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Dial *3001#12345#* then press Call. This takes you to the Field Test app. Select "Serving Cell Info". Here you should see Freq Band Indicator and the current LTE band you are on. This value will be either 25,26, or 41. You can look at "Download Bandwidth" and it will tell you how wide the LTE channel is. In sac band 25/26 are both 5Mhz wide and band 41 is 20Mhz wide.

Sorry if this is off topic, but I was just wondering what spectrum the carriers in Sacramento have licenses for. The FCC website is somewhat confusing, but this is what I understand from it (I only listed the paired uplink frequencies): PCS: 1850-1860 - Sprint 1865-1877.5 - at&t 1877.5-1885 - T-Mobile 1885-1890 - Verizon 1890-1905 - T-Mobile 1905-1910 - at&t 1910-1915 - Sprint 1915-1920 -Dish AWS: 1710-1730 - Verizon 1730-1735 - at&t 1735-1755 - T-Mobile 700: 798-704 - T-Mobile 704-716 - at&t 716-722(unpaired) - at&t 722-728(upaired) - Echostar SMR/CLR 816-824 - Sprint 824-835/845-846.5 - at&t 835-845/846.5-849 - Verizon BRS/EBS ?? - Sprint I had trouble understanding the BRS/EBS licenses in this market from the FCC page. Also, the PCS/AWS seems to be all over the place with overlapping frequencies with carriers, so I tried making sense of it, but please correct me if I am wrong! Thanks!

Tim, can you clarify what Sprint plans to do with Clearwire's TD-LTE network? Are they going to upgrade every clearwire site to LTE or only some of them. Are they going to decommission any of the Clearwire sites that are on the same tower as sprint or in close proximity to a sprint site? And what about the backhaul to the Clearwire LTE sites? Will the remain microwave or are they going to upgrade them to fiber backhaul? I ask all this because as of now, it doesn't seem like there are that many 8t8r sites in sacramento area, although a few of sprint sites have permits issued. Thanks!

well, sprint does have a cell site sitting right on top of sleep train arena haha

So whats everyone's opinion on Sprints 3Q2014 earnings report?

and thanks to Lilotimz for his UCV map update as well! lol

wow lots of updates in the map Robert posted!

Wow, Robert's map update is amazing. Didn't know that much stuff happened since the last update.

Anything new this week? Or did sprint run out of fiber? lol

Probably mostly because no one lives there along i5 as opposed to why 99 that has random towns every few miles, and thus better coverage throughout. guess its cheaper to pay verizon for roaming on i5 than build new towers. Maybe 800SMR should fill in the gaps nicely between the towers on i5

Do you think Sprint is going to participate in the AWS-3 coming up in a few months? I think it would be great since AWS is similar to PCS, but not as bad in signal penetrate as EBS/BRS band since their network is built on PCS spacing. Or do you think they will save their pennies and go all in on the 600Mz auction next year?

I hope that the new iPhone 6 will have band 41!

So many updates! Now if they can continue the speedy rollout!

Just curious, but since Sprint has so much BRS/EBS spectrum available, will they be using multiple band 41 carriers and use carrier aggregation of even further increase throughput? That would be so cool! So IF they were to do carrier aggregation, it is just a software upgrade or does sprint have to physically add more equipment at the cell site to enable carrier aggregation?

what? Several of the tower points switched from "1" upgrade to "2" upgrades and the Kaiser point west site got accepted since it wasn't accepted in last weeks cluster. I don't really understand what "data speed" or "data capacity" upgrade means on those maps.