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Oh yes, I've driven that roads for years and years and years. And my phone said Sprint while Field Test showed Bands 2 & 17. My friends phone was showing Sprint 3G only.

 

 

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Did you try an airplane mode toggle on either of the two phones?

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Did you try an airplane mode toggle on either of the two phones?

Nope. Didn't want to lose my LTE data.

 

 

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Nope. Didn't want to lose my LTE data.

 

 

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Maybe try it next time and let us know what happens. It would be really interesting if the phone latched onto AT&T LTE over Sprint CDMA.

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Maybe try it next time and let us know what happens. It would be really interesting if the phone latched onto AT&T LTE over Sprint CDMA.

I'm on my way back that way now. It was a day trip to LA.

 

 

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Time to live dangerously.

 

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Actually, the slow ping times made it a bit of a drag, but Tapatalk works great.

 

 

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I just came back from Vegas after spending a week there for work. Few things did improve. I was staying at the Mandalay Bay and almost 90% I was on Wifi there automatically. Phone automatically connected me to Wifi called 'CDOBM connected via Mobilitie Wi-Fi'

Several areas on the strip are still horrible for data. 

 

 

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I just came back from Vegas after spending a week there for work. Few things did improve. I was staying at the Mandalay Bay and almost 90% I was on Wifi there automatically. Phone automatically connected me to Wifi called 'CDOBM connected via Mobilitie Wi-Fi'
Several areas on the strip are still horrible for data. 
 
 
Good to know. I assume this was a Passpoint network and it won't work on Pixels/Nexus as usual?

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Back in Vegas again. Shocking to say this but I've noticed a bit of an improvement. Areas before where data was useless before actually works this time. Wow!

B26 or higher B25 maybe? Or More B41?

 

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Anyone know if Vegas has 15x15 B25? Someone claims they saw it there 

We lost a phone so my current sprint device is an iPhone 4. If things change, I will be able to test it.


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I'll be in Vegas next Monday for work, so if I can, I'll try to see if there is 15x15 B25. Out in Pahrump we are still limited to 10x10 B25.

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4 hours ago, Marty R. Paz said:


We lost a phone so my current sprint device is an iPhone 4. If things change, I will be able to test it.


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Welcome to the forums fellow Southern Nevada resident!

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Welcome to the forums fellow Southern Nevada resident!

Same to you! It’s refreshing to hear that sprint has invested in their network over the hump.

My primary device is a TMO iPhone X. I do have a current generation Sprint iPad, but don’t know how to check my connectivity type with/without the magic box turned on.


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24 minutes ago, Marty R. Paz said:


Same to you! It’s refreshing to hear that sprint has invested in their network over the hump.

My primary device is a TMO iPhone X. I do have a current generation Sprint iPad, but don’t know how to check my connectivity type with/without the magic box turned on.


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Invest? I wish. Other than replacing existing equipment with Network Vision and then Tri-band antennas, it's still the same as it was pre-2015 when LTE first went live. The same 2 sites still serve all of Pahrump. I was told that they won't expand service here "because of the pending merger". I wish they would change their mind about that.

Now I can't complain too much because overall quality of the Sprint network has improved drastically since I switched to Sprint 8 years ago. For areas undercovered by Sprint LTE, roaming on TMO LTE has helped a lot too.

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On 10/10/2017 at 8:57 AM, mnjeepmale said:

CDOBM stands for Carrier Data Offload By Mobilitie.  It is a Passpoint enabled network where carriers in partnership with Mobilitie can have their subscribers securely auto-authenticate for an unlimited Wi-Fi experience and QoS for Wi-Fi calling.  

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I just came back from Vegas after spending a week there for work. Few things did improve. I was staying at the Mandalay Bay and almost 90% I was on Wifi there automatically. Phone automatically connected me to Wifi called 'CDOBM connected via Mobilitie Wi-Fi'

Several areas on the strip are still horrible for data. 

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