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Hatstrow

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  1. Oh, nice! I didn't realize that. I do know they have designated this tower and the other one in Athens as an Ultra Capacity site. The one in Union City, it doesn't appear that they have turned on n41 frequency yet as I have yet to see that band show up on the Field Test app on my iPhone. I do believe they are working on adding more capacity to this site or they don't have the needed backhaul going to this site as the highest I ever see from this tower is around 70 Mbps download and 30-40 Mbps upload. Which is still really good from what we did have before. Would be awesome to see speeds towards 200 Mbps or higher, like most of the other Ultra Capacity sites around this area.
  2. Thought I would add some more content to our West Michigan Market forum, with some 5G upgrades happening around lower Michigan since there hasn't been much activity on here recently. My local T-Mobile tower has gotten some more upgrades in Union City, MI, which happened on April 11th. Not entirely sure what kind of changes they are doing on the sector, but they have installed some smaller antennas on the sector (bottom is T-Mobile). I would assume this is for adding 5G Ultra Capacity support on n41. I have yet to see any indication of that being enabled (using my iPhone 13 Pro as a test device). Band 41 used to be on all the Sprint towers nearby (there are about 2 within 3 miles), but have mostly been turned off, so I would assume they would be using the old band 41 frequency for 5G. This T-Mobile tower was suffering from capacity issues for almost a year now, but ever since this upgrades, the speeds have greatly improved. I used to be seeing anywhere from 5 to 30 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload. Now I have seen upwards of 80 Mbps download and 55 upload on band 2 15 MHz 5G NSA, though the speeds have been fluctuating lately. Awesome to see T-Mobile moving so fast in improving the network and towers around this rural area; especially with 5G.
  3. Not sure if this is the right place to post this since this is under the old Sprint Network Vision deployment, but here it is anyways. Let me know if I should post this elsewhere. Received some sweet T-Mobile upgrades to a tower in Union City, MI. These upgrades were done on the same week the iPhone 12 was launched and finalized the day after the launch. This tower upgrade added completely new antennas with 5G support. LTE signal has greatly improved around this area, thanks to 600 and 700 MHz support on this tower. The only thing lacking on this tower right now is the capacity to it. Right now, I have only seen peak speeds of 35 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload on 5G. This tower is most likely still being worked on, but so far, I’m impressed with the improvements. This tower now supports all of these frequencies. LTE 600 LTE700A LTE 1900 LTE 2100 4G/3G U1900 4G/3G U2100 2G 5G N600 SA 5G N600 NSA 5G N2500 NSA
  4. I just started picking up band class 10 800mhz on Wednesday south of Battle Creek near Union City on tower - - - - - - - - - . I have picked up band class 10 on other sites around my area, but I"m not sure which tower its from. I have been getting much better voice coverage, but now I hardly connect to LTE. Hopefully that means they will start to turn on band 26 LTE soon.
  5. I was able to reach 70 Mbps download south of Battle Creek on Beckley Road. About a month ago or so band 41 was added there and it was slow at first and eventually reached 50 Mbps download max and now its reaching up to this.
  6. Maybe when my area gets populated with b25/26/41 my iPhone will hand off better.
  7. Has anyone else with the iPhone 6 been experiencing this issue? I've talked to Sprint and apparently they are aware of the issue and Apple is working on it, but that's been in that state for several months and this issue has been with me since I had the iPhone 5s. Like you guys are saying its probably just how iOS is and there may never be a fix because it wants to connect to the strongest signal, which is always 3G. I was thinking that this may be because 800 Mhz LTE isn't deployed in my area and the site spacing is horrible in areas that I go to, but I have went to areas with known 800 Mhz LTE deployed and it still doesn't hand off from 3G to LTE correctly. I normally have to toggle the data on and off to get it to connect to LTE. This is especially annoying when I do any traveling.
  8. Hatstrow

    Band 41

  9. Sorry about not replying to your post. It must have got lost in the notifications. Sometimes I am, but almost all of the time I don't have any data in the background going. I even turned the Background App Refresh off and that didn't help.
  10. That's what I thought. Luckily Band 26 is showing up in a few areas around where I live and there are plans for more to be active later this year.
  11. I too was thinking it was the scanner timer, but I'm not familiar with changing the LTE scanner timer on the iPhones. Normally when I do an airplane cycle it won't stay on LTE while my brothers will latch onto it.
  12. So it sounds like it is just the timers causing the issue. I wonder if Apple will fix this soon. I was thinking of contacting an Apple Senior Advisor to see if they can do anything further.
  13. I've been having issues with my iPhone 5s not handing off from 3G to LTE correctly. I will be driving up to known LTE towers and my phone won't switch to LTE until I get right up by the tower. I first thought this may only just be my area, but I have this issue in other areas as well. My brother has a Samsung Galaxy S3 and it connects to LTE a lot sooner than my iPhone does and it stays connected to the LTE in fully launched markets. I talked to Sprint over the phone and they said that the iPhone is provisioned correctly and I followed all of their troubleshooting steps including updating the PRL, reactivating the phone and getting a replacement SIM card. Thinking that there was a hardware issue with my phone I got a replacement one through Apple, which had the same issue. I contacted Apple again and they wanted me send in the iPhone again. This time they thoroughly checked my iPhone for any issues. They still deemed the device fully functional. This is what Apple support sent me: "Since the device maintains signal where it is at and holds an average strength for the model, then the hardware checks out. The hardware is the same for all of the different programmed cellular bands. Handoff issues directly relate to the wireless carrier, whether it be the tower provisioning, cellular coverage, and/or SIM cards. Software can sometimes be corrupted, which may cause intermittent issues, and sometimes the way the device is configured on our server can be an issue as well. To ensure the software is functional, we performed a recovery mode restore. This corrects software issues by installing a fresh version of the iOS onto the device and updating the firmware. I also spoke with our Engineering and they stated that the device is configured properly on our end. At the present time, unless it was a software related issue, all signs point to one of the wireless carrier factors." I'm not really sure all what I can do now. I never had problems with the iPhone connecting to LTE networks before. Jacob
  14. Hatstrow

    Band 26 - Galesburg, MI

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