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"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" Interpreting your engineering screen. Part two.

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 08 May 2013 - * * * * * · 6,108 views
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"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" Interpreting your engineering screen. Part two. by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates  
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 12:35 PM MDT  

Welcome back to S4GRU's continuing series focused on understanding many of the signal metrics displayed on your devices' engineering screens.  If you missed part one  a few weeks ago, that is a good place to start for background info.

Last time out, we cove...



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"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" Interpreting your engineering screen. Part one.

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 23 April 2013 - * * * * * · 5,747 views
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"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" Interpreting your engineering screen. Part one. by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates  
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 6:29 AM MDT  

A significant piece of S4GRU's educational mission is helping our readers understand what goes on behind the scenes and underneath the hood in the operation of a wireless network.  This often requires getting readers to access internal engineering (or debug) scre...



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(UPDATED) A short time from now in a Galaxy not far away...

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 27 March 2013 - * * * * * · 11,425 views
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(UPDATED) A short time from now in a Galaxy not far away... by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 10:10 AM MDT  

Update: The Samsung review embargo has been lifted overnight, and Galaxy S4 reviews are being published around the Web today.  Thanks to one of our favorite, highly thorough reviewers, Brian Klug at AnandTech , we can confirm that the Galaxy S4 follows the recent...



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(UPDATED) All for HTC One, HTC One for all?

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 22 February 2013 - * * * * * · 24,140 views
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(UPDATED) All for HTC One, HTC One for all? by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 2:55 PM MST  

Update:  Many hands on reviews of the HTC One are emerging this week.  Courtesy of Engadget , we can report that the Sprint variant is one of the very first Sprint LTE handsets to include a removable micro-SIM.  Removable SIM cards have long been part of the Netwo...



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(UPDATED) Sprint-USCC spectrum deal: Sprint gets 20 MHz broader in the "City of Broad Shoulders"

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 07 November 2012 - * * * * * · 17,508 views
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(UPDATED) Sprint-USCC spectrum deal: Sprint gets 20 MHz broader in the "City of Broad Shoulders" by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 1:10 PM MST  

Update:  Six weeks later, Sprint and U.S. Cellular have finally filed their PCS 1900 MHz license assignment applications in the FCC ULS database.  From the filing, we have learned that USCC will not relinquish all of its PCS spectrum in Springfield and Champaign,...



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Sur la tablet: Apple iPad 4, iPad mini add Sprint LTE support

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 23 October 2012 - * * * * * · 15,098 views
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Sur la tablet: Apple iPad 4, iPad mini add Sprint LTE support by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 12:05 PM MDT  

Over the past six months, Apple's iPad 3 has racked up millions of sales, yet Google's (and Asus') Nexus 7 and Microsoft's Surface tablets have grabbed the headlines over the summer and into the fall.  Yesterday, Apple struck back by not only rol...



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Samsung Galaxy Note 2: Big enough for everything (except SVDO)

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 05 October 2012 - * * * * * · 16,385 views
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Samsung Galaxy Note 2: Big enough for everything (except SVDO) by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 2:00 PM MDT  

Earlier this week, the Samsung SPH-L900 authorization filing  hit the FCC OET (Office of Engineering and Technology) database.  Judging by the handset's expansive 150 mm x 80 mm dimensions, S4GRU firmly expects this device to be the upcoming Sprint version of the...



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NewCo needs to drop some of the PCS from MetroPCS

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 04 October 2012 - * * * * * · 8,758 views
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NewCo needs to drop some of the PCS from MetroPCS by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 8:00 AM MDT  

Unless you have been under a telecom rock the past 48 hours -- or stuck in the boonies with only a GSM device (I kid, I kid) -- you have read that T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS have agreed in principle to a complicated reverse merger arrangement that would create a combi...



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Can toggling airplane mode actually improve your 3G data speeds?

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 13 August 2012 - * * * * * · 14,584 views
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Can toggling airplane mode actually improve your 3G data speeds? by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, August 17, 2012 - 1:14 PM MDT  

CDMA1X and EV-DO carrier channels are shared resources.  In CDMA1X, many subscribers share the same carrier channel, their individual traffic kept theoretically orthogonal by code division.  Likewise, in EV-DO, individual traffic is separated by time division.  But w...



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(UPDATED) LG Eclipse 4G casts an early shadow

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 10 August 2012 - * * * * * · 10,736 views
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(UPDATED) LG Eclipse 4G casts an early shadow by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, August 10, 2012 - 6:54 PM MDT  

Update:  The previously dubbed LG Eclipse is being released November 11 as the Optimus G.  Additionally, the LTE 1900 EIRP figures that were missing from the original FCC filing were added six weeks later in a Class II Permissive Change  application.  Max LTE 1900 EI...



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RSSI vs RSRP: A Brief LTE Signal Strength Primer

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 16 July 2012 - * * * * * · 30,309 views
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RSSI vs RSRP: A Brief LTE Signal Strength Primer by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 1:40 AM MDT  

As Sprint LTE 1900 has become live and discoverable in numerous markets over this past weekend, some of our readers, especially those who are using Android 4.0 ICS based ROMs, have expressed concern at the seemingly low signal levels that they have encountered.  For e...



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Fire Photon torpedoes! Motorola Photon Q hits the FCC OET

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 03 July 2012 - * * * * * · 6,539 views
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Fire Photon torpedoes! Motorola Photon Q hits the FCC OET by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 2:54 PM MDT  

S4GRU continues with the third in a series of short articles on the FCC OET (Office of Engineering and Technology) authorization filings for "tentpole" devices headed to Sprint's upcoming Network Vision enhanced LTE overlay.  Over the past few months, we ha...



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(UPDATED) Samsung Galaxy S3 passes FCC muster, launch imminent?

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 01 June 2012 - * * * * * · 16,432 views
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(UPDATED) Samsung Galaxy S3 passes FCC muster, launch imminent? by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 11:58 PM MDT  

Update:  Sprint has scheduled an exclusive Samsung event  for the evening of June 12 in Boston.  It looks like the Samsung Galaxy S3 coming out party has been set.

Just as the HTC EVO 4G LTE is setting up for its delayed national street date tomorrow June 2, it may...



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HTC EVO 4G LTE tech details revealed in FCC OET filing

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd 12 April 2012 - * * * * * · 10,188 views
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HTC EVO 4G LTE tech details revealed in FCC OET filing by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 2:55 PM MDT  


A few weeks ago, S4GRU was the first to bring you the news of the HTC codenamed "Jet"  that was recently unveiled as the HTC EVO 4G LTE  headed to Sprint this summer.  Today, the EVO 4G LTE applications  hit the FCC OET (Office of Engineering and Technology...



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S4GRU first to capture Sprint LTE live in the wild!

Posted by WiWavelength, in Author: Andrew J. Shepherd, Author: Robert Herron 06 April 2012 - * * * * * · 9,043 views
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S4GRU first to capture Sprint LTE live in the wild! by Andrew J. Shepherd and Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 2:20 PM MDT  

Today, S4GRU brings you the wireless equivalent of the much sought after paparazzi photo of the newborn celebrity baby.  In an S4GRU exclusive, here is the first published look at a live Sprint LTE signal.

Sprint recently lit up a cluster of Network...



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