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The 3G sites where in the middle of the city like around the LATTC

That's really odd.  I think there's a site right across the street from that campus.

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.

I haven't been in the North terminals for a while, but T5 & T6 coverage and speed have been good for me.

When I had my HTC M8 it would automatically connect to the Boingo Wi-Fi in the airport, but I don't think that's happened with my 6s.  Maybe that would go a long way toward solving connectivity in T3.

You're right, SoCal in general needs greater site density and B26.  NYC for example or Atlanta offer a much better experience.

That said, there is progress being made in this market.  There have been a lot of 3G sites in the canyons that have been converted to LTE.  Many of these sites aren't even sites listed on the NV map.

The DAS worked well for me in the North, Center and South halls at the convention center today.

Flew in and out today. Service was good at LAS airport as well. .

Is there enough room to do:

B41 + B41 + B41  (for 3 channel carrier aggregation)

B41 , B41  (for 2 carriers)

or in the future

B41 + B25 (or whatever the case may be.)

Although I think listening in general is a great idea, was a "listening tour" really necessary?

Most consumers barely have any loyalty to what has basically become a commodity service.  What consumers do have are memories of bad experiences of network performance, poor customer service or both.  You don't need to talk to customers to figure that out.

Instead, how about a "getting things done tour."

The contract between Sprint and San Bernardino County allows for up to $450,000 in incentives if the County can complete rebanding by June 30, 2016.  Other milestone dates with lower payments include August 15, 2016 and October 15, 2016.   (Incentives are also broken up into "desert" and "non-desert".)

Source:  San Bernardino County Clerk of the Board.

Haven't had time to test, will do tonight.

 

 

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I installed 9.3.1 last night. Clear B41 seems to work again!

Me too. Nothing added in 9.3 that's worth dealing with that mess.

I think you're famous now:

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/31/sprint-users-ios-9-3-data-connection-issues/

Kamchatka.  That is the market where Sprint can hold 10 MHz FDD of low band spectrum.

 

AJ

Talk about flyover country!

There are two vendors for LA for Clear with the north side is Huawei and records 40254. 

 

The rest of the market is Samsung Clear B41 which should be capable of 2xCA and thus should be on the same earfcn (40978+41176) as the Sprint 2.5 sites. 

Now it's all starting to make sense.  When Sprint replaces the Huawei equipment I hope they'll turn the site into a full Sprint site. 

40254 is the original EARFCN of the Clearwire network that was based in the Sprint leased EBS 2500 MHz range. 

 

This particular Clear site had been 40978 since LTE was first turned on.  Would Sprint enable CA on this site with yet another "new" channel adjacent to 40254?

Doesn't that overlap with 41176?

My math could be wrong, but here's what I get for the center frequencies for those channels:

40254 = 2556.4 MHz

41176 = 2648.6 MHz

And looking at the band plan in the link below it doesn't look like they're next to each other.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-360-whats-the-frequency-kenneth-interpreting-your-engineering-screen-part-three/

But hey, I'm more on the creative side, so maybe someone good with numbers can give us the real answer.

Just came across a 3rd EARFCN for B41 in LA Metro:  40254.  This happened to be from a Clear site.

Add that to the existing 40978 & 41176.

Going back to 9.2.1 has fixed the Clear B41 connectivity issue for me.

The conversations I had with Apple and Sprint were comical...they had no idea what to make of my knowledge of the network and my troubleshooting results. We know too much.

I'm surprised there aren't more people complaining about LTE connectivity issues.  I'm definitely open to the idea it could be a peculiarity of my device.  It just seems odd that I'm able to replicate your findings 100%.

Sprint Care told me to report it via Sprint Zone.  Not being satisfied with that answer I asked them if they had experienced an uptick in 6s LTE connectivity issues and suggested if that was the case that they pass the info up the chain.  The agent promised to do so.

I messaged them back with a screenshot of a failed Speedtest, they replied back with "Type a reply..." I don't know what to make of that honestly.

LOL.  I am also experiencing a long pause of 2+ hours.  I'm not sure they knew what to do with the information that I have 2 other iPhone 6s devices that are running 9.2 and the older carrier bundle that can connect with no problem.

I tweeted Marcelo, who then forwarded to Sprint Care

I'm on a chat with Sprint Care about this issue.

Did they respond to your tweet?

 I wonder if this is just a 6s Plus issue...ugh.

 

Thanks for the tips!

I don't think this is isolated to just the 6s Plus.  I've noticed problems with Clear B41 as well.  My 6s sees the signal, but I'm not able to use data.  I reported it via Sprint Zone.

After logging 80 miles on my commute and feverishly switching between Field Test and Speedtest, I can pretty much confirm that Clear B41 is the problem. 

You must have more patience than I do with Field Test.  That screen really makes me miss my HTC M8.

Do you have any tricks to get the info to populate correctly for TAC and UARFCN?  Half the time it seems random to me.

Is there a separate display for PLMN?

The 9.3 update and carrier bundle 24.1 broke Clear B41 for me on my 6s. Anyone else experiencing this bug in their market?

 

EDIT: I have experienced connection issues with Clear B41 sites.

I did hear about that a bit... wonder what markets they have these in

 

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There are quite a few in Los Angeles. About every block on some of the busiest surface streets in the Valley.

Has anyone seen any small cells popping up for tmobile

 

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It might not meet the contemporary definition of small cell, but T-Mobile inherited a DAS system from MetroPCS.

This article mentions them having 6,000 DAS nodes:

http://www.rcrwireless.com/20121116/carriers/metropcs-decommission-10000-sites-part-t-mobile-usa-deal

Do we know if this is traditional point to point backhaul or is it B41 backhaul?

Not sure, but I think that they are city owned. I have observed (as seen in the photo) that many street light poles around the areas surrounding these sites have small receivers installed. The city replaced the old high pressure sodium street lights with LED fixtures over the past few years, and wants to be able to remotely dim and brighten the lights at will using wireless technology...perhaps that is what these sites are for, as well as leasing to wireless providers eventually for extra revenue.

In my opinion the new installations would be gross overkill for the street light controllers.  But that's my opinion and it's not close to even being worth 2 cents.

On a related note, it's kind of sad to see the old series wired street lights go away.  A lot of that was circa 1940s infrastructure.  Obviously the LEDs are superior in almost every way, but it was like a living museum of electrical history.

To Sprint ofcourse.

 

 

 

That should make our Ocala friends happy!

And apologies, I was was referring to my incomplete statement not anything you said.