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    Network Vision/LTE - Baltimore Market (including Annapolis/East Shore)

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    Thats pretty cool. I was just up in Bel Air and with T Mobile I was getting 10-25 Mbps down and 15-20 up. T mobile is terrible once you get north of bel air towards the PA state line.

    I live in Bel Air. Sprint has great coverage in Bel Air for the most part...it is a former WiMAX market. I have a T-Mobile test drive device right now, it seems to stick to LTE all over Bel Air, I've dropped to HSPA+ inside building, but it still is pushing 20Mbps, which is better than Sprint's 800LTE. But you are right, north of Bel Air in the more rural areas....T-Mobile is rocking Edge.

    Google verification problems

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    Google verification can be tough to make changes too. Best to disable it then re-enable it. My father in law recently got locked out of his Galaxy S5 and Google took 6 days to reset it and help him...all because he enabled two factor authentication.

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

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    Posted

    I always make sure I go into corporate owned sprint stores and not authorized resellers. That helps with the cs experience.

    In my area, the corp stores are awful. Every time I step foot in one, I get insurance added to my account, lol. Around my area, the resellers are EXCELLENT. They make an effort to earn customers in the future by helping however they can.

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    In my area, T-Mobile has 10x10 on band 4...easily 60Mbps. Sprint's band 41 is 20mhz here, and it's no more than 20Mbps (similar signal db). But I'd rather have continuous slower but more than usable speeds than clusters of 60+Mbps.

     

    I got a T-Mobile test drive device right now...impressed with the speeds, but not the coverage.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Baltimore Market (including Annapolis/East Shore)

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    Posted · Edited by joshuam

    I decided to speedtest my drive home from work recently. No, I was not driving :)
     
    No other data usage on the phone was going on...every test was LTE, if 3G was active, I would cycle airplane mode and wait for LTE to show up again. Mostly all reasons to be happy...this was MD-295 all the way to Harford County up I-95. There a few REALLY slow LTE tests, that area was just south of the Fort McHenry tunnel. Not sure if tower work or what, but I don't typically notice issues there.
     
     
    These are Ookla SpeedTest results (using the automatic server selection)

     

    Date ConnType Download Upload Latency ServerName ExternalIp
    6/9/2015 15:52:00 Cell 5,673 4,000 26 Baltimore, MD 66.87.83.125
    6/9/2015 15:35:00 Cell 6,196 2,063 45 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:33:00 Cell 8,468 3,075 56 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:32:00 Cell 4,819 4,103 32 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:32:00 Cell 19,168 8,521 33 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:31:00 Cell 17,092 1,932 33 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:31:00 Cell 2,257 3,233 35 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:30:00 Cell 2,405 550 299 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:30:00 Cell 6,340 1,332 34 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:29:00 Cell 8,618 1,880 32 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:29:00 Cell 12,801 7,369 33 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:28:00 Cell 16,789 6,240 49 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:28:00 Cell 1,860 1,538 155 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:27:00 Cell 9,626 934 32 Baltimore, MD 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:23:00 Cell 153 1,357 48 Washington, DC 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:22:00 Cell 735 2,736 61 Washington, DC 66.87.81.224
    6/9/2015 15:15:00 Cell 211 173 82 Washington, DC 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:13:00 Cell 1,725 646 88 Baltimore, MD 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:13:00 Cell 1,604 834 73 Baltimore, MD 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:10:00 Cell 9,481 4,206 54 Washington, DC 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:10:00 Cell 9,859 3,759 33 Baltimore, MD 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:09:00 Cell 7,164 3,481 33 Baltimore, MD 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:08:00 Cell 1,957 434 39 Baltimore, MD 66.87.82.71
    6/9/2015 15:08:00 Cell 1,091 277 34 Baltimore, MD 66.87.82.71

     

     
    EDIT: Fixed table formatting

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

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    Posted

    Your issue, by your own admission, is that when you are streaming on 3G, you will never get back to LTE. Unless you cycle airplane mode. Thus giving you a false impression of LTE coverage. You know what, I have that same problem on Tmo and AT&T. Nothing hands up to LTE while you are streaming something. Airplane mode is your friend.

     

    It'll be a good day for all networks when 3G gets shut down (eventually). No more switching to 3G when that signal is better. Of course, LTE will probably have even better coverage by then, so it may or may not really matter.

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

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    I'm not arguing that Sprint is slow. Not at all! Heck...I've hit 73Mbps speed tests in Baltimore. And when I was in TN last week, my in-laws were using my iPhone hot spot to access google maps, because Verizon 3G was so slow. Even when I had 3G, it was still over 1Mbps. I'm just saying I hope Sprint can get some yellow dots on that map. It will go a long ways in helping their image. Many perceive them as slow, and being in last place is last place. Even if the details behind that show that all 4 carriers are about the same in real world usage. I'm not trying to mischaracterize Sprints success, I've been a customer for a long time and have no plans to change that. I'm a big advocate, and brought over 8 family members (with Framily) last year when things weren't as good as they are now.

     

    Edit:

    And for the record...areas where Sprint lacks in Maryland, T-Mobile and AT&T are lacking too generally. Verizon is very strong here. I don't judge Sprint for some coverage gaps, I'm just hopeful that they will fix them. I have friends and family that refuse to switch to Sprint over past experiences, some root metrics speed wins might help. Especially with younger generations.

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

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    While sprint doesn't have the fastest network they're still racking in reliability rewards left and right so I don't see why we're complaining about one number when there is so many others that say Sprint is doing really well and improving all around in every market. Nonetheless, the pattern that I've been noticing in RootMetrics testing is that Sprint's speeds are increasing all around or they're not that far off from the other carriers, even if they are in last place.

     

    I'm not willing to trade 20Mbps average speeds for a network that works 75% of the time. I'm better off with 10Mbps speeds and a network that works 99% of the time.

    I whole heartedly agree. Slower speeds 99% of the time is much better than faster speeds 75% of the time. I look forward to when that is the case for Central Maryland. I'm simply saying that until Sprint isn't in last place over and over, marketing root metrics isn't a great idea. T-Mobile has had huge success with their "blazing fast platinum mega super LTE". That is what consumers are hungry for, and what Sprint needs to market once they get out of last place.

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

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    In Austin or overall? If we are talking this specific root metrics report then yes Sprint is still last in speed but it isn't as if they are significantly lagging. They're within two tenths of a Mbps of Verizon down (beating them slightly on upload) and within 1.5 Mbps of AT&T the market leader. That 1.49 Mbps means an AT&T user would download a a 10 mb file a second earlier (6 seconds instead of 7 on Sprint). The horror!

    Was I not clear in quoting the root metrics article?

     

    Last place is last place. At the end of the year, Sprint will have very few speed awards at this rate. They should improve that for the perception that they are slow. They are known as being slow through NV, so when they continue to show last place, it hurts them.

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

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    Posted

    Sprint's 5th market where they are best network overall (tied at least.)

    http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/austin-tx/2015/1H

     

    Sprint's went up almost 11 points total in the last year in Austin, TX. While AT&T has been declining.

    Still the slowest overall though. I really hope they can start speeding things up for the 2H 2015 reports, doesn't look like its happening for the 1H 2015.

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    Sprint Wifi Calling.....

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    I find wifi calling overall to be a very poor experience on iPhone. I get better results on 1 bar of 1x. Even with 50/50 Fios with low pings, and wifi connect router, I get audio cut out and very low quality calls. Sometimes calls won't complete. And every so often they are perfect and I have no issues. Not sure what the problem is, but I'm keeping it off for now.

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

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    Posted

    Just to add to what Terrell is saying about his home market...in Baltimore/Central MD, even in areas with full 26,25,41 (8t8r) I am still getting a lot of 3G along major highways. When I have LTE, even band 41 now that so many people have Spark decives, it is below 5Mbps (occasionally it'll cap in the 20's, but not often anymore). We have density and capacity issues in Maryland. I really hope they can add a few more towers to this area. Until then, at least the 3G is fast enough to stream Spotify.

     

    Edit: Marcelo seems quite aware of the capacity issues Sprint has, in his response on Twitter last night.

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

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    Posted

    If sprint pulls the unlimited plan it will be a huge bait and switch on their part. They promoted unlimited when the network sucked and it would be a miracle if you could use more than 5Gb a month given the network performance. Still a lot of us stuck with them because of the unlimited data and promise of a better network in the future . If the get rid of it after finally making their network usable, it seems unfair to people like myself who stuck by then through all of the 'pardon our dust' phases.

     

    I really doubt Sprint is going to force you off the unlimited plans (at least not ANYTIME in the foreseeable future). To my knowledge, Sprint has never forced anyone off legacy plans. 

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