lynyrd65

The same reason the dinosaurs are dead

Not quite, there are no competitive carriers in his area.

I expected this program to take off last year. It will be interesting to hear timing details tomorrow. I believe its no coincidence T-Mobile's leadership has talked up LTE roaming on regionals in 2015. I attribute that to T-Mobile's rural buildout. They will want to wait until they've covered their existing footprint before allowing LTE roaming (potentially very expensive otherwise). Maybe Sprint will allow band 2 and band 5 LTE roaming sooner?

It looks like its only the top part of band 41 spectrum.

China Mobile's version already supports band 41. I'm not sure why they couldn't have added it for Sprints iPhone if they could for China Mobile. Edit: nvm it's band 38. Which is still TDD 2600, (I wonder what the difference is.

I'm surprised no one's asked why not aggregate two band 25 carriers. That makes a lot of sense to me when band 41 is a ways off for some areas where the single g block carrier doesn't cut it.

Sprint has LTE in enid. which makes a pretty easy choice on the data side. The issue is likely the voice side. West of Enid is roaming for Sprint but its free roaming and on a much faster network (even if it is 1xRTT). Edit: coverage kind of looks iffy, maybe you should visit and test their coverage for yourself.

Unfortunately I can't check that anymore unless I steal a phone from a relative. If no one else does it I'll try to do it sometime this next few weeks.

I suspect it will return with volte. Some devices have nascent volte capabilities too (not sure on G2) so there is some hope.

If you came from Evo LTE's I expect you will absolutely love the G2 for LTE even before spark and band 26. The evo lte was one of the worst devices for rf performance.

No way! I just noticed that the site is the same one I first saw NV begin with way back when. Thats great!

Q4 2014 is extremely optimistic. I would guess Q4 2015 is when they start here. Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk 2

They're out there, thats for sure.

There is LTE there.

This is why for my main line, I can't use T-Mobile. All I meant to say is there is a possibility and a way that T-Mobile can improve if they decide to do it. One thing that interests me is T-Mobile's promise to deploy in Q4 2014 with what they bought. If its true channel 51 issues must have been resolved by that time.

My 2 cents, I love what T-Mobile is doing with uncarrier. It makes the most sense plan wise and if it weren't for their coverage the plans would satisfy everything I want from a plan. That being said, I am disappointed that T-Mobile feels they have to wait until they have low band spectrum before they upgrade their rural foot print. I think I know why, (islets of coverage to due GSM sites being spaced out to their maximum), but even islets of coverage would be better to have in the interim and I don't think in the case of HSPA they would be. Its true that T-Mobile's 700mhz A-Block licenses are limited to a few areas but I truely believe they will buy more. If you look at who owns the majority of the A-Block spectrum, its not small operators like US Cellular, it's not big operators like Verizon but spectrum holdings companies like Cavalier. If and when T-Mobile buys that spectrum it will have as much nationwide licensing available as they want (except where US Cellular has already deployed it which makes a good case for being acquired by T-Mo). I think T-Mobile has waited too long to be able to kill Sprint though. I expect a quick bounce back to relevance in the speed competition with 800mhz (just because of the higher signal strength, which I believe to be one of Sprints main issues).

i settled on "Roaming" a while back. It suits me pretty well.

I really hope Sprint hashes out their own no cost (for data and texts anyway) international roaming agreements. While I wouldn't use it often it would be a real boon to have when I do. I'm hoping the pressure causes Sprint to do something to make international roaming more reasonable.

Q2: no, there are no apple devices currently available that work on the 700mhz A Block T-Mobile just bought. Its a damn shame too. US Cellular who also uses LTE in that band has had to deploy LTE in another band (850mhz) just to be able to carry the iphone. I suspect the next generation of iPhones will support it though.

Some brilliant Sprint reps at a corporate store (who insisted sims were only for international use not LTE) refused to activate my iPad air. They said no sim was necessary, just a valid MEID (which apparently my (originally) Verizon iPad Air does not have). Something really should be done about these reps. They should be required to read the FAQ on this site. The whole experience soured my interest in the plan and I reverted back to free T-Mo data.

For me its hit or miss because the 2G network is widely unmaintained. I can find a signal in areas no other carrier covers but (sometimes) when I try to use it no data transfers, texts don't go through and I can't make a call. Other times I can make a call (after a 30 second to 1minute delay) and nothing else works. I have yet to find a rural edge site in my entire state that transfers ANY data. The only sites that transfer data are GPRS which they do at 10kbps or less. Sometimes there are areas where coverage is advertised but I get no service at all. I have walked up to their site and seen no service. When I call these in they dispatch crews and bring them back online with the same EDGE signal that transfers zero data. There is a difference between prioritizing urban areas and ignoring a massive part of their network entirely. As many failed sites (no service) as I am able to find, that is likely the case. If they want to change their image to a premium carrier then they must make these areas usable. Its an open secret that this is their problem. If it weren't one many would switch.

Here are some of them from T-Mobile http://www.t-mobiletowers.com/TowerSearch.aspx Quite a few sites here (you can try to figure out who based on coverage maps) SBA Sites

The truth that higher profits are on the horizon

Its a portmanteau of horizon and veritas

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