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GoWireless

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  1. Anyone know which Sprint SIMs are compatible with the S7?
  2. Ok. I was hoping one of the engineering screens would show this but so far I haven't found anything.
  3. Any way I can tell the BW I am connected to? I am using SignalCheckPro on a Nexus 5X.
  4. Looks like the pink lady is joining the game also: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/47u1fz/spectrum_swap_with_big_yellow_sprint_pcs
  5. Oh, OK. So, I would assume that this would have necessitated a firmware update at some point in order to enable and Sprint has had those released to the affected handsets by now, correct?
  6. Is the thinking here to expand the G block into the C block but without necessarily setting up another 5Mhz carrier somewhere else in the PCS band? I ask this becuase early on Sprint sold some 5MHz BW only LTE devices. Without a 5Mhz carrier somewhere in the PCS band those devices will be SOL.
  7. That's not exactly what I was referring to. What I mean is that Samsung also usually sells an "officially unlocked" version of their flagship. This variant typically supports AT&T and T-Mobile (albeit sometimes only partially). What I am wondering is if they will sell an unlocked variant of the S7 that could be used on all four (or maybe just 3) carriers that you could get directly from Samsung or their resellers.
  8. Another interesting question is whether they will decide to sell an officially unlocked US variant, and if so, what bands would such a device support?
  9. Just wanted to mention that 4K will be using HEVC encoding which is way more efficient than the MPEG-2 used for current HD broadcasting.
  10. Also, hotspot is included in the new plans. I believe SERO customers have to pay extra for this.
  11. It's not that simple. My guess is that T-Mobile withholds approval of band 12 on a handset until they can test and validate it can handle the various cartwheels it needs the device to turn in order to be compliant with some of their concurrent operating agreements. You can read more about what those devices have to do in order to be compliant here: http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applAdmin.jsp?applID=9040203#attachments (click on the Engineering Statement)
  12. VoLTE works on T-Mobile but band 12 doesn't (yet, no word on when).
  13. Thanks. I forgot about that.
  14. OK, thanks. It is a bit annoying that 446C is somewhat hard to find. A couple days ago I went to the main corp. Sprint store with an actual repair lab in it in town (serves as such an area of at least half a million people) and they didn't have them. Also tried a regular corp store and they didn't have them either. Ended up having the int'l dept send me one.
  15. So, is the latest available SIM (SIMGLW446C, right?) backwards compatible with all previous nano-SIM devices? In other words, does one need to worry about all this SIM compatibility business if one has the SIM that is already most current one used by Sprint?
  16. I would note that enabling VoLTE over there is an absolute must since like in much of the Carolinas, the only low band coverage available from AT&T in those regions consists of LTE-only.
  17. I wouldn't hold it past HTC to use a generic confirmation page and for the phone to actually still be delivered locked. I would be interested to recieve confirmation of the unlocked status by someone who's been delivered the Sprint variant by HTC just in case. BTW, I saw the phone at a store yesterday. Seems pretty nice in the hand. A bit bothered by the tiny battery though.
  18. Thanks but checking maps isn't that much help in this case because Sprint itself is already claiming that this SPECIFIC site is broadcasting B26 publically. However, I have seen 0% improvement in in-building recpetion in a building that's located less than half a mile from the site. When 1x800 rolled out a year ago it solved all of the voice issues in this building although I do realize that 1x is a more robust signal than LTE but like I said, if what Sprint is telling me is true, I would have expected to have at least seen some improvement but I have seen none at all.
  19. Yes, I am aware I can tell what band I am presently on. Sprint claims B26 is already lit though so I would like some way of verifying this as I strongly suspect what they are telling me is wrong.
  20. Is there any way on the N5X that I can tell which LTE bands are currently broadcasting? Sprint tells me they have enabled B26 on the tower I am on. I am almost certain they providing me with incorrect information but I would like to check for sure if I can (the reason I am suspicious is that besides experiencing no coverage improvement whatsoever when losing B25 signal indoors, about a year and a half ago for example we lost B25 completely on the same tower and it took Sprint almost a month to fix it, while for the first two or three weeks they were insisting there was no problem at all when there most certainly was, with everyone with Sprint I know of having lost their LTE signal during that time).
  21. *73 is no answer forwarding and *74 is busy forwarding. *28 is just a short way of enabling both of them at the same time. There shouldn't be any cost with these. *72 is unconditional call forwarding (forward all calls, your mobile will not even ring). Last I checked, if you are not on a plan which includes unlimited minutes then every minute is 20 cents.
  22. I called Sprint about this a couple days ago. Apparently you can't use *28 anymore. You need to issue the two types of conditional forwarding (*73 and *74) separately. I tried it and it works, at least for me. They said they will fix the info. on the website to correct this but I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
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