WiWavelength

Close. Youngstown, OH. It is basically the "Alaska" of the Lower 48. Yeah, but even Youngstown is getting Network Vision sooner rather than later. AJ

Game. Set. Match. S4GRU wins. AJ

Touch the Wiz. Nobody beats it... AJ

For the time being, Sprint may have turned down the sync and paging channels on SMR 476, leaving only the pilot channel running. In that case, the carrier will show up on a spectrum analyzer, but mobiles will not be able to attach to it. AJ

No, that is incorrect. Whether they are called NIDs, LACs, "paging zones," etc., every cellular wireless technology geographically segments networks in some way. There is simply not enough MSC capacity nor paging channel capacity to have an entire network be a single "zone." AJ

Honestly, I am not surprised. My suspicions had been raised, as I have not had CDMA1X 800 for about the last week now. If the carrier channel assignment has been shifted from SMR 476 to SMR 487, that would explain the disappearance. Sprint may have determined that it needed to shift the CDMA1X 800 carrier up a few hundred kHz for out of band emissions reasons. Who knows? But this change should not affect the 5 MHz FDD LTE 800 carrier at all. Even at SMR 487 with a downlink center frequency of 863.175 MHz, the upper 625 kHz of the CDMA1X carrier should extend to around 863.8 MHz. On the downlink, that still leaves 864-869 MHz for the 5 MHz FDD carrier. AJ

Somebody else be the guinea pig. Check to see that Field Trial and Testing APKs are still accessible. Otherwise, I am not touching any update, which can easily amount to two steps forwards, two steps back. AJ

Differential loading among the sectors over time causes changes in Ec/Io. AJ

Complainers are prone to exaggeration. AJ

Yes, but my last word tends to be far more intelligent than "First." AJ

Correct. You took the words right from out of my mouth. Quad band: Cellular 850 MHz band, AM band, FM band, and Citizens band. AJ

Equal opportunity, equal time. That said, do not pursue the politics behind this topic. Everyone is warned. We have already *shut down* one thread today due to contentiousness. AJ

And thank the obstructionist GOP. But we are not going down that path. Partisan political discussion has no place at S4GRU. AJ

My favorite line is "Read a book you illiterate son of a @#$%, and step up your vocab." That is practically my mantra. AJ

So, the Ford Pinto parallel is perfectly apropos. And I think MacinJosh had an EVO Design. That makes sense, too. AJ

It is both hilarious and sad that almost any two year old mid range smartphone is now the equivalent of a Ford Pinto... AJ

Mario and Luigi moved to Florida, but Toad and the Princess stayed behind in DC. They are holding up the licensing in their local jurisdictions. AJ

UHF channel 52 is gone. That is now the uplink of the Lower 700 MHz A block 6 MHz FDD license. Additionally, UHF channel 37 will not be refarmed because it is used for radioastronomy. AJ

Well, it is made out of gold. It has to be, right? It is an iPhone. AJ

No. Your question was already answered above. Did you not see that post? AJ

I have included some ERP/EIRP figures in the comments following the Z30 article. Power output does not look as solid as in previous, more traditional BlackBerry handsets. AJ

No. Due to the shutdown, we are going back to the "stone age" of wireless. Since no new handsets will be approved, you will have only two choices: a car phone or a bag phone. AJ

External, extensible antennas -- yes. Bag phones -- no. To my knowledge, Sprint never offered any bag phones. PCS 1900 MHz devices were conceived as small, handhelds from the very beginning. That was to be one of the advantages of PCS 1900 MHz over Cellular 850 MHz. AJ

We probably will not do a full write up on the Z30, so for those interested, here is a snapshot of the ERP/EIRP figures. They do not appear as strong as in previous BlackBerry devices. band class 0 CDMA1X/EV-DO 850: ~20 dBm band class 1 CDMA1X/EV-DO 1900: ~22 dBm band class 10 CDMA1X/EV-DO 800: ~22 dBm band 25 LTE 1900: ~21 dBm AJ

I am not sure why you would ask this question in the first place. If the info is available, it has been posted. That is the primary purpose of S4GRU. Regardless, why would you create a new thread to ask this question outside of the relevant market thread? Please do not do that. Threads merged... AJ