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Sprint Enters Agreement to Deploy LTE Services

Discussion in 'Wireless News' started by RadioRaiders, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. RadioRaiders

    RadioRaiders RF Black-Belt
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    Interesting deal. So LightSquared will build and run a LTE network, and Sprint will give them access to install LTE on their existing sites, in return for (cheap?) use of the LightSquared LTE network. But other companies (AT&T, VZW, etc.) can use it as well. I guess that sounds like a good deal for Sprint, as they don't have to put billions of $ up-front to build LTE (which they probably don't have anyway).

    The only down-side, is LightSquared has spectrum in the 1-2Ghz band, when AT&T/VZW will be rolling mostly on the lower and better 700MHz band. So that means, Sprints phones will be on "oddball" freqs, and coverage with sites in the 1-2GHz band won't provide as good coverage as 700MHz (without doubling the number of sites used).

    DailyTech - Sprint Enters Agreement to Deploy LTE Services, WiMAX Left in Limbo
     
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    Not only that. Lightsquared frequencies will interfere with every GPS device out there (commercial, consumer, government, aviation, military, etc.) I don't know where the FCC was sleeping when they awarded that L band license to Lightsquared. Isn't it the FCC's job to allocate frequencies so that services don't interfere with each other? I hope Lightsquared operations get blocked or relocated to a different band.
     
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    It doesn't interfere with EVERY one but there are some issues to be worked out. This will be interesting in the future.
     
    #3 jeremy2027, Aug 6, 2011
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    Light Squared said they can work around the GPS issues, so we will have to see what they come up with.
     
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    Well, as with any interference issue, the only workaround is just not use those frequencies. What other solution is there? It's basically like the laws of physics, two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. I read an article about the proposal Lightsquared made and it's basically just that: lower the power on the channels near the satellite frequencies, that's basically it. But then again, what's the use of that? Weak signals will mean poor service indoors and if you happen to be near the tower then your GPS may say you are driving your car in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Like you said, this will be interesting.
     
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    Outside of the local area, metroPCS roams on Sprint and their coverage down in Connecticut is excellent.

    The current roaming agreement metroPCS has with Sprint could very well be amended to offer LTE as well, once this network is up and running. Currently, the LTE phones offered by metroPCS will use LTE for data on the home metroPCS LTE network, but they will flip to 1X CDMA for data when roaming on Sprint.

    metroPCS had announced earlier this year that they were planning to test voice over LTE later this year and their Boston-area network is in the 1700/2100 MHz frequency band.
     
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