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You guys are in for a treat. Shentel is almost universally agreed to have the some of the best sprint markets anywhere.   Soon™   Sent from my Nexus 5

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Warning: Long, but worth the read.  I just wanted to give a good customer service experience with Shentel. On one sector of the tower closest to my house (Woodstock, VA), B26 had zero data throug

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Since I have another rom (cyanogenmod) I cannot run ##UPDATE#, anyone got any ideas? I can do *#*#4634#*#*  and pretty  much everytime I update the software I have to do that. But I am getting a 4g signal but cannot pass any data in either direction, have to keep it on 3g which works....albeit slower than usual. This update to LTE service on Ntelos is the most ridiculously mishandled upgrade any phone provider has ever attempted. 

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nandjreed Member Level: Analog

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Since Ntelos is being bought out by Shentel what are the chances that the sprint phones will be available to purchase? Figure this be more for a sprint employee if there is one still on the forum. BEcause the plan we have is unlimited evvery thing including hotspot and dont want to lose that.

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S4GRU Member Level: LTE Advanced

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Why hasn't Shentel deployed lte plus yet and does Roanoke even have network vision?

 

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Shentel has started deploying 'LTE Plus' in several of their cities. Roanoke does not have Network Vision, no nTelos market has NV. Some nTelos cities have LTE, but they never were a part of the Sprint Network Vision upgrade project. They had their own plan. Shentel will be upgrading and modernizing the nTelos network after it takes over.

 

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Flompholph Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Why hasn't Shentel deployed lte plus yet and does Roanoke even have network vision?

 

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I am confused before you said you were connected to B41(LTE Plus).

 

We don't know what base stations are installed in specific places. So maybe? there are tri band site so depends what you mean be "Network Vision". nTelos at one point said they were going a different direction.

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S4GRU Member Level: LTE Advanced

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I have band 41 here in Roanoke. Just not carrier aggregation.

 

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nTelos will not be installing carrier aggregation. And the B41 equipment nTelos installed may not be capable. B41 CA, aka LTE Plus, will not occur until some point in the future and by Shentel.

 

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Do you know how the deployment is going in Charlottesville?

From my experience here in Charlottesville I have noticed great improvement since December. Band 41 has been deployed in a few places throughout town and I don't see as much fallback to 3G.

 

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From my experience here in Charlottesville I have noticed great improvement since December. Band 41 has been deployed in a few places throughout town and I don't see as much fallback to 3G.

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Well that's good to hear. I know someone up there with Verizon and they hate Verizon. Mb I'll be able to compnvert them to sprint :P.

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Well that's good to hear. I know someone up there with Verizon and they hate Verizon. Mb I'll be able to compnvert them to sprint :P.

I came from Verizon. I had so many issues with their Band 4 LTE that I would have to turn LTE off. They have their phones prioritized so that the good 700mhz Band 13 is secondary.

 

I had nTelos years before that but I can honestly say I have had zero issues with Sprint(other than customer service) and have had a few people sign up with service.

 

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lilotimz Member Level: LTE Advanced

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nTelos will not be installing carrier aggregation. And the B41 equipment nTelos installed may not be capable. B41 CA, aka LTE Plus, will not occur until some point in the future and by Shentel.

 

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They use the same Alcatel-Lucent 8T8R B41 equipment as Sprint. 

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From my experience here in Charlottesville I have noticed great improvement since December. Band 41 has been deployed in a few places throughout town and I don't see as much fallback to 3G.

 

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Ditto for me. I have also been on B41, although SCP doesn't recognize it well enough to label it as such. The engineering screen and knowledge that cell IDs of 01A** or 01B** are B41-capable has indicated such. No CA, though I've seen 2nd carrier (on B25) sometimes. My drop back to 3G has become extremely rare at this point.

 

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Side note: I still cannot get my wife's GS5 to "see" the 4G locally. It has done fine on native Sprint 4G elsewhere. We were told at the local affiliate repair store that "it's too soon to switch" the phone over to CDMA/LTE until conversion and optimization are complete. *rolleyes*

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The speeds are great, but a 1000+ ping is horrible. I wonder why it's so high?

 

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Idk. This is a lower one that I caught. I tested one time at 46d 31u, the ping timed out.

 

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