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I've never had any luck at Terminal 4 and Terminal 5

I'm flying out of Terminal 4 tomorrow, will check on my devices to see how coverage and speeds are.

For the most part thanks to Hotspot 2.0, I'm on the secure WIFI rather than mobile at most terminals. 

Fun fact, while taking my Uber today I found out T-Mobile doesn't have service in the Battery Tunnel. Meanwhile Sprint has Band 26 down here and I'm posting this while on it right now. It might be leaky coax or a DAS because the signal is really strong.

 

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By design if I recall, same goes for the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

Anyone know what this means on SCP. Its been showing up for me a ton in Queens and in Manhattan. I'm referring to the two *'s. Ran a speed test after seeing it this time and got over 40Mbps

 

Also unrelated question: Any one know of the status of the DAS at JFK?

 

Which terminal? 

Just thinking outloud, but why does would Sprint keep adding only 20MHz carriers.  In tech industry, you need to change things in order of magnitude, so while we start with 1 20MHz B41.  Adding second carrier doubled the bandwidth.  3rd carrier only increased it by 50% (and even less when you factor in B26 and 2xB25).  So my question is this.

 

Why isn't the third B41 carrier 40MHz?  Why have 6 B41 carriers each 20 Mhz instead of fewer 40 MHz or 60MHz carriers?

Because you can't. The TDD carriers are broken up into 20mhz chunks.

I opened the app and it asked if I wanted to turn on enhanced messaging and then some wizardry happened about sharing your sim info with the mobile provider. Didn't get any other updates.

Ok thanks!

How do you know if you've received the push?

Ok thanks, couldn't get it working on my phone with my finger print.

Anyone use Samsung Pay on an S7 Edge? 

If I were roaming and the only option was to pay 25¢ per MB for overages, I'd seriously consider switching providers. There's no way Sprint is paying anywhere close to 25¢/MB to Verizon. Sprint is hurting itself by charging that much. They could push some subscribers to leave for other networks if they find themselves paying $25 for an extra 100 MB.

How would they be hurting themselves? Roaming is a perk, not necessarily a requirement.

Magenta removed all roaming except voice and no one complained.

Unless there are huge areas where T-Mobile has service and Verizon does not that I'm not aware of, I don't buy it.  Most of the state of West Virginia (outside of the panhandle) has zero T-Mobile service, for example.  Where is the area of T-Mobile service without Verizon service that counter-balances that?  That's about a million by itself and doesn't include the other rural areas where Verizon has service and T-Mobile does not.

 

- Trip

I think that's the .3% that no one fact-checks.

I really wonder how T-mobile has band 4 @ 20 mhz across el paso and still it has congested in most areas. Is the network not dense enough maybe?? Or is T-mobile growth in this market really just that much

 

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Site density is huge for any carrier.

Otherwise you can go overcapacity relatively quickly depending on the area.

NOPE .STILL HAVE SAME ISSUE WITH DOWNLOAD SPEEDS ON SAME TOWER IT WILL NOT GO OVER 3 MEGABITS ON ANY BAND. I GIVE UP.

PM me the address

It's already on the Sprint website. 25 without auto pay. Not sure why they still include the other rates for tablets when this rate trumps them all. 

This one includes optimized data while the others don't.

I figured I'd chime in here. Sprint does not have enough B41 live nationwide and they also have the least amount of cell towers/coverage. I feel like in their financial predicament, they should really focus on the upgrades instead of giving away service to users that aren't going to pay for it. I'm surprised AJ hasn't chimed in on this yet, considering his stance on people have device subsidies.

Coverage is relative, plenty of it to go around here where I live, work, and play.

The Reddit thread makes me so sad reading through it.

It's depressing the serious lack of empathy and common sense in people today.

Marcelo makes an announcement trying to help the underprivileged and instead everything imploded with people calling it a mistake and a waste of money.

Damn Sprint for actually trying to help some folks, right?

What happens is that 90% of the customers just accept it and keep on moving, and the 10% port out.

Risk vs Reward, and it won't stop their subscriber gains.

B41 will never penetrate buildings as well as low band spectrum. B41 will give you great speeds outdoors, but it does not help with indoor reliability, which is something Sprint and T-Mobile suffer from. The difference here is that Sprint couldn't afford the auction and is strolling along with minimal network investments while T-Mobile is investing and expanding.

Depends on where.

I'm in NYC and camping right now on a -101dB B41 site.

They are trying to swap with other carriers to create 10x10, 15x15 or even 20x20 adjacent blocks. I wonder if Dish migh e willing to let go of PCS F block for peanuts (which the only things that Sprint can afford nowadays )

PCS H is useless though. Better off swapping with C5

Yes, they have full building 802.11ac wifi deployments as standard with guest, student and faculty ssids. They've just never supported wifi calling of any kind before so we're looking at the density and bandwidth implications of doing so.

 

This is a 36,000 student campus and we're not privy to their overall campus bandwidth but the building will have dual fiber entrances as part of a fiber ring.

I would anticipate VoWIFI calls to be 64kbps each. The required open ports may be an issue though.

Yeah, I'm no fan of the phone leasing system.  I think it's kind of ridiculous.

I like the idea of leasing, since it feeds my "new device urge"

But seriously I think Verizon's score was higher than 10 mbps. There was a 22% speed difference. That is noticable when downloading normal apps and video consistency.

 

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Difference between 16 and 26? It's relative man, 30 seconds in real time?

If you take voice and text out of the equation and just did data then it is a big difference. There voice is what keeps there reliability scores so high.

 

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Yeah but that's for e-penis pumpers.

The truth is there is zero difference between 8mbps and 10mbps on mobile applications. 

Between ATT and VZW, rootmetrics say they are worse. I know in parts of the country, Sprint is better. But overall, at this moment across the USA, can people really say Sprint is better than VZW and ATT?

According to the port positive numbers that Marcelo talks about, yes, they definitely can say that.

It's exactly what Verizon did.

100x the cash flow

$0 back haul costs for as many sites are within the footprint.

Seriously?