Thomas L.

It's my understanding SoLINC will deploy an LTE network as well in their coverage area on SMR and roaming agreement's with Sprint. 

 

I notice my iPhone 6 doesn't hold LTE as well as Android Spark phone's. Is there a reason? Does the iPhone use eCSFB or the 1x chain receive method for CDMA paging and active LTE radio like Verizon?

 

I also wonder if it has to do with the fact that the phone is designed to operate on SO many different bands. It would be hard to optimize it for every single band. 

One thing that is not clear to me in this filing, has SB County started rebanding or not? If they waited to even start until after agreement on cost negotiation, it could be another 6-9 months.

 

Hopefully, they already rebanded and certification has been delayed because of cost disputes. This has happened before, reband in advance and then fight over the money. However, it typically is the other way around. Fight over the money, then start rebanding.

 

If the County is done Rebanding, then Sprint can start firing up 800 in Southern CA (outside the IBEZ and more than 80 miles from other agencies not rebanded) by the end of August. If the County has not started, it will be some time in 2016 they can start in Southern Cali.

 

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Honestly yet another thing to dislike about SB county -_-

Some of the coverage map is not accurate -- not overestimating but shortchanging Sprint.

 

California's Central Valley footprint, for example, appears to have been off for a long time now, probably since the Ubiquitel days.  While I have not been in the area in years, I honestly do not believe that the highway and rural Sprint sites in that exceedingly flat terrain produce just isolated lily pads of coverage with seemingly only 3-5 mile radii. 

 

Meanwhile, T-Mobile has an AWS site in the Texas Panhandle that its coverage map claims has something on the order of a 50 mile radius.  I do not believe that either.

 

AJ

 

I don't know why it's the case, but it's actually pretty accurate for the Los Banos/Merced/Turlock/Modesto area - on the highways interconnecting those cities. Sprint drops out completely in many areas, and I end up roaming on Cricket's legacy CDMA network (which always makes me wince, Cricket coverage but not Sprint) and sometimes Verizon. I don't know if it's site spacing or an issue with antenna optimization or what, but this is one of the areas that could use new sites or Nextel converts.

Jeez, the network, when put like that, seems so... diminutive. 

I would pay big money to a company that would offer a sim that could hop between Verizon, ATT, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular. I realize that will probably never happen...

 

 

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I'm sure it could happen, but it would be damn expensive. You would be paying for network expenses of all four carriers if you wanted seamless roaming of some sort. Something more realistic might be a SIM that gives access to those networks, with an account you add money to and a different per gigabyte price depending on the network you're on and an app to track what you've used on each network, along with being able to prioritize service quality or service cost.

Two things:

 

Is LTE roaming going to be band 12 only? I thought some carriers had band 4 as well.

 

What are the spots of roaming in the central valley in California? was that previous Cricket coverage that is no longer going to be part of it? It would be cool if there were some other to fill in the gaps in between cities in the Central Valley.

I hope these three areas are somewhere on the list for 2015:

1) Market & Castro - no sign of life for such major destination and how long has Vision been going?

2) Muni underground station - The current DAS in there is like a donut. Can't even an SMS through.

3) Forget LTE, how about just 1x800 between Bay Area and LA.

 

Overall, things are pretty good in bay area. I wish my phone M8 would try to get a lock LTE signal longer before going 3G, since after a short elevator ride, it might sit on 3G for a few mins before going back.

Is there any (usable) service there? Is there LTE and it's overloaded or?

Five, being so insanely busy, remains a black hole of coverage for Sprint (and I'll add for T-Mobile). Even AT&T has issues on it at some point. I don't understand how they can just ignore such a major artery.

Yes.

Google.com

 

 

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I can't find the actual PROVIDERS - or is it any provider in those countries? 

Can someone link me to the list of mobile providers by country that are explicitly included in this? Thank you! 

I believe band 26 only applies to rebranded SMR, meaning it's unique to the U.S.

 

Mexico probably uses the entire original SMR band, meaning that band 26 doesn't fully cover it.

Would that mean they would have to go through the process of another 3GPP band standardization? Or is there already a band assigned to the original SMR spectrum?

Hi all,

 

As many of you know, the Canadian BRS auction is upcoming. The majority of the spectrum will be band 7 (FDD), while all of the spectrum that is TDD unpaired will fall squarely in band 38:

 

 

I was a bit confused about a few things though: number one, I thought that Bell and Rogers already had band 7 deployed in Canada in many markets? In addition, I know SaskTel has a band 38 TD-LTE network deployed in Saskatchewan. Is BRS already sold in some areas and not in others? What do our local spectrum gurus have to say about the auction?

Did we get wifi calling?

Am I missing something here? I don't think this will have anything to do with the Sprint Connections Optimizer POS app. It's a good bet all of this will be done using Passpoint, which was standarized by the Wi-Fi Alliance, using 802.11u: "Security in Passpoint can be quite high. SIM-based devices, usually mobile phones, can be authenticated based on the SIM ID, which is the same ID used for the cellular network. All Passpoint connections are secured with WPA2-Enterprise for authentication and connectivity, and Passpoint enhances WPA2-Enterprise by adding features to mitigate common attack methods in public Wi-Fi deployments."

 

More information: http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-passpoint

 

Devices which are Passpoint certified: https://www.wi-fi.org/product-finder-results?sort_by=default&sort_order=desc&categories=4&subcategories=38&capabilities=1

 

Several European carriers have been making use of Passpoint extensively to enable seamless transitions between their wifi hotspots and their mobile network, with seamless authentication done based on the SIM card. One provider in Belgium actually managed to offload 45% of their data traffic to wifi hotspots using carrier grade wifi access points in really dense urban areas, along public transportation routes, etc.

 

Passpoint can even relay provisioning information to the phone so that information is sent over what amounts to a VPN (separate from what normal users of an access point use). I actually believe this is what Google is doing with Project Fi. 

Hi everyone,

 

So, Band 7 is essentially the FDD version of Band 41 (band 41 actually covers an even wider spread of spectrum), and is essentially the by far the most widespread LTE band world wide, along with band 3. Band 20 is the European digital dividend spectrum, basically their equivalent of our 700mhz spectrum, and has some overlap with band 26. Band 28 is the "APT" configuration for 700mhz spectrum - it theoretically overlaps the same spectrum as bands 12, 13, 17 do in the US and Canada, but with different configuration which requires a different hardware configuration.

 

My questions are: how hard would is be to include band 7 support on Sprint phones? This is turning into a (the) major international band for LTE and from what I can see, pretty much all new phones from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile support at least band 7 for international roaming. It would be great to have.

A similar question to that above about band 20.

 

My question about band 28 is a little bit different - CAN there be cross compatibility between the user hardware for the APT configuration of 700mhz spectrum and the FCC configuration? What are the technical hurdles that stand in the way of that?

 

I look forward to hearing from people who actually know!!

 

Thanks

Tommy

What will Nextel Mexico do with that low-band spectrum? More band 26 LTE maybe? 

I will attest that as a non-urban customer, AT&T makes me very happy and others who are stuck with VZW's non-competitiveness and sub-EV-DO speeds as the alternative (and T-Mobile's non-existence and Sprint's work-in-progress). That will continue to benefit them in many areas, which is why their churn is not as embarrassingly high, nor their situation as bleak as your statement would make them out to be.

 

Time will tell if AT&T will indeed truly fail to make their (all, or certain urban?) subscribers happy or if they will pick up the pace, as most of their rumored and alleged plans for getting down to business are not to be expected for several months, mainly mid and end-year. 

 

Where exactly are you that VZW is that bad and T-Mobile and Sprint are not in the game yet?

I got an e-mail today, interestingly enough (I'm barely a year through a two-year contract):

 

"Have your sights set on a shiny, new phone but feel stuck waiting for your contract to end? Lucky for you, you're eligible to upgrade early when you lease or use Sprint Easy PaySM to purchase a new LTE-capable phone—we've got the latest from Apple, Samsung and HTC.

Head to a Sprint store today to take advantage of your upgrade eligibility and get the most out of your wireless service."

 

Does anyone have any information on this? Would I be able to take advantage of that new $80 a month plan that includes the Samsung S6? It might keep me from leaving for T-Mobile!

 

Thanks all

 

Tommy

Who uses band 20?

 

 

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Band 20 is the European digital dividend spectrum - so like our 700mhz band in the US (12,13,17, 29). 

Something that is big on my list is a phone that has as broad a roaming capability as possible. The Nexus 6 comes really close, if it included Band 20 it would be very nearly perfect, but now that I know all of those antennas can fit in one phone, that's what I want. I also of course want any phone that is released now by Sprint to be able to be unlocked and used domestically or internationally. 

Does anyone have any concrete information on if anything really makes the Google FI SIM card different? The ability to roam across CDMA and GSM networks isn't new, it's been done in other countries, but how about in terms of wifi, is there anything new there? Is authentication done through the SIM card with Passpoint? Also, does anyone have any more information on these hotspots? Are they just all manner of random hotspots that exist out there?

Hate to bring up another carrier on here, but I am on AT&T right now and do plan to switch to sprint as soon as my contract is up. is there a forum similar to this but relating to the AT&T network?

 

The other reason there isn't as much interest about AT&T is that they're not really doing anything extraordinary or exciting, really, where as Sprint and T-Mobile are doing massive build-outs and actually shaking things up. AT&T is just maintaining. 

Wireless contractors for all of the carriers have been very busy in L.A. Sprint has its remaining NV sites and 8T8R upgrades going on. AT&T has been upgrading panels/RRUs, TMO has been doing their 700 upgrades and Verizon has been adding small cells like crazy.

 

TMO is the only one I've seen from start to finish. I've seen 2 sites get the new 700 MHz panels and it's been a one day job in both cases.

 

I hope Sprint can be just as fast on sites that already have the 800/1900 panels but no 800 RRU.

What is AT&T doing?

I read in the newspaper yesterday that the average Californian uses 77 gallons of water per person per day...that seems insane!

The average American uses 80-100 gallons per day according to the USGS. The average shower alone is ~ 20 gallons of water. The average toilet flush is ~2 gallons, an average of five flushes a day per person. Then there's tooth brushing, hand washing, cooking, cleaning. We use WAY more water than we are prepared to admit, as a nation. 

Uhhhhhh 

 

If a large chunk of California's population has to evacuate, you better believe Sprint and the whole country are going to have bigger things to worry about than their cell phones, like where they're going to get a lot of their food and where to put 30 million refugees. That said, it's not going to happen, at least not in the next decade or so, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.