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Zero damage in NYC, I even walked my dog 10mins ago, it's a total hype. They even have subways trains fully running but without passengers "to keep the snow off the rails" and passengers off the streets. Give me a freaking break...
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All hype guys... Go spend as much money as possible on food and survival kits then hide.
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Is this historic thing gonna show up or should I just go to sleep... Love the media overhyping these "blizzards" all for the sake of boosting the economy. Tired of it tbh...
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Ah thanks for the link. Is it even technically possible to reduce the transmission facing east (towards NYC), and is there a technical explanation why it became impossible to access WNJN in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn. We still have access to PBS on Ch 13 WNET. Thanks again!
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By any chance, do you have any idea if Ch 51 WNJN out of Montclair, NJ has reduced their broadcast footprint? The reason I'm asking is because many of us in NYC can access it OTA anymore, leading us to believe that they've worked out some kind of an agreement with T-Mobile. Since August, on WNJN's own website viewers have been complaining that they can't access their OTA broadcast anymore. WNJN is still present on cable/FiOS. Thanks!
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Pick a T-Mobile exec and send him an email. I doubt that anyone here will have all the answers to your questions.
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That's a logical assumption, but we still don't know for sure how will they deploy into these new areas. They could decide to cut as much cost as possible, and go with Band 12 Only, as most of these ares are tertiary markets.
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Typically where Band 12 is deployed, Band 4 is also available which could explain why you can't find the areas that trigger Band 12 device alert. That should change in the second half of 2015 when they start expanding into the areas of no coverage potentially using only Band 12. We still need some clarity on whether they'll expand the coverage with Band 12 only or Band 2/4/12 since it's going to require new RRUs anyway.
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I'd just add that both Verizon and T-Mobile's backhaul provisioning still has room to grow. Very rarely their backhaul capacity maxes out their air interface at the cell site. By observing my NYC market, I've concluded that most Verizon sectors are capped at 80-100Mbps backing 40MHz FDD LTE aggregate radio capacity (10MHz B13 + 20MHz AWS +10MHz PCS), while T-Mobile's 15MHz FDD LTE gets either 50Mbps or 80Mbps provisioning per sector depending on the location and traffic. I'm thinking that fronting the bill on the backhaul will be their last resort, but it's there as an option. -
Exactly, it's simply unbelievable to me that a global corporate leader would completely dump on one of his own CEOs and internal strategies, and not get fired. Unless there is something else going on there.
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I'd still like to see the actual video of that interview as I simply can't believe that Tim Hoettges, the leader of a major global wireless corporation would make such a rookie public statement. He's basically dumping on his U.S. CEO and everything his U.S. team has been doing over the past two years. The guy is totally out of sync. In the U.S. corporate environment, this type of statement would get you fired in no time.
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They could swap that spectrum with Verizon for contiguity in different markets, plus decommissioning the 2G they're lowering the Opex and moving one step closer towards the leaner "all-LTE" network.
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Well, in markets like NYC they only run 3MHz of dedicated GSM in the CLR, and the rest is GSM stuffed in the WCDMA guard band. Meanwhile they're running three WCDMA carriers two in CLR and one in the PCS. That's all.
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Huge boost? Definitely not as they've had GSM down to a minimum for years. HSPA+ will still be around past 2017, with at least two carriers in major urban areas addressing fallback voice/data.
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Don't forget that T-Mobile may very well avoid usual suspects like American Tower / Crown Castle and go with many small "built to suit" tower companies instead, that will build exactly what T-Mobile's asking for, front the cost, and then lease it long term to T-Mobile. Obviously on the surface co-location sounds like a logical move, but it's not always ideal nor the cheapest.
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I've been with T-Mobile since the Omnipoint days. I definitely feel old haha!
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T-Mobile has literally a few SmallCells. That's it. In addition to 60,000+ sites, they do have 12,000 MetroPCS DAS nodes in dense urban areas they're keeping according to Neville Ray, as of yesterday. And obviously, they're expanding the overall footprint this year, and that's additional site count. It's unclear what's going to be the total amount. http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/citigroup/imt2015/67205536707.cfm "- I mean if you think about, my biggest goal this year is the footprint expansion, the 300 million pops of LTE. From capacity perspective, I've done that work for '15. So our capital profile is not going through incremental intensity for capacity because of the density that we have, the sites that we have... I'm not running around saying that "we're adding thousands of SmallCells", I have a couple. Literally, right? Because I have such a strong macro network in the ground already today and I'm pouring spectrum on top of it, I'm filling the rain barrels of capacity that we have out there. So my major goal is on footprint expansion, not so much on the capacity piece. And again, you've got to think how the other guys are playing, their invests are around capacity and how to catch up. We've already built that asset." "- If you look at the density of the cell network that we have because we've only had mid-band assets, combining that with MetroPCS 12,000 nodes of DAS, we've combined where it really makes sense to drive cell density and capacity. We're adding more and more spectrum."
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But then again, it is BGR, and it looks like T-Mobile is serious about expanding that LTE network footprint already. One thing is for sure, once your customers leave because of the network issues, it is really tough to get them back.
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It's Sprint's wholesale business that's heavily based on Unlimited.
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Marcelo seems to be talking about prepaid port ratio. Not postpaid.
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I'm pretty sure that wasn't RootMetrics, because he mentioned them a few times on Chicago example. That independent research he was talking about is a mystery.
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http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/citigroup/imt2015/67205536707.cfm T-Mobile's CMO Mike Sievert take on Sprint earlier today: We are not a price leader in the industry, we have a great value btw, but we don't play on the price. We don't have to. What we offer is already a great value, the customers love it. We've done eight big industry changing moves that have very little to do with changing our prices, because our prices are great, people love the value we are offering. And they are paying us more than they've ever paid us before in our history. When it comes to Unlimited, we offer it opportunistically. We are really proud of the deal, it's unbelievably simple, customers love it. Our customers do use more data than any of our competitors' customers, so they're highly interested in the internet. But it's not our point of differentiation. UnCarrier is our point of differentiation. In stark contrast to let's say Sprint, who really is got nothing but price. I mean nothing but price! And their first big move in the Fall when they started to show some signs, is to slash prices!!! That was their first move. What's the second move when your first move is to slash prices?! That's a tough spot. And so their business model is absolutely wholesale addicted to unlimited.
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There isn't a locked and unlocked replacement iPhone model at the Genius Bar. There is a single unactivated model which during the activation process receives either unlock or lock policy from the iTunes activation server. That's it.
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Ericsson RBS6402 picocell solution will be able to consistently sweep the unlicensed spectrum within it's individual RF environment, and adjust the connectivity (attach) to a vacant 5GHz on the fly. This way each SmallCell radio within any given indoor environment could be attached to a completely different WiFi channel, while the IMS core takes care of the rest. Obviously at some point all freq bands will get saturated, but right now 5GHz is still fairly vacant.
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The concept of Ethernet as a single feed has been around for a while, but in the U.S. market, there hasn't been any significant commercial deployments of SmallCell. LTE-U or LAA is a brand new concept. Hopefully this year we'll see more of these launches from different vendors.
