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So today I was headed back from Park Rapids to Fergus Falls, and I noticed a strong 3G signal in an area that used to be extremely weak near the intersection of MN 210 and MN 29. The area has always been a bit of a coverage hole, if you look at the NV market map and the Sprint coverage map, I'm sure you can see why. There is a large cell tower at the intersection, but clearly Sprint has not been located there in the past, otherwise the surrounding coverage would be much better. Today however, I was receiving an EXTREMELY strong 3G signal in that area, though it did still drop off as I headed west through Henning (which is the location where I was hoping Sprint would add a site to improve coverage from there through that intersection). We maybe have a site add?!?!

Originally, the radios were inside the cabinets on the ground. Power and data cables flow into the radios, and a broacast signal flows out to the antennas over coaxial cables. As soon is this happens, you have signal attenuation and an opportunity to introduce interference. An RRU lets you move the radios out of the cabinet and closer to the antenna, thus reducing the attenuation. The AIR antenna effectively builds the RRU into the antenna, making the effective distance almost zero. Now an RRU can give you 98% of that benefit, if you mount the RRU right next to the antenna. Or you can mount the RRU further away from the antenna (maybe the structure can't support that much weight at that height), but you introduce more signal attenuation/interference the further from the antenna you move it. So you get some additional flexibility using that setup. But it does make the setup a little more complicated, and there may be some benefits in terms of total weight or wind loading by combining the RRU and antenna into a single unit. So there are pros and cons to doing AIR vs antenna and RRUs. But naturally if it wasn't available at the time and doesn't support CDMA then it wasn't an option for Sprint.

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And nowhere in my post do I claim that it will.... I was trying to point out that there is a huge customer benefit just from customers who have 1 or maybe 2 options, getting 3 or 4 options. I'm not trying to score points for Title II here, just making the point that even if you don't have a highly competitive market with dozens of options, even moving from monopoly/duopoly to oligopoly or Monopolistic competition is a substantial improvement from the customer's point of view.

My feelings also. I don't need an unlimited choice of providers. But I would hope most people would have the choice of a couple wired providers, plus some fixed wireless options.

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Electric Shock.

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Oh Brother

Top Dog

If you look the the NV complete map, you will see why you might not always be on 1x800....

I'm just curious, but what do you mean when you say that "1900 is crap" where you live? Do you mean you are always dropping calls, missing incoming calls, or that you get choppy audio?

LTE should be useable all the way down to -115 RSRP. In my experience, once Band 25 gets to -115 then it kicks you over to band 26, if it's available.

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I thought they would have 5.5x5.5 along the southern border? So they could do 3x3 LTE and 1x800 or 5x5 LTE.

The first computer in our house was an IBM PC XT that my father bought. I still have it, and last I checked, it still boots up into DOS 3.1 just fine.

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