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If you do not have 8665 on a site but do have 8615, it would be a good assumption that you have a 15X15 carrier. When 8665 is missing, the spectrum is still there but tied to the "C" block. If you still have 8665 showing on the site along with 8615, then 8615 probably is only 5X5. I have seen 8665 be aggregated with 8140 "A Block", but you still see one of them active and one in your neighbor list. You will see the aggregation in your debug screens. You might see 8665 aggregated with other blocks too. But if 8665 is totally missing, it is probably combined with the "C" block and most likely is 15X15 8615.

Isn't 8615 ALWAYS 15X15. I thought it was part of the "C" block and the G Block. C & G are adjacent, so 10 in the C and 5 in the G gives you 15. In some of the Shentel area, we have the 15X15 (8615) aggregated with 10X10 in the A Block (8140). That is some real good band 25. Too bad this will not happen everywhere.

Well Mike, I am actually about 16,000 feet from my cell site. The TA value is 33 (8451 feet) Not very accurate is it?

Yep. This statement is one to pay attention to. Totally Correct.

But T-Mobile is not in a good position for 5G either if the merger fails. They do not have the 2500 that is going to be top dog soon. T-Mobile has the low band, but not the wide fast spectrum. If the merger fails, the two need to work together and they both will have something good. Allow T-mobile to saturate with the low bands especially in Rural Areas and Sprint to install 2500 where appropriate. Then cooperate and share.

Apparently BRANDED Sprint Samsung S9 and S9+ have all the new Carrier Aggregations if I understand it correctly. But the UNLOCKED S9 & S9+ do not. Anybody know why? Can it be fixed somehow? So far in al my searches, nobody has a good answer.

I am starting to think that I will never buy another Samsung phone. Locked or Unlocked. First of all, the reception levels on the phone are not nearly as good as my old S-7. Why should a new phone have worse reception than a 2 year old phone. I had hopes that HPUE would allow me to use band 41 more. NOPE. I lose band 41 more than I did with the s-7. I find that I am on band 26 more than with the S-7. This is horrible. Now, many of the various Carrier aggregations are not available. Activating the UNLOCKED model with the correct SIM does NOT totally activate all the Sprint features and it may not optimize the phone to use the Sprint bands. I would suspect a Sprint banded phone would be somewhat tuned to work with the Sprint Frequencies. Maybe they are, but if they are it sort of looks like the UNLOCKED version may not be.

Here is mine from my new S-9. Does not have all the newer Carrier aggregations available.

I was under the impression that a UNLOCKED S9 and other newer phones would configure with the Sprint Software when a Sprint SIM was inserted and activated. Apparently this Carrier Aggregation sure does not???? If I am understanding what I just saw in this thread, A Sprint Purchased s9 has much better aggregation capabilities that a UNLOCKED s-9 purchased at Best Buy? Would there be some secret hidden menu that needs to be accessed to make an UNLOCKED version update properly.

My new UNLOCKED Galaxy S9 does not seem to support it.In the ##DATA# menu and then the LTE CA ENABLED menu. I have various band 41 entries showing and then only 25 A-25A. No band 26 anywhere. I have had this phone for about 2 weeks and it has updated several times. It has the Feburary update. Is the UNLOCKED version different?

Just took me 10 seconds to get any action after I clicked on PythonFanPa's post above this post. Normally when I have this issue, it is only the first thing I try to display when I enter the site after clicking on unread posts at the top. Kind of acts like things are in a "sleep mode" and it takes 10 seconds to wake things up. After it displays the first item, generally any following requests are responded to in a normal matter.

Clinking on a existing thread to see a new comment is sometimes slow. Might take 10 seconds to get a response. Might even have to click on the new comment the second time. This is the only site I have with this issue. This issue started for me over a week ago.

Galaxy S-8's are still expensive. I hate to drop back to a two year old model to get a reasonable phone. I had hopes that the S-9 would get cheap quickly, but the S-8 sure is holding its value. I will look quite favorable on the new "A" series when it becomes available. I would like to have band 71 capability but not pay almost $1000 to get it. Will have to see if the "A" series really do have band 71.

This is exactly what I am going to be doing. I have 2 galaxy S-7's both with deteriorating batteries. When the S-10 hits the shelves, surely the S-9 will go on sale somewhere. I either get a new S-9 at a good discounted price, or I get one on Swappa, or maybe buy the new "A" series Samsung phone. No S-10 for me. If the S-7's had HPUE, I would probably just get new batteries in the S-7's.

There are ways to get around the political bull. T-mobile-Sprint would not ever totally pull out. Just go with t-mobile, quietly move all Sprint subscribers to T-mobile, close sprint stores or re-name them. You can bet it would get done somehow. Sprint would just disappear.

Sell all the Sprint cell sites and stores to some type of holding company. Then start quietly moving all customers and employees over to T-Mobile. Surely there would be away to get around some politicians.

Well, Sprint sold Embarq, United Tel, CenturyLink, Qwest, whatever you want to call it. CenturyLink makes a bundle of cash from selling backhaul to all the carriers. It would only be in parts of the country, but at least the cash would stay within the complex if Sprint had held onto some of these local carriers. They could have installed fiber for both fast DSL and cell sites all in one project. Ask Shentel how easy it is to connect a cell site to backhaul when they already own the fiber cables in their neighborhood.

Trip, could you be seeing the start of a 5G site by one or more carriers?

This really does not make any sense at all. If any manufacturer can not put out a phone with reception that is at least as good as their last model, they have failed and deserve to go bankrupt. I also see changes to radios when a software update is done. Many times you have bad reception for a month or two until another update is pushed that restores good reception. Why push out an update that makes a radio work worse? Just stupid, but it happens all the time.

SHENTEL 25X25 BAND 25 AGGREGATION PROVEN See 3 screenshots From Chambersburg, PA 12/30/2018 SCP showing connection to 8140 EARFCN 10X10 and (8615 in the Neighbor list) Service mode showing 8140 primary PCC and 8615 15X15 SCC Total of 25X25 Speedtest- Slow considering the level (-96) and the 25X25. I do see the receive levels being quite different on the PCC and SCC ????

Not that I know of. It does not make sense to me for that to happen, but I guess it could in some area. I never seen any mention of it.

Sprint/Shentel did and still does owns the "G" block. In at least SOME of the Shentel area, this ""G" block is being combined with the "C" block they obtained in a swap/trade with T-Mobile. That combination is either showing up as a 10X10 or a 15x15 in some areas of Shentel. I still have not proven that it is aggregated with a 10X10 block in the "A block that Shentel already had established.

Yes, they still have some of that around in Rural areas. That is enough in some locations. As that gets saturated, they should come back and add more band 25 and sometimes they add band 41. There is added expense to increase the capacity of your site, so they do not do it until they see saturation.

There is always going to be a spot or two somewhere that is questionable for all carriers. Even the "Big Guys" have poor spots. In General, Shentel has done a great job in their owned territory. When they have all three bands operating with the wide channels on both band 25 & 41, their service is mostly great. T-Mobile is normally in 4th place when it comes to coverage in South Central Pennsylvania. T-Mobile is very good at PR. Not as good with their actual service. They have their good spots, but the overall experience is not up to Shentel's standards.

Yep, that is quite common in Chambersburg. Not sure it is all sites, but it probably is except when you get out in the rural country. I saw this same exact configuration a few days ago and there was a bunch of sites in my SCP neighbor site list that all appeared to have the new 8615 earfcn 15X15 band 25 carrier. A 10x10 band 25 carrier in the ""A" block has been active for a long time(EARFCN 8140) I still have to prove that we have aggregation between the 8140 and 8615 carriers for 25X25. Band 41 has been there for a long time. Shentel is doing some great work. It does worry me that T-Mobile is getting involved. When you have a system that is working very well, I hate to turn it over to somebody that COULD cause some issues.