  IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | Will they catch AT&T? Verizon's way ahead in deploying LTE (304 cities) but there's a chance they could catch up to AT&T in the near term (41 cities), as AT&T has been seriously dragging its LTE rollout... | |
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 |  atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | Re: Will they catch AT&T? Glad Sprint is doing this and hope they can accelerate deployment.
ATT has the resources and the money, if they wanted to speed up LTE deployment.
Verizon is not just rushing through deployment of LTE out of the kindness of their hearts. I bet they plan to further neglect their copper in an attempt to sell it off and try to push customers onto wireless for the home. | |
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| | IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | Re: Will they catch AT&T? said by atuarre:ATT has the resources and the money, if they wanted to speed up LTE deployment.
They do? Verizon's able to launch nearly as many LTE cities as AT&T has in its entire LTE deployment in a single day.
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"We're going to start at one end of (Fallujah), and we're not going to stop until we get to the other. If there's anybody left when that happens, we're going to turn around and we're going to go back and finish it."
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| | | | | Re: Will they catch AT&T? Of course they do. Just like they have the resources to build out FTTH. But this is at&t not Verizon. | |
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|  KoilPremium
join:2002-09-10
Irmo, SC
kudos:1 | If they get it into Columbia, SC by the end of this year, I'll stay with them (been with them for 10+ years), but if not...I'm gone. Tired of paying for the potential of 4G service, and never seeing it. | |
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| | | Sprint claims they'll cover 130M pops by end of this year and supposedly the entire network by end of 2013. When they start going to 800Mhz in 2014, things will get interesting. They'll start to compete with ATT/VZW on coverage. | |
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| | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| Re: Will they catch AT&T? They'll actually start deploying LTE in 800 mid-2013. Around that time CLearwire will step in with LTE-TD at 2600MHz to assist in areas that have heavy usage. If neither company runs out of money by then, it'll be fun to watch (from my front-row seat as a Sprint customer who just got a Galaxy SIII). | |
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|  Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | said by IPPlanMan:as AT&T has been seriously dragging its LTE rollout... Mostly due to them thinking the T-Mobile USA takeover would be a success. Maybe if they'd build their own network instead of trying to buy one, at&t wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. | |
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| | IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | Re: Will they catch AT&T? said by Simba7:Mostly due to them thinking the T-Mobile USA takeover would be a success. Maybe if they'd build their own network instead of trying to buy one, at&t wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
Truth to that.
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"We're going to start at one end of (Fallujah), and we're not going to stop until we get to the other. If there's anybody left when that happens, we're going to turn around and we're going to go back and finish it."
Lt. Col. Pete Newell: 1st Inf. US Army | |
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| | | | Re: Will they catch AT&T? They are essentially ahead of schedule. KC wasn't suppose to come until after the first few. | |
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1 edit | LTE and AT&T may have more cities/markets launched but Sprint has larger markets the launch of Atlanta covers 45-50% of the top half of the state so when Sprint launches markets they're almost launching entire regions unlike Verizon and AT&T who only launch large cities and a few of that cities surrounding towns.
Edit: here's a map of their markets 
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| | | | Re: Will they catch AT&T? Yeah, Sprint says they'll hit 130-140M population coverage by end of this year and they seem to be on schedule. I wonder what ATT/VZW pop coverage is. City count doesn't really matter cause they will announce many cities within a metro area. They need to announce pops coverage for apples/apples comparison.
Here's a list of Sprint markets coming..
»s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-n···ng-list/ | |
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| | | IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | Re: Will they catch AT&T? At least now AT&T also has someone catching up from behind instead of just Verizon leading from out spread.
I'll bet that Sprint passes AT&T like a shot... | |
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brawneyPremium
join:2002-03-02
Frederick, MD | Go Sprint! 
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| | | Re: Go Sprint! I bought the new Sprint EVO 4G LTE a couple of days after it came out, and can't wait to try the LTE.
I live in Austin, and travel to San Antonio often for getaways and dinners.
I hope it lives up to the hype, and gets a wider distribution than WiMax did..
GO SPRINT!!! | |
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| | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Go Sprint! I'll be in Fort Worth for a few days starting July 18th. I'll probably end up in both Austin and San Antonio less than a week later. This should allow me to put my brand new GSIII-32GB through its paces with a full 4G network...color me excited. | |
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| | | | LTE will be better than WiMAX because of the spectrum it's on. Anywhere you get a voice signal, you'll get LTE. Wasn't the case with WiMAX.
Several tests have shown 10-40Mbps but what's more impressive is the latency as most tests have shown 40-60ms, better than ATT/VZW. | |
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| | | | | Re: Go Sprint! said by xenophon:LTE will be better than WiMAX because of the spectrum it's on. Anywhere you get a voice signal, you'll get LTE. Wasn't the case with WiMAX.
Thanks for posting that, I did not know that.
What about 3G? Will the coverage change? | |
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| | | | | | Re: Go Sprint! said by JohnnyBeGood:said by xenophon:LTE will be better than WiMAX because of the spectrum it's on. Anywhere you get a voice signal, you'll get LTE. Wasn't the case with WiMAX.
Thanks for posting that, I did not know that. What about 3G? Will the coverage change? The 3G coverage won't change until 800Mhz rollout around 2013/14 but 3G performance should improve with each LTE site as it's rolled out. And when LTE iPhone comes out, it will take load off the 3G network (in LTE markets). | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Go Sprint! said by xenophon:said by JohnnyBeGood:said by xenophon:LTE will be better than WiMAX because of the spectrum it's on. Anywhere you get a voice signal, you'll get LTE. Wasn't the case with WiMAX.
Thanks for posting that, I did not know that. What about 3G? Will the coverage change? The 3G coverage won't change until 800Mhz rollout around 2013/14 but 3G performance should improve with each LTE site as it's rolled out. And when LTE iPhone comes out, it will take load off the 3G network (in LTE markets). Makes sense. Thanks! | |
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| | | +1 GOOO SPRINT! I know you can do it! | |
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IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | Go Sprint Go! Agreed. Go Sprint Go!
Here's hoping you guys (Sprint) are able to offer the new iPad with unlimited data.
That would be awesome. | |
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| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Go Sprint Go! Bubble bursting time: Sprint only offers unlimited on its smartphones. Their data packages for mobile broadband cards /are/ better than competitors' (12GB for $80, 6GB for $50) however unlimited they are not. | |
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| | | | Re: Go Sprint Go! Unofficially rooted phones can be a hotspot to iPad and still be unlimited. Not legit though. | |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 | Hope Lets hope sprint maintains the unlimited with this buildout.. If they do, i'm on board! The masterminds of ATT and fellow team delta force Verizon are killing the fun of gadgets with clever greed.. | |
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| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Hope For the foreseeable future, Sprint appears to be keeping smartphone data completely unlimited. That's one huge reason why the GSIII sitting next to me right now is a Sprint one instead of a Verizon model. | |
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| | | Sprint will maintain unlimited as long as they can for smartphones as it's the only edge they have left. And they have capacity to maintain it once expanding 1900Mhz to 800Mhz and then likely 2.5Ghz if/when needed. | |
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