Thomas L.

Four seems to be the magic number for competition, France had three carriers and Canada has three carriers, both having awful prices and customer service. When France added Free, a fourth carrier (the French T-Mobile), prices dropped dramatically. Canada of course still has three providers and has the most expensive wireless service in the developed world after the US. If this merger happens, nothing good will come of it. I am crossing my fingers it fails. 

Hotspot gives you more versatility, you can usually use it as wired connection via USB, and also via wi-fi when you don't want to do that. It's basically 2-in-1

/So this is essentially wi-fi calling, but instead of using a wi-fi connection for data it uses LTE for data?

AT&T B25 MFBI earfcn 8290 live.

What is the purpose of the Band 25 MFBI on AT&T

How is Sprint in LA nowadays?

Hi all,

Sorry to semi-resurrect a thread, but I figured it would be better than starting a new one. I'm curious about when we can expect to see higher speeds on band 41 uploads? I read that there was something involving CA or something similar for uploads as well that was in the pipeline, even if it's a long term thing. I'd appreciate any guidance,

Thanks!

Thomas

Wonder if all phones will support HPUE flagship or midrange.

 

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Like most of these new technologies, they seem to start off with higher end phones and then will make their way down the line. 

What do you mean?

I think he means that theoretically Band 25 has approximately 90% of the range of Band 2/4. 

Massive Capex increase? Would you like to share a Little information about this?

 

Same, everything I saw says Sprint has been CUTTING capex massively. 

Sprint actually offers a $5 add-on for unlimited data, text and voice in Japan. There are different reports about speeds, they look pretty good according to the post below!

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1881304-Sprint-s-5-Japan-Add-On-Works-Well

Things seemed to have slowed down in expansion generally speaking on Sprint, and actually on T-Mobile too, T4GRU is a ghost town. Sprint drastically reduced CapEx for 2016, and any expansion they do will likely be pushed back to 2017 - right now it's holding pattern style. T-Mobile is still expanding a large amount, but just minimally to get LTE upgrades done and establish minimum service it seems - they're holding on to their money for the 600mhz auction. 

I didn't even know there were any devices that couldn't update their PRL ota.

It's an interesting move. I prefer the Sprint/Verizon/T-Mobile version because it has TD-SCDMA that I need when I go to China and just better worldwide compatibility. i'm very interested to see what the band support will look like on the versions provided by Intel.

I was in LA yesterday and I noticed that my iPhone 6s dropped a lot of times into 3G even within LTE areas that should have great coverage. I saw this as well at LAX (Terminal 3) where I was stuck on 1x for some time. LA needs more sites and B26 ugently.

It's why I had to leave them, same thing in the South Bay (San Jose). I just don't understand it. LA really just needs more sites, I don't think B26 will fix the problems, it will just end up overloaded.

PS. This isn't a bashing post, I want Sprint to be awesome because their plans offer good value and good competition is awesome. I just don't get how it's still so bad. 

I am referring to BYOD.

 

AJ

Why wouldn't they permit this phone on the network with BYOD? It has one of the widest ranges of network compatibility that I've seen, outside of the iPhone, and I would love to have a phone I could use on Sprint, T-Mobile, and on the various mobile networks in China and Europe. 

I wish this thread were more active. I'm curious, what are people's experience with Sprint in the South Bay now compared to six months ago? How much time do you spend on LTE? I was in San Jose with my friend last week and his iPhone was on 3G probably around 50% of the time, which is about what it was when I left Sprint at the end of the summer, which seems crazy to me.  

It's an ODAS / Small cell. Most of this type of setup I've seen belonged to Verizon to comply with local complaints with how stuff looks (nimbies). 

And it's still ugly as sin. 

I feel like one of the reasons why T-Mobile customers are on LTE so much is because most of T-Mobiles customers live in the city, where they have LTE coverage. Most rural customers probably have Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint, because T-Mobile was never worth a damn in rural areas (until recently). The other three more-or-less have signal in most rural areas, which, for Sprint, may or may not be LTE, which causes their on LTE percentages to drop a bit. T-Mobiles customers are in much greater numbers in city centers, whereas the other 3 cariers have a much more spread out customer base.

 

-Anthony

I think it's because in many areas T-Mobile built with a site density that was designed for GSM, which had a lesser range than CDMA on the same frequency and thus leads to better reliability/more time on LTE. Even in the podunk areas of California I frequent nowadays, I am on LTE almost all the time, and almost all the rest of the time I'm on HSPA+. I have no idea why, but Sprint seems to fall back to 3G really easily in my experience. That sad, you can be on T-Mobile LTE and get 0.01 down average speed ith full LTE. In that case, 3G would actually provide better service even though it's thought of as inferior, so there's always a lot of wiggle room with these tests. I don't think anyone expected Sprint to perform all that much better yet, another six months, if they keep up their current pace, might put them closer to T-Mobile, hopefully. 

Hopefully the become more responsive and further separate out their LTE to make it more accurate.

Separate their LTE to make it more accurate it what way?

I would be terribly annoyed/upset if SwiftKey was discontinued, especially because I hate the Windows Mobile keyboard by comparison. SwiftKey lets me operate across the 7 languages I routinely type in, and makes it really easy, along with have great prediction in all of them. It would make my life considerably more difficult if I didn't have it. 

Does anybody know what sprint does for Band 26 tuning?

 

Is it a site visit or software.

 

 

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I'm quite sure it's a site visit, that's part of why it takes so long. 

Based on an older article these 2 squatters saw how much aws went for in PR after last years auction and decided to partner up since they were told their spectrum was 30% more valuable than aws.

Based on what Claro paid for in PR (84,000,000 for a similar size bandwidth 10), are they looking for 100+ mil even though Sprint is likely the only one interested?

http://www.rcrwireless.com/20150827/sponsored/800-mhz-esmr-spectrum-holders-team-up-in-puerto-rico-sponsored-content

 

 

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They're stupid if that's what they think. Sprint is the only US carrier, hell, I think the only carrier period, using band 26. No one else has any reason to be interested.

Also, I truly hope that the 600mhz auction has open access rules attached to the same extent as the 700mhz C block did - I love the fact that Verizon has to sell their devices unlocked, although it will be less relevant with T-Mobile and other potential participants. 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/27.16 contains the actual text of the law.

It basically says that Verizon has to not lock handsets, and provide whatever technical specifications/network information necessary for third-party device manufacturers to make devices (like the Nexus) that work on the Verizon's network as long as said devices don't create any detrimental interference. It also says that Verizon has to prove interference if they deny a third-party's request to allow a device to access the network, and then tell them what they need to know to remedy that. 

As bipbapbam said, they only throttled on their 3G network, but recently they announced that they will not throttle any users that are still on unlimited plans, which doesn't mean much considering there are so few people left on unlimited plans.

I kind of wish Sprint would combine the two, offer 1gb of high speed, then 2g unlimited with the option of buying a high speed data pass like T-Mobile.