 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to jgkolt
Re: Re free said by jgkolt:it is unlimited ONLY to the people who add the plan on their account. for people who don't i assume it will give them coverage but will take their normal minutes. tmobiles let you use up to 5. Correct, however in all honesty the people who use it most often will already have that plan on their account. According to Sprint you can have 50 people registered to use the device. As an aside, you could buy this device and NOT add that plan to your account if your home has poor coverage.
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 davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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| said by wifi4milez:As an aside, you could buy this device and NOT add that plan to your account if your home has poor coverage. I haven't heard Sprint officially say if they're going to allow subscribers other than the owning subscriber and its affiliated account devices use the service if they come into range. My assumption is the cell will be limited to the owner and his/her affiliated devices.
Allowing any and every SprintPCS device onto it that comes into range could present bandwidth problems for users in apartments and urban areas.
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | said by davoice:said by wifi4milez:As an aside, you could buy this device and NOT add that plan to your account if your home has poor coverage. I haven't heard Sprint officially say if they're going to allow subscribers other than the owning subscriber and its affiliated account devices use the service if they come into range. My assumption is the cell will be limited to the owner and his/her affiliated devices. Allowing any and every SprintPCS device onto it that comes into range could present bandwidth problems for users in apartments and urban areas. }Davoice Sprint mentions this numerous times on their website. Any Sprint CDMA phone that comes into contact with the device will have access to it. However, only users with the $15 plan will get unlimited usage. Everyone else will simply use their normal minutes. Furthermore, the device only handles 3 concurrent calls, so the bandwidth consumed isnt an issue. You can also limit what phones access the device by phone number so that only you (or your family, friends, etc.) can use it instead of the local Sprint tower. You can actually add up to 50 phone numbers into the devices "white list", so there could be some very cool applications of this!
For more information, check out the link below.
»airave.sprint.com/faq.html
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davoice
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1 edit | Ok... so an urban dweller could possibly be locked out of making calls on his/her own Airwave unit due to the 3 concurrent call limit unless they know to setup the whitelist.
In places like college town apartments I can see that being an issue.
Remember, if Sprint has the PRL (preferred roaming list) on all of its phones set to prefer these Airwave devices over the regular network - which it would have to do to ensure at home calls used the thing in the first place - then every Sprint phone in proximity to the Airwave would be trying to use it.
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | said by davoice:Ok... so an urban dweller could possibly be locked out of making calls on his/her own Airwave unit due to the 3 concurrent call limit unless they know to setup the whitelist. I would say that is quite possible. For this reason the device is relatively low powered. It also likely comes with at least your number programed into it so that doesnt happen.
said by davoice:Remember, if Sprint has the PRL (preferred roaming list) on all of its phones set to prefer these Airwave devices over the regular network - which it would have to do to ensure at home calls used the thing in the first place - then everyone in proximity to the Airwave would be trying to use it. Thats an interesting point. Generally speaking, the phone will select the nearest tower to connect to. In this case the phone will likely see this device as the nearest Sprint tower and try to connect to it. As you mentioned, everyone within the relatively small coverage area of this device will be trying to connect to it. This shouldnt really be an issue however, especially if the device comes preloaded with your phones' credentials.
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acrowl
join:2001-08-08
California, KY | reply to davoice
The unit will actually transmit the SSID for the market that it is in. So the PRL of the handset will not know that it is on one of these or a traditional tower. In fact, these little mini "base stations" are actually incorporated into the networks "neighbor list". For those who understand CDMA technology, that is pretty tough to maintain when you have these boxes moving and springing up all over your network. So handoffs between towers and femtocells can occur...Neat stuff.
The other advantage that the Sprint unit will have over the GSM carriers is E911. Since this operates on the PCS frequencies, it must be E911 compliant. Remember, T-Mobile's similar product utilizes unlicensed spectrum.
The problem with Verizon is their frequencies. Some of their markets are 850Mhz and other markets are 1900Ghz. So that makes their box more complex. If they do roll it out, look for the legacy A/B band cell markets to not get it right away. Not enough frequencies to share.
This truly will be the future of wireless in the home.
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