[PSA] Carrier Aggregation Now Officially Live
by Tim Yu
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 3:17 PM MDT
Consider this just a public service announcement. Sprint Spark Band 41 Carrier Aggregation (2x CA) now is officially live according to a Sprint internal announcement leaked on Reddit today by a verified Sprint employee in the Sprint subreddit. Late last month, S4GRU found evidence of 2x CA being live in Atlanta, but this now is a formal notice that Sprint has sent to its employees.
This is the present lineup of 2x CA capable devices:
- Samsung Galaxy S6
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
- Samsung Galaxy Note Edge
- LG G Flex 2
- LG G4
- HTC One M9
- ZTE Hot Spot
Edit: S4GRU has been fielding numerous questions on other devices. To make this very clear, the above are the only devices right now capable of 2xB41 Carrier Aggregation because they have the hardware (category 6 modem) that is required. Any other phones that were released previously are not compatible because their modems are not category 6 (or higher).
As detailed in the internal document (posted below), the seven devices may receive automatic profile updates this week to enable 2x CA. Alternatively, as some S4GRU users have discovered, 2x CA may already be enabled or can be enabled manually via the hidden Data programming screen.
Next, these are the initial markets in which Sprint is rolling out 2x CA:
- Boston
- New Jersey
- Long Island
- Philadelphia Metro
- Providence
- Southern Connecticut
- Baltimore
- Cincinnati
- Columbus
- East Michigan
- West Michigan
- Indianapolis
- Washington DC
- Austin
- Dallas Fort Worth
- Houston
- Kansas
- Missouri
- San Antonia
- Atlanta / Athens
- Miami / West Palm
- Orlando
- South West Florida
- Tampa
- Chicago
- Colorado
- Milwaukee
- Minnesota
- Oregon / SW Washington
- West Washington
- Utah
- LA Metro
- Las Vegas
- North LA
- Orange County
- Riverside / San Bernardino
- San Diego
- SF Bay
- South Bay
For reference, here is a S4GRU map of all Sprint markets:
Finally, this is the internal document posted on Reddit:
Source(s): Reddit
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