Sprint Bonds and IoT Factory and DISH's Charlie Ergen: news-y and noisy
IMO Masa wants to avoid future Regulator interference in his business and will dump all Human Services in favor of pure M2M MVNO on the TMO business network.
Masa is in the process of drawing down cash from Sprint to pay back his bond holders, including himself and Softbank and Sprint Capital Corp. This reduces the EV of S and depending on forward biz and Regulator reviews leaves the enterprise ona ledge. I have stated a long time ago that Masa would sell what he could of Sprint and take the remainder private at pennies on the dollar. Shareholders could feel an effective $6/share price for effectively70% of the company and then get One Penny or Par Value per share for the rest. Caveat Emptor.
Sprint shareholders pay attention!!!
Told ya.
Significant bits being revealed are: 1) the new devices procurement biz "MyDevices" that seems to be an M2M version of BrightStar, which is already for sale per Reuters, and 2) the design of its M2M devices including hardware security chips - a long time Intel promoted concept that is believed to give greater security than software sandboxes or Secure Execution Zones alone - the ARM technology approach to date. Of course chips designers have seen the malware attacks recently that make Secure Zones actually insecure - thus the approach for low-processing -power APs is adding extra security in the form of a separate MCU.
DISH appears very confident of his company and continues to say, in effect: "Trust the process."
I continue to say: "Trust but Verify. Where are the FCC certifications of devices and software?"
I'd like to see SEQUANS involved in developing devices for DISH, for a fee of course.
Is DISH one of the Strategic Partners/Investors GK referred to? Hmmm....
And given Charlie's confidence, is he partnering with Masa and Softbank after Masa gets his money out of Sprint? Hmmm....
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fiercewireless.com
Sprint’s new IoT strategy and network to take root in Q4 by Mike Dano | May 25, 2018 8:30am...involves the launch of an LTE Cat M network and an “operating system” customers can use to connect and manage devices from all kind of networks, from cellular to Wi-Fi to LoRa... Rook explained his team is building an “operating system” with an unnamed partner and ARM.... "What we are doing is we are building, together with ARM, a security methodology that is on the chip level,” Rook said of Sprint’s forthcoming IoT operating system .. He said the rollout will start in the second half of this year and would eventually go nationwide, though he declined to provide a specific date when Sprint’s LTE Cat M network would be nationwide and completed... Interestingly, Rook said that Sprint will also deploy the ability to support NB-IoT network connections alongside its LTE Cat M work, but he said the carrier will only sell NB-IoT connections if customers ask for the service. “We will also roll out NB-IoT,” he said, adding, though, that “today I do not see a demand for it.” “I am not convinced yet that the USA will see massive narrowband IoT volumes,” ... Sprint this month announced its Sprint IoT Factory, “a game-changing online marketplace that presents businesses with a wide selection of complete, ready-made boxed solutions that leverage the power of IoT to help them do business smarter,” the company said...
prnewswire.com
Groundbreaking IoT Factory to Make Everyday Business Easier
Buy readymade IoT solutions with a few clicks or build your own in just a few hours
NEWS PROVIDED BY Sprint May 17, 2018, OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced the launch of the Sprint IoT Factory, a game-changing online marketplace that presents businesses with a wide selection of complete, ready-made boxed solutions that leverage the power of IoT (Internet of Things) to help them do business smarter. With more than 550,000 developers already driving innovation on the platform, everyday businesses now have access to the latest technology to connect and automate what matters most to their unique operations.
sprint.com
Industry Leaders Team Up for a Game-Changing Platform
The Sprint IoT Factory is reinforced through a strategic relationship with myDevices and The Goldie Group. MyDevices, the IoT solutions company that "simplifies the connected world" provides their IoT in a Box™ solution. The Goldie Group, a leading telecom technology service provider, serves as the fulfillment arm, enabling scalability for IoT. In addition to selling directly to end customers through the Sprint IoT Factory, Sprint, myDevices and The Goldie Group will also enable channel partners, wholesalers, system integrators and others to buy solutions as resellers.
About myDevices...
About The Goldie Group...
business.sprint.com internet-of-things
business.sprint.com iot-factory
newsroom.sprint.com
Sprint and myDevices Expand IoT Leadership With Launch of Sprint IoT Factory at CES 2018
Sprint’s leadership in IoT solutions for business clients reinforced by the new ‘Sprint IoT Factory’ ecommerce platform
The platform empowers makers, developers and system integrators to create innovative, finished IoT solutions; Business customers may then easily choose from packaged offerings and launch faster
Sprint IoT Factory reinforces Sprint’s leadership in converged business offerings and IoT – from unmatched wireless network spectrum holdings, global connectivity across wireline and wireless, a rich ecosystem of apps, world-class automotive telematics, smart city networks, automation/control systems and more January 09, 2018
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. (January 9, 2018) – Sprint (NYSE: S) will now enable business clients to more easily explore, select and rapidly implement powerful, finished IoT solutions with the debut of its new ‘Sprint IoT Factory’ ecommerce platform. Set for launch at CES® 2018, Sprint Factory reinforces Sprint’s growing global leadership in IoT and converged business offerings – from advantages in worldwide wireline and wireless connectivity across more than 200 countries, a rich ecosystem of apps, world-class automotive telematic solutions, mobile commerce, smart city networks, automation/control systems and more.
enterpriseiotinsights.com
Sprint launches IoT online marketplace
In other IoT news, Sprint has recently launched the Sprint IoT Factory, an online marketplace that offers businesses with a wide selection of ready-made boxed IoT solutions. The carrier said that over 550,000 developers already working on the platform... attain the latest in advanced and secure technology at reasonable costs – with the ease of being able to buy a complete solution from the digital store, having it shipped quickly and installing it themselves within a matter of minutes. That truly drives business forward in an unprecedented manner.”
fiercewireless.com
Sprint CTO explains how carrier plans to win the 5G race by Monica Alleven | May 24, 2018... deliver LTE and 5G simultaneously on the same spectrum band using 100-200 megahertz of spectrum... “With 5G, for the first time, we’re pretty much going to use up every megahertz we have in the 2.5 band,” he said. “We’re going to simultaneously enable LTE and 5G on the 2.5 band. What that means is we’re able to have the same footprint, in terms of coverage, within 5G and 4G. .. But for Sprint to do it right, in split mode,... Saw noted that the 2.5 GHz band in the U.S. is TDD, the same as that used in China, Japan and India. TDD is ideal for Massive MIMO, which doesn’t work so hot at FDD, he said...
prnewswire.com
Sprint Announces Increase in Aggregate Consent Payment and Acceleration of Expiration Time to May 17, 2018 Relating to Consent Solicitation With Respect to Certain Series of Notes by its Wholly-Owned Finance Subsidiary, Sprint Capital Corporation
NEWS PROVIDED BY Sprint 07:20 ET OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) ("Sprint") announced today that Sprint Capital Corporation ("SCC"), which is a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of Sprint Communications, Inc. ("SCI"), which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprint, has amended the terms of its previously announced consent solicitation ... SCC has amended the terms of the SCC Consent Solicitation to increase the aggregate consent payment for each Series (the "Aggregate Consent Payment") as follows:table
SCC has also accelerated the expiration time of the SCC Consent Solicitation from 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 18, 2018, to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 17, 2018, unless otherwise terminated or extended (the "Expiration Time").
As a result of the amended Aggregate Consent Payment for each Series of SCC Notes, SCC now believes that the change in yield in the SCC Notes will, in each case, cause a deemed exchange of such notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes...
marketexclusive.com
SPRINT CORPORATION (NYSE:S) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement May 15, 2018 Item 1.01. Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. On May14, 2018, Sprint Corporation (“Sprint Corp”) entered into the Sixth Supplemental Indenture (the “Sprint Corp Supplemental Indenture”) by and between Sprint Corp and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “Trustee”), which amends and supplements the Indenture..
reuters.com
APRIL 6, 2018 SoftBank seeks to sell cellphone distributor Brightstar: sources (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp is exploring a sale of Brightstar Corp, a U.S. cellphone distributor that could be valued at more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese technology conglomerate seeks to shed lower growth assets...
rcrwireless.com
Dish to drop $10 billion on a nationwide 5G network, chairman says By Sean Kinney, Editor in Chief on MAY 24, 2018
lightreading.com
Is Dish Really Ready to Be a 5G Player? DAN JONES, Mobile Editor 5/23/2018...
fiercewireless.com
Editor’s Corner—Apparently Charlie Ergen isn’t bluffing by Mike Dano | May 23, 2018 |
