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It’s a neat and seemingly valid / effective strategy that, at least from my understanding, is only really used by VZW

Do you know what RAN is behind those Omni's? LTE (bands?) are they pushing any NR through them? Very curious edit: I guess I could check cellmapper etc but you might know more nuance!

The site located on Mesquite Elementary school has been upgraded to multigig backhaul

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TMO has gobbled up many Sprint convert sites here and many dense areas have solid capacity and coverage due to this. Rita Ranch, which is a challenging tract home development type area, has solid low band coverage throughout due to the sites located at A Family Storage, atop Mesquite Elementary, Empire High School and the site behind Ace Hardware. Much of this I can attribute to NR and SA as it is not this way when handsets are set to LTE only. I believe Tucson is part of the PHX market (sites are PHX*****) and it seems that engineers have a pretty solid grasp on the market and how to best cover these areas.

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.

Do you have more info about these sites? That’s a pretty cool partnership.

gNB 1863006 NR 4CA via iP15 x70 near Tucson International Airport. Worth mentioning, TUS also has a fantastic newer DAS with n41 pushing 740mbps or so consistently.

T-Mobile could greatly benefit from deploying a healthy small cell footprint in specific areas, such as the foothills and the side streets between Speedway and Grant near the University of Arizona (UofA). AT&T and Verizon both have a significant presence with small cells in these regions with Verizon having mmWave, LAA, licensed midband. By deploying NR 66, 25, and 41 on small cells in these locations, T-Mobile could significantly improve coverage and alleviate congestion issues. This would also reduce the load on nearby macro towers. The challenges in the areas mentioned likely stem from factors like SINR issues due to macro tower density, sector arrangement, high population density, and surface clutter. Unfortunately, T-Mobile’s capacity in these areas is lacking, leading to latency issues of several hundred milliseconds and speeds below 3 Mbps on the mentioned side streets near UofA. T-Mobile does have licenses for mmWave in this area and I may speculate they’ll address these areas with mmWave and midband NR once capex tapers off, especially considering the 12yr agreement T-Mobile has made to deploy a record deal of small cells with Crown Castle.

Speedway and Harrison there’s two other gig+ sites east of Houghton, namely the site on Old Rocking K neighborhood (Valencia & Old Spanish Trail) and at Old Vail Middle School. I presume TMO prioritizes g+ on sites with higher than average HINT load. I can’t reference many others from memory but you can use the coveragemap URL to set filter >800mbps to find ‘em

Not even sure where to begin to catch this thread up. A surprising number of Gig+ sites in Tucson. I’ve uploaded a ton of speed test data to https://map.coveragemap.com

FYI boost infinite sim seems to perform abysmally compared to postpaid / first party

Is there a map of current n77 deployments? I know all are test sites but just curious.

I imagine more ubiquitous VONR will be the final nudge to having SA connections be primary

Updated to 16.4 beta which brings expanded NR support and SA CA to iPhone. Does anyone know the conditions / requirements that must be met in order for the handset to be connected to NR over NSA? seems at random and I can’t seem to trigger or influence it manually.