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Sprint Plans Massive Base Station Upgrade, Phase-Out of iDEN

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Menno

Dec 6, 2010, 7:49 PM

This is excellent news

Reworking their towers like this will mean more consistent deployment (better coverage) and overall reduced costs.

Now they just need to hire me to market it. 😎
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Sprint has been doing many good things. Dan and his team, have taken the bull by the horns and have done a great job of adding key implements to the company.

As a hardcore supporter of Sprint, I periodically use their Dan@Sprint.com for of...
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Cellular Phone

Dec 6, 2010, 9:50 AM

2013 for iDEN phase out.

I thought they would begin around late 2011 early 2012. I hate to see Nextel go away, I loved it when I had it.

I already jumped ship because I moved into an area where Sprint has limited coverage. I have to say, I love using a GSM carrier, I can do a lot with it.

Goodbye Nextel, your PTT was amazing, hate to see you go away. R.I.P. iDEN, you were a great technology.
Cellular Phone said:
R.I.P. iDEN, you were a great technology.


For PTT, yes. For any other service, absolutely not.

AJ
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Yes. Nextel was so great that you no longer use the service. Goodbye Nextel and good riddance. Sprint's greatest blunder ever.
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island-guy

Dec 6, 2010, 11:09 PM

Whatever happened to Motorola's Next Generation Dispatch?

Seeing Motorola is not even mentioned as a possible player in PTT's forthcoming replacement, whatever happened to their NGD project?
WiWavelength

Dec 6, 2010, 10:55 AM

CDMA1x EV-DO 800

"Sprint said that it will also start to use its 800MHz spectrum to support its CDMA network moving forward."

Post 800 MHz re banding, Sprint Nextel will have up to 14 MHz bandwidth of SMR 800 MHz spectrum nationwide. (Where Nextel overlaps w/ another iDEN provider, such as SouthernLINC, Sprint will retain less than 14 MHz.) That is sufficient bandwidth for up to five CDMA carrier channels. Also, SMR 800 MHz, in its propagation characteristics, is practically identical to Cellular 850 MHz, which experiences approximately 7 dB less path loss than does PCS 1900 MHz. So, this transition has the potential to improve the breadth & density of Sprint's CDMA coverage footprint.

AJ
This is great news. Hopefully Sprint will get off the mat and compete.
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DiamondPro

Dec 6, 2010, 7:26 PM

Lets go!!!

This is great news indeed. Sprint can increase 3g speeds and roll out wimax faster I like the sound of that. Hmmm new ptt service in 2011 I wonder what thats all about?
carmodboy99

Dec 6, 2010, 3:05 PM

Again??

With their last base station improvements in September, My coverage area shrank... Im afraid to ask how much worse it can get.
 
 
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