belusnecropolis

So you can get 10 paying customers, not paying VZW for roaming access, further subsidize your urban users who may or may not stay from month to month, and encourage development of connected services in a market you do not even perform in.

Home internet would consume upwards of 10X the usage. Offering mobile only would achieve a greenfield spend and return ARPU above historically low levels in an area that previously offered no revenue, or cost due to roaming. In the cities we have seen in market roaming on T-mobile, prices drop dramatically and a stagnant add and higher churn. While debt spending on markets and sites that were recently upgraded. This makes no sense.

They are continually reducing prices in cities to try to convince people to switch. If they didn't get them with the MiniMacro rollout, I don't see adding 8t8r or a NR antenna with a smaller radii making much difference. The product is already devalued in a saturated market. Move into greener pastures that have enough pent up demand for competition and a higher user spend.

Groovy, Sprint needs to get off the switcher teat that is in the cities and focus on acquiring new customers in areas they provide poor to no service.

Where?

How degenerate is someone that has a portfolio of empty mansions, that will never be a home to their family? This spending is kind of sinister if it was meant to drive local support behind the Softbank acquisition at the time. "Hey look, I bought a mansion in your town, so now I'm not only here to empty the largest local employer of value, but also your real estate markets neighbor."

Oh yeah I read this wrong. Thank you!

Boop numbers.

No, this is Ken speculating as Ken likes, and is wont to do. This is a common set of bands available on just about any modern antenna. Unless Sprint requires a specific antenna mod, which they don't because all their frequencies are listed here. As are AT&T, VZW, and most of T-Mobile's. In fact, I have three antennae currently in active receive and transmit on my house. They cover 698MHz, to 2700MHz, the high band only antenna with dual ports covers 1710-2700. I got them all off of ebay and guess which carrier I haven't pumped through them? None. I have a four port on the way that covers 600 to 3.7GHz. These examples let you know how common this configuration is, and at scale makes them more affordable and attractive across carriers for antenna manufacturers.

That is why I said cities, and not metro areas, where that remaining ~45 million Americans live. On the numbers we seem to agree with a bit of fuzziness in the middle. The vast majority do not get advanced services deployed, while subsidizing cities that do. The numbers say we are at saturation for cellular service, everyone has one, some two and we are all a paying customer; so they sure can afford to focus on areas that have less competition. It is working wonders for T-Mobile, Firstnet upgrades are paying off nationwide for AT&T. Simply under investing in areas that need coverage to make a buck back in the city is a poor practice, you can't get new paying customers with out service. Slapping another channel in an area you already have users is only as sustainable as your base / resources. Your rates haven't gone up every time they added a 2.5 carrier or upgraded your local macro to MM>8t8r> NR have they? The customer count is stagnant at best with Sprint in what you describe as high ROI environments. It is falling in areas they have not touched outside of the city, and they have no ability to gain more customers in areas they do not have service, but a base of customers. So that money coming in is from any new adds outside these areas or a nomadic pool of switchers in the city. Pouring money into an area that is not interested in what you offer is a bad use of tight funds, even if it offers cool speed tests in a 4 block area. Keeping ahead of capacity constraints is good for that local userbase of course, but again it does not spread nearly as far and that resource will be consumed quickly, causing another pardon our dust addition for the same user base that is not expanding. This is why everyone else is eventually, and not tomorrow with Sprint.

You say the top 10 cities as if they are a dense urban sprawl containing no outlier areas. Detroit, Baltimore and San Diego are great examples of areas once packed with such an example that have sprawling areas now unoccupied but contain smaller pockets bursting at the seams. Yes, the other 74% of Americans would like the option, all ~285 million of them.

2.5 was the sweet spot for two versions of the last generation of wireless airlink, often trumpeted by the last two owners and the possible future owner for the next airlink. Neither has materialized as such except in New York, Chicago, areas of LA and other top 10 markets. So you have to imagine Chicago is a good start for the next generation in a new frequency, all in all it looks good on paper, does OK on the ground, and may perform well in a city pending some future updates. The other ~285 million Americans would like something that works where there is not a light pole every 400-800 feet, or macro every .5 kilometers.

Lots more scripts. Luci interface is pretty well integrated, but it can be chatty with the modem at#commands.

Have you adjusted the LAN MTU settings or used TTL mangle yet on your other devices?

Do you have a hosted email address? They require one. I could make you a temporary one if you like since I bought a block of them for just this reason. I have not tried the MR1100 with Sprint, you would possibly be stuck to T-mobile roaming or band 2. I don't recall if the modem in the Nighthawk is neutered to just ATT frequencies or not. You would have to test it out and report on it, see what bands it is capable of and go from there.

Here you go fren. https://techship.com/products/sierra-wireless-em7511/

That thing is hideous. In the rare speckled spotted defense of 5Ge, I get like pings, on a 4x4 mimo cat-18 LTE embedded card connected to an ugly cousin of that small cell in my garage, on band 2 with signal at -110 dBm. To a server hundreds of miles away. This test was performed over 2.4GHz WiFi at that. Lol this Five Gee is going to be a trip. They have already trashed the aesthetic. Gen 1 is just a bigger pipe that takes up a bigger chunk of pixels with a bigger screen indicator connected to a bigger octopus of networking gear. This test should have deployed and been conducted in T E X A S.

Yeah I have seen a few now that we are getting the big rollout treatment here. They are popular with the newer, thiccer builds. Last round was MiniMacro that have four port antenna, with 2 utilized. Our site is the only one in any form of city limit without it, that gotdang monopole crushes me. We have a town named Aynor here, it has about 400 people, and an 8t8r with 4 carriers live so there is that. I believe user @Terrell352 can appreciate that the cows in SC being covered as well as the cows in FL, finally. Anyhoo, With all the funky spacing in US band 41, is there room for 3 carriers on that model? Maybe 15 L and 40 NR or just ~50 NR? Do you know if ROK operates in the full band? Maybe they got a great deal on them. Sprint does tend to be thrifty with the gear spend lately, and that shows in how far they are making progress go so quickly. I imagine a split sector running that bad dude in areas they are 2.5 constrained to the high end. Aynor will probably get the 120MHz model though, since we have spectrum like that to spend here

I had my F35 lightning account carrying large metric tonnage of ordinance and set to maximum shit poasts per sq kilometer. Mission aborted. Even when Mr. Tim presents humble he shares with us his amazing input and excellent knowledge base and gives us more cool facts. Were the other units Chinese or foreign? They also seem to have a lot of 2.6, and is the AAHE a possible band 7 solution for other operators or TDD only? Just curious about gear as usual. Looks like AAHE could be a sweet NR solution next to some LTE cells on differing but co-located hardware.

Man you have to give Saw credit, he has worked with so much first generation equipment, and had to use it to make due while his bosses have inflicted so many half tested solutions on their UE's. Though I do wish he would clarify this. It's not just a forum user stat, he is out there on tape and now putting it in front of the merger as this specific equipment operating as you highlighted. Like Mr. Tim said though, the gear is the gear. So maybe he is just accounting for some spectrum usage compromisetry that he has afoot between the two airlinks. Since it is now a part of the merger argument, again he does need to address it. I suggest the executive twitter account carpet bomb solution; squeaky wheels, grease and such.

EM7511 then EM7565 then MC7455 in order of performance.

No the Nighthawk is gone. I haven't had it for about a year. I am driving a zbt mt7621 pcb with an LM960 cat 18 card, running AT&T firmware on the card, and 3/10/19 build of rooter in an outdoor box.

Turns out I had just enough length on my coax to tie in the roof pair of LPDA antennae I already have mounted, just had to move them over to the attic access and they plugged right into the box. Cosmetically this setup is such a nightmare, aesthetically it looks like a Frankenstein electronic brain life support system, if one can imagine. I have switched back and forth from those and the tall boy indoors as main and auxiliary ports. Pretty close results with AT&T, Tmobile, and Sprint. The generic firmware on the LM960 does not appear to allow 4x4 on the first carrier. So, by simply leaving the AT&T firmware in place, and replacing with T-mobile we now average over 50 down throughout the day, where as in 2x2 we could see peaks in the 50's but much less sustained throughput. There is a mask ident limiter in place, you can only activate the bands AT&T has on the AT&T firmware. Fortunately band 5 is in there so we good; band 71 is out for now, but I just spotted the first site the other day in our 20 mile vicinity, and a friendly reddit user dropped in for pics. So we are shooting for sustained deployment and a firmware update from Telit soon. We also have an affordable cat 4 outdoor solution in the mail to us. Enclosed modem, bands 38-48, but excluding 46, PoE with fast ethernet. This is not a raw speed unit, but a nice and easy CPE solution that works with a lot less assembly then our more exotic flavors. Excited to test! Have a great day everyone and stay free out there! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Not that I am aware of. Proprietary software that is locked down tight.