User: rwalford79
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Major Cities Lacking
Nice of you to "promise" San Francisco some LTE coverage yet again Sprint.
You been promising this for 3+ years already. On top of this, 5 years ago you promised that we would have WiMAX working in my neighborhood - it still doesn't work. So I have a really hard time believing the "promises" at this point.
I mean at the end of the day, your 1900 LTE network doesnt work in my district, your 2.5 WiMAX doesnt work in ...
Hard To Justify..
Hard to justify giving Sprint more money, when they are not only backed by Softbank, and their billions of dollars, and lack of investment in the network, as well as lack of interest in anything about Sprint except yelling at them to make money...but really hard to justify giving Sprint anything when they so blatantly spent money buying a bad investment in RadioShack stores.
I mean, that money there could have gone toward network improvements, as well as customer service ...
Re: Broken record
It is not just up to DT, they own 73% or so of the company, but the other 27% of the company benefits from the spectrum grab, and isnt kicking in a dime either.
Also of note, DT wants OUT of the US game, they do not want to put MORE into it, and want to take the money out of it, let it be self-sustaining, licensed name of T-Mobile, and use the money made from selling it, or spinning ...
Re: Broken record
BINGO!
Re: Broken record
Spoken like a true AT&T employee.
Re: Hard to take him seriously when he's trying to sell us off
That may be the case, but the fact of the matter remains - the big two have a lot of spectrum, and so does Sprint for that matter. AT&T and Verizon have a lot more that is user-network friendly, and the fact that T-Mobile lacks that is disturbing.
The point I think he is trying to make is that the big two claim to not have any spectrum, yet when you look at their FCC papers you see that ...
Re: Here we go again...
The technology is not quite proprietary - much like Google Wallet, Softcard and Apple Pay is not. Those are NFC technologies, and while the software that runs them is proprietary the actual technology of NFC is not, and as long as one is accepted, the other companies likely will be as well.
In the case of LoopPay, the software and technology will be proprietary to Samsung for the time being, but you never know, Samsung my license out, the software ...
Re: Wrong Again
The acquisition of the company Clearwire was wrong, it was in debt, was providing not only limited service areas, but on top of that, the WiMAX technology itself was limited in what it was able to do over LTE (There is fixed and mobile WiMAX, Clearwire used fixed, when reality was Sprint and Clearwire needed mobile for what they were trying to do), and after plunking in billions of dollars per year, wasted away, it seemed buying Clearwire as ...
Re: Raise Prices, Lock Out Small Carriers
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
I was not sure how it wall worked, and this in-depth post made it a bit more clear for me.
Thanks again!
Raise Prices, Lock Out Small Carriers
Okay, so there are not many smaller carriers, but raising the prices on the spectrum, locks out, or severely limits smaller companies that need spectrum, or is hoping to get a discount on them.
Way to go FCC!
Re: A Convenient Way To Skirt FiOS Deployment
Which is funny - because Frontier also added copy protect to programs, and a lot of people who have them now over Verizon are extremely unhappy.
The part I never understood is why does the copper wire need to be ripped out to run a fiber line into the house?
Cable companies and phone companies can install additional lines separate from the main one, why cant they do that with the fiber line? Oh, I know why, to make ...
A Convenient Way To Skirt FiOS Deployment
With Comcast in their pocket, Verizon is looking to kill off FiOS and all land based communication as quickly as possible so they can fight in the mobile world against Title II regulations I am sure.
Re: 20GB for $155 with Verizon or $55 with Cricket (AT&T)?
Cricket is not an MVNO, they are fully owned and operated by AT&T under a brand name of Cricket, on the AT&T network.
Both AT&T and T-Mobile artificially cap the data speed for prepaid, as to give postpaid better data speeds as they are paying more. Like giving First Class free booze, and Economy Class just free sodas. Get what you pay for.
In my experience using Cricket (for a month) I found that the capped 8mbps speed is ...
Re: 20GB for $155 with Verizon or $55 with Cricket (AT&T)?
I use T-Mobile and live in SF. I used to use Sprint.
For me, I stay in the Bay Area and the Los Angeles, San Diego markets mostly. Sprint had terrible service and coverage and plenty of dropped calls in all these areas. On vacation in Tahoe for 3 months (yes, a 3 month vacation) they were roaming on Verizon anyway most of the time, and I still had dropped calls, slow data, and the like. While I was ...
Re: Not smart
The issues with Sprint started with Nextel - at first I was in denial, since Telus (CDMA at the time) and Mike (iDen) merged in Canada, I had faith. Telus/Mike did it differently, Telus was marketed as consumer, Mike for construction workers, never overlapping networks or technologies until both decommissioned when both were upgraded to HSPA.
Sprint tried to merge the two, unsuccessfully multiple times. They should have just killed off Nextel and converted it over to Sprint immediately, recycled ...
Re: Not smart
Sprint has closed stores in San Francisco, in high traffic areas, and moved to cheaper, less obvious areas that are not as simple to get to by car or bus.
In the meantime, T-Mobile has not closed nor opened locations in SF, and stuck to the more high traffic areas, and put themselves within 1-2 blocks of an AT&T or Verizon or both stores. In one instance, T-Mobile is directly across the street from an AT&T store. Conveniently located ...
Re: Not smart
Yes and no.
They planned to buy T-Mobile which runs HSPA and LTE, and by T-Mobile being a bigger native network than Sprint, faster, and more capacity built in per Mhz over Sprint (excluding their barely deployed 2.5Mhz non-voice compatible LTE network), they were going to have to convert anyway. It makes no sense to keep CDMA running against HSPA.
Now, Telus and Bell in Canada moved from CDMA to HSPA, and did it quickly. It resolved a few ...
Re: No LTE in
Not to fret, San Francisco has such limited LTE that works, its not even worth mentioning.
Re: Not smart
Sprint should have done what every other CDMA carrier worldwide has done, and ditched EVDO and CDMA all together and moved to HSPA+. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil all have or are doing so, Japan, Korea all in the process of moving from CDMA directly to LTE.
Then killed the roaming agreements of CDMA with Verizon and kindled them with GSM/HSPA through T-Mo and AT&T.
Not only would they have a more robust network for speed, but a major ...
More Worthless Investments
Just one more thing Sprint DOES NOT NEED or should invest in.
Welcome To The 21st Century
Welcome Chicago - To The 21st Century.
We have been enjoying 4G LTE in our subways (BART) for 18 months or longer already.
Re: Duopoly gets bigger
I think you should research more about the parent companies of both Sprint and T-Mobile before assuming both are going to invest billions into them.
AT&T and Verizon both have a plethora of spectrum that if used properly in aggregation could be used to increase the speed and capacity of their networks. Instead, they are going to be inefficient by not aggregating the spectrum, and claiming they are still in a crunch for more - the reality is they ...
Re: Small Carriers
I think its a balancing act.
AT&T and Verizon are known for buying their customers though mergers and acquisitions. Sprint is trying to stave off the T-Mobile uncarrier moves, which yes, is also buying customers, but not in the sense that one thinks.
The initiatives are getting rid of overages, giving international options for less price than others, letting customers roll over data plans and making it easier to get out of contracts from other carriers - all that ...
Re: Small Carriers
Lets be honest, Deutsche Telekom is not investing in T-Mobile US. They want out of the deal, even though TMUS is the fastest growing, most profitable branch in their wireless subsidiaries. If DT had intent to stay, they would have invested a lot more than $1.8 billion (which didnt come from them at all, it came from TMUS books itself), for the AWS-3 spectrum they just bought.
Softbank can put all the money they want where their mouth is, ...
Re: Fool me twice, shame on me
Cyanogen is being bought by Microsoft, so I wouldn't expect those updates to last too much longer, and One Plus using a different UI soon.
Re: With HTC
Remember just a few years ago HTC was the leader in upgrading software, and Samsung was the slowest, the tables turned, and now Samsung and LG are the fastest, and HTC makes promises it knew it couldnt keep.
Here is an idea, ditch all the bloatware UI of Sense.
Re: I hope so
This is AT&T we are talking about, not T-Mobile, why would they let anyone make free anything anywhere on their network?
Re: We Live In America
That already happened, then the FCC and DOJ let the major carriers buy them out. Alltel was one of the big ones, Cellular One, Dobson, etc and so on.
Re: Throttled is still unlimited
Incorrect -
Unlimited implies, NO LIMITS - not limits with stipulations or under certain conditions, this includes speed restrictions.
To be fair, companies need to stop marketing "Unlimited Web" as part of the deal, they need to say, "Unlimited Web Access" then state how much of it will be at higher speeds and how much at lower speeds. Access to the internet is unlimited as in you can access and pull up as many web pages as you would like ...
Re: Duopoly gets bigger
I agree - Which I think is why the FCC is catering to T-Mobile and Sprint more lately. They prevented the merger of each to get bigger, so at their own hands, they now own the responsibility to ensure that the duopoly doesnt get bigger and that the smaller companies they prevented from merging together, can now operate efficiently like they hoped.
To do this, would be to issue carte blanch to Sprint and T-Mobile in the 600Mhz auction ...
Duopoly gets bigger
And here we go - AT&T and Verizon get bigger by default. Adding to their AWS treasure trove of spectrum for capacity and speed. While smaller companies who could really do good with it in the markets they need it, like T-Mobile, are shut out.
With this massive win by AT&T and Verizon, I hope the FCC states, "Okay, you have more than enough, you are no longer in a spectrum crunch, so you need not bid on 600Mhz ...
Re: We Live In America
Well when you already have POTS phone service and central offices to service those areas, it is not that difficult to run microwave Rx/Tx along those rural areas.
Re: We Live In America
Don't be a smart ass you know exactly what I meant!
We Live In America
We live in America, not some 3rd world nation where cellular service is enjoyed only by members of the wealthy government overseeing the poor citizens...
There is absolutely, 100% no reason, NONE, that we cant provide service to people in rural areas successfully. Stop blaming the cost, the client ratio, the percentage of calls made vs other areas, and just run towers, lines and the links out there. There is no reason we live in America, yet we boast about ...
First Ever North American Service Area?
Let's get down to business - Nextel itself has operated on both sides of the border for years when it was around. Customers at least on the USA side, could roam in Mexico without charge for DC calls, however voice calls were charged per six seconds.
AT&T has operated as Rogers AT&T in Canada about 15+ years ago and customers on both networks could roam between the two. Calls were charged as roaming, however the cost was by far lower ...
Can We Disable?
I live in California - I see an Amber Alert at least every 3 weeks. It got to the point the last 2 years that I've become immune to them that they are no longer effective.
Is there a way to turn these off in Facebook so that way I am not bothered with it further. I know they claim that only users in potential search areas will be notified but lets be honest, if a kid goes missing ...
Some Regulation Is Necessary
There are two camps in America -
1. Capitalism Free Market - the people who believe, those with the most money and means to do so, should, and will, and have all the right to set the pace and market as they see fit. Even if it is detrimental to the consumer, public at large, and competitive drive and innovation.
2. Competitive Market - the people who believe that any and all players, even small ones, should be given benefits ...
Re: Oh Gee, Can't monopolize in the US so lets change countries.
People seem to understand that in many areas AT&T is a monopoly, in others Verizon is, both in landline and/or mobile service.
What they don't fully grasp is that both Verizon and AT&T having the most customers does not make them a monopoly where both compete in the same markets (in no market do they compete landline, but they do for mobile) but it makes them a duopoly, in that both control majority of all customers both landline and ...
Re: Oh Gee, Can't monopolize in the US so lets change countries.
Perhaps it is because while all these other companies, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Three, Telia Sonera, Telefonica, so on and so forth are evil in their own right, none are more evil than AT&T and Verizon to the core.
AT&T may be a welcome change to break up Telmex, if you really dislike Telmex, okay, awesome, fantastic, but AT&T wont bring anything new to the Mexican market, except maybe more expensive data plans, and high priced international USA/Mexico plans. On ...
Re: gimmicks
Actually AT&T is using a gimmick, they are calling theirs LTE-Advanced. The term alone is real, but the network portion they claim is advanced is not really fully implemented.
They are doing carrier aggregation in select cities like Chicago, where they have less spectrum, and are combining their different frequency spectrum into one bigger pipe rather than two tiny ones. The speeds you get are the same as the rest of the network, and are not "advanced" at all. ...
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