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Credit Suisse raised their price target to $6 for S stock. I'm assuming they have available to them information regarding the upcoming earnings anouncement. Looks promising!

I bet going forward they will be doing just that.....seems to be working great considering the updated percentages...

 

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I sincerely doubt this will be the case in anything but an emergency. Unless Sprint's revenues increase more quickly than expected, they would be burning too much cash to speed up the rollout to a large degree.

Does anyone actually talk on the phone?

Haha, I know, this was never a huge draw for me, either. Just antisocial I guess!

Is there a way I can tell if I'm using 800mhz voice? One of the towers near my house has 800mhz live.

I thought none of the corporate PRL's would connect to 800mhz yet?

Yesterday I woke up and was connected to EHRPD in Susquehanna Township. I'm no longer connected to it, only EVDO-A but they're definitely in the process of at least the EHRPD software upgrades.

 

Dayuuummmn!

Usually I remove the media when quoting for the sake of space... not this time!

This thread just made me consider the following... there are only guys on this board, huh? No female members? Interesting to see what interests different groups.

Actually he's kinda on the right track, but it may not have been clear enough. What he was saying is Clear has to have a certain amount of people covered with their network so that they won't lose the license in that particular area. So Clear put up a lot of towers all over the place without formally launching the service. Perfect example would be the tower that's at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI it covers people and the speeds on Wimax are good but it wasn't a formal launch in Detroit. They even have a tower up by my house but it only broadcasts about 3 square miles. And the speeds are terrible but the wimax phones connect to it.

What he said is they put up towers specifically where people wouldn't use it, also, in ghettos? I don't think covering as many POPs possible is quite synonymous with that?

Is the antenna performance better than the Nexus (I'd hope so)?

Lose them to someone else who actually will build it out.

 

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Corporations function as individuals and do the best they can to survive. I don't think a viable option was "let's let those licenses go so someone else can use them". Interesting thought though, explains alot.

Yes, absolutely. That is the only solution for cash strapped Sprint. They could probably borrow a couple billion to go along with the equity, but you have to ask where or how this solution factors into DT's goal for Tmobile? Tmobile has not , to my knowledge, actually posted a "loss" financially in a very long time. They just aren't as profitable as DT wanted them to be, hence the urge to sell and be done last year. Taking a giant stake in Sprint just gives them a seat at the investor's table of a company that has been writing its value down for years. Not beating Sprint up, but becoming part of Sprint in no way gets them off the hook for effort or involvement. They would simply become part of Sprint's pursuit of profitability and whatever value their standalone company had would now be subject to Sprint's risk.

 

More specifically, if you look at merger costs, you have to ask what synergies would be gained and how do those synergies offset the typical costs each company experiences. Outside of merging call centers and consolidating the retail and corporate overhead, you have little to no immediate network savings. Re-branding is also very expensive. The networks would be run side by side and billions of additional funding would be need to consolidate/overhaul the towers (to cut costs) but also increase capacity in markets.

Needless to say, the merged entity would not be profitable for quite some time, farther into the future than sprint currently believes it will return to profitability.

 

So again, how does that fit into DT's goals? At this point, I think they're focused on charging ahead as a viable competitor as they wait for another buyer who has copious amounts of "cash on the barrelhead" to send to Germany and release them from the trouble.

Agree completely, this does assume however, that T-Mobile continues to be at least somewhat profitable. If they continue their losses in subs, it may not seem like such a risk to have a stake in Sprint given that they're currently growing. One other thing that I would think could be beneficial is that Sprint already has a deal for the iPhone with a fixed commitment. This would save T-Mobile from needing to get their own deal with Apple, no?

They don't offer service in these areas officially. They only installed these sites to keep their license in these areas per fcc buildout requirements. It is in their best interest to put these sites in areas where only a few savvy sprint users will use it, so they don't have to deal with maintaining them.

 

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Clearwire had a VERY limited amount of cash available and was faced with either putting up protection sites or losing licenses. They won't have a reliable revenue stream until their LTE becomes available. What other choice did they have? Either put up protection sites in densely populated areas or lose licenses. No brainer to me...? Thats just called working within the bounds you're given. Apparently that didn't include where you reside, therefore it was a bad decision?

The FCC required clearwire to cover a certain percentage of potential users (pops) in the areas they hold licenses to in order to keep their licenses. Clear is a bunch of dirtbags so they have devised a system of researching demographics for areas with the large populations of people unlikely to use their service (ghettos) and set up towers there to say that they satisfied FCC requirements. AT&T does this kind of crap as well. If you look in the Dakotas and Nebraska you'll see little islands of native coverage in the same areas for Clear and AT&T.

 

This whole WiMax debacle left a really bad taste in my mouth. I hope clear goes under FAST so Sprint can pick up that spectrum cheap and deploy it.

You're out of touch with reality. Why would Clearwire WANT to set up service where no one would use it? That only loses them money? Did you even think before you posted this? Also, the FCC would have a large say in what happens with the spectrum were Clearwire to go under, not to mention Sprint would need to bid on it.

Wouldn't Sprint need additional antennas for the AWS spectrum?

I would imagine so, just like they had planned different antennas for the LS spectrum at 1600mhz.

I've thought this as well. The Gov't doesn't want the #1 or #2 player gobbling the #3 or #4 player. But the if #3 & #4 came together to form a competitor that go toe-to-toe with the two bigs, that would probably pass.

 

It's really more a matter of the finances. Could Sprint work out a financing scheme to buy out Tmo from DK? Or would it have to be DK ponying up to buy up Sprint? That's for all the fancy MBAs and lawyers to figure out.

Realistically, I would think Sprint would absorb T-Mobile and in return, DT would get a large share of equity in the newly formed company.

I doubt the share price went down due to this article but the fact that the market was down today. I see very little information in this article that would alarm me about the pending NV deployment as a Sprint shareholder. I would like to see the report referred to by Detwiler Fenton & Co.

Agreed, the market got slammed today. Sprint fared better than I thought they would to be honest.

Saw this little article this afternoon trying to give some explanation as to why Sprint's stock slid $0.20/share today. Tiny bit of insight. Sounds like Ericsson is having issues handling the LTE deployment.

 

http://www.bloomberg...html?cmpid=yhoo

I just saw this as well. It surprised me when I first found out that Sprint was mostly a "holding" company and outsourced most tasks to contracted companies. I wonder if this trend will continue with any other positions. Also, I'm assuming none of the design is handled by Ericcson, only the actual maintenance/running of it. This would imply that Ericsson was having issues running the nascent, rather small network of LTE sites currently up? Surprising to say the least.

EDIT - Also, I'm aware that AT&T contracts out the running of their network as well and that Verizon controls it in house. What do the other providers do? T-Mobile, Leap, etc.?

I'd love to see some updated lab documents with device info that might give us a hint of if this is an EVO LTE issue or just trying to get more network build out completed.

I took the following quote to validate the idea that the EVO LTE connectivity issue is what's causing this: "Before that can happen, Sprint will push out a small upgrade to owners of those devices that will allow it to use the LTE network." Seeing as we all know the EVO LTE can connect to LTE, an update wouldn't be necessary if that wasn't the reason.

I don't know if anyone else saw this article on light reading:

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=222152&

The analyst mentioned in the article states that what was expected to be a large push in the second quarter of orders/builds is being pushed out ot the third quarter. Thoughts?

This is good news. Now Sprint DC does not need to rely on 3G EVDO connection for access. With 800 MHz CDMA being deployed on the NV towers with RRU's at the top of the tower, it will perform even better than it did at 800 MHz iDEN.

 

The only problem right now is that there are not enough NV towers up with 800 Mhz CDMA to make this a reality and will have to settle for 1900 MHz CDMA coverage.

And roaming on Verizon's holdings, correct?

Anyway it was a terrible decision of tower placement by Roberts Tower Company and Alamosa PCS, Sprint affiliates that aren't around anymore. I wonder why.

 

AJ, I think you underplay traffic coming through Chester. The Chester bridge is the single bridge between the JB Bridge and the Emerson Bridge at Cape.

 

I have family that lives in that area and they all have either VZW or Alltel which covers that area well.

 

Roberts erected all the towers in question. Their businesses are almost all in deep financial trouble.

 

In contrast, I'm pretty clear Sprint built the coverage from Saint Mary north on 55 as well as the cells at Red Bud, which might have originally been Nextel but later with Sprint CDMA added on.

I see that you keep referencing Alltell and VZW seperately, aren't they the same entity? Alltell got bought out by them years ago?

I wonder how many iDEN sites Sprint can get rid of by the end of 2012. I am hoping for at least 13000 iDEN sites.

I believe they've already stated they can only "thin" out 9600 sites without adversely affecting coverage, outside of building penetration.

Thank you so much for the information. I did find it strange that my signal for calls/texts is downright TERRIBLE in my building (I work at the courthouse), but the 4G WiMax was superstrong. Knowing what I know from your very informative post, it seems like the 2500 MHz signal would be even worse than the CDMA signal, but it was the opposite. Always had full strength, always had superfast data. But I would struggle to receive calls/texts and my battery would die in 2 hours if I did not force roam for calls/texts. It's pretty obvious I don't know the technology, so I apologize for not understanding the semantics of how that worked.

 

I live in Linglestown and had spotty 4G. We'll see once the towers switch over. And I would love to see that map! I've noticed the same 3G speeds, except for within a mile of the tower just north of 22 (by the Sprint store). I got speeds last week around 2100 kbps down/700 Kbps up when I was close to the tower; after a mile east (closer to the Best Buy on Jonestown Road), it hovered around 500Kbps Down/200 Kbps up. I've been fine with that on my OG EVO because of the WiMax. I'll admit it's been getting frustrating without the higher speeds.

 

Thank you AGAIN for all your help. I'm just still perplexed why I would get a terrible CDMA signal and a phenomenal WiMax signal in the reinforced concrete courthouse? Maybe its because they removed all the asbestos 2 years ago. LOL

I'd say there's a Clearwire location much closer to your location at work than a Sprint site. Not all Clearwire sites are colocated with Sprint sites.

I got an EVOLTE on Saturday, no LTE yet. However, I did notice NV towers throughout Camp Hill around the Carlisle Pike and EVDO DL's ~2.2mb/s.

It seems that with a decent number of flagship slim form factor phones, antenna performance is lacking. Aesthetics trumps it in importance I suppose.

Now that these phones are in peoples hands... how is the antenna design on the them? I was scared of getting a GNex because of the compaints about reception, any complaints with these?