COUNTDOWN!!! Nextel iDEN Shutdown

[ANIMAL7296]

How can I tell if I am using 800 mhz? I have the signal check app but don't know what it all means.

[mozamcrew]

How can I tell if I am using 800 mhz? I have the signal check app but don't know what it all means.

 

Your 1x will be on BC 10 instead of BC 1 (or roaming on BC 0).

[jefbal99]

How can I tell if I am using 800 mhz? I have the signal check app but don't know what it all means.

Signal check will show 1X800 on the screen.  Unfortunately, you appear to be in utah.  The Utah SID is what Sprint is using to "hide" test 800Mhz signals nationwide.  Unless you are using a custom PRL to look at that SID, you won't see 800 until Sprint puts it in the stock PRL.

[swintec]

Unless you are using a custom PRL to look at that SID, you won't see 800 until Sprint puts it in the stock PRL.

 

this is the test prl located in the sponsor section right?

[jefbal99]

this is the test prl located in the sponsor section right?

Yes, there is one in the sponsor section and one in the premier sponsor section

[iansltx]

In memory...

 

"Please wait while the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located..."

[WiWavelength]

In memory...

 

"Please wait while the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located..."

 

The antennalope had to leap and bound into just the right spot...

 

 

AJ

[nexgencpu]

In memory...

 

"Please wait while the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located..."

Just had a flashback of my Nextel BB..with its awesome retractable antenna! Yo! can you hear me!? hold on let me extend this flimsy ass antenna. 

[hoagie]

You may laugh at the flimsy ass antenna, but it did help.. LOL

[n9ovreric]

In memory...

 

"Please wait while the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located..."

I remember those days lol

 

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

 

[nexgencpu]

You may laugh at the flimsy ass antenna, but it did help.. LOL

it did! thats the crazy part! LOL

[hoagie]

I used to work for Motorola in Libertiville in the Cellular Sunscriber Sector.  I was curious about those antennas once and when I had some free time working when the phones weren't defecting off the line, I used a heat gun and melted down one and what did I find?? A coil of copper wire at the core..

[nexgencpu]

I used to work for Motorola in Libertiville in the Cellular Sunscriber Sector.  I was curious about those antennas once and when I had some free time working when the phones weren't defecting off the line, I used a heat gun and melted down one and what did I find?? A coil of copper wire at the core..

Akin to using wire hanger for broadcast television! Im sure id get at least -10dBm better reception with one of those glued to my HTC ONE internally.

[digiblur]

You may laugh at the flimsy ass antenna, but it did help.. LOL

 

At times I wish the current phones had these or at least a way to put an add on.  I'd throw one on in a heartbeat! 

[nexgencpu]

For those of you who miss the added benefits of an extended antenna on the go!!

[digiblur]

For those of you who miss the added benefits of an extended antenna on the go!!

That's a little much to carry around.

[nexgencpu]

That's a little much to carry around.

A solar panel to power the bad boy...and bam! good to go! you wont even need a vehicle to take advantage! LOL!

[mrknowitall526]

In memory...

 

"Please wait while the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located..."

 

I never understood this message, and it always made me laugh!

[nexgencpu]

I think it had something to do with allowing the person in PTT time to complete there conversation

[Poopscoop2323]

is there any type of timetable for the 800mhz refarming? Like by the end of 2013? Is that wishful thinking?

[Dkoellerwx]

is there any type of timetable for the 800mhz refarming? Like by the end of 2013? Is that wishful thinking?

 

For LTE and CDMA? It's happening now.

[Poopscoop2323]

For LTE and CDMA? It's happening now.

I'm Sry, I should have specified. I understand it is currently being worked on but is there a general timeframe for the completion of the 800mhz lte Or is it just part of NV and will "mostly" done by the end of 2013?

Edited July 16, 2013 by Poopscoop2323

[mozamcrew]

I'm Sry, I should have specified. I understand it is currently being worked on but is there a general timeframe for the completion of the 800mhz lte Or is it just part of NV and will "mostly" done by the end of 2013?

The spectrum was "refarmed" the minute Sprint pulled the plug on Nextel at the end of June. Actually, in some markets it had been able to remove a few sites beforehand, since there weren't very many customers left on the network. They were able to remove some overlapping sites and transmit on fewer channels. So some places got a voice channel on 800 before Nextel even was shut down. Now that it's shut down, they will slowing start turning on 1xA and LTE on 800 and they go from site to site.

[Dkoellerwx]

I'm Sry, I should have specified. I understand it is currently being worked on but is there a general timeframe for the completion of the 800mhz lte Or is it just part of NV and will "mostly" done by the end of 2013?

800 LTE is sort of NV 2.0. It's beginning now, but probably won't be done until later next year. Although that is a bit of an unknown with SoftBank's investment. It much less work to get 800 LTE running than the current project for 1900 LTE, so it shouldn't take as long.

 

Sent from my HTC ONE

 

 

[bmattox79]

just having voice on the 800 band will be great, much better building reception for voice is awesome!