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I've been intending to ask for this for quite some time, but I've been neglecting to do so until I figured out how to present this. The information is mainly about Sprint, though it might be interesting to know what other carriers have, for comparative reasons.

 

 

Alright, what I'm asking for, which is a benefit to everyone wanting to know about spectrum holdings belonging to Sprint, and other carriers perhaps, is a list of spectrum holdings by market in the form of downlink by uplink, either #x# or #+#. Please list them according to band in MHZ, not by band number. It'll be easier for people who are less experienced in wireless knowledge to understand, without having to search for exact band information.

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Not exactly what you're looking for, but probably as close as we can get in the near future:  http://specmap.sequence-omega.net/

 

You might also try this, but the data may not be up to date:  http://reboot.fcc.gov/reform/systems/spectrum-dashboard

 

Big problem is that the FCC's database is rather hard to parse.  To do anything else would be to hand-manage it, a lot of work that would require a lot of maintenance.

 

- Trip

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Not exactly what you're looking for, but probably as close as we can get in the near future:  http://specmap.sequence-omega.net/

 

Interesting map. So, for the uneducated, does this map indicate that if there are no 800MHZ or 2600MHZ holdings in a particular area, that area will not get B26, or B41? Or, just that it will be a longer wait?

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Not exactly what you're looking for, but probably as close as we can get in the near future:  http://specmap.sequence-omega.net/

 

Interesting map. So, for the uneducated, does this map indicate that if there are no 800MHZ or 2600MHZ holdings in a particular area, that area will not get B26, or B41? Or, just that it will be a longer wait?

One problem with that one is VERY limited my metro (not very many metros to pick from)

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The map uses the data from the FCC database which can be very hard to parse.  If you click around enough, you'll find that Sprint actually has 800 MHz SMR holdings nationwide, just scattered across different categories of licenses due to oddities of the database.  I don't put much stock in the 2.5 GHz data because of the scatterbrained way it's licensed.

 

- Trip

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The map uses the data from the FCC database which can be very hard to parse.  If you click around enough, you'll find that Sprint actually has 800 MHz SMR holdings nationwide, just scattered across different categories of licenses due to oddities of the database.  I don't put much stock in the 2.5 GHz data because of the scatterbrained way it's licensed.

 

- Trip

Yeah.  Case in point, that map shows that Sprint only has about 60 Mhz of 2.5 GHz spectrum, when I've seen articles saying that in some markets they have up to 120 Mhz.

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Yeah.  Case in point, that map shows that Sprint only has about 60 Mhz of 2.5 GHz spectrum, when I've seen articles saying that in some markets they have up to 120 Mhz.

 

55.5 MHz.  That is the attributable BRS spectrum.

 

AJ

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For some reason the spectrum map cuts out on the left side. I've tried reducing the text size in Chrome, but didn't work. I'll try the device settings.

 

That didn't work either. I'm still using the ZTE ZMAX.

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