Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors

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Robbie Rob 7/23/2013 | 5:03:47 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors Sprint is really going to be a different company in another year.. In the last year they've made a nice transition..

They are replacing all old equipment with new Samsung equipment.. The nice thing about this new NV ( Network Vision ) Samsung stuff is Sprint can switch their network over to LTE-A ( Advanced ) in a couple years - with a software upgrade ! From what I understand Verizon and ATT are having to switch out panels to do this.. So Sprint which seems behind now - will be right there when it counts in the near future..

What's funny is a lot of folks say Sprint Wi-max was not 4G ( and ATT HPSA+ is not 4G ) while also referring to LTE as true 4G ( Mostly because Verizon has marketed LTE as 4G when talking down ATT's HPSA+) ...The truth is LTE is no more 4g then Wi-max or HPSA+.. All those technologies are halfway between 3G and 4G (more like 3.5G techs) ...
.. LTE-A will actually be TRUE 4th Generation technology and will be more of a 'leap' in speed, then the 'skip' we get now with LTE..

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DanJonesLRMobile 7/23/2013 | 1:06:25 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors Good to know, thanks for the info.

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Robbie Rob 7/23/2013 | 12:26:14 AM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors I'm a sponsor at a website that a lot of contractors post - of which whom do the work for Sprint.
800 Mhz is already 'on' in many markets, but 95% of all Sprint towers will get 800 Mhz nationwide when it's all said and done....

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Robbie Rob 7/23/2013 | 12:23:30 AM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors @DanJonesLRM

In Chicago 800 Mhz is "on" all over the place.. Sprint is planning on something like 95% of all 37,000+ towers to get 800 Mhz ( and also do the 1900 MHz ). In Columbus Ohio most sites are nearing completion, but only 1 tester LTE site is on.. Most LTE sites are awaiting fiber backhaul.. otherwise a lot of 800 3G sites are coming online soon as well..

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Robbie Rob 7/23/2013 | 12:18:27 AM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors Yeah but it wont be long.

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DanJonesLRMobile 7/22/2013 | 3:55:56 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors This is what they've said so far:

"We expect to deploy LTE on 800MHz in the fourth quarter," said Steve Elfman, president of network operations and wholesale at Sprint on the call. This is part of the company's wider "Network Vision" 3G and 4G upgrade.

Source:http://www.lightreading.com/sp...

I expect the 4G 800 radios have been going in as part of the Network Vision upgrade since this was always in the plan.

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DollarsnSense 7/22/2013 | 3:27:08 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors As far as anybody outside of Sprint knows, you are correct. However, without 800MHz end user equipment, they could be deploying 800MHz LTE and we would be oblivious. Fortunately, as Sarah Reedy noted in another post, tri-band hotspots and a USB stick were released by Sprint on July 19th so if and when 800MHz LTE becomes available hopefully reports will start streaming in...Of course, that assumes that these hotspot & USB devices will have some way of determining which LTE band(s) are available to the user at a given time...

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DanJonesLRMobile 7/22/2013 | 2:17:25 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors They haven't switched on LTE in 800MHz yet have they? I thought that was a Q4 item, no?

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DollarsnSense 7/22/2013 | 1:56:56 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors Right, the iPhone 5 and other phones can use 800MHz for CDMA 1x voice & data. What no phones can yet do is utilize 800MHz for LTE data.

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Robbie Rob 7/21/2013 | 10:37:10 PM

re: Sprint's LTE TDD Future to Boost Current Vendors A lot of phones like the iPhone 5 already do 800 Mhz and 1900 Mhz..Although not the 2500 Mhz: It wont be long for the big players to add 2500 Mhz to those phones.. I live in Columbus Ohio and right now Sprint is nearing turning on 4G LTE.. One tower is up on Morse road..as a tester and many others are very close..

Sprint finally has the budget to become a big time player thanks to Softbank. I was going to leave Sprint for Verizon, but not anymore. I'm sucking it up because I know soon Sprint will rock. And unlimited data makes a difference when you're on 4G LTE. I found out just how fast you go through data when you do videos on 4G !

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