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He is frustrated. At people who troll S4GRU. I don't think there is a difference between complaining and airing your frustrations. Robert
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You come into a Sprint site and start badmouthing Sprint and shocked that people respond and don't thank you? Please. Why can't you accept that some people are happy with their Sprint service? Why do you feel the need to try to convince people otherwise? To have people in NYC say they are happy with their Sprint service is not a bias against other carriers. Especially in a Sprint forum. Why is the only acceptable opinion to you is that Sprint sucks? Seems kind of trollish. Robert
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I don't think rural sites need more than two 5MHz carriers. If they need more than that, they aren't rural. Robert -
Sounds like a good deal to me. I pay $72 for 100Mbps. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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There is no more information that is available other than to say the Reading area is under deployment and all sites will be converted in the area. It will improve your 1x signal and each site will get LTE. 3G data services will also improve at each site once LTE goes live. The sites around Reading will get upgraded one at a time over the next 6-8 months or so. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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That decision hasn't been made either. Just providers sending in their wish list to regulators. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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All were put into the database. Any North American Nexus 5, sold by Google or Sprint or otherwise, can be used on the Sprint network. The problem was only the first few days. Once Google sent all the Nexus 5 MEIDs to Sprint, Sprint white listed them all. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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Eve's Temptation Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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If there is only one site on in the area, then it will be overloaded with too many users. Especially in a dense area like Downtown. It will take more sites coming online to provide proper capacity. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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Samsung will be done with their Network Vision conversions then. So every site will have Network Vision equipment installed, including LTE equipment. Band 25 LTE fire ups will occur on all Samsung sites that have had their backhaul upgraded. There will still be Samsung sites that do not have LTE after March though. They will go live one by one as backhaul is ready and integration crews get back to the site. Band 26 LTE integration crews come around behind Band 25 integration crews. We are already seeing Band 26 fire ups in Minnesota and the North Wisconsin market. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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Market Dyslexics...UNTIE!! Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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I don't believe there is any 3GPP banding of 600MHz yet. Not enough information is known at this time. No one is even sure how FDD would be applied across a spectrum that will still have TV channels in it. The fact it will not be TDD is amazing to me. If they take half of 600MHz and make it FDD uplink and the other half downlink...it could cause a lot of issues where the downlink channel could be clear, but the uplink channel in the same market has a TV channel in the way. If the FCC is not going to clear all 600MHz from all TV, and wireless broadcasters will have to work around any TV channels that refuse to sell, TDD seems to be the best option so we don't have any wasted spectrum due to a TV channel only blocking a downlink or an uplink FDD channel. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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Summer Evening Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro
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I know this cannot be extrapolated across every market, but AT&T has been one of Sprint's better backhaul vendors. It may have been the best ILEC of all. Robert
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I don't know what you're trying to say. But I can tell you I'm not in error. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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There are two Band deployments. The first is on old Clearwire WiMax sites. They are underway now. You can see the schedule in one of the Premier Sponsor threads. They basically are upgrading the sites in order of how busy they are. The second is adding Band 41 to Network Vision sites. As far as NV Band 41 sites, they will be deployed in waves within a market. Not on a market by market basis. They will focus their efforts mostly on the Top 100 largest cities in the country. They will likely deploy like they have with the WiMax sites being converted to LTE. They will start with the highest use tonnage sites first, and work their way down. So when they start adding Band 41 to Network Vision sites, they will start with the busiest ones first. Then work their way down to less and less busy sites until they complete. From the beginning until the end in 2 years or so, the amount of Band 41 sites will grow every quarter or so. Robert
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Who said what, exactly? Robert
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Yes. Robert
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SignalCheck Pro only shows you which 1x (voice) tower you were connected to. LTE sites do not broadcast their location, so no app can tell you that. You can only determine LTE connections by tracking Serving Cells and crowd sourcing with your market brethren. This is done in many market threads around S4GRU. Robert
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The BGR article is so bad: Sprint gives up on chasing T-Mobile’s Uncarrier 2.0 plan after just four months It is so far from accurate. It doesn't include anything about a new offer. Frames it as if T-Mobile is the reason why it dropped it. As if it couldn't handle giving its customers a way to upgrade. It is journalism malpractice in my opinion. No mention of Framily or Easy Pay initially. Just a journalistic joke. It's almost like they already have a narrative, and look for any headline to plug into it. Then write a few supporting lines to your preconceived narrative. Awful. They did eventually update the article to include the Framily and upgrade angle. But they didn't reference they edited to fix the facts and they kept the awful and misleading headline. Robert
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BGR's article is really bad on the subject. Makes it sound like Sprint is not offering an early upgrade plan at all anymore. Almost journalism malpractice. It's being replaced with EasyPay. Nothing to see here folks. Move along to the Framily thread...http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5308-say-hello-to-the-framily-inexpensive-but-potentially-confusing-new-sprint-group-plan-pricing/ Robert
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That is a great benefit. I wonder how many people who have this coverage through Wells Fargo do not realize it and unnecessarily pay for insurance. Robert
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defense strategy
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Dial ##4636#. It may ask you for your MSL code or lock code. If it asks for a lock code, dial SPRINT. If it asks for your MSL, then you will need to get that for your device. Once you get past the code screen, select Phone Information. Scroll down to where there is a drop down menu right above the Turn off radio button. Take note of what is selected default, because you will need to return to that. I don't know what is default on the GS4T. Select, LTE Only in the drop down menu. Wait about 10 seconds for it to change to LTE only mode. It will not need to reboot. You should now be in LTE only mode. If you are in LTE coverage when you do this, you will likely see the LTE icon go away, and your bars, but then the bars will come back in about 5-10 seconds and then the LTE icon. If you are in 3G coverage when you do this, then your 3G icon will go away and your bars will disappear. Nothing will reappear until you travel back into coverage. When you are done using LTE only mode and want to be able to make/receive calls again, go back in the same way you did before and change the Preferred Network Type back to what is was in the default. Robert
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