RAvirani Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 23 minutes ago, LordDonkey said: Side note: I noticed Band 5 LTE going away in some areas. A tower in Bittinger, MD previously had Band 5 LTE and now it no longer does. It still has band 2 and 17 and no aggregation, at least not with my phone. I think it used CA with my ZTE MF288 modem. The Band 2 has 15 MHz bandwidth and hits 80 Mbps no problem. Band 5 LTE is being shut down to deploy NR in the CLR block. AT&T doesn't have free spectrum anywhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenbastard Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 19 hours ago, RAvirani said: Band 5 LTE is being shut down to deploy NR in the CLR block. AT&T doesn't have free spectrum anywhere else. In my area, 3G was the one that was actually taken down. Band 5 LTE is still there. I haven't been able to make calls at my place since unlocked phones don't have VoLTE. WCDMA Band 2 doesn't reach indoors for me for fallback on. But then again, it could just be issues with my tower. I haven't left the house much since the quarantine. And when I do, I forget to check since T-Mobile is my daily driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad The Beast Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Are there distinct antennas for band 14 deployment? There's a new rack going up with new kinds of antennas here in Grand Forks. The antennas are approximately the same size as T-Mobile's 600MHz antennas but it's not those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad The Beast Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Got some pictures https://imgur.com/a/KpA4fZc It's definitely for AT&T since the empty boxes were inside their fence. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuhfhrh Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 AT&T DSS just went live in North Texas: https://www.pcmag.com/news/atts-5g-network-gets-more-dynamic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_dog007 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 137 New 5G markets, 160+ Million covered. https://about.att.com/newsroom/2020/5g_announcements.html Coverage map still not updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_dog007 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 On 6/5/2020 at 11:51 PM, Yuhfhrh said: AT&T DSS just went live in North Texas: https://www.pcmag.com/news/atts-5g-network-gets-more-dynamic Why is pcmag showing a map of possible 5G on 700 when AT&T? As at least we know, AT&T is deploying 5G on 850 where they too lack nationwide license coverage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuhfhrh Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 12 hours ago, red_dog007 said: Why is pcmag showing a map of possible 5G on 700 when AT&T? As at least we know, AT&T is deploying 5G on 850 where they too lack nationwide license coverage. I think they're just showing possible long term spectrum that could be used for 5G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_dog007 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 AT&T seriously not update their coverage map yet to reflect this new 5G coverage? Im still waiting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_dog007 Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 So they have pdfs of their coverage, but the map still isn't updated. They added a few more cities. They are now at 179 million people. Expanded DSS. https://www.att.com/5g/coverage-map/ https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-expands-5g-to-28-new-markets-continues-dss-deployment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Wow... https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/08/03/5g-4g-cell-phones-towers-att-berkeley-ca-protesters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vryan44 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 On 8/4/2020 at 6:27 PM, mdob07 said: Wow... https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/08/03/5g-4g-cell-phones-towers-att-berkeley-ca-protesters Misinformation spread is getting out of hand.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JossMan Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 On 6/5/2020 at 6:30 PM, Brad The Beast said: Got some pictures https://imgur.com/a/KpA4fZc It's definitely for AT&T since the empty boxes were inside their fence. Was AT&T previously on this site? This almost looks like a new build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 I've recently started seeing permits around here for adding this AWS filter to sites around here. Not really sure what the purpose is. From Louisville's permit portal: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 58 minutes ago, mdob07 said: I've recently started seeing permits around here for adding this AWS filter to sites around here. Not really sure what the purpose is. These are AWS/PCS filters to minimize interference with the 2097.5-2109.5 MHz Broadcast Auxiliary Service band. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 9 minutes ago, RAvirani said: These are AWS/PCS filters to minimize interference with the 2097.5-2109.5 MHz Broadcast Auxiliary Service band. Interesting. I've just recently started seeing these permits, I wonder whats changed that to drive these being installed? The downlink side of AWS3 has been live here for a couple years now, UL side is lighting up now along with 5G upgrades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 6 minutes ago, mdob07 said: Interesting. I've just recently started seeing these permits, I wonder whats changed that to drive these being installed? The downlink side of AWS3 has been live here for a couple years now, UL side is lighting up now along with 5G upgrades. The BAS band was probably recently allocated to a TV station or something similar (and it was probably previously unused). This could explain the sudden deployment of filters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 13 hours ago, mdob07 said: Quick question - what did you search on to get these results? I always struggle to find AT&T permits in Accela-built permit systems because of the ampersand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 5 hours ago, RAvirani said: Quick question - what did you search on to get these results? I always struggle to find AT&T permits in Accela-built permit systems because of the ampersand... I actually got lucky on this one, these showed up just by searching for Cell Tower permits under Building permits. But typically I have to search using Ansco in the Name of Business field, Ansco is the contractor they use 95% of the time around here. but I've recently started seeing a few new companies for small cell installations. Most macro work in Louisville has site plans under the attachments section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Looking over a plan I found this morning it looks like they've moved to a combined RRH for B5/B12. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansltx Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Got a CricKet data SIM a week and a half ago for my Nighthawk M1. AT&T is 15x15 B4 and B2, 10x10 B12 and B14 (though my M1 doesn't have B14), 5x5 (!) B30...and 20x20 (!!!) B5 around here. Looks like they're also licensed for some 700 SDL, as well as another 10x10 of B66. Maybe some more PCS too? Anyway, AT&T has an absurd amount of spectrum here. In any case, I have to think they're running DSS on band 5, with a single H+ carrier taking up the remainder. Otherwise they would be limited to 5x5 of NR, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense. I suppose you *could* just aggregate with a bunch of other bands and call it a day, but...well, I wish I had an AT&T 5G device to test out my theory. Seems like CricKet's download speeds are pretty heavily deprioritized to "whatever's left over on the network at the time", but either they aren't deprioritizing uploads or there's *just that much* upload capacity available; I've seen upload speeds of nearly 40 Mbps near cell sites...on plain old LTE. AT&T definitely got their money's worth when climbing the bunch of sites they needed to add B14 to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprke Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 ATT is finally building out in SW Iowa. There’s a couple new towers now up, the antennas are still laying on the ground. I took a stroll over for a closer look. I have attached some pictures, this means these panels are capable of broadcasting B14, B2, B4 and B30? But not all 4? So they will for sure do B14 and only 2 of the other 3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 29 minutes ago, Sprke said: ATT is finally building out in SW Iowa. There’s a couple new towers now up, the antennas are still laying on the ground. I took a stroll over for a closer look. I have attached some pictures, this means these panels are capable of broadcasting B14, B2, B4 and B30? But not all 4? So they will for sure do B14 and only 2 of the other 3? They'll probably run: B12/B14 and B5 at 4x4 through the lowband ports via a 700/850 diplexer B2 and B66 at 4x4 through one of the mid/highband arrays via a PCS/AWS diplexer B30 at 4x4 though the other mid/highband array Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprke Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 2 hours ago, RAvirani said: They'll probably run: B12/B14 and B5 at 4x4 through the lowband ports via a 700/850 diplexer B2 and B66 at 4x4 through one of the mid/highband arrays via a PCS/AWS diplexer B30 at 4x4 though the other mid/highband array They don’t own any B12 or B5 in this area, so B14 is all they have for low band here. They can actually run everything else with this 1 panel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 47 minutes ago, Sprke said: They don’t own any B12 or B5 in this area, so B14 is all they have for low band here. They can actually run everything else with this 1 panel? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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