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  1. I posted this in the Nebraska Premier thread last week, but just wanted to share in this thread the progress that T-Mobile has made in filling in the great coverage gap known as Nebraska. Between late last year and this year, they have added 28 new expansion sites filling in the coverage hole, plus 11 Sprint site conversions in eastern Nebraska and far western Iowa. Notably, in the last month n41 coverage was added on over a dozen expansion sites in western Nebraska that were added to the network last year. For comparison, here is the very first map that I created in October of 2022 after we noted expansion sites outside of Sprint conversion in Lincoln and Omaha. It doesn't show any western parts of the state, but just know there was nothing besides roaming coverage and a little B12 coverage leaking down from South Dakota to the west of Valentine, NE.
    4 points
  2. A new SignalCheck beta is rolling out now and should be available on Google Play shortly. It includes some new user-suggested features and several bug fixes. One change that should be noted is that secondary SIM cells are no longer logged by default; there is a new option under the Beta Crew menu to re-enable it if you prefer. I have not been able to get Dual SIM logging to be reliable yet, random entries mix and match the provider details and SIM number. Hoping this at least resolves the issue with inaccurate log entries for the primary SIM. Will continue to work on that.. it remains the final hurdle to open up Dual SIM support for all users.
    4 points
  3. Depends on if you are in the standard Beta group or the Internal Test group. I roll all releases out to both groups simultaneously, but Beta releases get screened/analyzed/reviewed by Google Play first, in the same manner that production releases are. Internal Test releases become available immediately. When they came out with the Internal Test option (which has a limit on number of users), I offered it with the caveat that they're slightly riskier because of the lack of review and let users decide which group to be in.
    3 points
  4. I love that service has progressed/improved in many, many areas (including the Lexington metro area) to the point where the forums are largely quiet. When service is great, there's not much reason to look forward to upgrades! I guess, because, they've long since been completed! Bittersweet but kinda awesome.
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  5. At least not recently. I think I might have seen this a year ago. Not Sure.
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  6. The March Play System Update that PythonFan referred to in the S24 thread is also out for S22
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  7. I see everything correct. The two ARFCN's you mentioned earlier and they idenitify as n-41. using 4.832b SCP. Only using one TM SIM.
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  8. Sent a copy of my DB in an e-mail just now. Couldn't leave the house today but can hopefully get a screenshot when I'm out on another cell site tomorrow.
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  9. 76MB Google Play System update after that, bringing the date up to 3/1 from prior 2/1 date.
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  10. April security patch is already out - 738.30 MB download.
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  11. Yeah I was going to say, we have 100+80 in Nokia markets. We also have 20+20, 30+20, 40+20, 40+40, 50+20, 50+30, 50+40, 80+20, 80+40, 100+40. All NR41 combinations that I have seen in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri.
    1 point
  12. 100+80 works in Nokia markets though (e.g. here).
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  13. Well... I tried to send an email but Gmail doesn't seem to want to send. Never seen that before, just sitting "queued." It may have sent twice now... Lol.
    1 point
  14. On a related note, I did some diving the through the FCC documents for the AEHC. I couldn't find any that indicated they validated it for NR100+NR90 (just NR100+NR50+LTE20+LTE20). This makes me think we will only see the NR100+NR90 channels in Ericsson markets.
    1 point
  15. Yes actually, I was wondering if I had somehow deleted them. But the majority of the sites I'm sure I had notes for are blank now.
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  16. S24 ultra factory unlocked still switches back and forth from n41 to n38. Sent diags. Will check other dual sim phones. Other factor. Seems that when my bandwidth is 80 it shows n41 (nr-arfcn 502110), when bandwidth is 100 it shows n38 (nr-arfcm 520110).
    1 point
  17. Yeah, ignore me. I apparently fail reading comprehension.
    1 point
  18. Yes, the posts were for a 100MHz+80MHz+10MHz split. Here is one:
    1 point
  19. Mapped a bit of Perth Amboy since it seemed undermapped on Cellmapper. There are no Sprint conversions in the city however I did map a new build and one older site that had never been mapped before. The part that stood out to me while mapping the city is T-Mobile's site density in comparison to AT&T specifically since those are the two networks that I map. T-Mobile has 10 sites within city limits in comparison to AT&T's 4 sites. AT&T still performs great there thanks to their combo of C-band and DoD spectrum. I got max speeds of about 650Mbps right under a site but those speeds quickly drop off the farther you go from the site. In some parts of the city I couldn't get any more than ~40Mbps on AT&T because I was at the edge of the C-band cell and I'm certain most of the throughput was coming from the lowband I was aggregating with. T-Mobile on the other hand couldn't get the peak speeds that AT&T had because of NextWave encumbering them. They only have 40+40 n41 but had much more consistent 300-400Mbps speeds virtually everywhere I went and a much stronger signal. The only area where they struggled in terms of speed was around Five Corners where T-Mobile has a site on top of the Perth Amboy National Bank Building but it hasn't been upgraded just yet. They only have n71 and n25 on that site. I got speeds of about 150-200Mbps under that site which isn't bad but it's also the busiest area of the city so they definitely could use the capacity.
    1 point
  20. NP. FYI, No sign of beta yet. Being in beta instead of alpha is no problem. Perhaps betas only get it once all alphas have been updated. Edit just got beta a few minutes ago.
    1 point
  21. Strange. I got it within a half hour after Mike posted here that it was available.
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  22. Following up on this. I just went up to City Island and it looks like T-Mobile is giving them the Broad Channel treatment by adding a bunch of small cells throughout the island. I mapped three new ones today bringing them to a total of seven small cells. It's still not a replacement for actual macros though. They need to join Verizon and AT&T in adding at least one more site closer to the north end of the island. Also snapped a pic of the upgraded site: — — — — — I mapped a recently upgraded site in Cobble Hill earlier and noticed that the gNB IDs for n41 and n25/71 are separated by two. Maybe it's a sneak peak into the numbering scheme going forward? gNB ID 1089448 is n41 and 1089450 is n25/71. Maybe n66 or n77 will be given 1089449.
    1 point
  23. Scattered reports over on Reddit that TMO has started deploying a third 10MHz n41 channel in select markets (bringing the BW up to 190MHz). Keep an eye out for it.
    1 point
  24. This being roughly six months later, Dish delivered the goods, but guess what? The results are under wraps because Dish considers the information to be proprietary and could result in “substantial competitive harm” if disclosed. LMAO. What a joke.
    1 point
  25. 4xCA is finally citywide, but Sprint keeps are still occasionally a tossup. Rare to find 4xCA them, most do 3xCA finally, but only 41+25 or 41+71. n71 is down to 15 MHz, since the Dish lease is up. With the financial situations going on at Dish, a deal for that 5 MHz block alongside the 800 MHz spectrum doesn't seem too bad. The subway DAS at West 4th has been utter rubbish for T-Mobile since 2017-2018, hasn't ever changed. Even adding B2 to it wasn't helpful. Capacity at all stations need some upgrades, as even Fulton street station DAS in Lower Manhattan with its 50 MHz n41 can slow to crawl, NSA or SA.
    1 point
  26. Looks like T-Mobile added themselves to the DAS in my office in midtown. I noticed I had a much stronger signal than normal and confirmed the existence of a new LTE eNB but it has an older 5-digit numbering scheme. No 5G on the DAS but I'm glad to see them join anyway. Now I have full signal everywhere in the building. Speeds are fine at ~50Mbps which is slightly faster than what I get on the AT&T and Verizon DAS in here but pings are terrible at 100-200ms. I'm hoping it'll improve over time though as today is the first day it's active. — — — — — Edit: DAS turned off for about an hour for all carriers and came back. Now pings are 30-40ms with peak speeds over 100Mbps on T-Mobile. Edit 2: Looks like Band 2 is at 10MHz on the DAS as opposed to 15MHz on macros. Band 66 is at 20MHz though.
    1 point
  27. I connected to 4xCA in midtown. — — — — — Sprint eNB Unknown -> T-Mobile eNB 348926
    1 point
  28. Looks like T-Mobile is now on the site near Bear Mountain Inn that Verizon built in 2020 and AT&T joined in 2021. — — — — — The Sprint conversion on One Brooklyn Bridge Park (360 Furman St) actually has much better range than we initially thought. It seems that the antenna is adjusted downward to cover Furman St and Brooklyn Bridge Park. I maintained a much stronger signal driving along there than I did walking along the promenade or driving on the BQE. On Furman I stayed connected to the site all the way to Clark St where I only disconnected because I connected to the small cell near the Cranberry Street Ventilation Shaft. — — — — — Also spotted a new Verizon site on top of 10-25 Jackson Ave in Long Island City, continuing the trend of Verizon immediately hopping onto newly constructed buildings. I wish the other carriers were as proactive about new builds. T-Mobile used to be fairly good about building new sites before the Sprint merger and they're finally wrapping those up so we'll probably start seeing more but AT&T rarely ever adds new sites. Even the new AT&T site on Vanderbilt & Myrtle in Clinton Hill was built to replace another site that got decommissioned two blocks over.
    1 point
  29. Has anyone had an issues with site notes disappearing since the last beta update? I'd say at least 9 out of 10 site notes are now blank in the app, both for 5G and 4G sites. It started with 4.831b.
    0 points
  30. A bit of an embarrassing moment for AT&T this afternoon when I went into an indoor garage in Alphabet City and saw this in the status bar. Instead of spending money on a million small cells to fill in gaps in their outdoor coverage where their macros barely reach, they should just add more macros like their competitors do and it'll help both outdoors and indoors.
    0 points
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