joshuam
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That is quite impressive. I am certain that number is lower in my market, so hopefully Baltimore has some juicy NGN densification coming soon!
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The biggest problem I see with Root Metrics for Sprint in the future...is that the voice score will likely become less and less important. People don't talk as much now, thus it's becoming less and less important. Sprint has fantastic voice coverage now, but it may not matter for much longer.
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T-Mobile ranked #1 in Consumer Report, toppling Verizon's spot. http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/03/technology/t-mobile-verizon-consumer-reports/ Something that is quite interesting in the article though...Sprint was the most improved!
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I honestly think the unlimited for 3 months thing is just to fix BingeOn. There are several problems with it not working correctly, so the 3 months allows them to get things fixed and not worry about over whelming customer service with credit requests. Any other benefit (getting people to upgrade plans, etc) is just an added perk FOR t-mobile.
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That's awesome. US Cellular roaming for Sprint customers will be great. The coverage maps don't depict US Cellular coverage in western Maryland yet.
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Doh! Thanks! I completely forgot about you doing that. Good info, and one location is quite useful for me.
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Better than nothing I suppose. Still shouldn't *count* on cell service there. Where does one find out that information?
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T-Mobile covers western Maryland now. I have no clue if its native, roaming agreement, or what. But it's solid pink on the maps. But if it's what I'm expecting, it's a handful of band 12 towers per county. So if I'm lucky, I might be able to do something for a period of time!
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Verizon roaming was pretty terrible in western Maryland last time I used it as well. Basically no service, phone calls even with 3-4 bars of 1x would take several minutes to connect and drop quite easily. It's odd, because Verizon phones did not have the same problems. I would receive incoming texts, late...but they would come in.
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I started watching House of Cards on Netflix during my commute (50 minute train ride). I didn't do that before BingeOn :-) When magenta stops working, I'll switch again. I don't have loyalty to a carrier anymore.
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Interesting video: I can personally say that I have experienced MASSIVE speed swings with different servers on Ookla myself.
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BingeOn has had zero impact in my area on data speeds. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1454611607 (unloaded at 5am is 69Mbps). This result is similar to prior to BingeOn. I'm not convinced this is "the biggest mistake of the decade" or going to kill the T-Mobile brand. Im going to ride it out as long as possible. $30/line for 10Gb with unlimited music and video is a better value than Framily unlimited. And T-Mobile fees are lower than Sprint. Once Sprint gets their act together in Maryland, I would like to switch back. Mostly because of the rural coverage. It's not a huge issue for me because I rarely need rural coverage, but it'd be nice.
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Oh really? I had no idea! Let me pretend to be surprised. I was referring to NGN (density issues). But thanks for keeping me "in the loop"...
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*in a year or two. TODAY is not accurate. Lol.
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It always cracks me up when a cell carrier has shitty service at one of their stores. A local mall in Maryland for the longest time had a Sprint Corp store, and anywhere in the mall was extended 1x on Verizon. Except near the store, they had a repeater. Seriously...how can you sell service that doesn't even work in the location you are selling it? Store is still there, but band 26 means LTE inside now, thankfully.
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Let's be honest...their plan isn't to kill T-Mobile. People said no contracts would never work, music freedom would never work, etc, etc, etc. John Legere and Mike Seivert aren't idiots. Just like Marcelo and John Saw aren't idiots. They are both very smart, being paid millions of dollars for their work. Remember...the goal of T-Mobile and Sprint is shareholder ROI. I'm willing to bet over 95% of customers on both networks don't give a shit about speed or anything. They wouldn't even know what good speeds are. This unlimited promo on T-Mobile could help push people into higher buckets of paid data. I don't know the end game, but killing T-Mobile or killing Sprint is not the plan.
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He Pariscopes while running quite often. His daughter is with him quite a bit too I think. I don't watch his Pariscopes for the most part, but the couple times I clicked he was running and it was pretty hard to hear him and pay attention from the motion.
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Not disagreeing with you, just adding. He does go running ALOT.
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I don't know. I'm not convinced it will yet. We have to remember that we aren't the average customer. I'm willing to bet most T-Mobile customers didn't even read the email they sent out. Auto opt in was done for a reason. Plus you have to think about the "honeymoon phase". BingeOn isn't going to create new video watchers alone. The same people are going to be watching video over LTE as before.
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But Sprint hasn't tuned band 26 for coverage yet. It is being used for capacity, at least in Maryland it is. It has barely better range outdoors than band 25, but it does work significantly better indoors in that area. I would expect Sprint to shift band 26 for coverage soon hopefully since 2xCA is live in my area.
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I mean, my experience with Band 26 was pretty similar to Band 12 on T-Mobile. So I don't understand what you are saying? Plus, I don't believe that "most" of band 12 traffic is from the iPhone. T-Mobile has the lowest "iPhone penetration" of the big 4 national carriers. Here are all the band 12 phones: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910T Samsung Galaxy Note Edge SM-N915T Motorola Nexus 6 XT1103 Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge SM-G925T Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920T HTC One M9 for T-Mobile Alcatel OneTouch Pop Astro 5042T Samsung Galaxy Avant SM-G386T (band 12 enabled with May 2015 software update) LG G Stylo H631 LG Leon H345 LG G4 H811 Sony Xperia Z3 D6616 (band 12 enabled with June 2015 software update) Microsoft Lumia 640 RM-1073 HTC Desire 626s for T-Mobile and MetroPCS (specs) Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530T Samsung Galaxy Core Prime SM-G360T Kyocera Hydro Wave C6740 ZTE Obsidian Z820 Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SM-N920T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus SM-G928T ZTE ZMax Z970 (band 12 enabled with September 2015 software update) iPhone 6s A1688 iPhone 6s Plus A1687 LG V10
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Band 12 typical performance for me is 10-20Mbps. Every so often I'll find an area where it is barely pulling 2Mbps, but never that slow.
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Well he's right. It is.
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Like we all said...just wait. Posted on Reddit today It's working for me (confirmed that it limited Netflix resolution and didn't burn data). There's a slider on my.t-mobile.com, in Profile-Media Settings. A few days ago it was listed under Plan-Change Services, but that option has disappeared. https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3tft51/any_existing_customers_able_to_add_bingon_yet/ EDIT: I can confirm that it works fine. No SSN needed since it isn't part of the "account changed" area of the account.
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That is pretty hilarious.
