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  1. Thomas L.
    I was going to reply to you in the how good is NV really thread but it got locked - I looked over the maps of financial district and it is not totally built out yet, none of SF is. I would expect your service to get better once all the towers there are upgraded. I just wanted to give you some hope and let you know that you're not experiencing completed NV, not even completed LTE 1900 NV. Even with your current phone (that is to say even without a triband phone) you should see much better performance once some more towers go online in the Financial District and SOMA. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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    Where are you that Verizon isn't? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  3. Thomas L.
    I don't remember where the post was but someone did pick it up at least somewhere in the LA market. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  4. Thomas L.
    Hoping that in the next few weeks (that is, when I move to start going to school there) the remaining two sites that are on UCLA's campus and are 3G upgraded only will get 4G. When I was there for orientation my S3 would often hang onto 4G for dear life even when it was unusable and the residence hall I was standing next two was 3G upgraded. By the way I know this is a total knobhead post but I am bored out of my mind and impatient as hell to move and start school in three weeks so bare with me lol. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  5. Thomas L.
    EvDo Rev. B allows multiple carriers to be used at the same time along with addition optimizations and upgrades that increase data speeds quite a bit. EvDv on the other hand allowed voice and data on the same carrier if I remember correctly. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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    Clear's unlimited plans were really designed for another era. Before Netflix, before YouTube HD, before file sharing gigabytes and gigabytes of videos, which are all things normal people do now. What I could see are some bandwidth capped plans with unlimited WEB BROWSING up to a certain point, or something like that. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  7. Thomas L.
    Can't wait till you release your big plan and the technology you'll be using and stuff, maybe a preview post in Premier Sponsors? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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    I agree with digiblur - from what I've seen of Samsung's 1x 800 at least, it works and they also get big points for programming the actual tower coordinates as the broadcast coordinates. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  9. Thomas L.
    @DBSynergy over in the SF Bay thread posted the reported coordinates of a 1x 800 tower he connected to, and I checked it with the site map - it corresponds almost exactly to a Sprint cell site. It's looking more and more like Samsung markets, or at least the SF Bay Area and South Bay, have 1x 800 towers reporting the correct position pretty much exactly. That's nice to know, and can be confirmed as more 1x 800 towers come online.
  10. Thomas L.
    There is a tower almost at those exact coordinates, though not accepted for 1x800. This is yet another sign that Samsung is programming the correct coordinates for 1x800 - which is quite exciting.
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    Bah, I can't see Sprint releasing their version of the phone a month and a half after AT&T and Verizon, especially considering it's already hit the FCC. It doesn't make sense. If they do I feel like it'll be a big mistake. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  12. Thomas L.
    Ever since I pointed out the fake trees to my mom she has been fascinated by them. We were driving recently in a kind of hilly grasslands like area here in California and in the middle of nothing is this huge fake tree-tower that just looked totally ridiculous. If you put a tower in a middle of a field, camouflaged or not it's going to look ridiculous and bad. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  13. Thomas L.
    Donut LTE sites? And how did you rattle cages? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  14. Thomas L.
    Yeah what seems to be Ericsson's problem? Do we know? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  15. Thomas L.
    So I have something anecdotal I've been noticing, and i'd like to know if it's just my imagination or if there could be something to it: I've noticed that many times, once a tower has been upgraded for 4G (and 3G is not accepted, meaning I assume that 3G is still using legacy equipment), I often notice that the 3G signal is slightly weaker, or that speed is lower than it previously was and phones roam more often. Is it possibly because when they're putting up the new equipment they are messing up the alignment of the legacy equipment? Is there any reason that this would happen?
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    That all sounds very complicated 0_0 Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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    The reason I ask is that since LTE 800 isn't a voice service, they don't have to worry about 911 testing and all that, so I could see them skipping ahead. One of the OEMs however requires separate RRUs for 800 LTE and voice, and they might wait to go back and install that until they're ready to do voice at the same time I suppose. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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    Would Sprint light up 800 LTE on a site that isn't 3G upgraded, I wonder? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  19. Thomas L.
    The stated goal is that all 4G sites that have been accepted thus far will be upgraded to LTE 800 by the end of the year and that all future sites will be LTE 800 from the get go. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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    And why WOULDN'T they increase the power of the downlink, is there a reason? Some sort of regulations that prevent them from doing so? I would think they'd want it as high as possible.
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    I would love to hear Robert and AJ respond to this - I would like to know what Sprint can do in situations like this where LTE is deployed in a particular area but speeds are already abysmal because of capacity issues. The financial district in SF is one of the harshest for all the carriers just because usage is so high there, but I should think Sprint could do something, add another carrier maybe, to prevent their shiny new network from already becoming overloaded and unusable. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  22. Thomas L.
    There are only a couple areas that are fully rolled out: the test markets (FITs) where Sprint did their deployment testing, and Chicago, which is pretty damn close. According to our reigning administrator Robert, in the FITs NV is everything they said it would be. Maybe some of the Chicago-ens on the site will want to chime in, but it's my understanding that Chicago offers a pretty great user experience too. Your area will be covered, and as others have said, Denver is pretty well covered already with 2600 LTE, which will be supported by new Sprint smartphones starting with the LG G2 coming out next month. Your experience should be getting better, and fairly quickly. If you get a triband phone I believe you would see some massive improvements in your market immediately. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  23. Thomas L.
    Sprint DID refer to it as a 4G data charge, pissing off legions of customers who were paying a 4G data charge even though they had no 4G coverage. I think it caused huge headaches for Sprint's CS having to explain why the 4G data charge was there when 4G coverage wasn't. If I remember to look tomorrow I'll try to find one of my old bills that used that terminology. They were eventually forced to change the name of the fee to a premium data surcharge and then a smartphone surcharge when they couldn't deliver 4G and needed to stop pissing off customers. That allowed them to say the fee was because smartphones use more data so they could save some face. I remember all this very clearly. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  24. Thomas L.
    Exactly, if Sprint had a small cell on every light pole in America, they could probably get away with using just Clearwire spectrum and be fine. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
  25. Thomas L.
    But isn't it the case that you have to have a good uplink signal to have a good downlink? It's my understanding that it's a weakest link type situation - that is to say that AWS will effectively have the performance characteristics of a signal that had both the uplink and downlink on 2100mhz spectrum. Maybe AJ or Robert can chime in. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4
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