maximus1987/lou99

When I posted that, I thought they meant: "We're not going to going to expand to more than 52k LTE towers" But it turns out what they meant was: "We're not going to expand our LTE footprint past 37k towers without 600 MHz" http://edge.media-server.com/version/1375971396/m/a/6obxvmjt/iv/f9b984f7964c7c6e2369000091bb800e41913954/?token=da8811ac0a6777c6b1694268b7f1bf352167144 Slide 10 2014 - 225 million LTE. They don't say "end of" or "mid" 2014. Just 2014. Booooo. How do they plan on surviving the onslaught from sprint and ATT prepaid brands?

What if dish were to lease out its 20x20 band 23 spectrum? Would you and other wisps be interested?

Can you say when you'll go public?

Are you gonna go big and mega billion ipo-style public?

Is this a Comcast replacement? Or for those who can only get dsl?

The problem with dish-TMO combo is that TMO doesn't have fiber to tower exactly where Charlie needs it: semi rural areas where people don't have concast, uverse, et al. Putting his 20x20 band 23 on TMO's urban towers and marketing the TV Internet bundle will crash and fail cause even 150mbps per sector OF CAPACITY is not enough for urbania, though it might be for TMO's current 2g 15k rural tower customers who are stuck on 1.5 Mbps dsl if they're lucky. So how many billions would it take to bring FTTT to all 15k towers? More importantly, how much time? Even if they started today and used microwave as much as they could -in place of FTTT - is the tv Internet bundle compelling enough for dish to at least recoup its investment in 10 years? The average speeds aren't gonna be that high but for a rural person, it might be fantastic compared to dsl.

Why don't ATT and Tmobile do a network sharing deal like the European carriers? Obviousl ATT would limit it to where TMO currently has WCDMA coverage but for a low cost carrier like TMO, it'd still be worth it.

Ok. What about the virtual sim tech? That'd be a gold mine for mvnos: TMO covers 228mil with HSPA+ so only switch to ATT outside of TMO WCDMA coverage.

It's only a promo rate for people who don't know how to negotiate with Comcast. I've had my parents on the $40 phone + 25mbps for two years and now they dropped landline and only have Internet still 25 Mbps for $30.

Don't they have CDMA network gear now? Do they're still paying qualcomm.

Harmonics. Wiki it. http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7022130223

I thought you agreed TDD in 600 MHz was bad cause of the harmonics that would've interfered with GPS?

Yes. Poland is using it for CDMA EVDO b.

I wouldn't have said Poland because I understand CDMA 450 is already used so spectrum is cleared. As for brazil: when 2600 and 450 were auctioned, NO ONE bid for 450! The gov forced the 2600 winners to also build out 450.

I saw that story. Would he really be talking about TMO openly if he were serious? Wouldn't that drive up stock price of TMO!

So you're saying it doesn't make sense in a 1st world economy? I guess with excede, you can say mission accomplished. After all, only streaming video will exceed the cap and VoIP, just use s phone or move to civilization.

I have to say, I am not impressed with uverse. I used to have ATT dsl 6mbps for $30 month. Then uverse came along and 24mbps was available but only if you're super close to their distribution point. Sad. We could only get 18mbps for much more $$ Then Comcast says "25 Mbps for $30" Hmmmm I honestly can't see how uverse is thriving. I think it says more about comcast's incompetence than ATT's marketing skill. "Oh but uverse is being upgraded to 45mbps and then 100 Mbps.... if you're close enough to their box" But Comcast already has those speeds so... ?

Shouldn't the politicians at least read the lobbyist-written laws or read the summaries the law interns write for them?

Do you have an order mag estimate to install dsl for X people (for the telco)?

Is this a state-specific or company specfic law?

I think 450 MHz is only gonna catch on in countries that have absolutely no infrastructure outside of the cities. And where 0 < 25 Mbps down. Not every country has mandated phone service to every residence.

If you have ZERO Internet right now, you don't complain about latency. Use landline or cell phone for talking.

I know that. 450 MHz would only be used for dongles and hotspots to provide Internet to the real boonies and 100% coverage. Band 31 is only 5x5 in total.

I know the band is probably used up with other users but would it be worth it to clear them to have a 5x5 at 450 MHz?

I don't understand how lobbyists have so much power; they can only LOBBY, right?How does THAT turn into the power to write laws? Campaign contributions are obviously bribes do I could see lobbyists being hired to "hint" how a certain corp wants the vote to go. It's not as if ATT, sprint, etc will donate to your campaign if you're not doing what they want.