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    Coverage Map Update 10/11

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    All of the Verizon upgrades happening in my market are LTE-only. The new equipment they are installing isn't CDMA-capable. 
    As far as I know in my market Verizon CDMA is still active. Sprint better get its butt in gear and install some more cell sites macro cells won't cover the coverage gaps that Sprint has in my market. I'm in the central New Jersey market.

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    Coverage Map Update 10/11

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    I'm not sure if anyone noticed this, but as of the 10/11 coverage map update, roaming on the LTE/NR coverage map now mirrors AT&T's UMTS/HSPA/LTE coverage.  That being said, it notably no longer includes Verizon roaming coverage at all.  The EVDO coverage map doesn't display Verizon roaming either.  Verizon CDMA coverage is only displayed on the voice coverage map along with AT&T UMTS/HSPA coverage.  
    Looks like were going to see a lot more AT&T roaming and a lot less Verizon roaming soon.
    Verizon cdma shut down is happening as we speak

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    Fairly new.  Maybe under two months.  I know there is a 10 story or under office building in its path.  But the hotel t mobile is on I believe is a couple stories higher.  But maybe you're right about it will take some time for adjustments or whatever they need to still do. I can give you the address? But most of the band 71 sites aren't impressive right now. 
    Where I live T-Mobile launched band 71 on pretty much every site. But the capacity is only a 5 MHz chunk of the 10 megahertz they own here. But then again it is what it is.

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    Yep. We won't be seeing 5G from anyone for at least 10 years. 
    Exactly. I don't even pay attention to it anymore. Whenever someone mentions fifth generation network technology I just sit back and chuckle. Besides they're a joke if they think they're going to run 5G on 5 MHz of band 71. in my area T-Mobile runs it on 5 MHz of band 71 even though they have 10 megahertz total. It's a total joke that's why they stop paying attention and long ago after they rolled it out here.

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    So band 71 is new here but useless. My phone was staying on band 2 at -120 to 125, then catch band 12 which wasn't much help, and then band 71 didn't help. I wasn't far from the site and no really big obstacles blocking signal. I'm assuming it's still being tested? 8415e388cd540694fcae8418d8476c86.jpga7b0e70b606dc6f33e9bae981278086b.jpg

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    Note 9 rumor thread.

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    Nope. Sprint model is in the same boat. Closing in on 3 months without a update.

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    I just go with unlocked phones. Usually the time between software updates is better.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Sprint can easily fix capacity on some sites if they wanted to, with the opex expense. There's unused B41 that they could have deployed on just some sectors (such as ones covering stadiums and venues, where the current sectors are overloaded to the point of not working at all). Most Sprint sites don't even have the backhaul to fully utilize the spectrum that is on air. Not to mention the lack of rank 3 and 4, meaning they don't get the speed boost from 4x4. They probably figure there's no reason to enable it since they don't have the backhaul for it anyway.

    There are lots of ways Sprint could add capacity without adding macros, but they don't.

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    Well they still obviously also have to fix their dead spots. The dead spots that are within their own footprint. I haven't seen that happened here yet. But I'd like to see improvements though.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    This a thousand times.  99% of customers do not care about maximum speed.  They just want their mobile device to work properly for whatever they are trying to do wherever they are located.  It is much more important to get rid of no service areas and to improve capacity at sites where capacity is maxed out causing users to get no effective data throughput than it is to win the max speed measuring contests.
    Exactly T-Mobile covers my town much better than Sprint. but springs highway coverage is pretty good but once you get off the main highway and go a mile West the service drops the roaming or 3-g which is completely useless. so I'm interested to see if the merger will improve things in my area.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    It's an issue with Sprint 5G. But 85000 macro towers and lord knows how many small cells that tmobile would have should be enough.

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    Yeah I hope T-Mobile doesn't decommission any small cells that would work to their detriment. My man curiosity is in remote and rural areas of the country.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    No they dont because you are forgetting the AWS1, AWS3, B2/B25 PCS + 40MHZ of b41 can likely handle it.

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    But then again as well you need coverage for it. Speed is useless without coverage. I don't really care too much about speed what I really care about is a coverage and consistency of the network. Density is also an issue with 5G.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Max Speed would not change you are still limited by the phone design not the tower. More capacity is needed right now on the 4G side. 4x4 phone on 40Mhz is still 600+Mbps but they still need more right.
    Yes they obviously need much more. More capacity is needed. But then again more cell site density is also needed.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Why would you want to make 4G faster than 5G? That makes no sense at all. 5G needs to be impressive out of the gate. 80mhz for N41 and 60-80 for LTE. It's less work to do.

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    In my opinion 5G is overhyped. I actually don't care for it. But obviously there are usable applications for that a real world applications. so that's that for me as a general consumer from my point of view I don't see 5G as something as revolutionary as LTE was back in the day.

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