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I finally connected to LTE 800 inside my school and caught a screenshot of it in SignalCheck. I'll post the screen shot once I have access to a computer.

Great! What kind of speeds and signal?

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I finally connected to LTE 800 inside my school and caught a screenshot of it in SignalCheck. I'll post the screen shot once I have access to a computer.

Hey aren't you in brooklyn? I'm getting excited here? Details of location?

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Hey aren't you in brooklyn? I'm getting excited here? Details of location?

 

This is in Lower Manhattan. Varick and Charlton, near WNYC's office.

 

Great! What kind of speeds and signal?

 

Bursts of 17Mbps and then it settles at around 13Mbps on the download.

 

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This is in Lower Manhattan. 

 

 

Speeds of 17Mbps down burst and then it settles at around 13Mbps.

 

*beautiful image*

I can not wait wait wait for b26. How is your propagation inside buildings? 

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I can not wait wait wait for b26. How is your propagation inside buildings? 

 

About 10-15dbm better than PCS here in the city. However, my device gets put back on PCS fairly easily. I watched my device go from about 4 bars to 1 bar as I walked towards the entrance of my school, simply because it went from SMR to PCS.

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Hey all. OK so today I tested my lg g2 around city hall. City hall is mostly covered in b41. Speeds are anywhere from 15mb to 50mb. Previously on my iPhone 5 I didn't even get any lte. Which I think means only b41 is around city hall. Indoor is a hit or miss. In my office I get 4 bars. Other places it's back to 3g. Band 26 is needed badly. One thing I noticed is the band switching is terrible. I think this is an LG g2 problem. I can literally be out of service for 3 min while it switches bands.

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During lunch hours I noticed my phone stays in SMR as if to keep PCS from becoming congested. I went outside and made a phone call. My 1x1900 signal was -66dbm and my LTE signal was -80dbm. LTE 800 and 1xPCS propagation is about the same. Both become unusable at the same time for the most part. I'll be editing in some more screen shots of SignalCheck in a bit.

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What ddoes Sprint means when they say small cell deployment ?

They're like little cellular networks that are built that add capacity and boost coverage in a given area. I'm pretty sure MetroPCS is the only carrier that is currently using them in NYC. Sprint plans on small cell deployment starting this year.

 

It's amazing that for such a small carrier they were pretty far ahead in terms of technology. They had small cells and VoLTE before any of the other carriers.

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They're like little cellular networks that are built that add capacity and boost coverage in a given area. I'm pretty sure MetroPCS is the only carrier that is currently using them in NYC. Sprint plans on small cell deployment starting this year.

 

It's amazing that for such a small carrier they were pretty far ahead in terms of technology. They had small cells and VoLTE before any of the other carriers.

hopefully that improves indoor coverage
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I'm going to be the river dale area later. Any expectations of me getting b26 on my iPhone?

depends on what part of Riverdale I only know of one site in the Bronx that is broadcasting band 26. It will have to be a personal observation when you get up to the Bronx Riverdale area. Let us know what u find.
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I'm going to be the river dale area later. Any expectations of me getting b26 on my iPhone?

Did you get anything. If you went down Broadway right across into Manhattan you might have gotten some b26.

 

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Hopefully b26 gets deployed quickly. Should be faster then b25.

They're doing cluster deployments. It's happening faster than I anticipated. My guess is Sprint is trying to get to ubiquitous coverage faster by deploying 800MHz faster. Right outside of my school used to be -90dbm on LTE. Now it is in the -70's.

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My phone briefly connected to B26 (Was able to snap a shot of Signal Check) this morning @ home in the Bx by the Grand Concourse, But didn't want to post anything until I can confirm it 100% By the time I loaded the field test page it had jumped back on B25..

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My phone briefly connected to B26 (Was able to snap a shot of Signal Check) this morning @ home in the Bx by the Grand Concourse, But didn't want to post anything until I can confirm it 100% By the time I loaded the field test page it had jumped back on B25..

Nice, what part of GC?

 

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