sharward

It only happens when you call another Sprint customer, and only under certain conditions.

The voice mail issue was fixed today. A tech called me to confirm everything was working. I tested it and it is.

May not be Upper Central Valley market related, but... For at least the past 24 hours, calls from Sprint phone to Sprint phone when allowed to ring-no-answer will terminate to a "Message 6, Switch 386" recording which states "The long distance code you are using is invalid." If the call is actively rejected, the call is sent to voice mail, and if the call is from a non-Sprint phone, the call ia sent to voice mail. Only calls from Sprint phones not actively rejected go to the Message 6 recording instead of voice mail as it should. I opened a service ticket on this issue: 19926098-0150308.

I don't have Signalcheck Pro and I don't know where the engineering screen is. I have a Note 4 and I seem to recall reading here once that I wasn't able to tell what band I'm on with this device. Maybe I misunderstood. If you can provide specific instruction for me, I'll do my best to follow and post what I can see.

Holy crap! 40 Mbps from the water tower in Mather!

I work just down the street from the water tower on Peter A. McCuen Blvd. in Rancho Cordova (see photos of that site). For months I've had killer LTE signal and performance while at work. Today it's 3G-ville here. I'm hoping this is a sign that they're optimizing that site.

Run a speed test.

Official News Release dated October 28, 2014: Sprint Spark Makes its Debut in 17 New Markets (including Sacramento)

I wonder if they're trying to get a jump on iPhone 6 pre-orders and are doing everything they can to show a pretty picture, even if it's not real yet...

Ah, I think I get it now. I wrote about living in Natomas and you posted info about a site on Bell Avenue, perhaps thinking that was in Natomas. It isn't, but I appreciate the fact that the Bell Avenue site IS within the City of Sacramento and north of the American River, so my take-away is "good things are happening in the north area of the city right now."

I assumed they weren't in synch because you guys upgraded me too quickly, like maybe a minute after I tried to access the secured area. :-) Thanks.

I'm pretty sure "title" (the words under my avatar photo) and permissions in the site are maintained separately and are not always in synch.

I've seen a lot of screen shots like that in recent days but I'm afraid I don't know what they mean. I'm not a total noob but it's kinda hard to keep up with some of the technical jargon in this thread -- lots of acronyms and obscure references and people being excited, so I tend to think "that's good news -- even though I don't really understand why (yet)." I work in IT but not telecom (although I worked in telecom back in the '90s).

I just re-upped my sponsorship after lapsing. While waiting for the permissions to kick in, I wondered if I could ask about Natomas progress. About a week and a half ago the estimate was "4 to 8 weeks" before the City of Sacramento sites would cluster launch. It appears work is progressing at an impressive pace right now -- do we think that estimate is still accurate?

Your sarcastic "Correction: few years" comment was in response to someone asking about when the cluster launch was expected in the City of Sacramento. Those of us who have been following this thread closely for the past year understand that a cluster launch is not the end game but it is a significant milestone -- significant enough for me to plan on becoming a Sprint customer when that happens (and not a moment sooner), and significant enough for existing Sprint customers here to consider hanging on with Sprint with that milestone being within view. Will it be perfect and as good as Verizon on Day One of cluster launch? Of course not. I don't think most of us expect that. But with my clunker 3G Android 2.3.4 phone with insufficient memory to handle even basic use, I'm looking forward to getting a cutting edge device with WiFi calling on a decent network that will only get better with an unlimited data plan. Hopefully the rest of the commentary in this thread is on point.