gman1000

Band 26 (eventually) could be used on that site to provide better indoor coverage to all of the neighborhoods in the area. There is also poor to no coverage further west down the canyon within the park.

Things are slowly getting better as far as data speeds go in San Diego but site density still lacks in my opinion. The data speeds are fine for my needs generally. If the past is an indication of the future then our densification with be slow and additional macro sites even slower.

It's working great south of Cancun as well. It turns out to be very helpful to have when luggage is lost for three days. It's very nice combined with wifi calling.

Sprint will be the only provider not in Yosemite Valley with TMo going on a VZW site.

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectID=57849

I updated to 9.2 then received the carrier update to 23.1.

Hit some Movistar roaming 11 miles north of the U.S. border in far east county yesterday. It surprised me that was the only coverage available. I received texts indicating costs (.20/minute, texts free, some data included but no indication of how much).

Perhaps they have some panels facing north to help cover the trafficking areas.

I am on 3G on my iPhone quite often in San Diego as well. We are definitely not a strong network market with our border issues and slow upgrades/expansions.

I have mostly been on 3G and 1X in San Diego ever since carrier 20.1 came out for the iPhone. It is hard for me to know what is network related and what is phone software related since that update. It has been a sub-par experience either way but things still work on 3G. On 1X I usually get a no network connection error. With iOS 9 coming I am hoping there is an improvement with an updated carrier bundle.

I am stuck on 3G or 1X often in areas where I know there is LTE ever since the iphone carrier version updated to 20.1. The change was pretty obvious as soon as the update occurred.

That price point will not cut it.  Operators typically pay wholesale approximately $.10/MB for roaming data.

 

AJ

I would be willing to pay that plus a reasonable markup for their overhead. 

Has anyone been out on highway 8 in far east San Diego county recently? I drove it this weekend and noticed stretches of Sprint 1x coverage where previously it was Verizon roaming on 1x. Is it possible that 800 mHz is being tested on a single tower out there or is it too early? I understand that it may just be the result of the placement of RRUs, new antennas, etc.

As an aside, I was in a remote area next to the border which had great Sprint LTE service and poor or nothing on other providers- my phone was popular among the people that I was with. It was the luck of the draw with site placement and unusual to have better service in the middle of nowhere than in town (unloaded tower, generally).

Anyone interested in a case with massive battery life increase with removable batteries? They have it for the 6 & 6+.

 

https://stacksocial.com/sales/zeroshock-battery-case-iphone-6

That seems like a decent deal and much cheaper than the Mophie that I purchased. I use these for multi-day excursions in the backcountry.

For those want to look up permits in San Diego, found a cool map that shows each permit.

 

http://opendsd.sandiego.gov/web/Maps/ApprovalsDiscretionary

Very nice- I wish the county had something similar.

For the San Diego region, this is from the February minutes of the Regional Communications System meeting which is the 800 MHz system in use in San Diego and Imperial counties.

7.2Imperial County - Director Green reported there is nothing new to report.800 MHz Rebanding Update - Mr. Root reported there is still no word from the FCC and the Transition Administrator on when the new frequencies will be cleared in Mexico. He added there is the approval to go ahead with programming of the subscriber radios. Staff has been working with the City of San Diego and the operators of other trunked systems which are in some user's radios to build the new radio programs. Mr. Root anticipates programming will start around the first of April 2015.

My wife and I have been having intermittent calls going straight to voicemail since turning on wifi calling on iPhone 6s. I figure they have some bugs to work out. Otherwise it has been great to have.

I was up the 15 corridor and stayed in Butte and Bozeman and did not find anything but roaming. However, I had an iPhone 5 at the time so that did not help.

Thanks- my wife said that worked so far.

Anyone seeing anymore info as to when the IPhone 6 will get wifi calling?. I remember reading something about a Sprint exec saying within 60-90 days but that was late last year.

 

 

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I actually just logged in to see if anyone knows the answer to this question myself. We're now getting very choppy reception at our house (no 800 in San Diego) and my wife is complaining. We have an Airvana but the iphones connect only sporadically. I'm guessing that some optimization is going on and so far we're on the losing end of it so WiFi calling may our best solution.

Except in the IBEZ. There's no 800 equipment at all at most of those.

This is a single data point only but I have a pic of 800 mHz RRUs on a site in Poway. They are not hooked up or weren't about ten months ago when I took the picture.

I found this article interesting regarding the Myers-Briggs test-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific

I got in at $.93 so it's all good at this point.

 

It'd be different if it was an addition but it is a removal. And I'll have whatever umbrage I want' date=' however there was none to be found. I'm one of the few people on here that understands that Sprint is a corporation with competition and financial responsibilities. You don't always need to be so defensive.[/quote']

 

You are one of the few ? I'm interested in hearing how that conclusion was reached. Exactly how many others are there?

I am wondering if 800 mHz deployment in San Diego county may be slow due to the frequency usage issues in the border area. We really need Sprint to use 800 mHz in the backcountry here since there is little to no coverage with Sprint 1900 mHz.