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Yes they were similar but sprint had the foothold in clearwire. TMO has no advantage besides its low number of subs for the amount of spectrum it has. TMO's big problem is that it has no nationwide sub 1 ghz spectrum, not even 3x3 for slow-poke LTE. And with any 600 MHz it gets, it's gonna have to use it to run voice also which means its gonna need to have higher tower density than for pure LTE data. I guess it's not that bad simply cause of the high spectrum/sub ratio. But no one's gonna pay top dollar unless they have a killer business idea ie where mobile data is an enabler and not the actual product. Then there's the DT problem. It wants out but at what price? Contractually, it can only sell its stake before the 18 month lockup if someone buys it all at once. The one thing I'm concerned is that DT may be limiting TMO's network investments to keep TMO's debt low so it has a higher resale value.

In those areas where you get the horrible LTE speeds, what kind of speeds do you get on 3G?

MVDDS.

Realistic. Verizon, ATT, Sprint are not realistic in this administration. Us government buying Tmobile???? Dish: they probably never wanted to buy sprint and only bid up the price to make its own AWS-4 more valuable. Hedge funds: they only buy if they believe they can invest and then sell in a few years but who else is gonna buy in a few years, another hedge fund? Nope. Open market is really the only buyer at this point I think.

Maybe if Softy hadn't plunged in with Sprint but now, TMO is too much of a fixer upper with too strong competition. It's probably worth more as parts.

So doesn't this sound like the answer to rural broadband?

That's why they're doing aggregation. It doesn't help sprint because it doesn't increase the spectral efficiency and it won't even help average user speeds. Only peak speeds will double.

That used to be unequivocally true. Now, it depends how congested your area is and is you'll be within reach of VZW's future patchy AWS.

How can you upgrade at discount price? I've had VZW iphone 4 since July 2011, also grandfathered, but no discounted upgrade.

Do you have a list of realistic buyers of DT's 74%?

Do you use MVDDS?What do you think about it? Cablevision recently shut down their OMGFAST and I'm curious if it was because of a technical reason. Cablevision shutting down OMGFAST wireless broadband service http://www.fiercecable.com/story/cablevision-shutting-down-omgfast-wireless-broadband-service/2013-07-23

I think we'd all love to know you convinced your wife to do this. Maybe an entire thread?

http://www.ics-il.com/Templates/personal_internet.html What do you use for your wireless technology?

What company do you run?

How many potential WiMax subscribers are there now that Clearwire is killing WiMax? Oh and: "Almost one year ago, the GSMA called on Taiwan's government to abandon its plans to help local vendors become leaders in the WiMAX equipment market and instead lend support to LTE equipment vendors." Taiwan Mobile wants government to kill off WiMAX Read more: Taiwan Mobile wants government to kill off WiMAX - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/taiwan-mobile-wants-government-kill-wimax/2012-06-13#ixzz2as2fF4Ru Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless So who's left? Nepal? lol http://www.telecompaper.com/news/nepals-internet-base-nears-7-mln--957364 Am I missing something? Wimax is a shorter life than CDMA. Here's some more evidence that WiMax is alive and well: WiMAX Forum president says an Alvarion exit could be positive Read more: WiMAX Forum president says an Alvarion exit could be positive - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax-forum-president-says-alvarion-exit-could-be-positive/2012-05-30#ixzz2asA4m2CT Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Alvarion may ditch WiMAX due to plummeting revenues Read more: Alvarion may ditch WiMAX due to plummeting revenues - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/alvarion-may-ditch-wimax-due-plummeting-revenues/2012-05-18#ixzz2asAPThdq Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Though this is confusing me: WiMAX makes a strong showing in Pakistan, Bangladesh Read more: WiMAX makes a strong showing in Pakistan, Bangladesh - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax-makes-strong-showing-pakistan-bangladesh/2012-04-04#ixzz2asAGTq1y Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Why? What advantage does WiMax have over TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE. What am I missing? Look what Yota did: "In late 2009 and early 2010, Yota visited every single vendor of WiMax silicon and asked whether they planned to use the faster WiMax 2 standard, Khachaturov said. Each said it would do so only if Yota committed to a large order. So Yota jumped on the LTE bandwagon. The advantage would be a much larger ecosystem of suppliers for both network equipment and smartphones and other customer devices." http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/427704/russian_wimax_pioneer_yota_had_turn_lte_networks_overnight/ WiMax is dead. It's just running on fumes.

I betcha Sprint customers would currently LOOOVE to have working service in the top 100 markets

Does anyone know how to modify the javascript - or whatever - on Tmobile's coverage website http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-coverage to make it so that you can see the green/wcdma vs yellow/gsm at the zoomed out level?

How many potential WiMax subscribers are there now that Clearwire is killing WiMax? Oh and: "Almost one year ago, the GSMA called on Taiwan's government to abandon its plans to help local vendors become leaders in the WiMAX equipment market and instead lend support to LTE equipment vendors." Taiwan Mobile wants government to kill off WiMAX Read more: Taiwan Mobile wants government to kill off WiMAX - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/taiwan-mobile-wants-government-kill-wimax/2012-06-13#ixzz2as2fF4Ru Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless So who's left? Nepal? lol http://www.telecompaper.com/news/nepals-internet-base-nears-7-mln--957364 Am I missing something? Wimax is a shorter life than CDMA. Here's some more evidence that WiMax is alive and well: WiMAX Forum president says an Alvarion exit could be positive Read more: WiMAX Forum president says an Alvarion exit could be positive - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax-forum-president-says-alvarion-exit-could-be-positive/2012-05-30#ixzz2asA4m2CT Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Alvarion may ditch WiMAX due to plummeting revenues Read more: Alvarion may ditch WiMAX due to plummeting revenues - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/alvarion-may-ditch-wimax-due-plummeting-revenues/2012-05-18#ixzz2asAPThdq Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Though this is confusing me: WiMAX makes a strong showing in Pakistan, Bangladesh Read more: WiMAX makes a strong showing in Pakistan, Bangladesh - FierceBroadbandWireless http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax-makes-strong-showing-pakistan-bangladesh/2012-04-04#ixzz2asAGTq1y Subscribe at FierceBroadbandWireless Why? What advantage does WiMax have over TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE. What am I missing?

I totally don't get why you want to go from 4 to 3 carriers yet you also want to have 30+ carriers. 4 carriers on equal footing is the bomb! ?

Just went to http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx/ on my iphone and its still the green, yellow gsm, WCDMA of yore.

They probably got too many calls about the oases of green in desert of yellow.

Does TMO finally show you LTE coverage areas without forcing you to zoom in and CLICK!

50% reduction in bandwidth for same video quality.

What is there to enforce? Has sprint complained that Verizon won't agree to LTE roaming? TMO complained about ATT? Sprint just reduced roaming limits for those new consumer friendly plans, remember? TMO already has the 7-year roaming agreement from breakup but they don't allow TMO subs to roam onto ATT's 3G. Why should the FCC do anything with LTE roaming if sprint and TMO barely let you roam on 3G?

And he said the reason for lower speeds is lower bandwidth, 20 MHz, not necessarily 2.4 ghz. If you're in the middle of a field, there's no 2.4 ghz interference.