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radfordra

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  1. Sprint has updated its coverage map in wv to reflect the new lte coverage. I still cannot get lte on my iPhone 5, even though band 25 is the one in beckley, and the device supports it.
  2. I have the same issue with my iPhone5, while my experience with LTE and knowledge is limited. I believe that a carrier settings update is needed to fix it, or it maybe a sim card issue. Then again I may not know what the heck I am talking about, and if anyone has information that makes me look like an idiot please feel free to use it.
  3. From my understanding from the welcometoshentel.com site A shentel will get all of ntelos's towers spectrum and customers, will then rebrand everything under the sprint brand name. Now if I'm wrong don't hesitate to point it out.
  4. Ntelos has had lte here for like two years but it only just started working for sprint and by association sprint mvnos on Wednesday. I barely understand the concept of lte, in that there are different bands and that the lower the frequency the better the coverage area but the slower the speeds, and the higher the frequency the faster the speed but the less area it'll cover. However in my case 15/5mbps up and down isn't a big deal breaker since all but that tab 4 gets 1GB of data per month for free, and the fact I simply don't care about speed since 15/5mbps suits me just fine... So if you guys could point me in the general direction to read up on this stuff for a beginner. Then maybe I can stop asking stupid questions...
  5. Thanks for the partial answer, but that just leaves me with more questions. Why doesn't the iPhone 5 while the tab 3 does? And I have a spark device, the tab 4. That one won't connect but every other android device will. I live in uptown beckley so it's not an issue of me not having it when I'm at home. I get 3 bars on average. And the speed doesn't bother me, it's the latency since I use voip instead of normal cell phone service. The issue with the dropping is when I get closer to my job, but I'm still outdoors and on foot since I don't drive. I didn't look at the device constantly because I'm looking out for cars that want to hit me if I'm not careful. Save a lot is where I think it drops to 3G, which isn't so bad until network congestion happens and the latency and speed drops to near unuasable levels. Basically here is the list of devices that will connect to the lte: Tab3 3xHydro icons (band 25 from the signal check pro app) Devices that won't connect: 3x iPhone 5 (long story) Tab4 (it's spark like you said. So why?)
  6. So I live in beckley and this is what's happening, if you are in uptown beckley you get lte. Except on certain devices, for example my tab 3, and hydro icons on FreedomPop(a sprint mvno) get lte. However my tab 4 that is still on sprint won't connect to the lte. Neither will my iPhone 5 on FreedomPop. If you leave uptown beckley and go closer to Walmart you lose lte. I don't understand why an area with tall buildings gets great lte signal but drops back down to 3G once you get into areas with single story height. Currently my speed has capped out at 15mbps/5mbps which is fine by me.
  7. I also got a credit of $25 on my bill which is nice and all, but I pay them almost $35 a month for 2GB total data for each tablet and I passed by a nTelos Store and they had a sign up saying LTE is here so I called them and asked why I didn't have access to the LTE since nTelos has LTE here in Beckley. this is what I was told. That the LTE would be turned on in two days also they gave me a $25 bill credit for my trouble.
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