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Re: Pac Man Fever?
Apr 23, 2014, 9:57 AM
in the Article: Verizon to Scoop Up Two Small Carriers forum

T Bone said: The purpose of the at&t monopoly was to provide phone service to rural markets where it was too expensive to build phone lines. Just as today the big issue is 'getting internet to the poor and rural communities' in the early 20th century the issue was how to get phone service in into poor, rural communities. Just as today, the problem was that the cost was so great no one could afford to build the networks. Not ...

Re: LOLZ
Apr 7, 2014, 2:14 PM
in the Article: Sprint's Spark Phones Don't Support Simultaneous Voice/Data forum

DarkStar said: Verizon phones can use data while on a phone call with 3G internet. As I noted in another comment, VZW handset support for SVDO was true among earlier LTE handsets. But recent VZW handsets support only SVLTE. No simultaneous CDMA1X and EV-DO. AJ

Re: LOLZ
Apr 7, 2014, 2:12 PM
in the Article: Sprint's Spark Phones Don't Support Simultaneous Voice/Data forum

DarkStar said: Are you talking about CDMA or EVDO and EVDV? It was CDMA2000 Rev D -- otherwise known as EV-DV. VZW effectively killed it by pushing EV-DO. AJ

Re: LOLZ
Apr 7, 2014, 1:48 PM
in the Article: Sprint's Spark Phones Don't Support Simultaneous Voice/Data forum

DarkStar said: Verizon does support voice/EVDO. That is not exactly true. Simultaneous CDMA1X and EV-DO -- known as SVDO -- is not a network feature. It is a device feature. It was possible on many early LTE handsets, particularly as many of those handsets used dual basebands. But that is no longer the case. And SVDO is not supported on most/all recent handsets. For example, the VZW variant HTC One M8 allows for SVLTE but ...

Re: Vzw in Cinci
Apr 7, 2014, 1:33 PM
in the Article: Cincinnati Bell to Sell Spectrum Licenses to Verizon forum

dougm said: Seems kind of odd that Verizon would want more spectrum in Cincy, and why would they buy this GSM carrier instead of AT&T buying it? Seems like Cinci Bell must have been desperate. Cincinnati was one of three major markets where SpectrumCo-Cox did not hold any AWS spectrum. So, VZW gained nothing in Cincinnati from that transaction a few years ago. VZW wants Cincinnati Bell Wireless for its 20 MHz of AWS spectrum, meaning that VZW ...

Re: The Bell System forever lives.
Apr 7, 2014, 1:29 PM
in the Article: Cincinnati Bell to Sell Spectrum Licenses to Verizon forum

Nope. His comment actually offers some accurate analysis. Yours offers none. It is the "garbage." So, provide something substantive, or just be quiet. Otherwise, people will know that you have nothing to offer intellectually. AJ

article correction
Feb 25, 2014, 11:50 AM
in the Article: Snapdragon 801 More Than a Modest Upgrade forum

The assertion that the Snapdragon 801 has an integrated LTE baseband while the Snapdragon 800 does not is incorrect. The MSM8974 -- used in the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Nexus 5 -- is a Snapdragon 800 chipset. It is a full SoC with processor and LTE Category 4 baseband. Do not confuse the Snapdragon 800 with the Snapdragon 600, specifically the APQ8064, which was just a processor and had to be paired ...

Re: Well, it's clear...
Feb 11, 2014, 11:32 AM
in the Article: Sprint No Longer Sure About T-Mobile Bid forum

acdc1a said: I suppose you didn't bother to read the comments on the article you sent... I did read many of the comments. That people do not like the writer's perspective does not change the point of the article. And I will take veteran industry writer/editor Zach Epstein's opinion over anonymous comments from a mostly under informed peanut gallery. The same goes for the comment section here. AJ

Re: Well, it's clear...
Feb 10, 2014, 8:50 PM
in the Article: Sprint No Longer Sure About T-Mobile Bid forum

DarkStar said: Its a contract for the phone. Maybe not for the service but it is still a contract. A well known industry writer certainly thinks so. http://bgr.com/2014/02/04/t-mobile-no- contract-bs/ AJ

Re: Well, it's clear...
Feb 10, 2014, 8:48 PM
in the Article: Sprint No Longer Sure About T-Mobile Bid forum

Slammer said: At the risk of ruining our agreement record, I must disagree. Lol. While TMO's credential standing for adding new subs appears "promising", I fear the clientele it is attracting with these new promotions, is exactly the type that VZW and AT&T could care less about. T-Mobile has a history of courting sub prime consumers. But the "uncarrier" strategy is also surely pulling away prime consumers from the other three big operators. The recent quarterly numbers bear ...

Re: Surprised and Clueless
Feb 10, 2014, 8:35 PM
in the Article: Sprint No Longer Sure About T-Mobile Bid forum

JJinNYC said: Mr. Hesse: JJinNYC, I do not know what your problem is, but you should stop making wild assumptions. You assume that I support a T-Mobile acquisition. I have never stated anything to that end. Instead, I have presented rational arguments why a SoftBank tie up of Sprint and T-Mobile is even being considered. Additionally, you should stop displaying your clearly biased ignorance on wireless licensing, technology, and regulation. You hate Sprint. We get that. ...

Re: Surprised and Clueless
Feb 10, 2014, 1:01 PM
in the Article: Sprint No Longer Sure About T-Mobile Bid forum

Jayshmay said: Your comments are so rude, I don't even bother reading the entire comment. My comments are not meant to be nice. They are meant to be forceful and informative because so many of you are poorly informed. You make unsubstantiated assertions about topics you do not understand, so you need to be corrected. As for Andras888's comment, he called Hesse and Son "clueless." Well, it is only fair that he should expect the same in return. ...

Re: Surprised and Clueless
Feb 10, 2014, 11:57 AM
in the Article: Sprint No Longer Sure About T-Mobile Bid forum

Andras888 said: "... they were surprised by the level of skepticism for the deal." This shows how clueless they are about their own field. No, if you think that Hesse and Son are "clueless," then it might be you who is "clueless." Seriously, you need to have a more informed perspective than this. Hesse and Son are right, and T-Mobile management agrees. It is an almost incontrovertible fact that Sprint and T-Mobile individually will never be able to achieve ...

Re: Both GS4?
Dec 11, 2013, 1:27 PM
in the Article: Sprint to Sell New Spark-Compatible Galaxy S4 forum

Andras888 said: How do you tell apart the old GS4 from the new? The model numbers are different. SPH-L720 SPH-L720T http://s 4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-356-teaser-s amsung-galaxy-s4-2-3/ AJ

Re: Bastards
Dec 6, 2013, 9:01 PM
in the Article: FCC Targeting Mid 2015 for 600MHz Incentive Auction forum

JJinNYC said: Now T-Mo will have to wait to or pay or break the bank buying Big Red's 700MHz. SMFH!!! :roll: The 600 MHz auction is not guaranteed to happen because UHF broadcasters may not sufficiently go for it. And current T-Mobile devices do not support the band 12 LTE that VZW may be selling. Either way, T-Mobile will have to wait a few years. Those are the breaks. Loudmouth Legere or not, T-Mobile cannot predict the future... AJ

Re: No it doesn't
Nov 22, 2013, 12:33 PM
in the Article: FCC to Weigh Cell Phone Use On Planes forum

T Bone said: It doesn't require any special equipment or special connection.....or does the FCC expect us to not remember all the phone calls from airplanes that successfully connected without difficulty on 9-11, including the especially memorable phone call from Todd Beamer on board United Flight 93... If memory serves me correctly, that was a low altitude AMPS call made a dozen years ago. Poor example. AMPS has been sunset in most CMAs. Digital airlinks -- especially those that are ...

Re: Worst LTE deployment ever
Jul 24, 2013, 10:39 PM
in the Article: Sprint LTE Hits The Bronx and Brooklyn July 30 forum

JJinNYC said: Seriously what the phuck is wrong with Sprint? Always have good ideas but always fail to deliver. Even T-Mo who is much smaller than they are has the NYC metro area covered. Incompetence at it's best You are a "New Yawker." You need to get over yourself and your "center of the world" complex. Sprint is deploying LTE across its entire network. That takes time. Meanwhile, T-Mobile is not doing even remotely the same thing. Sprint ...

Re: NYC is a densely populatex market.
Jul 24, 2013, 10:33 PM
in the Article: Sprint LTE Hits The Bronx and Brooklyn July 30 forum

WhySoBluePandaBear said: Sprint has too many incompetent people making decisions and running the company. I really don't know what they can accomplish with such a band of buffoons. You know what is incompetent? So many sales and customer service workers with high school diplomas or meaningless college degrees thinking that they have the requisite skills to analyze corporate leadership and execution. But, hey, that is the quality of discourse in the Phone Scoop comments section. And, yes, that is an ...

Re: I'd like to be the 1st to say....
Jul 10, 2013, 8:48 AM
in the Article: FCC Approves SoftBank Buying Sprint Buying Clearwire forum

DarkStar said: That is quite interesting. Too bad sprint doesn't know about that. Maybe you should let them know. What are you talking about? Roaming agreements do not miraculously sprout overnight. They require cooperation from both parties involved. That you were unaware of Sprint's longstanding national roaming agreement with VZW demonstrates your lack of knowledge in this arena. As a suggestion, defer to people who have greater expertise than you do. AJ

Re: I'd like to be the 1st to say....
Jul 9, 2013, 4:39 PM
in the Article: FCC Approves SoftBank Buying Sprint Buying Clearwire forum

DarkStar said: Is that so? When was the agreement reached? Absolutely so. Sprint has had nationwide roaming -- both in market and out of market -- on VZW for roughly the last decade. AJ

Re: I'd like to be the 1st to say....
Jul 9, 2013, 10:58 AM
in the Article: FCC Approves SoftBank Buying Sprint Buying Clearwire forum

DarkStar said: I was in the mountains one day in California and my Sprint and AT&T phones didn't work but my Verizon phone does work. Sprint has a nationwide roaming agreement with VZW. Anywhere that VZW has CDMA2000 service, so does Sprint. Thus, the most likely explanation is that you failed to enable your roaming settings properly. AJ

Re: Much sooner than the LTE conversion
Jul 1, 2013, 9:28 AM
in the Article: Sprint's iDEN Network Shuts Down Tonight forum

rwalford79 said: I was in an 800Mhz ESMR area the other day, one with LTE coverage in the main parts of town, and 800Mhz EVDO on the outskirts of town... This is incorrect. Sprint has no plans to deploy EV-DO 800, only CDMA1X 800 and LTE 800. AJ

Re: Medium-Sized Cities
Jun 19, 2013, 11:03 AM
in the Article: Sprint Expands LTE to 22 More Cities forum

Jayshmay said: New & untested? Really! Been used, and tested on Verizon for well over 2yrs, ATT for more than a year, LTE isn't new! Each LTE deployment in the US is different. Different infrastructure vendors, different legacy network compatibility, different propagation characteristics. Jay, you might want to realize that -- as someone who works as a security guard -- you probably lack the education and qualifications to make many of the assertions that you do. Give it a ...

Re: REALLY
Jun 12, 2013, 8:43 AM
in the Article: Sprint and SoftBank Tweak Deal; Sprint Disses Dish forum

carmodboy99 said: Considering that ive been a Sprint customer for 16 years, sold and promoted Sprint, and continue to stay on top of the companies overall activities, I would venture to say that my opinion might be far more "informed" than yours. . . . You and I have very different ideas of what "progressing nicely" means, next time try just googling "Sprint network vision progress" so you come into the conversation with a clue. No, you need to get a clue before ...

Re: REALLY
Jun 11, 2013, 4:38 PM
in the Article: Sprint and SoftBank Tweak Deal; Sprint Disses Dish forum

carmodboy99 said: ...and not so much a reflection on Network Vision progress... then again, that's going terribly, so maybe this was stated pretty precisely. Network Vision is actually progressing quite well. You need more accurate info to offer a well informed opinion. AJ

Re: You won't see this frequency used for quite some time
Jun 6, 2013, 9:59 AM
in the Article: Sprint Says iDEN Shutdown On Schedule for June 30 forum

WhySoBluePandaBear said: It's exciting that Sprint will have 800Mhz LTE - but it probably won't appear until the first quarter of 2014. Rebanded SMR 800 MHz is already in use for CDMA1X 800 in several markets and has been for over six months now. As for LTE 800, it will appear in some markets before the end of the year -- basically, when tri band LTE 800/1900 + TD-LTE 2600 devices start to arrive. AJ

Re: Mistake in the article.
Jun 6, 2013, 9:55 AM
in the Article: Sprint Says iDEN Shutdown On Schedule for June 30 forum

PhoneMaster said: The post states that Sprint will deploy CDMA 3G (i.e. EV-DO) on the 800MHz band. That is incorrect. Sprint is/will deploy CDMA 1X on that band in addition to LTE in the future. However, EV-DO will NOT be deployed on 800MHz. No, technically, the article is accurate because both CDMA1X and EV-DO are 3G. But, yes, Sprint has sufficient rebanded SMR 800 MHz spectrum in most markets to deploy one CDMA1X 800 carrier and one 5 MHz FDD LTE 800 ...

Re: LTE - 3GB's/mo
May 1, 2013, 6:53 PM
in the Article: AT&T On Track to Cover 270M Pops with LTE This Year forum

johnhr2 said: I personally don't see how by not watching videos on my phone is not using my phone to is fulling potential, and if that is what using my phone to it's fullest potential than count me out. From his prior posts, Jay self admittedly works as a security guard and uses his phone to view porn. Take that for what you will... AJ

Re: motivation, not ambition...
Apr 12, 2013, 12:19 PM
in the Article: AT&T Planning Large Summer LTE Roll-Out forum

insider. said: I believe AT&T feels like if they BUY the spectrum, then they can do with it what they want.....so long as they are obeying the law. No wireless carrier "BUYS" spectrum. They license it from the American people. And AT&T's utmost responsibility as a licensee of public spectrum is to serve the public good, not to serve its shareholders. AT&T easily has the financial wherewithal to do more than it does, but AT&T instead chooses to ...

Re: motivation, not ambition...
Apr 11, 2013, 3:23 PM
in the Article: AT&T Planning Large Summer LTE Roll-Out forum

insider. said: AJ: You have repeatedly ripped AT&T for sitting on the spectrum and not deploying it in the past....you cried out that AT&T should be *forced* to use it! Now AT&T is deploying the spectrum and you are calling them lazy since they are finishing deployment 2.5 months early? really? That you pay your taxes by April 15 because the law requires you to do so does not make you altruistic. See the parallel? So, I am ...

motivation, not ambition...
Apr 10, 2013, 12:14 PM
in the Article: AT&T Planning Large Summer LTE Roll-Out forum

Lest anyone think that AT&T is demonstrating ambition by deploying LTE to so many more markets by this summer, think again. This is motivation, pure and simple, to avoid FCC penalties, as AT&T is facing a five year buildout deadline of June 13, 2013 for its Lower 700 MHz B block 12 MHz licenses. By mid June, AT&T must cover 35 percent of the geographic area of each CMA in which it holds the B block license. So, this is ...

Re: Can someone verify for sure which WCDMA/UMTS bands are in this unit.
Apr 8, 2013, 5:03 PM
in the Article: Review: HTC One for Sprint forum

PhoneMaster said: For the Sprint model, Phonescoop says 1900/2100; Engadget says 700/AWS. Both of these however are rather unusual combinations (usually it's 850/1900/2100 or 850/900/1900/2100). Does anyone know for sure? The Sprint variant HTC One was not submitted to the FCC with any GSM 850/1900 nor band 2/5 W-CDMA 1900/850 testing. So, barring a Class II Permissive Change application, those modes are unlikely. GSM 900/1800 and band 1/8 W-CDMA 2100+1900/900 are still possibilities, as those bands are not in use in the US ...

No Sprint LTE in San Francisco? Huh?
Apr 8, 2013, 2:32 PM
in the Article: Review: HTC One for Sprint forum

Sensorly definitely indicates otherwise: http://i48.tinypic.com/e0xac.pn g Any reviewer who cannot locate any Sprint LTE in San Francisco for testing is incompetent, lazy, or has defective equipment. Not a good showing, Phone Scoop... AJ

Re: Not exactly accurate
Mar 27, 2013, 11:16 AM
in the Article: T-Mobile's iPhone Is Unique Variant of AT&T's Model forum

Guys, all of you are "[n]ot exactly accurate." The A1428 iPhone 5 variant has always possessed the physical capability for W-CDMA 2100+1700 (i.e. AWS). However, Apple implemented a software lock out to appease AT&T. The software lock out is being removed. Simple as that... AJ

Re: The question was about the DEVICE
Mar 22, 2013, 12:20 PM
in the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (GSM) forum

Tofuchong said: Not about the Network. The network is not going anywhere, but DEVICES specifically with AWS-WCDMA support will be few and far between moving forward. I'm talking about devices that support AWS-WCDMA, and NOT 1900Mhz WCDMA (UMTS). Your statements above are not entirely clear. Let me try to clarify. Going forward, all new T-Mobile devices will include PCS W-CDMA capability. They will also continue to include AWS W-CDMA capability. AJ

Re: No AWS HSPA?
Mar 21, 2013, 10:16 AM
in the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (GSM) forum

OlemanGSM said: Nice conversation, but as for penetration qualities 1700mhz does a better job than 1900 and thats why is makes more sense for tmobile to release LTE on it first... Not quite. The "1700 MHz" convention is something that Phone Scoop and other outlets have used to refer to AWS, and it is problematic for the many who do not know wireless spectrum very well. The proper nomenclature should be AWS 2100+1700 MHz because the downlink is in the 2100 ...

Re: GSM\CDMA
Mar 21, 2013, 10:06 AM
in the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (GSM) forum

Blackmitch1 said: I was kind of wondering. I hope sprint does not take the GSM chip out of the Samsung 4 like the S3. If they do it would not make it a world like Samsung meant it to to be, Big Red has a GSM chip in there Samsung 3. Take note Sprint. You are misinformed. First, it is not a "GSM chip." The same Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset, which supports GSM/W-CDMA/CDMA1X/EV-DO/LTE, is present in both the VZW and Sprint variants ...

Re: Faulty Assumption
Mar 20, 2013, 4:01 PM
in the Article: The Phone You're Paying For But Not Getting forum

dwillopp said: They would need a separate LTE chip for each frequency available in the U.S., a CDMA chip, and a GSM chip that covers all the frequencies. Hard to put all that in the phone and not make it cost $900. No, that is wrong. Different chipsets are not required for different airlinks. Qualcomm has offered multimode 3GPP/3GPP2 (GSM/W-CDMA/CDMA1X/EV-DO/LTE) chipsets for over a year now. And different chipsets are not required for different frequencies. That is a function of ...

Re: No AWS HSPA?
Mar 18, 2013, 3:32 PM
in the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (GSM) forum

Tofuchong said: Based on the AWS auctions, there are 5mhz and 10mhz channels available. Well, yes, sort of. Those are actually AWS licenses or blocks, and they do come in 5 MHz x 5 MHz and 10 MHz x 10 MHz bandwidths, otherwise known as 5 MHz FDD and 10 MHz FDD, respectively. Tofuchong said: Based on T-Mobile's current spectrum holdings on the FCC website, they have only 5Mhz AWS channels in use in most areas they have 3G/4G connectivity. ...

Re: No AWS HSPA?
Mar 18, 2013, 10:31 AM
in the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (GSM) forum

Tofuchong said: Well, they have and will stop selling device that use AWS HSPA exclusively, which is the main reason they stopped selling the HTC One S. Nope. The T-Mobile variant HTC One S does also support PCS W-CDMA. Even the Amaze does, too. AJ

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