest of sub 1 GHz spectrum. The same cannot be said for T-Mobile. AJ Just trying to will Tmobile into at least LTE-ing all their current sites by Sep 2014 when I have to switch to them.

Yes, I am well aware. That is why I said "once again." AJ That document was extremely informative for me cause I used to think it took tens of billions $$$ to rollout LTE; my respect for the current Tmobile plummeted after I realized they COULD have a national US network if they really wanted.

Well, if that is indeed true, then AT&T is showing once again that it basically perjured itself by claiming that, without T-Mobile, it would scale back its network expansion goals. Kudos to government regulation forcing capital investment rather than consolidation. AJ This document already proved that: http://www.broadbandreports.com/r0/download/1678331~018ee90413e657e412818181a5d840ff/DOC.pdf

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Will Sprint have to modify towers again for H-block support?

Why hasn't Sprint already pushed to defined another band included PCS+G+H AND started including it in its phones? The following thread kinda addressed this http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3609-why-are-there-no-sprint-phones-that-support-future-lte-bands/ but this is about spectrum that a) is right next to G block Sprint, at least, knew it was going to be auctioned eventually. c) Sprint is probably going to win in future auction. Sure, Dish could bid just so it can use it as a guard band for 2000-2005MHz but come on . . . it's pretty reasonable for Sprint to assume it's gonna win some H block licenses. d) is FDD