Sprint LTE

Dude, chill. You're taking everything entirely too seriously. I mean, look at your earlier comment, " you don't know who you're messing with...". Sh*t, I felt I was doing you a service by tossing a joke your way - you sounded like you were getting a bit of a big head there. Inflated egos don't survive, on the internet OR in person. Nobody was trying to bash you.

And yes, I personally would say that in person. Just trying to help bring you back to earth is all. I'm not one to wave an e-peen around like some. I can't speak for others. Sometimes it feels like a e-peen war in here though, like a virtual version of a Spaceballs sword fight...

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Let's start over again,

So, Sprint is deploying LTE at 1900mhz in the G block. What's interesting about this is the G block is a nationwide contiguous block. This differs from other carriers' spectrum that they will be using for LTE. Most other carriers' licenses are divided regional chunks of the US. This was the legitimate reason for AT&T to want to buy T-Mobile but AT&T failed to push this issue in a meaningful way. When looking at it in retrospect this seems obvious.

Sprint G-Block licenses

AT&T D-Block licenses

Qualcomm (this is contiguous but is only 6 mhz)

AT&T AWS licenses




Regardless, I agree with the Sprint position on the merger in that AT&T could repurpose idle PCS (1900mhz) and Cellular (850mhz) bands for which it does have spectrum available nationwide as opposed to the discontiguous D-Block (700mhz), and AWS (1700mhz) bands they would rather deploy in.