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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    Now after Tmo overbuilt almost all USCC coverage, now they want to sell.  Rich.  The spectrum is not all that valuable to them, and they may have to give some up.  It would really just be a play for customers and rural market share.

    It would be something if Tmo ends up being the dominant rural provider.  Remember when they were just urban areas practically?  They didn't even equal Sprint's highway coverage. A decade later, it's a totally different story. 

    Robert

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    Moto Edge 2022

    in Motorola

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    1 hour ago, Trip said:

    Follow-up:  I'm not going to standardize on this phone.  It's unfortunate, as I love pretty much everything about it, but there's a show-stopper that I'm not sure I can get around.  (And, of course, if it ends up not getting Android 14, that would prevent use of TA values, so I wouldn't standardize on it anyway.)

    Every so often, the phone resets the modem.  I've not yet identified a pattern, but essentially what happens is that every so often, the phone suddenly acts like the SIM was popped out and back in, and when that happens, the band locks get unset and I have to set them again.  It seems to happen most frequently about 15-20 minutes after leaving from the phone screen being off.  We went to the beach in August and it did it once on the beltway about 15-20 minutes out, and then didn't do it again the whole trip.  On Saturday around town, however, it did it about 15-20 minutes after leaving my second stop of the day, and then did it two more times within the next 15-20 minutes, and was fine the rest of the day. 

    It's particularly frustrating because it resets and Network Signal Guru has to be closed and reopened in order for it to work at band locking 2G/3G/4G again once the modem resets, and then I have to disable n2/n25/n71 one-by-one in the dialer screen since Network Signal Guru apparently doesn't support NR band locking. 

    In any case, it's not something I am able to manage across multiple devices, and even one doing it is frustrating.  I don't know if it's a common problem with the MediaTek chipset or something specific to this phone, but I'm considering avoiding the MediaTek chipset in the future. 

    - Trip

    That's frustrating.  Especially when mapping and you're moving Freeway speeds in traffic. For two reasons.  One, you may not notice and arrive at your destination and you missed mapping what you planned.  Or worse, you notice while you're driving and it's a big frustrating distraction.

    Robert

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