bigmachine

Nothing here in California is built for rain.  Our roads are built out of papier-mâché.  When it rains in Los Angeles, part of the road literally floats away.

Went to Maggiano's at the Grove this past Saturday night for a cousin's birthday, and, wow, that place was congested.  That's definitely a location that could use some B41 for the busy days like that.

Any day now... Since I can't use that trademarked phrase that starts with an "S" and ends with an "N".

 I just spoke with a co worker over cell and he has ATT....I could hardly make out a word he was saying. It sounded like he was talking through a tin can with a voice box on the end of it. 

I was with a co-worker who has AT&T and he put his call on speakerphone and it sounded like a mix of whale calls and screaming cats in an echo chamber.  After a few seconds he just hung up -- even the NSA wouldn't have been able to make sense of it.

Ver: 3.30.654.2

 

Did this update get pulled? I never got notification of this particular update.

I like the idea of iOS integration with OSX Yosemite, but Signal Check Pro keeps me on Android.

Improvements keep on coming.  Last month in my office in Burbank I used to get about 14 Mbps down, now I consistently get in the 50s.

3G only zones are becoming more scarce.  When I do find myself in one, I always report it via Sprint Zone.

When is that 800 deployment going to happen.... Again? Refresh my memory, does it have any kind of timeline?

San Bernardino County (SBC) has been the holdup.  In late September an analyst from SBC posted on a P25 forum that the County was "Currently rebanding our 800MHZ fleet of 15000 subscribers and replacing our 15 SmartnetII+ systems with a 7.14 core."

So at least they're doing something.  I have been unable to get a hard date from anyone with SBC or Sprint.

It all depends on where you are. I'm on the west side so Santa Monica, Westwood, Culver City, etc., and 4G is still hard to find and keep, especially on the bus or in restaurants/stores.

I agree about Santa Monica, especially north of Wilshire.  Parts of 3rd St. are spotty too in the Promenade.  I'm sure since you're a Premier Sponsor you've seen why B41 has been weak in Santa Monica.  Adding B41 to Sprint sites should really help.  And whenever B26 can be deployed, we should see significant in-building improvement.

I am hoping that when I finally upgrade to a spark device, this will be better

Having a Spark device made a night and day difference in my speeds with Sprint.

I've been able to get 74 Mbps in several parts of L.A., most of the time speeds are in the mid 20s-30s -- a more than useable experience!

They kinda need to come up with a new system for that. I know it would be a bit of a PITA to do it, but it's an issue that's gonna become more and more prevalent as carriers do capacity overlays.

 

I guess the biggest issue would be determining band in the first place. They may have to do something not dependent on bands.

There must be a way to determine the band.  Other apps can do it.  (Most of the time.)

Band 41 had much better edge of cell performance, that is true. This is why connections down to -130dBm are allowed. 

How does Sensorly interpret this?  In Los Angeles I spend most of the time on B41 as I'm driving around trying to paint some purple onto the maps.  Am I taking away some deep purple by always being connected to B41 which is usable to a lower level of signal strength?

They have those now in LA

What are you using for speedtests? As others have said, 128 down seems impossibly high without CA.

I've noticed with the new version of SCP that it'll still show the LTE signal in the notification bar but it says "Suspended" when you swipe it down if you are on the phone.

I've noticed that too. In this case it didn't happen. The default LTE and Spark symbols remained as well. The call audio was very choppy. Something low level in the phone probably wasn't functioning properly.

It'll likely require a software update.

That's what I thought... Not to mention everything that would have to happen on the network side.

I'm prepared to call what happened an "undocumented feature."

Anyone else ever experience this with their M8:

I placed a call on my hands free system and instead of "Sprint" appearing on the car's display, it displayed the PLMN "311 490".

Now, it gets more bizarre.  Instead of my phone showing it being connected to 1x, it still showed LTE.  I swiped open SCP and it also displayed LTE during this call.

Is it even remotely possible this was a VoLTE call?  Or was it just some anomaly with the phone's OS?

It has only happened once.

Next time you see that, could you go to About > Send Diagnostics and send me a report?

Will do.  Thanks for everything you do for this community!

On my HTC M8, SCP sometimes reports a PLMN of 310-120 when my engineering screens shows 311-490.

I've noticed this while on certain Clear B41 sites in Los Angeles.

I have version 4.261

They are CDMA too....

Softbank uses W-CDMA a.k.a. UMTS, not to be confused with our CDMA. Among other significant differences, I believe W-CDMA uses a GSM core.

In the course of trying to learn more about Miyakawa, I came across several articles/press-releases about Softbank's LTE TDD deployments in Japan.

In the link below they talk about having 50-100 base stations per square kilometer.  That's insane!  Would Sprint ever do that in metro areas here?

http://www.huawei.com/ilink/en/success-story/HW_195558

http://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/business/mobile/

There's a few new B41 sites in my market and the signal doesn't seem to be that strong, and I'm not sure if it is my phone (the just released Note 4) or the signal from the tower itself.  Even driving nearby the site, it doesn't stay at full bars long.

The B41 site closest to me seems to have a signal reach equivalent to a sprinkler.  I'm not complaining though -- it provides ample speed to me.  It's capacity discipline at its finest.

It's a Clear site (and former Nextel site) with microwave backhaul, so my theory is that it's tuned so it doesn't get too saturated.

That's a very strong signal. And you are pretty close to me. You live south of the boulevard? 

I don't actually live close to that site, I just went on an epic journey around the Valley tracking down sites that hadn't been converted to NV.  ( I think this is the only place in the world where I would admit that.)

That area is nice -- I wouldn't mind living there.

So it seems we gained alot new customers but loyal customers fled as per the article, but how can they really determine that when they only surveyed 500 customers?

 

TS.

Lies, damned lies and statistics.  I would just take this information in aggregate with everything else.  To me, it at least seems like a positive trend, something I've witnessed anecdotally by visiting crowded stores.

Looks like some good news might be on the way:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-r-levin/loyalty-helps-verizon-new_b_6068432.html

San Bernardino County is the holdup for LTE 800 in the LA market.

There is a really great schedule map in the Premiere Sponsor section. It has B41 8T8R deployment info if you're interested in that.