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    Network Vision/LTE - Minnesota Market

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    My Minneapolis sprint experience over the last two days was good but not great. My hotel had 3xCA with killer speeds, but the wedding venue was barely holding on to b26. Everywhere else has been solid. Never had unusable data.

     

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    Do Sprint have any small cells in Minneapolis?

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Minnesota Market

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    I agree. My area is one where Sprint is to late for Spectrum swap. Att has been 20x20 since last summer. TMobile has contigous 20x20. Not sure about VZW the EARFCN is 1150 not sure what that is at least 10x10. Sprint has 2 5x5.

     

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    I live off 41st and Chicago Ave South Minneapolis and I'm never connected​ to B41. Only b25. Do you know why that is?

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Minnesota Market

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    The only difference in speed would be if you are in a spot where previously you could not maintain a B41 connection, but now you can. HPUE only affects the uplink signal, not the downlink so it won't have any impact on speeds. The boost to the uplink signal should allow the device to use weaker B41 signals the those without HPUE.

    Good to know.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Minnesota Market

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    Pretty much anything south of Jordan. Fairmont area is a complete joke. I90 as well. Mankato is completely crippled. Going on 14 past Eagle Lake is just 1x majority of the time. Austin has both towers with dual carrier band 41, and worth nothing, only get them outside. Faribault/waterville areas are just LTE islands even with all having band 26. I can go on and on. It's disappointing, not even evdo, but straight 1x most of the time. Great service at work is promising. I would describe Sprint in majority of Minnesota as what others deride T-Mobile as, islands of LTE.

     

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    I wonder if the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 having​ HPUE technology, will it make a difference on connection and speed. The other question is, will it be active once I purchased the S8 Galaxy on Sprint?

    I don't know exactly where you're talking about, but I'd tend to agree. The most infuriating seems to be I35 going up to Duluth. Minneapolis and Duluth have great LTE, but on the way there it's just constant switching between 3G and LTE 800. Just so frustrating when in theory they should be able to at least cover the entire freeway.

     

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    Is HD Voice now on? Mine appears to be working

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    So I just made a phone call from my phone (Sprint HTC One, latest firmware & radios) to a Sprint Galaxy Note 3 (I'm assuming latest firmware, I don't know for sure). Once the call was connected, within a few seconds I knew something was different. The voice quality sounded absolutely fantastic. It was kinda that same feeling when going from an SD to HD picture it's a huge difference I noticed almost instantly. I remember hearing about HD voice ages ago when the evo-LTE was announced but they never did anything with it. It sounded like I was sitting right next to the person. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this either in my market (Minneapolis) or anywhere else just because I haven't heard anything about it. Today is the very first time I have heard it work which is a great sign because my home tower has been having on going issues since early July and still does have issues. I was very impressed with the quality.

    I experience the same thing in Minneapolis as well

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