But on the basic "Thaksinomics" of rural development, government health care, industrial privatization and infrastructure buildout?
"It's a way to watch your favorite soap opera today without waiting for a billion-dollar infrastructure buildout, " says Sheng.
Similar problems are creeping into other urban areas as the vibrant economy outpaces the Indian government's belated infrastructure buildout.
It seems only to be getting a customer to help defray the billions it needs to spend on its new buildout of 4G LTE services.
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The two essentials are bandwidth and capital to support the buildout.
Samsung launched in Q4 so their buildout was in Q4.
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Our Broadband Acceleration Initiative has reduced barriers to network buildout by lowering the cost of stringing new fiber on utility poles and reducing wait times to get approval for new cell towers.
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On Friday, the company held a meeting with analysts, at which among other things it noted that it would likely need to tap existing credit lines or otherwise raise more capital to complete its planned LTE buildout.
Once that is settled, Sprint will know if it has to go alone in its next generation buildout, if the merger is approved, or join forces with TMo which essentially has no other logical options for its future LTE platform.
Sprint shares have dropped 26% over the last two days in the wake of its disastrous Friday meeting with analysts, in which the company warned the Street that it would likely need to raise more capital to complete its planned 4G buildout.
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Citing the competitive benefits it would achieve on "both the local and national levels, " the commission's given a thumbs up to the transaction, noting that any potential service overlaps or public interest harm are outweighed by the possibility of a greater LTE buildout and the "deployment of a more robust, national network" for the nation's number four operator.
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