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Oops. Now who is Masa-san gonna fire?

Me. Damnit!

Wow, they actually GAINED postpaid subs! Someone trolled us, that's for sure.

Added 682K subs total, 58K net postpaid additions. So to go to the previous comments, apparently the market wasn't truly saturated yet and had some growth left in it since ALL tier 1 providers added subs.

There would be no way to measure Masayoshi except in degrees of failure if he pulled out on Sprint now.  He would have to commit Hari Kari to save face.

 

It would take him months or years to find someone to dump off Sprint to now anyway.  It will not take much to fix this from where Sprint is now.  But it will not fix itself.  He is going to have to do it himself.

 

Robert

Again, if true, I can't believe they gave Hesse a new contract and no execs have been canned.

If this is true and no heads roll Sprint is done.

Are you serious? 2million?

Agreed. That would be devastating.

I've been noticing the past few months that speeds on Sprint's primary LTE band (25, or PCS1900) have been steadily decreasing in many markets. This is likely due to capacity issues on the G block 5x5 carrier of PCS spectrum uses for LTE. I realize that many markets are not complete with NV deployment which could be part of the reason for poor results, but even with a full 5x5 deployment nationwide I feel that with increasing data usage by subs will eat up capacity faster than we may fully realize.

 

Does Sprint have the ability to add another LTE carrier nationwide that is compatible with single band devices? I know they will most likely do this in Chicago where they purchased US Cellular spectrum, but I'm not aware what will happen outside that area. Since it will be at least another year or so until most subs are on triband devices, is Sprint planning/able to add a second carrier or any kind of additional capacity to PCS LTE to relieve capacity issues?

Sprint owns enough PCS spectrum in most markets to do so if it cannibalizes some EVDO/1x carriers. 

That depends on the downlink:uplink ratio chosen.

AJ

I understand but we know the ratio Sprint is using, correct?

I think this is the fastest I've ever seen. I am in a ecsfb hell hole (aka San Francisco) so I probably have the tower to myself. I'm impressed.

 

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What is the theoretical max of a 20 MHz TDD carrier?

I would love to see them absorb USCC just like I would have loved for them to have absorbed Alltel. The combo of Alltel/USSC would have given them approximately 18M customers that would have stayed instead of running off to Verizon and AT&T and later on absorbed Leap and Metro. I advocated for them to absorb Leap and Metro before T-Mobile got them. But Sprint never listened to me.

To Hesse's credit, he wanted Metro but the board said "NO!".

What do you think sprint could do with $45 billion , instead of try and buy T-Mobile. Couldn't that be enough to create a filled in network? Plus some to spare to buy more spectrum?

That' s a fallacious way of looking at it. Softbank could only (maybe) afford to finance that kind of debt while also having control of T-Mobile's revenue stream. That would have offset much of the debt.

Your right so long as Son can't get out 31 billion. This whole thing is starting to remind me of when HP bought palm, lots of talk about webos becoming the center of a new hp until the they hit head winds and have up.

 

I don't think SoftBank is going to drop sprint (I don't think they can get out for anything less than a major haircut) but it is possible. SoftBank has lost 25 billion or so of martlet value over the head winds faced in this merger. That is almost the value of their investment.

To go back to Robert's point, I don't think Son has made so much money buying high and selling low.

I wonder what happens when people realize that T-Mo is pricing themselves out of the ability to keep up with infrastructure demands.... and the deal between S/T-Mo falls through. All those subs they "bought" to entice a buyer didn't end up getting the company much by way of revenue and now additional capex is necessary to keep up with demand.

Network Vision 3G or Na ? Lml

 

First 3G , then soon LTE yay. My phone has been connect to a distant tower idk where it is tho. The only tower that I could think of that has LTE is the one in Valley Stream but thats pretty far away from my current location.

 

 

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Nice looking ping. I was reading a post on HowardForums the other day where a user complained that their VZ 3G speeds were unusable at 1.8mb/s. How the times have changed.

They can't even TOL the lines to another person to split them up? I find that hard to believe.

 

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I think it's more because it circumvents their rules regarding existing customers.

In areas like NYC where Band 41 deployment is very dense already, people find themselves on Band 41 more often than not. When they enter their home, their phone stays on 1 bar of Band 41 but they still 20Mbps down which is insane

is insane.

Insane IS insane! But seriously, I think many will be pleasantly surprised with how far along B41 is as more tri-band devices get sold/enabled.

800 is important, but capacity is king and it always will be in wireless. Unfortunately there is not a lot of capacity with sprint 800 holdings. Speed isn't that important in the end (at least to smart phone users) but capacity is and band 41 has a ton. The capacity on band 41 is what gives sprint the edge over the competition.

I disagree to an extent. All the capacity in the world won't help if it can't reach the handset. We've all seen how fragile LTE1900 is.

To be honest, people can talk up the speeds of B41 but the real killer is 800mhz. When I get ubiquitous indoor LTE coverage that will be very satisfying!

In response, I am almost certain Kevin would say that he is a blogger, not a news reporter.  Offering his opinion on newsworthy subjects is what he is paid to do.  Like it or not, with the rapid growth of non traditional media, this is the route that journalism is increasingly going.  The problem with this paradigm shift is that the average readership may not be informed and/or intelligent enough to interpret these essentially "infotainment" pieces through the appropriate filters.

 

AJ

It does appear your average person can't be bothered to research both sides of an issue. Scary the things I've heard people take as fact from fringe "news" writers.

Hi folks...

 

Are you all seeing any issues with data connectivity in the area?

 

For the last few days or so, I went back to the stock ROM on my HTC EVO 4g LTE.  I'm not able to connect to data unless I go into settings and select "CDMA only" instead of "CDMA/LTE"

 

Things seem to work out of the box on a Cyanogenmod 11 nightly I was running. 

 

I talked with Ting and they think it may be tower issues since they are upgrading stuff around here at a fast pace.  Any thoughts?

I had this occur to me in areas when LTE was first coming live. Frustrating before I figured out how to get around it. It's as if it keeps attempting to connect to LTE and won't pass data through 3G.

Don't look at Kevin Fitchard's article on it. That guy is quite butthurt.

About everyone not seeing the discount initially... Has anyone who switched actually seen the proper discount yet? It appears to me that Sprint's billing system isn't yet set up to handle these plans. Since they're giving out credits to make bills right, I have to imagine they're rushing to get updates done to their billing system.

Got an HTC One Max coming this week. Can't wait to see if there is any LTE800 live in Shentel areas.

What is that yellow map based on?  Are they incorporating roaming into the mix for that map?  There are states that have no native sprint service or very little sprint service and now they are yellow or mostly yellow in that map.  That would go beyond just the normal upgrades and would require significant build out or is that a part of NV I am nto familiar with?

The yellow map looks to be their coverage with VZ roaming included.

There's a lot of work going on in the Lackawanna valley, some sites may even have commercial 800 LTE soon if they don't already.

The latest update certainly bears that out!

If Sprint/T-Mobile were required to divest large amounts of T-Mobile spectrum and the network back to Dish, customers could just "stay" on the current network, thus negating the whole point of the merger. I don't see how they create a real viable 4th contender without doing something similar to that as otherwise it would take quite a while for Dish to get services up and running even with tower leases and backhaul in place. I don't see the DOJ letting something get through that would be favorable enough to Softbank to warrant doing.