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1 hour ago, caspar347 said:
I'm guessing now that the merger is off they realize they're gonna have to match T-Mobile's huge-ish rural-ish buildout over the last year.
No. Why? Build out places where most people will not go anytime soon, if ever? And if most people think that they might, for example, go to Wyoming, they are gullible and/or stupid. I would rather that Sprint not go "chasing stupid"-- even if that might move the needle in perception. Instead, focus on being the best that Sprint can be in places where most people already are most of the time -- and that largely is within the established footprint
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ISIM, USIM, C all SIM for ISIM.
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21 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:
If you needed any more confirmation that Softbank plans on keeping Sprint Masayoshi Son said,
SoftBank likes Sprint so much that Masayoshi Son legally added Sprint to his name.
What a difference a comma can make...
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Un-usual™ Un-merger™ 2.0
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47 minutes ago, Fraydog said:
Some cable companies still are pumping out analog QAM channels.
All QAM -- whether wired or wireless -- is analog RF. But the information it carries is digital. There are no analog QAM cable channels.
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12 hours ago, though said:
how's the radio in the XL2 in your opinion?
I routinely have most recent unlocked handsets in house. And I judge RF performance primarily via band 41 affinity. In that regard, the Pixel 2 XL is significantly better than the Pixel XL, holding band 41 in many more locations during drive testing. However, it is not necessarily an apples to apples comparison -- like many other current generation handsets on Sprint, the Pixel 2 XL runs in always on SRLTE mode, while the Pixel XL falls back to SRLTE mode only occasionally. Additionally, the Moto X4 may be superior to both.
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8 minutes ago, imex99 said:
I enjoy my pixel 2 XL, thanks though!
You cannot play that card with me. I have a Pixel 2 XL. It is an odd duck. Unattractive appearance, finish, and feel. And that does not even address the second class OLED screen. Not worth $900+.
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18 hours ago, S4GRU said:
Official word? How can there be an official announcement that a deal is off..
T-Mobile announces Un-merger™.
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3 hours ago, S4GRU said:
18 months for a well cared for smartphone is not good.
The operative words are "well cared for." That, I almost never see among cellphones and their owners. Some people may say or think they exhibit appropriate concern, but compared to me, they treat their cellphones with all the care of red headed stepchildren.
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21 minutes ago, mikejeep said:
I'm having issues accessing S4GRU again when connected through my Verizon Fios...
Net Neutrality is dead. You have to pay for the Verizon Fios competitor access pack in order to browse S4GRU.
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1 hour ago, bmoses said:
...its south west a little bit from cumming, ia.
The person least happy with his lot in life: John Cummins, who works at the Kum & Go in Cumming, IA.
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18 hours ago, RAvirani said:
It’s the same deal with Bell/TELUS. Same network different brands.
There are only two nationwide networks in Canada. ROGERS/Fido and Bell/TELUS.
Eh, hold the phone. Not present tense. Future tense. That network sharing agreement is nascent, announced just this year.
In the past, Bell and Telus were east and west, exclusively and respectively, with reciprocal roaming agreements. Then, following additional Industry Canada auctions, Bell acquired spectrum in at least Vancouver and built out its own network, likewise, Telus in Toronto, Montreal, etc. Only now is that overbuilding competition getting undone.
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26 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:
Smarty pants
Correct on the first count. But, no, I am not wearing pants.
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15 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:
I still don't understand why you would need to do RF testing for VOLTE unless it is for hearing aid compliance.
That is part of it. VoLTE is a telephone voice service, just like the circuit switched voice that it supplements or replaces. No amount of misunderstanding or hoping is going to change that telephone voice services rightly have to jump through regulatory hoops that data services do not.
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22 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:
I just found out this tweet is fake.
Did you also just find out that the Tooth Fairy is not real and the Moon is not made of green cheese?
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34 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:
Not advocating shutting down 1x800 prematurely. But at some point VOLTE particularly on the 600, 700 and 800MHz will have to make up for it. LTE supports a 1.4MHz channel size so the spectrum won't go to waste.
Nobody wants the 1.4 MHz FDD carrier. Nobody, not users, not operators. On its own, the 1.4 MHz FDD carrier is too small bandwidth. In carrier aggregation, it is a waste of a limited number of carriers. No, 1.4 MHz FDD was a token, stopgap measure for 2010, not 2020.
34 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:Isn't the only reason that VOLTE get's tested by the FCC the hearing aid compatibility? And once it passes, it is a simple software or settings upgrade?
Too often, people erroneously seem to think that the FCC OET does RF testing. Nope. The FCC OET is a clearinghouse. OEMs and certified labs do the RF testing. Unless VoLTE testing already is in the bank but not submitted, additional rounds of RF testing are required. And if OEMs -- on their own or at the behest of providers -- do not decide that going back and getting authorizations for older devices is worth the time and money, then those devices will not do VoLTE.
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1 hour ago, bigsnake49 said:
VOLTE is not a hardware feature. It's a software or firmware update. Heck it just might be a carrier settings update. Between voice over WiFi and VoLTE with graceful handover over, CDMA and WCDMA will be forgotten really soon.
Eh, VoLTE is a hardware feature in that it requires FCC OET authorization. If a handset has not been lab tested and authorized for VoLTE in the FCC OET, then it ain't getting VoLTE. Bar none.
And if the CDMA1X 800 carrier were shut down prematurely because of a merger with pink poop, that would be a damn shame. It would favor "No Service" over fallback reliability. And rebanded SMR 800 MHz spectrum that practically is made for a band class 10 carrier would go to waste, not useful for anything else.
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39 minutes ago, JonnygATL said:
Amusing ...but misguided. I was referring to the RF capabilities.
Well, carrier aggregation falls squarely under the umbrella of "RF capabilities."
Maybe you are referring to other aspects of RF performance. But no one, to my knowledge, has written up any RF analysis. Rather, just someone in the peanut gallery says that the "RF in the Pixel 2 XL is really a turn off," and several of you blindly nod in accordance.
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On 10/6/2017 at 4:21 PM, rocketr said:
The RF in the Pixel 2 XL is really a turn off. The V30 is capable of 4X CA and the Pixel is not.
On 10/6/2017 at 7:07 PM, danlodish345 said:thats lame! thats why i didnt get the Pixel 2 ...... thats why i am going the the V30....
On 10/7/2017 at 5:44 PM, JonnygATL said:Oh I hadn't heard about that. Wow that can easily be a deal breaker. I clearly need to do more detailed research on the Pixel 2XL before I commit to buying it.
Bemoaning that 3x CA is not 4x CA is like complaining that your 12 inch penis is not a 16 inch penis.
Nobody needs 4x CA. Your e-penis already is big enough.
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30 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:
That's why they need to work faster to get B41 deployed. Wish their was a way for Nationwide 20x20 FDD since they are the only ones without it.
VZW, AT&T, and T-Mobile do not have nationwide 20 MHz FDD. In many markets, one, two, or all three lack the contiguous spectrum to deploy 20 MHz FDD.
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1 hour ago, danlodish345 said:
so theres a philadelphia in louisiana?
No. But there is an Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Close enough on both counts.
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https://blog.google/products/project-fi/device-setup-esim/
SIM cards are overrated -- and undersized. Hasta la vista.
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2 hours ago, cletus said:
My 64 GB Nexus 6P was $549! The 64 GB Pixel XL2 is $849. Have phones really become $300 better?
Pixel has been a paradigm shift. While Nexus was priced squarely at the mid range, Pixel is aimed at the high end flagship. Some surmised that to compete with the mind share held by Apple and Samsung, Google should raise its prices to a premium, as the buying public associates price with quality, status, etc. And that seems to have borne out last year and particularly this year.
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Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread
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Extending native footprint along I-80 is one thing. But building new footprint off the beaten path in Fumblebuck, WY, as T-Mobile is doing, is another thing. It has Magentans cheering, even though most of them will never ever use that coverage.
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