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https://twitter.com/JohnLegere/status/563048576214114304/photo/1

 

Pretty sure they're only the fastest because they had the fewest amount of subscribers there. Phoenix is only a 10MHz FDD market for T-Mobile.

Considering the lower amount of subscribers and their backhaul largely provisioned at 40Mbps per sector throughout the Phoenix market, all they really had to do is increase their backhaul provisioning and max out the air interface. That alone will probably do it.
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Considering the lower amount of subscribers and their backhaul largely provisioned at 40Mbps per sector throughout the Phoenix market, all they really had to do is increase their backhaul provisioning and max out the air interface. That alone will probably do it.

 

Can you give me an example?

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I've ran into the 40 mbps limit Milan has mentioned, but it's all rural sites. The Perryville LTE site in town consistently gets 40 Mbps regardless of the time of day pretty much. Along the Interstate some of those sites have even less than 40 Mbps. On the Perryville site on the Interstate, it's 15 Mbps at midnight, meaning that's what the empty site gets more or less. I'd be shocked if there were very many subs there at all. Most people there use AT&T.

 

I wouldn't be shocked if St. Louis had a similar limit at the site but I don't know if T-Mobile ever had a large penetration there. The largest carrier here would be AT&T but Sprint and Verizon would be pretty close as far as sub numbers. This is a market where T-Mobile farmed their corporate stores off to Wireless Vision. There's no directly owned corporate stores in the St. Louis market to my knowledge.

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Can you give me an example?

I just did. But if you carefully read that fiercewireless article from the OP, you'll also notice what T-Mobile stated:

 

"Finally, T-Mobile said it "expanded backhaul capacity and put in place special event network parameters in and around the Glendale, AZ area to maintain T-Mobile's excellent 4G LTE coverage in this area."

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I just did. But if you carefully read that fiercewireless article from the OP, you'll also notice what T-Mobile stated:

 

"Finally, T-Mobile said it "expanded backhaul capacity and put in place special event network parameters in and around the Glendale, AZ area to maintain T-Mobile's excellent 4G LTE coverage in this area."

Special parameters?
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Special parameters?

 

John and Neville themselves rubbed the base stations with kosher chicken fat.

 

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Am I the only one that notes that Verizon handled 10x the data as T-Mobile, likely with a good chunk of older devices that didn't support AWS LTE, and was almost as fast?

 

This is a small sample size argument if there ever was one. Holy Macklemore. :lol:

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