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Sprint is spending lots of money. TMobile has been doing just fine with $4~5 billion on CapEx for several years.  Sprint is back up at this level.  If they maintain it, it just depends where they'd want to put that money.   They have excellent extended roaming agreements, and have one with TMobile for three more years. Out of site upgrades, site density, market growth expansion and new native coverage, I can see new native coverage being at the bottom of the list due to these agreements. Especially if Sprint wants to be a city leader in 5G NR.

Hmm thats a solid argument which I wont disagree with but...in my area sprints density is terrible especially off of the main highway.. A new cell site or two is needed for sprint to fill in two roaming holes that are huge.....and the same could be said for tmobile with density...

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If Sprint and T-Mobile were to merge, C Spire would see a dramatic drop in their network usage by Sprint customers as T-Mobile covers most of the areas C Spire does. This would lead to reduced revenue from roaming fees for C Spire.
Accordingly, C Spire being against the merger seems pretty logical. 

Oh I obviously. If you see a drop in Revenue that means a drop and overall income. That means less money to build out their Network or launch new services like fixed home internet services. I get they are against it. But at the same time even a reciprocating roaming agreement still puts a lot of strain on c-spire because they lose a ton of roaming Revenue as you just said.

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I did pick up band 66 in broomfield Colorado the other day.  I'm on sprint.  

That's good that shows that roaming with T-Mobile is active with Sprint

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I think Sprint can expand on its own, but it will just take longer than people want them too. Sprint (on their own) has made great strides just in the past two years in my opinion). 

Okay I don't disagree with you there. They have definitely made improvements. I just want to see overall coverage expansion and some more densification. Obviously that would take lots of time and lots of money. And we all know their financial situation. So I'm waiting to see with interest what happens here.

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Hope it works...

I personally want Sprint to stick around for a long time.

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Iron man

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T-Mobile finally updated their model of the S9 so the unlocked version shouldn't be very far behind. 

I'm waiting for mine to get the Android pie update. I have the T-Mobile version as well as Sprint and my T-Mobile version does not have Android pie yet

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Backhaul has always been a very weak spot for Sprint.   I remember talking about this 6 or 7 years ago or more, back in the 3G upgrade days.... every time a cell site was added.    It gets old having a company suffer from the same problems year after year.   Is T Mobile a bit more successful on getting backhaul to a site?         

Sprint hasn't even activated 3 carrier aggregation on the big cell site in town....backhaul is a huge sore spot for them...

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Anyone having issues with MMS with Wi-Fi calling, maybe after the VoLTE update? (I have the Active but pretty similar)

In a low signal area and didn't have an issue before.. Now the just stall downloading.

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How do I sign up for the Android pie update

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4 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Hey Dan, accidentally removed images when trying to hide your multiple posts. Sorry about that.

Okay so I'll just repost it not a big deal Tapatalk was acting up that's what was happening stupid application

Model T 

 

I know this is an old post [mention=410]bucdenny[/mention] but cox has been offering Gigabit (1,000 Mbps) speeds for over 5 years here.  I have had it out here in the "boonies" of ECV/SMR long before  ATT or any other piggybacked to light up those dark fiber lines here. (honestly thought Google was going to beat them to it)  Just did a quicked wireless vs wired) on same gigabit wifi network comparison.

 

 

  *Note, wireless test device is a note 9. obviously the wired device (computer) had a lower latency  than the wireless device but I was still and always have been impressed. of course ive been running a mesh network (Velop with 6 nodes for a 3000sq ft home) so i would expect nothing less.    having gigabit fiber along with wireless routers that can maximize those signals through dedicated back channels is amazing.  When something better comes around I will jump on it! 

 

I have seen Sprint (wireless non wifi) LTE speeds in excess of 100Mbps at times which is more than enough for the most dedicated individuals mobile needs.

 

That's not bad but this is my speed test over ethernet.

 

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That's my speed test over ethernet

Idk if that’s true.... I pay $140 for two lines (could drop to $120 but give up some features) that includes taxes and Netflix. With vzw it would be $180 plus taxes. Sure it’s $40+Netflix.

I’d rather Tmo and sprint charge a fair price and offer s kick ass network.

Not saying you’re wrong

Just my perspective.



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I know this may sound kind of messed up. But this is from my perspective. You need money to build out a network and I agree with raising prices to a reasonable extent in order to finance building out a new network and expanding coverage amongst other things. Because obviously without money you can't fix the cellular sites that are having problems can't expand coverage. And you can't pay lawyers to argue with the zoning board about the placement of cell sites.. the money has to come from some where.... building out and maintaining a cellphone network isn't cheap..

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About the same I guess? Haven't really paid attention.

Ok

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Nope even before wiping the phone it was smooth.

How are the boot times.

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Groovy.

Groovy indeed but still extremely expensive.

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Do you have to pay extra for unlimited?

no I don't

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I push terabytes of upload via cellular. For 15-20 bucks a line I can cover several locations and a car or two with cat-12 goodness for 120 a month. Each use case is different and pricing plans vary so much but ya can't knock people for getting online the best way they can fren [emoji2369] 

Okay that's a lot of data. I have Comcast and I use about three terabytes a month

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While many people laugh at the idea of 600MHz 5G NR, I think it is brilliant.  Doubling the slow speed at the edge of the cell will be far more useful/noticeable that going from 200Mbps to 400Mbps. The main issue is T-Mobile was not quick enough to get it included in the first 5G chipset.  It will take much much longer to build out mmWave to be as noticeable. 

And as far as I understand something as simple as a paperback book can impede a millimeter wave LTE signal.

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Many people can not afford or don't have the need for an ISP.  Smartphones and LTE tablets are their computers. The carriers have tie-ins with streaming TV services like Netflix or Hulu which further enable this.

I can relate to this. My Broadband provider Comcast is so ridiculously expensive I can barely afford it every month. I wish the carriers would roll it out sooner than later but obviously that's not possible. I I hope it's cheaper than what I have now.

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Finally! 

I might eventually switch myself to the note 9 house he experienced with Android Pie and the new update for the UI

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Maybe can be used in downtowns, malls, stadiums. I am more interested in CBRS, "C" band and 6GHz band. 

To me using the gigahertz bands for deployment I find it kind of ridiculous because you have to obviously build-out a Crazy Dense network.. but then again if that's what is available then so be it.

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Good luck on 5G on 28GHz penetrating my cement block building.

exactly and where I live there's trees and power lines so yeah TMobile faces a lot of Challenges.

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I have heard that equipment shortages are what is holding 600MHz back.

I wouldn't disagree with you at all. Obviously the equipment has to be manufactured and shipped. And we all know that cost a lot of money obviously. But also even though I'm a T-Mobile customer I can definitely say that the CEO runs his mouth a little too much. And the only thing I have to say when it comes to this 600 megahertz rollout is I'll believe it when I see it. But yes equipment shortages can do things like this. But I do agree with you.

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Any improvement is great!!     Glad for you!    Maybe as they clear more 600 mHz and deploy more 700 mHz and such, the other small town areas around you will improve as well!    Great to hear good news!  

Well I can definitely tell you that they need to deploy more cell sites near the center of town near the municipal building. But 700 megahertz here is fully built out. Now 600 megahertz coming online hopefully in the next eight weeks we just improve overall capacity. I have a band 71 capable phone so I will definitely report back the results.

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