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Yes, about the same thing with me. Not sure of the exact time if fails. It does not start back up without my intervention. Tis a little funny how it will drop off my wi-fi when I leave home and then quickly reconnect on its own when I return. When it drops at night, it absolutely will not reconnect on its own. The wi-fi calling does work well for me with this one exception. I really do not have any issue with the night-time drops as my LTE and CDMA 1x service is good. If a call comes in while the wi-fi calling is off line, I just receive it over the macro sites.

go into SETTINGS on your phone, deactivate wi-fi calling and restart it. Or, just turn off regular Wi-Fi & restart it. My wi-fi calling starts back up after a short delay doing either one.

Yes. Mostly at night. Have to reset the wi-fi calling on the phone to make it reconnect. I have a Galaxy S-5. They still have some bugs in the system apparently. OK AJ, there is an opportunity to make one of your Smart-Alex type posts. Bugs, Bugs, surely you have something to say about them.

I seriously doubt that you will have the reliability and quality of the Sprint CDMA voice network. It may be fine for you, but it will not be fine for everybody. I do agree that we are moving to a new system for handling voice calls, but it still will take some time to make it work as good as the present CDMA 1x system. i am all for trying new things, but many people are not ready to rely on something that is still in a Beta environment.

Yep, Shentel was quick to install the second Band 25 carrier a few months ago and it sure did help. But now, even with two Band 25 and one Band 26 carriers, things are really slowing down. It is not only York either. Shentel built a very good NV network and very early. The problem is that the local people saw it or heard about it and are really jumping on it. Band 41 is needed and soon. This really surprised me as it is happening in areas that are not really considered as high density. Shentel is not sitting still. They are preparing for Band 41. Backhaul is being increased and Band 41 will arrive. It is a long process. If they install band 41 antennas and RRU's without having adequate backhaul established, things will not improve. Due to some of the sites being in some very difficult spots, it was difficult to get just a little backhaul established in the past. Shentel did it but taking it to the next level requires much more work in some cases. A site that has been fed with a little mini microwave system now may require that a new fiber ring be installed. Many times this requires a contract crew go out and actually run new fiber for miles either on poles or underground. This can take months.

I do not have this issue at all. My first call will connect properly and stay connected.

Another comment on this ---this internet does a lot of burping and crapping 24 hours a day. Some is just a slight delay for anybody just surfing the net. Corrupt or lost Data can be automatically resent and you will never know it. But a voice call is much more touchy when you have a burp. A serious internet burp can cause the voice call to be very poor and the call can drop in some cases. VOIP calls are not as good as the old POTS calls are, YET. Maybe soon, but not right now.

I have not been getting the Blocked or dropped calls issues. Maybe my calls are going through a different path than yours are? Sprint may have several sites where these wi-fi calls originate or terminate. I am in Pennsylvania, so they may have a site for the east coast and you may not access it with your calls. It seems to be almost impossible for me to prove just where my Wi-Fi calls connect to the Sprint network to be completed. I would think that Sprint would have more than one place to process these wi-fi calls if for no other reason, to have redundant sites for back-up when a processor fails.

I have not experienced that, but I am not a heavy user of voice calls, especially long ones.

I am using a Samsung S-5. I do not have that issue, however, I have fine wi-fi calling service at home and even some other places where my phone is able to latch onto good Wi-Fi. I do notice a slight delay in the voice sometimes, Not real bad. Many people would not notice it, but an experienced person will. Quite often, at night while I am sleeping, the Wi-Fi calling on my phone crashes. Next morning, I have to just turn off the Wi-Fi and turn it back on in Settings. It re-syncs and I am fine all day. I have not been able to figure out why it does that. I have tried various ways to prove that my Wi-Fi and internet at home is staying operational all night. I can not find any issue with my internet or Wi-Fi service. Yet, the Wi-Fi calling crashes at night. I might suspect that they work on this service quite often since it is new and if so, they might be re-booting it at night, maybe. For some reason, I have to re-start it manually. The reason for the need to do a manual restart is unknown. When I drive away from my home, the Wi-Fi drops and immediately the phone syncs to LTE. Coming back home, as I enter my driveway, the LTE drops and the phone quickly Syncs to the Wi-Fi Calling with no assistance at all. I do have the ASUS router that Sprint provided.

If & when we ever do see 600 mhz on any carrier, it might just be that the RRU's for that service could be on the ground much of the time. Antennas would probably be bigger & heavier and adding the RRU's on the top may simply be just too much hardware in some cases. Also, the loss in any coax going to the top of the tower is not as great with 600 Mhz as it is at 1900 or 2500. Some of the sites are already overloaded with bulk, weight, wind resistance. I have already seen a few towers that had to be "beefed up" to handle the first round of NV.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/842-network-visionlte-shentel-market-shenandoah-valleyhagerstownharrisburg/page-37 See post 725 in the above thread. Photos of in-service site.

Yep, just driving north & south on I-81 in Virginia is troublesome in nTelos land. I went through that route a few months ago. No LTE at all and the 1X voice would drop to -105 between cell sites. Then eventually you would find yourself on Roaming. Then back on nTelos for a few minutes and then back on roaming. If they ever replace the cell site equipment with the Sprint NV type, we may just have a good enough signal to avoid the roaming areas that we have had for years. Hopefully they get a few of the cell sites upgraded even if only the CDMA 1X capability.

I wish all the cell carriers would agree that nobody would be able to run 4k streaming over their cell network unless they buy a special costly plan. There is really no need for the average person to tie up the network with a 4K stream.

Yep, you nailed this. Who really needs 4k?? What good is it on a 5 inch screen?? I am totally in favor of increasing the prices when somebody decides they need 4k streaming. This is on cell networks, cable networks, Directv/Dish, etc. 1080P is fine on the average big screen TV in our homes. If a bar owner wants to place a giant screen in his bar and show the Super Bowl in 4k, it should cost him more for the stream no matter how it is delivered.

SID 1518 is owned or controlled by a Washington, DC Comunications law firm Wilkinson, Barker,Knauer, LLC. Hard to tell exactly who is using the SID, it may be USCC. Apparently Sprint is allowing you to access the SID.

BEFORE any NV upgrades, that spot was going to drop a call every time. I would have thought that the issue would have disappeared with all the upgrades. I have not been going through that area lately, so I do not know if I still have the problem or not.

No, Robert you are wrong. Hesse got fired because he failed to establish good service in Rapid City.

Maybe they are trying more than one type to see what works best. This location appeared to be a fairly recent install.

Small Cell photos - SHENTEL territory, Hagerstown, Md I see a COMMSCOPE name on the equipment. Verified to be using Band 25. Was not able to prove it was ONLY band 25. Appears to be an OMNI antenna. Did not appear to be a 3 sector standard cell type set-up. A small shopping center was on both sides of the road. This area is on somewhat low ground, so it did have a weak signal previously. I did notice that the range of the cell is somewhat low. As soon as you move a block or two away, the macro sites take over. That could be expected as the site is not on high ground or on some high structure. Overall, it does not appear to have near the ""punch" of a macro cell.

See if this link might help you http://androidforums.com/threads/pop-ups-on-android-phone.916714/

It would not work well if you just place a few odd nTelos sites on the Shentel core. They would probably need to get a cluster of nTelos sites upgraded and place them on the Shentel system all at one time. Even then, if you are traveling out of this "cluster" of sites into some of the old nTelos sites, you would have some serious issues. nTelos has their own customers that need to be considered. They may not need new phones, but they have to be transferred to the Shentel/Sprint system.

Shentel has a bunch of their own fiber. I am not sure if any of it runs into the nTelos area. If they could get a nice fiber ring established between the nTelos area and Shentel, it could be easy to add the nTelos sites to the Shentel system.

It would not be a fast move of the nTelos sites to the Shentel Core, so there would be time to expand the capacity of the Shentel Core. Probably cheaper to have it all at one Core and easier to manage.

Another Question ---Where was the core switch that nTelos was going to connect their LTE to?? Could Shentel just swing all the various links to the nTelos sites into their Core switch?