lvanders

Is LTE roaming still rolling out for the west like Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Montana etc.?

I hate cases but if i'm going to have one i'm going to make it useful. I actually just got the CM4 Q card case for the iPhone 6 plus. I love having my phone as my wallet because I never forget it and it consolidates everything. This has by far been one of the best cases for me. The case has a great feel to it (i'm seriously surprised at how slim it is) and it holds my cards. If you are looking for a bulky case to save your phone from an apocalypse this isn't it but i've dropped my phone already a few times and its done a great job. I don't want to sound like a commercial for them but since we are discussing cases just thought i'd put my 2 cents in. Its a very slim premium feel case thats functional as a wallet.

I wish I knew which LTE band each company uses. I know the iPhone 6/6+ picks up all LTE bands except band 12 so all the CCA partner carriers not using band 12, all iPhone 6 users could use. It'd be nice to know what carriers use only band 12 and where those carriers coverage is located.

unfortunately you will be roaming most of the time. The RRPP program hasn't kicked in yet and sprints coverage is pretty much all roaming in southern/eastern Utah. You will get spotty 3G but i doubt you can do much on the web with it. You will get LTE at the entrance of Zions like you mentioned and around Hurricane. Moab you should get 3G but i'd be surprised if your speeds were even around 0.4 mbps. Everywhere else you will be roaming and data will be pretty much useless. Enjoy your trip though!!

P.S i'm WAY jealous of all of you with your triband iPhones....one day i will get one......one day.......

Yeah if I remember correctly the first original iPhone was on 2G. Then the iPhone 3G came out and was obviously using 3G. Then the 3GS which still was just 3G but had improved internals for the "speed" factor

Yeah it was speed like schikka mentioned. Because that 3G data is so fast you get those incredible speeds haha. Though it was referring to processor speed not the data speed.

Something off topic but I had the thought Apple would do this for the next iPhone even before the 6 was released...everyone was disappointed that the new iPhone didn't come with a sapphire screen. My thought is that the iPhone 6S will be sapphire screen and thats what the "S" will stand for just like the 4S was "Siri" and 5S was "security." Just a fun thought I thought I'd throw out there

You are right they did just up the plans within the last week or so. I was going to switch to the $80 plan (i didn't) and I spent a long time on the phone with customer service and on the internet because my situation right now is a little complicated. They have upped the price to $85.

Is it posted somewhere what each rural provider is running in terms of LTE bands? It'd be interesting to see what/where all the current phones (Samsung S5, HTC One, iPhone 6/+, LG G3 ect.) would work on the rural providers networks since none work on band 12 yet I know all carriers don't use just band 12 I just don't know what ones do and what ones don't. So I'm curious as to what rural providers the phones would work with by looking at what LTE band frequencies they use.

This is an april fools joke to see who spends the most time typing things up and linking you to the right threads to answer your questions isn't it?

I'm not by any gmos. I'm surrounded by cdma 800 sites. I'm roaming in ogden and south ogden. There are places in washington terrace I will be roaming as well. Keep in mind I am roaming in buildings not out in the open.

Well thats a positive sign. Good to know!! I guess its just the iPhone 5 now that for some reason isn't picking up CDMA 800. I know for me personally on the iPhone 5 I will roam and then lose service and still not pick up CDMA 800.

Well the iPhone 5 is still waiting to be able to use 800 voice and from what I've read in other forums the 5s hasn't been able to connect to b26 or 800 voice where available. So those phones are still waiting on those as well. Edit: I do understand though that they aren't "spark" devices

The next iPhone will support it. Everything I want in an iPhone should happen with the 6...triband and bigger screen. If either is missing I will probably get the GS5. But I'm pretty confident both will happen. I just hope some of the rumors about it being released in june/july are right. I'ld love to pick it up before the usual september release.

Utah county has a ton of LTE sites already lit up. Even on sprints coverage map it shows that LTE is live with coverage in Utah County because coverage is pretty decent down there.

If it had just a little bit of a clearer picture I could tell for sure but from what I can see it looks like the middle rack is NV equipment.

I've never even heard of that issue. And I run the stock iOS as well though. I'm not a huge fan of jailbreaking my iPhone. It definitely could be your jailbreak. If you can live without your jailbroken iPhone try 7.1 and see if it fixes your problems. Also try trevlegit in our forum because he likes to jailbreak his phone as well. Maybe PM hiim.

Thanks!

Thanks thats awesome information. As for Band 25...I know that they do have enough spectrum in several markets to add another 5x5 mhz channel but I was wondering if they were actually doing that and if we knew what markets this was being done in. Or is that a premier sponsor thing too? And yeah I'd absolutely love to donate more and do the premier sponsor thing but I'm about to enter grad school and between fees to apply, interview and "save your seat" costs plus what money I'm trying to gather for tuition I'm living off loans right now and can't. Trust me if I had the money I'd be the first one to donate and become a premier sponsor because I know its more than worth it!

I'm not sure if there is a thread about this but if there is I've looked and its buried somewhere. So originally I wanted to post a list of markets and the spectrum channels that are being used in each market for each band (i.e. 1900 (b25) 800 (b26) 2500 (b41)) but I can't find the information. Its easy to find how much spectrum sprint has in each band but not whats being used. For example on the 1900 frequency in Utah they are using 5x5 mhz. And I think everywhere b41 is they have like 20-25mhz available. I know with the shutdown of the iden network they were going to try and free up some spectrum and try and deploy 10x10 mhz channel throughout the U.S for LTE on b25 by end of 2013. So my question is do we know or is there a way to find out what is being used in various markets? Will they increase spectrum somehow with a broader use of voice on the 800 frequency? If so when? is 800 LTE b26 only 5x5 mhz all over the country or do different markets have more spectrum?

Dang you beat me on explaining it further supervisor...well played...well played

So just to add to what Robert said, Layton only has a few towers that have LTE so they are over loaded with anyone and everyone that has an LTE device in that area instead of other towers helping out. I will relate this to Disneyland or you can think Lagoon since we are in Utah. If Disneyland (or Lagoon) only had 3-4 rides up and operational and the others were broke down and still had the same amount of people come there you'd be waiting in line for forever and it wouldn't be that great of an experience. Once they fix all of the rides things flow a lot smoother and they can handle a lot of people a lot easier. So basically we only have a few towers or (rides) up and running but once the rest of the towers come online we will be in business. Also another factor that will help is with triband phones, we will see improved speeds as well. Thats like adding a new park like California Adventure or a Six Flags to Disneyland to help things move more smoothly. We will have extra bands to take the load off of 1900 LTE to make a better experience for everyone.

I bet you will see improvements by the end of February. Most of the towers have been upgraded in Davis/Weber counties so they are just waiting for acceptance teams. There are a few towers in Ogden that are still being worked on to get the hardware up so they can be accepted. They will probably wait until some of the ogden towers are done before the sites are accepted and you see improvements in voice calls/signal and data. By the progress of some of the towers in ogden, I think by the end of Feb. you will see improvements in your service.

Yeah I put centurylink in my earlier post because thats what everyone keeps saying is in Weber/Davis counties. I know I saw syringa working by some towers and I thought I even saw comcast doing something by a sprint tower. I don't think its just centurylink in davis/weber. Though if all 3 of them are doing backhaul its taking forever and they are dragging their feet.