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  1. Bob Newhart
    Does anyone know the directions of the antennas within the airave? So I know which way to point it in the house.
  2. Bob Newhart
    yep, I have seen that too when I used Tmobile for a month. H+ was indicated on the phone, but no speed test ever went above 1Mbps, anytime of the day. These cell companies can have all the spectrum in the world but if they don't have the towers correctly connected to a network, makes no difference.
  3. Bob Newhart
    I was in Royal City, WA the other day, where US Cellular has EVDO and LTE, and of course my phone only roamed '1x', such a shame.
  4. Bob Newhart
    In Felony Way I saw eHRPD on my phone, if that means anything.
  5. Bob Newhart
    You can disable background data in ICS/JB too. You must enable a data limit, set it high if you want. Then select each application and disable background data for each application you want to. Sent from my PC ---- sigs should be illegal, etc.
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    LG Optimus G

    Bob Newhart replied to khammondnm's topic in LG

    I had a LG G2x for a short while, completely buggy and LG never fixed it, that is why a lot of people stay away from LG, very poor support.
  7. Bob Newhart
    I wondered ... if we can we put a T-Mobile uSim that is using the $30 5GB pre-paid plan into a Nexus7-3G?
  8. Bob Newhart
    DirectTalk is a great feature of the iDen phones, maybe one day that will be on regular phones. My guess is that the cell operators do not want that as a feature. It would be so handy for when we're not in the coverage area or on a cruse ship... or in the middle of nowhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOTO_Talk
  9. Bob Newhart
    I thought HSPA+ does both voice and data, where LTE currently only does data. Does a HSPA+ signal have a better range than a LTE signal, like EVDO does?
  10. Bob Newhart
    What is the reason you have an airave if you have such good Sprint native signals?
  11. Bob Newhart
    This included in the Sero-P fee. I'd use it for a few minutes before it got annoying and have to uninstall it.
  12. Bob Newhart
    That is how printed newspapers are and how cable tv is, and why they're both dieing. I do hope that this sprint-clear control buyout won't cause Sprint to go belly up.
  13. Bob Newhart
    Does anyone know why the cell phone market is a closed system in Japan? Is it forced by the government or a commercial reason. When you go to Japan, you can't buy a SIM card like you can is most other countries, you have to rent one or rent a phone. Costs hundreds of dollars per week I hear. Norway is the same way, a little more open though.
  14. Bob Newhart
    I feel Nextel is a better than a name that sounds like a bank, a soft bank.
  15. Bob Newhart
    Who knows, some might. I just feel that large companies should be not be able to hang on to spectrum they might never use, ever. Otherwise other carriers will never have a shot. Even clearwire had to build the protection sites, which is a start.
  16. Bob Newhart
    The differences is that Sprint advertises unlimited, not limited. People should be free to use the phones as they see fit until their monthly plan changes. The problem with the population growth being out of control, and highway usages. The road taxes started to be pilfered off for other none road uses. I hope one day the US government says enough is enough on population growth instead of encouraging irresponsible reproduction by taxing the rest of us. People need to be educated more on many subjects.
  17. Bob Newhart
    T-Mobile has nationwide licenses, real nationwide spectrum in every squ inch of the country. Look at their actual markets and coverage. See this article here: http://www.tmonews.com/2012/10/what-will-a-t-mobile-metropcs-merger-look-like-on-a-spectrum-map/ See this image here: http://www.tmonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tmobilemetro3.png Does T-Mobile actually serve even 35% of that area? No, they should be forced to release the spectrum to rural carriers, as should the other larger cell companies.
  18. Bob Newhart
    I really do hope that Sprint doesn't buy any company at all. They need to finish what they have started first. I don't get the T-Mobile merger, neither company is actually using most of the spectrum they actually have. They should be forced to either use it or give it up.
  19. Bob Newhart
    I don't get why T-Mobile would buy (or merge) with MetroPCS, as it isn't even using the spectrum that is has allocated right now. The same for Sprint's national licenses, they don't cover most over the areas they are allowed to. The 'national' companies should be forces to return unused spectrum to the regional carriers. Grrrr
  20. Bob Newhart
    You do realise that a lot of us have a cell phone with a data plan specifically to stream mindless data such as pandora/spotify? Speedtests use is for scientific purposes of course right?
  21. Bob Newhart
    I wonder what 'nationwide' actually means, as all the companies use that term. Sprint does not have a xG nationwide coverage of any kind, no cell companies do. Unless . . . If I had a wifi AP in NY and another in LA, maybe I could advertise that I have a nationwide wifi network.
  22. Bob Newhart
    What has Sprint done with their 900 Mhz spectrum? And how much do they have and where?
  23. Bob Newhart
    It is ok nocturnal, this forum is normal, its nice that it doesn't tolerate nastiness to each other and swearing. Besides that, lots of good info here.
  24. Bob Newhart
    How does your plan come to that amount? On a two line family plan, Everything Data Share 1500, with the 25% discount (off part of the first line), it is $122.49 before fees, taxes, pretend taxes. The difference is $22.49, not huge. To be honest, T-Mobile will take up the Sprint drop offs if they raise their prices. I have the SEROP-500 plans, not anything higher, most of my minutes are considered mobile to mobile, even though I know I call home/businesses, strange how they calculate minutes.
  25. Bob Newhart
    As mentioned on this site, the spectrum isn't running out, its that the cell phone companies aren't building the cell towers close enough to each other. The more towers they have, the service area of each tower will be less. They point the radio antennas closer in. Look at Europe in the their large cities, they have cell towers in all manner of objects, people's house drain pipes, churches, lower power too.
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