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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?!?!

Why is Sprint not using the Air antenna type?

Was not commercially available and does not support CDMA. 

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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The order above does nothing to improve competition. Nothing.

 

 

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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.

I dont care if it reduces prices per say i just want more competition in my area. currently we have only 1 service provider and that is time warner. we pay like $70 i think for 30/5 and we are also in an area that will be spun off into charter assuming they let comcast/time warner merge.

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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wifi calling is good at home but I experience this around my area as well. 1x800 works great and will fix it. trying to figure out how to get the PRL now

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

Has anyone had any luck with band priority after rooting and M8? I really need to stay on the 800 band while not on LTE. The area I live in 1900 is crap  but my phone stays on it most of the time. I have to do something about this. I've called sprint 3 times which is a waste of time. I love their answer "put your phone on CDMA mode and it will stay on 800" I laugh at them, I've been there done that. The phone acts no different on that mode or LTE mode. The signal is there just give it to me!!!!!!!

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?

Hopefully Sprint fixes the last few areas in Broward County without Sprint Spark. Im getting a new phone in a week (iPhone 6 plus) And my area Coral Springs / Margate isn't in coverage area according to sprint maps. I just checked I'm in a area Sprint calls "Best 4G LTE" yet i just checked signal. -108 on Band 25 standing outside in road. Defiantly not best signal.

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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Fully rebanding on the canuck side wont happen till late this year or early next year  which will allocate enough for 5x5 LTE 800 + 1x800. Full rebanding in the southern border will happen late this year and well into next year for 3x3 LTE 800 + 1x800.

I thought they would have 5.5x5.5 along the southern border?

So they could do 3x3 LTE and 1x800 or 5x5 LTE.

I had a Tandy 1000 HX and an IBM PC XT at around the same time. Got the Tandy from a Radio Shack throw out (that is, they were throwing out the overstock and didn't care who took them, since the computers had been discontinued for several years already). I remember being stumped about why I couldn't install applications to C:\. I didn't find out about DOS being on a ROM chip until much later.

 

My dad's IBM PC XT was from the university he worked for. Both machines were pretty interesting to mess around with...

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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