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Someone please help me here..
Can Sprint take the Nextel spectrum at 850 mhz and put LTE there? Of course this means they would be getting rid of the iDEN network I would think. Anyone?
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Phineas said:
Can Sprint take the Nextel spectrum at 850 mhz and put LTE there? Of course this means they would be getting rid of the iDEN network I would think. Anyone?
I always dreamed of Sprint dumping Nextel and using it's 850Mhz for CDMA. Unfortunately though, Nextel's 850Mhz is not exactly the same as regular CDMA 850Mhz. I forgot how it goes, I'm sure someone could explain it better but I think it more has to do that's not in the same range as traditionally CDMA 850mhz.
Whether or not it could be converted to LTE is questionable but Sprint isn't getting rid of Nextel unfortunately.
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6.4 million iDEN subscribers left (post paid).
http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=12714 ... »
"The company served 48.2 million customers at the end of the second quarter of 2010. This includes 33.2 million postpaid subscribers (26.2 million via the Sprint brand on CDMA, 6.4 million on iDEN, and 517,000 Power Source users who utilize both networks), 11.2 million prepaid subscribers (5.2 million on iDEN and 6.0 million on CDMA) and approximately 3.8 million wholesale and affiliate.."
http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=12714 ... »
"The company served 48.2 million customers at the end of the second quarter of 2010. This includes 33.2 million postpaid subscribers (26.2 million via the Sprint brand on CDMA, 6.4 million on iDEN, and 517,000 Power Source users who utilize both networks), 11.2 million prepaid subscribers (5.2 million on iDEN and 6.0 million on CDMA) and approximately 3.8 million wholesale and affiliate.."
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