dkyeager Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 11 hours ago, danlodish345 said: Volte will be the back bone for phone calls and basic Data coverage for the foreseeable future. And 5G will be for now at least super fast coverage where it's available. So I don't see really any need for voice and data to be on 5G anytime soon. As a LG V20 owner (first Sprint phone with VoLTE in its FCC cert but never used), I am well aware that the Vo5G in the S21 may never be used (but their is always hope). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlodish345 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 On 8/13/2021 at 8:55 PM, dkyeager said: As a LG V20 owner (first Sprint phone with VoLTE in its FCC cert but never used), I am well aware that the Vo5G in the S21 may never be used (but their is always hope). One can always hope of course. You never know it could happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 I found this article to be fascinating. https://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2021/rf-signage-placement-row-heads-to-nj-court-after-landlord-refuses-t-mobile-site-access/ Building on which T-Mobile is located refusing to allow T-Mobile to upgrade its equipment unless both violates FCC rules and removes required signs, and otherwise does things not required in the lease. - Trip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkyeager Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 8:01 AM, Trip said: I found this article to be fascinating. https://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2021/rf-signage-placement-row-heads-to-nj-court-after-landlord-refuses-t-mobile-site-access/ Building on which T-Mobile is located refusing to allow T-Mobile to upgrade its equipment unless both violates FCC rules and removes required signs, and otherwise does things not required in the lease. - Trip Interesting that they are so far below FCC limits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 So, I just connected to N71 + N41 SA today. In my basement, no less. Speeds weren't too impressive, at 76/11. But it's a start. I don't think I've connected to B41 or N41 in my basement before. Not even when I was with Sprint and they had a B41 site less than a 10th of a mile from me. In the Parma, OH area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejeep Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 17 hours ago, clbowens said: So, I just connected to N71 + N41 SA today. In my basement, no less. Speeds weren't too impressive, at 76/11. But it's a start. I get what you're saying, but how about this for crazy perspective.. we're at a moment in technology history where 76mb/s is not "too impressive" for a mobile device. It's not a start, we have come a long way. Looking back at the device and network capabilities mentioned in early S4GRU posts makes me chuckle. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I just noticed today that my N71 bandwidth has drop from 15 Mhz to 10 Mhz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkyeager Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 2 hours ago, clbowens said: I just noticed today that my N71 bandwidth has drop from 15 Mhz to 10 Mhz. Did LTE 71 also drop? 5 for LTE 71, 15 for n71 in Columbus today, which seems lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 15 minutes ago, dkyeager said: Did LTE 71 also drop? 5 for LTE 71, 15 for n71 in Columbus today, which seems lower. No, LTE here has always been 5 Mhz. And it is still 5 Mhz. Maybe they are going to give Dish back their leased spectrum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkyeager Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 1 hour ago, clbowens said: No, LTE here has always been 5 Mhz. And it is still 5 Mhz. Maybe they are going to give Dish back their leased spectrum? We saw that much earlier in the pandemic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroDaGr8 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 A post over on Reddit notes that when TMobile has been deploying the new Erickson 4460 radios, they are deploying a separate antenna for B25/66 rather than use the mid-band ports on the larger multi-band antenna. They are curious why "...when T-Mobile deploys the Ericsson Radio 4460 (capable of B25 + B66), they often connect it to a separate mid-band antenna, and leave the mid-band ports on the low+mid-band array empty. In this case, they've connected it to a CommScope VV-65A-R1- that one is pretty common, in other cases, I've seen them use a (much older) RFS APX16. The reason I ask is because both the APX16 and the VV-65A-R1 are seemingly worse than the APXVAARRAPXVAARR24_43-U-NA20 (or APXVAALL24_43-U-NA20 on newer setups) in terms of gain, so there must be something else to this pattern. " It seems strange to use the Low+Mid and then not use the mid ports (rather than just use discrete low and mid antennas. Anyone have any ideas? Link to the Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/t4aosq/what_is_tmobile_doing_with_these_radio_4460s/?sort=confidence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paynefanbro Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 3/1/2022 at 12:51 PM, PedroDaGr8 said: A post over on Reddit notes that when TMobile has been deploying the new Erickson 4460 radios, they are deploying a separate antenna for B25/66 rather than use the mid-band ports on the larger multi-band antenna. They are curious why "...when T-Mobile deploys the Ericsson Radio 4460 (capable of B25 + B66), they often connect it to a separate mid-band antenna, and leave the mid-band ports on the low+mid-band array empty. In this case, they've connected it to a CommScope VV-65A-R1- that one is pretty common, in other cases, I've seen them use a (much older) RFS APX16. The reason I ask is because both the APX16 and the VV-65A-R1 are seemingly worse than the APXVAARRAPXVAARR24_43-U-NA20 (or APXVAALL24_43-U-NA20 on newer setups) in terms of gain, so there must be something else to this pattern. " It seems strange to use the Low+Mid and then not use the mid ports (rather than just use discrete low and mid antennas. Anyone have any ideas? Link to the Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/t4aosq/what_is_tmobile_doing_with_these_radio_4460s/?sort=confidence Not sure honestly. We've been wondering the same thing here in NYC for a while. Our setup is a bit different than other parts of the U.S. but sometimes T-Mobile leaves one of those APX16's behind post-upgrade and other times they remove it completely On Sprint to T-Mobile conversions here, it's a toss up. Sometimes they don't add a mid-band only antenna at all and other times they'll add an AIR32 or an AIR3246. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Does anyone know if T-Mobile is still planning to sell B26 to Dish? Or what the status of that is? Just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paynefanbro Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 23 minutes ago, clbowens said: Does anyone know if T-Mobile is still planning to sell B26 to Dish? Or what the status of that is? Just curious. All evidence points to yes. The antennas that Dish has been deploying are capable of n26 whereas T-Mobile hasn’t deployed any n26 capable equipment. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said: All evidence points to yes. The antennas that Dish has been deploying are capable of n26 whereas T-Mobile hasn’t deployed any n26 capable equipment. Cool, I was wondering about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroDaGr8 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, Paynefanbro said: Not sure honestly. We've been wondering the same thing here in NYC for a while. Our setup is a bit different than other parts of the U.S. but sometimes T-Mobile leaves one of those APX16's behind post-upgrade and other times they remove it completely On Sprint to T-Mobile conversions here, it's a toss up. Sometimes they don't add a mid-band only antenna at all and other times they'll add an AIR32 or an AIR3246. Per Rey: Quote From glancing at the spec sheets it looks like the Commscope antenna has a clear leg up over the RFS antenna when it comes to polarization diversity. The cross polarization ratios at boresight are both roughly 18 dB, but the Commscope antenna is 14ish dB over the entire sector while the RFS antenna is closer to 8 dB (keep in mind the dB scale is logarithmic so +6 dB is four times the performance). This means UEs connected to midband on the RFS antenna will lose transmit diversity very quickly as they move away from the center of the sector; the Commscope antenna will perform much better under these circumstances. If this is an area with a lot of buildings (i.e. diversity loss due to clutter/shadowing is a concern), sacrificing a small bit of gain for much better XPOL is definitely worth it. Edited March 3, 2022 by RAvirani Name spelling 😂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 hours ago, PedroDaGr8 said: Per Rey: Oops - just realized I forgot to copy that PM here. My bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 It looks like they shut down B26 in my area. Can't connect to it anymore. I still connect to Sprint B25 though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkyeager Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Last in the pecking order here in Columbus OH. Quite nice to lock into it in Dublin Oh around St Patrick's day. Dropped from many sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansltx Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 Swapped SIMs to TNX last night. SIM was present with my number so it was literally a SIM swap. So now I have NR CA, but streaming is down below 2 Mbps 😠 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkyeager Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 3 hours ago, iansltx said: Swapped SIMs to TNX last night. SIM was present with my number so it was literally a SIM swap. So now I have NR CA, but streaming is down below 2 Mbps 😠 Was on ed1500 and had same issue. T-Mobile is sort of like dealing with the Russians on this. Switched to Sprint Magenta Max. Really would like to be on T-Mobile billing, esim, better phone deals,etc,but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 T-Mobile updated their coverage map. So now all of their "partner" coverage LOOKS like native coverage. But if you click in one of those areas, it will say partner coverage. It doesn't show the partner strips anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paynefanbro Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 21 minutes ago, clbowens said: T-Mobile updated their coverage map. So now all of their "partner" coverage LOOKS like native coverage. But if you click in one of those areas, it will say partner coverage. It doesn't show the partner strips anymore. I'm still seeing the stripes for partner coverage on my end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbowens Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 8 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said: I'm still seeing the stripes for partner coverage on my end. Oh, and now the stripes are back for me. Interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_dog007 Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 On 3/2/2022 at 4:35 PM, Paynefanbro said: Not sure honestly. We've been wondering the same thing here in NYC for a while. Our setup is a bit different than other parts of the U.S. but sometimes T-Mobile leaves one of those APX16's behind post-upgrade and other times they remove it completely On Sprint to T-Mobile conversions here, it's a toss up. Sometimes they don't add a mid-band only antenna at all and other times they'll add an AIR32 or an AIR3246. Documentation says one thing, but reality can prove the documentation to be completely inaccurate once you actually test the equipment. I run into this pretty regularly at work with software and hardware I utilize. "hey, it says it can do xyz" and I get a "mumble mumble mumble, yeah we never got that to actually work" or "that configuration actually doesn't exist", or "we are waiting on firmware" or "this functionality costs extra, buy this for $15,000/yr per radio and we will turn it on" blah blah blah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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