BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT |
BiggA
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2012-Mar-15 11:11 am
It will anywaysThe chipsets will support all the bands pretty soon anyways. Whether they will be enabled at the modem level, who knows. Phones at this point aren't interoperable, we just have to live with that. |
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I agree that the lte chipsets will eventually support multiple bands, but I think it would be good to mandate it at a government level because the carriers definitely aren't going to be pushing manufacturers for these multiband chips and it will take longer before multiband chips are a more economical than specialized chips for each band. Also it could enforce the need for roaming agreements. But with our current government I'm not very optimistic. |
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BiggA
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2012-Mar-15 11:55 am
What roaming agreements? With who? And why? The only player I could see really wanting this is USCC. Most of the other tiny carriers are CDMA, and are signing on to Verizon's LTE in Rural America, which would also give them access to Verizon's 4G LTE phones. |
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25139889 (banned) join:2011-10-25 Toledo, OH |
25139889 (banned)
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2012-Mar-15 12:17 pm
actually most of those rural carriers that want to roam use Sprint - even Sprint for MVNO. Very few use Cellco. |
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en103
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2012-Mar-15 12:54 pm
Sprint doesn't have an LTE network (yet) to roam onto. |
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25139889 (banned) join:2011-10-25 Toledo, OH |
25139889 (banned)
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2012-Mar-15 2:41 pm
and won't for some time. If they don't go bankrupt first. |
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to 25139889
said by 25139889:actually most of those rural carriers that want to roam use Sprint - even Sprint for MVNO. Very few use Cellco. I know quite a few rural CDMA carrier's who use Verizon like Cellular South and Bluegrass. Pioneer had a partner agreement but they ditched Sprint for Verizon and their rural America program. |
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to BiggA
I meant roaming on LTE networks, not on on existing cdma and gsm networks, eventually voice will be traveling over LTE as well. |
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BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT |
to iFail 5G
Exactly, they are all going Verizon for the LTE in Rural America program.
@MovieLover76: Who? The little CDMA carriers seem to all be signing up for LTE in Rural America. |
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