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12 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

I've run into multiple n25 carriers in quite a few places. Usually it's the 5x5 G-Block becuae it's isolated and then something else random at 15 or 20x20. Leaving 10x10 or so on LTE. Have yet to see any n66 anywhere. Seems like they have at least 20x20 B66 running so probably keeping that as the wide LTE carrier for as long as possible.

I have still only seen one n66 sighting in Port Townsend, Washington last summer.  I should go back to see if it's still live. I wonder if it was just a short time testing thing?

Robert

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Ok, let's make it 4 Gordon Ramsay posts.  LOL

Hell's Kitchen

17 hours ago, xmx1024 said:

Okay, this thread is pretty behind and while I am tempted to bring it totally up to speed, I wanted to first start by sharing about my contributions to coveragemap.com - though I reside on the East side, I have contributed thousands of speed tests from all over Tucson and the surrounding areas to this site.

 

https://map.coveragemap.com/ 

 

If you select T-Mobile & filter results >800Mbps, you get a pretty good idea of the sites that have been upgraded to Gig+ which is a surprising amount! They're really picking up the pace here. You'll have to view while zoomed in a bit more than I would like, else the colored cells vanish and clump together strangely. 

It's great to see Southern Arizona.  Good to see the thread active and good to see you again.  It's exciting to see all that progress. This is a market the Sprint often overlooked and was last to the party.  And now Tmo has gone from the worst provider to the best.  

Robert

Hotel Hall

17 hours ago, owensri2 said:

It's good to be back!  I was blown away at how good T-Mobile service is, even in the rural areas I frequently travel.  Very happy to have dropped Verizon and join Magenta!  😁

Long time, no see!  Welcome back.  In both regards. 

Robert

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To all, I wish you Seasons Greetings, Merry Christmas and the Happiest of Holidays.  I hope you all are enjoying time with family and friends and remembering what is important.  Glad tidings and well wishes to all of you.  May you all be blessed beyond measure and have peace and joy.

And from me and our S4GRU crew, have a Happy New Year.  May 2024 be the best year, ever!

Robert

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Emotional Intelligence

Wheel Damage

Tale Spin

2 hours ago, schmidtj said:

T-Mobile: The New Telecom Leader

It really is impressive what T-Mobile has done.  When S4GRU started in 2011, T-Mobile was the 4th place network in coverage, reputation and performance. Now, look at how far they come. Now the leader in so many ways.

It's something Sprint could have done too.  They could have made the decisions differently from the beginning and followed a similar course.  And now what ever was good about Sprint has been fully leveraged by Tmo and put to much better use. 

I miss Sprint. But really I just miss the potential that was always there. Always excited about what could be tomorrow. That potential has been realized. Just in hues of magenta, instead of yellow. 

Not that it's all been roses since the buyout.  But on the whole, much, much better.

Robert

2 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

It's as if Dish has never heard about spectrum swaps before.

T-Mobile is fighting a war on two fronts with AT&T going after their midband spectrum and Dish going after their 600MHz. The end goal of both of those companies looks like they want stop T-Mobile from getting any more spectrum without some sort of divestiture. I get why they're doing this but I can't help but feel like both of them really are just sore losers that lacked foresight. 

What's even worse for Dish and AT&T is that T-Mobile has an extremely successful home internet product that justifies their need for so much capacity in the first place so they can't even say that T-Mobile doesn't need all of the spectrum they have. T-Mobile also doesn't have a history of hoarding spectrum without deploying it so they can't even point to past behavior to justify divestiture by saying they aren't going to use it. 

But Daddy, I WANT IT NOW!

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