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  1. WiWavelength
    Did you enter the raffle? If so, then we will have former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris perform the drawing, and you shall be declared the winner. AJ
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    And the raffle winner shall choose the Nexus 5X -- so that S4GRU can take advantage of the current $80 promo discount at the Google Store. Yes, the Nexus 5X will do fine. AJ
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    John begs only with his S&M dominatrix. "Please, mistress, may I have another lashing -- while I Periscope it?" AJ
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    If you cannot tell, I am being flippant about the T-Mobile pervasion. AJ
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    Man, because T-Mobile is cool. Get hip to the Millenial crowd, cat. AJ
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    Holy cow, that 0.5 Mbps download, 20 Mbps upload is the worst example of asymmetric network congestion that I have ever seen. I would peg it as experimental error or statistical anomaly, but the 20 Mbps upload appears fairly consistent at that location throughout the day. AJ
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    I concur -- to an extent. But there is at least one hole in the data speeds theory: usage. I think that I have offered this or a similar analogy previously. A two lane highway with little traffic moving at 65 mph can seem a lot faster than an eight lane freeway with rush hour traffic moving at 30 mph. But which one actually is more functional, which one actually is doing more work? Constantly seeking out the fastest wireless network data speeds is like playing "Whac-A-Mole." If many gravitate to that so called fastest network, then it soon will no longer be the fastest network. Thus, move on to the next network that previously got unloaded and became the fastest. The cycle perpetuates itself. AJ
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    View the RootMetrics 1H 2015 national report. I and others have posted it multiple times. Sprint 3rd, T-Mobile 4th. AJ
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    That is possible. But Sprint does not "suck" any longer. Per objective network reports, Sprint beats T-Mobile nationally -- and in many individual markets. Yet, T-Mobile wins while Sprint loses on perception. So, Sprint has an image problem more so than it has an execution or performance problem. AJ
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    Marcelo moved the executive team out of their suites several months ago. This is not the first article to cover that action. AJ
  11. WiWavelength
    Give away free candy. Win points with the FCC and the public. Steal subs off of the other operators. Oversubscribe its network. Rack up massive debt on network buildout and spectrum acquisition. Destabilize Sprint to the brink of failure. Plead case that the two smaller operators necessarily cannot succeed on their own. Gain merger approval with T-Mobile in control. And, hypothetically, all of this could be in collusion with SoftBank -- even though that would be illegal. AJ
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    As far as I know, Republic Wireless has the same roaming coverage as Sprint postpaid. But Republic bills roaming data usage at 18.3 MB for every 1 MB. So, within reason, Republic does not care how much or what type of data roaming usage -- because the end user is going to pay for that usage. AJ
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    Could be either reason. Do the RF transceiver and baseband modem in your handset support 2x CA greater than 20 MHz FDD total? Do they support the 15 MHz FDD band 2 + 10 MHz FDD band 17 combo? AJ
  14. WiWavelength
    Yes, that 1 Mbps down, 8 Mbps up now is definite network congestion. And for those who want to argue that it is signal strength related, no, it is not. You do not get 8 Mbps on the weaker uplink with poor signal. AJ
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    If or when LTE roaming becomes active, Sprint may limit it to CCA/RRPP compliant handsets. But the Nexus 5 is too old for that -- it lacks band 12. AJ
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    AT&T holds both Cellular 850 MHz A/B block licenses in Miami-Fort Lauderdale. It is easy for AT&T to expand band 5 from 5 MHz FDD to 10 MHz FDD. AJ
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    I am unsure what you meant by "3x2CA." Did you intend to write 3x CA? The X8 LTE modem does not support 3x CA. The X10 LTE modem does, but it is unlikely that any of the current round of Snapdragon 808/810 handsets have the requisite hardware for 3x CA. Rather, that will come with the next round of handsets utilizing the Snapdragon 820 with X12 LTE modem. AJ
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    Remember that most any Best Buy Mobile stocks the Sprint V5 CSIM and sells it for $10. That is often the fastest, easiest way to acquire one. AJ
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    Yes, that is the report, though unverified. But the V5 CSIM is supposed to work in all Sprint devices that use a 4FF nano SIM. AJ
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    Yes, what handset are you using? If it is still the HTC EVO 4G LTE listed under your phones/devices, then you are getting the expected average LTE speeds. You have access to only one 5 MHz FDD band 25 carrier. Others with more recent handsets have access to one 5 MHz FDD band 25 carrier, one 5 MHz FDD band 26 carrier, and two 20 MHz TDD band 41 carriers. That makes a huge difference. Additionally, your friends and coworkers could be using VZW, AT&T, or T-Mobile -- all of which have lower market share than Sprint in the Kansas City metro, all of which have different LTE bandwidth configurations, but all of which are greater than 5 MHz FDD. AJ
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    I would not say that is "backwards." Yes, we often see the downlink speeds fall below the uplink speeds because of more downloading than uploading during periods of network congestion. But those depicted speeds look about normal for a somewhat weak signal and a moderately loaded network. Also, keep in mind that -- due to lower order modulation and lack of MIMO -- the max uplink speeds will be one half that of the max downlink speeds. And that is just in theory. In real world performance, I would say that one third is more typical. AJ
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    Only 10,000 posts? Staff view of this thread shows that this post already is #10,146. However, we had to hide 145 of those posts because they revealed -- who killed Kennedy, the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa, a cure for cancer, and John Legere's SSN. That other post we had to hide, well, it proved the Riemann hypothesis. AJ
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    No, this is the appropriate meme: "He said he was looking at online porn. But in actuality, I caught him donating to S4GRU -- again!" AJ
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    I wonder if this could be an e/CSFB issue. Post Android 5.0, the OS may handle e/CSFB differently. If LTE signal does not drop completely but falls below a threshold for reliable e/CSFB, then the dual CDMA1X and LTE signal display appears. At this point, I am not sure of causation, though I am sure of correlation. One experiment to try is with SMS latency. When the dual CDMA1X and LTE signal display appears, all data still passes via LTE. However, I have noticed that SMS latency is much higher. As I commented to Robert a few weeks ago, I suspect that SMS then is passing over CDMA1X, not LTE. When just LTE, SMS latency is almost instantaneous. You can try the experiment for yourself. AJ
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