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aeternavi

Feb 2, 2015, 4:10 PM
Sprint needs to stop sinking money into things that won't help them. Two perfect examples were Nextel and Clearwire. They need to put money into their network to expand their own technology and stick with it. Unless they plan on changing technologies, their past of first with Iden and then Wimax, and the failed attempt of TMO (GSM) is doing nothing to help their tiny footprint of native CDMA.
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rwalford79

Feb 2, 2015, 10:12 PM
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 capacity increase as HSPA is more spectrum efficient than EVDO (even if it is larger Mhz blocks used, it holds more customers, at higher speeds, with less per Mhz used per customer). And it is an easier transition from HSPA to LTE than CDMA-eHRPD-LTE.
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aeternavi

Feb 3, 2015, 1:18 AM
Yuppers, and thus far they have done the exact opposite. They buy older, dead technology and still hold on to what holds them back from being a viable competitor. In over 10 years in the wireless industry I've seen such a minimal step forward with them. They just can't compete.
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rwalford79

Feb 5, 2015, 4:42 PM
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 the spectrum right away, and gone from there.

Sprint moving on WiMAX seemed a good idea, the technology was there, but Sprint screwed up by not using Mobile WiMAX and using fixed WiMAX for mobiles instead. That killed it, the spectrum was too ...
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DarkStar

Feb 4, 2015, 9:38 AM
Wouldn't it be twice as much work to go from CDMA to HSPA then to LTE than just going to LTE?
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rwalford79

Feb 5, 2015, 4:31 PM
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 issues. CDMA equipment is higher priced, licensed directly to Qualcomm, has slower data, less capacity overall in EVDO Rev A over HSPA, the equipment is harder to come by as more networks move to HSPA anyway (thus a higher price as mentioned, but also less repairable parts laying around). The other...
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Slammer

Feb 4, 2015, 9:52 PM
There's some truth to your comment. However, one issue Sprint created several years back, was closing stores that made convience now more of a hassle. There is a VZW and AT&T store on just about every corner. Yet, finding a T-Mobile or Sprint store is almost futile. Only one corporate Sprint store in my city and it's across town.

I would welcome at least another option rather than counting on third party or privately owned hubs for answers. Many times, the info from these outlets can be incorrect.

One thing many of my friends like about the big two carriers, is the convenience of localized stores.

John B.
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rwalford79

Feb 5, 2015, 4:37 PM
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 in malls, cable car tourist areas, and in the minority areas like Mission, where they have a large location that mostly caters to Spanish speakers, and a smaller location, within a block of Cricket Wireless that caters to English speakers.

But I will say that Sprint at one point seemed to be the most conv...
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