Also, your comment about AWS being the cookie dough left over by the bigger carriers is way, way.. way off base. I don't even know exactly what you mean by it. It seriously makes no sense. It seems like you're just trying to downgrade the usefulness of AWS and hoping no one calls you on it. It's just a different wireless spectrum, that's all.
AWS was auctioned by the Canadian Government in 2008. The big three of Telus, Bell and Rogers put a lot of money into this auction and acquired as much of this spectrum as possible. This was the first time the Canadian Government set up a spectrum auction and they set aside some of it for new entries into the market. Telus tried to buy Mobilicity just a couple of months ago, not for their small subscriber base, but for their aws spectrum. The CRTC blocked the deal because that spectrum could not be sold for a set number of years after the auction. It's why Shaw (who never rolled out their cell network with AWS) who had a deal with Rogers is being held up. Why are these companies trying to acquire AWS if it's the cookie cutter dough they cast of? Again, what you said makes zero sense whatsoever.
Now don't get me wrong, AWS isn't special, it's just another form of wireless spectrum. The way you're trying to downgrade it is just foolish and very ill-informed.
The bigger companies are using AWS to roll out their LTE networks. A newer and smaller company like Wind is using AWS for their 3G and HSPDA+(4G) signals because that's all they have. It's not a lower quality, not by any stretch. An all AWS network (t-mobile in the States, Wind in Canada) had previously been at a disadvantage using AWS since it was the only spectrum they had but that's been changing pretty rapidly as all the newest bigger phones now support it. I can't really think of a phone that has come out recently that doesn't support AWS. The iPhone was the last to come around but it now supports AWS and the two newest iPhones (5s and 5c) will support it as well and can be used on Wind Mobile here in Canada when they're available.
Saying LTE makes it more stable is just another one of those totally baffling points as well. It literally make zero sense.
AWS is just a different form of spectrum, just like GSM or CDMA etc.
Just a weird post all around with basically everything you said being totally misleading.
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