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Not so much due to battery dying throughout the day, but battery failure in general.

 

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A cell repair shop shouldn't ever charge more than $30-40 to swap the battery in the G2, hopefully it lasts for 2-3 years before you need to do that.  It's a 3 step removal for the battery.  It is just not easily interchangeable for the lay person. 

I was off the charger at 6:04 this morning.  I was at 7% by lunch.  I pulled it off the charger at 100% at 1:30 and now i'm down to 74%..in an hour.

-William

I consistently use about 7.5GB of 4G data, 1GB of 3G data and 15-25GB on WiFi with my G2.  Compound this with 3,000 texts and 700-2,000 minutes of talk time monthly.  On weekdays it is off the charger at 7:00, battery is half dead by noon and around 10% by 6:00 pm.  When i had my Samsung S3 I was recharging by lunchtime.  I  don't think the ZVC update has made any difference in my battery life, but I find the phone glitching and freezing; which I never experienced before the update. 

-William 

I have the S3 and my 2 year contract is up.  I still like contracts and will sign another 2 year contract when the LG G3 comes out.  As soon as Samsung introduced Knox for all without choice for us non-business users I was done with them.  I was wanting the Note 4, but I won't wait for it due to Knox.  The G3 sounds like exactly what I am looking for.  Hopefully their support/updates gets as good as Samsung is today though.

 

LG has been excellent with updates so far.  No reason to think they will not support the flagship model for 2-3 generations.  I expect to receive updates on this phone until 2015 when I grab the G4  .

-Will

Got the update!

Happy birthday Robert!

3.5 is great for outdoor LTE, and is a serious contender in the fixed wireless game.  One Son is preparing to be a heavy hitter in.  

Would you not want the flexibility of a network that would allow you 100+mbps outside on your mobile, and inside on through your home wifi via a fixed terminal connection on your home?

-William

Has anyone tried out a KIA Sportage or any Hyundai counterparts? They are excellent cars.

The fire theory doesn't make sense in light of yesterday's news. It was released that the flight path had already been programmed to change before the co-pilot spoke on the last transmission. If it had been a fire, they would have likely signaled mayday on that last transmission.

 

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Another dying theory, I agree they wouldn't sign off calmly in a fire.

It's hard to believe anything the media says, the fire theory makes the most sense in my head.  

Kia Sportage AWD turbo, my dad loves his. Rain,snow, ice and it powers through them all.

Lte around Tucson was atrocious tonight. Reminded me of the old days, except getting no data through a fiber backhauled 4g pipe is exponentially less acceptable.

 

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Hopefully you realize the flaw in that statement.  5MHz is only 5MHz and this is shared by a community. Thousands of little data monglers gobbling away unlimited.  

I was out in Elmhurst running some errands earlier when I saw this little guy on York St. and I-290. This tower can't be taller than 25'. Probably the lowest cell tower I've ever seen.

 

From York St.

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From EB I-290

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That's a 40 footer!  The shortest of it's kind 

800 MHz is SMR and not Cellular from what I understand. I am pretty sure "cellular only" would limit you to 850 mhz CDMA to roaming.

That is correct.  Verizon, USCC, whoever your roaming partner is for the area. 

-William

To be clear, band 8 is GSM 900 MHz -- so called because it was the original GSM band in Europe.  It has since been refarmed to some extent to W-CDMA.  More importantly, though, we do not have that band in the US.  ISM 900 MHz is considerably different, as it is unpaired. AJ

Thats correct, 900 MHz is TDD MIMO. It does not adhere to 3GPP parameters.

Is band 8 900MHz ISM?

Yes. But that is not the band I would have trouble deploying in OKC, band 43 is the capacity king. Im going to pipe down now, but almost each site now utilizes 4 bands and up to 120MHZ of spectrum. We have a guy in Norman pulling 250mbps at his house over our wireless. Yes 250mbps. Unfortunately backhaul of that scale is not available at other sites.

That woodshed over my head, please expand/explain. Thanks.

OKC has a license protection operator. They have about 10 sites in the metro. I have about 5 different ways to mitigate interferance, but I will still shy away from OKC, meaning when the capital is available;Tulsa deploys first. (I already have 3 LPO sites in Tulsa,and a few in the rest of the state)

Hopefully after the bulk of NV 2.0 is complete Sprint will turn their attention to filling in coverage and expanding it in areas that have outgrown current coverage. I just want Sprint to be the best it can be, that's all.

I can whole heatedly agree with that statement.  800MHz will work wonders for coverage when it deployed densely in the Metro's, and the capacity will be presented with the band 41 deployment which I suspect will begin to happen in OKC/Tulsa within 12 months. After that, Sprint has a treasure trove of spectrum.  They can stack LTE carriers,  Also, if Sprint play's their card correctly they could have other LTE bands they could deploy on.  

I'm hoping 800MHz LTE brings the data coverage up to parity with PCS voice coverage. Robert thinks I'm foolish for suggesting it, but I would really like to see 800MHz ev-do since my market has enough spectrum to support it. That way when I'm in the places that I lose PCS ev-do(and certainly don't have LTE) I will at least have some sweet 3g action. I don't think he understands how poorly spaced the sites are in the far east part of the metro. With how reluctant Sprint is to actually fill in or expand existing coverage with new sites I think my suggestion has serious merit especially based on financial feasibility.

 

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I think it is best to not invest any more than required on a fallback technology like EV-DO.  I would think adding band 26 to ALL the sites in Oklahoma, and not just what is represented in the current deployment schedule would alleviate the coverage problem Sprint is plagued with here.  Band 26 and 1X800 on every site will give a basic backdrop of consistent coverage, indoors, outdoors and even at cell edges.  It won't be a source for deep capacity though, and even in spectrum plush markets like OKC, There is not enough for a second carrier.  Though If I remember correctly the equipment can operate down to 1.4MHz carrier widths, essentially enough for a VoLTE carrier,or a narrowband LTE channel for mid-low range smartphones in the future.  (That is just a physical possibility, It is not to my knowledge a plan on behalf of Sprint)  Hopefully one day I can deploy band 8 through OKC metro, but even that will be delayed years due to a LPO from Edmond to Moore. 

-William

Masa Son hosting a presentation in Washington on March 11.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/softbank-ceo-hosts-mobile-web-event-amid-t-mobile-speculation.html

 

SoftBank CEO to Discuss Mobile Web Amid T-Mobile Speculation

 

Isn't this the same calendar day as the tragic Tsunami that Son is spending his life to re-mediate? Interesting, Wish I was invited.

 

-William

I  haven't noticed much action in Oklahoma lately as far as physical upgrades, but the effects of NV show. 

 

Outdoors I have LTE 90% of the time, Indoors I have LTE 40% of the time. 

At home I hold fringe LTE for a while, but with rows of apartments, houses and a few particular buildings band 25 loses grip in the interior of my house.  Luckily we have a mighty 3G network to fall back on.  

 

LTE 

 

3G

 

Back to WiFi

I might be being nitpicky here, but this confusion about the 900MHz band is something that annoys me. Why do you think that the Eurasian 900MHz band is unlicensed in the Americas? Or that LTE devices can operate on that band?

 

The US "900MHz band" is 26MHz wide at 902-928MHz. It's unpaired, and jam packed with stuff from cordless telephones to specialty modems for D2D communications. More accurately, its official designation is the "915MHz band." And outside of the US and Canada, you can't use it anymore. Mexico allows it in some places, but most of Latin America has reallocated to the 900MHz cellular band, which is a paired band. The 900MHz cellular band is 2x35MHz wide at 880-915 / 925-960 MHz. The only reason this band exists is because Europe couldn't release the 850MHz band when it developed and launched GSM (ISM services in Europe operate in a variable length 868MHz band spanning from either 863-870 MHz or 865-870 MHz, depending on the country).

Ive been able to operate on 900MHz through mild interferance. It is mitagatable in most sutualtions.

Is weather a factor in the completion of Tower Upgrades

Yeahhhh! Cant climb in a storm. They also cant climb if there's ice.

William

I am hoping that Sprint will restrict download to around 1 mb or less when this is occurring. Having idiots doing that could cripple even b41  . This isn't powered by magic like pCell technology which I still have no idea how will work. But let's stay on topic. Here's to hoping that the S5 isn't popular with consumers and they just stick with their s4 or go to the G2, Nexus devices. 

 

Personally, if I was with an S3 or later model android device I would not upgrade to the S5.  The nexus and its price range catches my eye, and the G2 is perrtyyy. Also a plus they are both triband.

I think it will be a popular device. Samsung has a cult following.

I'll be pissed off at the guys on WiFi + LTE hogging a sector. Samsung enginerrrd Simple radio aggregation,but it hurts operators and customers. Mindlessly streaming 4K over your 12mbps cable wifi at home and also drawing 3mbps for Sprint. You see almost no improvement in your video,but the folks who are mobile cannot load a webpage.