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I really hope it is limited to 720p which to me is good enough. I am glad that Legere decided to match Verizon's Unlimited plan with HD video offering but I don't want it to kill the network with 1080p streaming. Also I am glad that Legere matched the 10 GB hotspot tethering which to me makes more sense and will take advantage of that for sure.

 

For once, I want to say thanks to Verizon for being "Uncarrier" and pushing Tmobile (and hopefully Sprint soon) to retract their non-HD video offering and up their high speed hotspot tether buckets.

 

This move really has me considering jumping to Tmobile or Verizon since Sprint has not been reacting fast enough in Los Angeles to provide better coverage and speeds. It is simply taking way too long for Sprint to make progress.

Look into Verizon or AT&T. T-Mobile has been getting really congested in LA. Especially in downtown, Westchester and Santa Monica in my experience. Verizon and AT&T are a lot faster

John Legere was a slime at the previous firm, and he is an AT&T product that worked under Dan Hesse. Tmobile network can't handle the organic growth anymore, too much congestion everywhere so John will do now what every corporation do, grow slowly at maximum profits.

This makes total sense and I kind of saw hints of this in the beginning. I wonder how he will present further changes like this in press conferences, earnings calls, social media and Periscope.

 

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Nope it's as designed.

 

Google and Sprint specifically ordered the implementation of the sprint specific CDMA / LTE engineering screens.

 

Sprint is really the only one that orders engineering screens on basically all its devices.

Verizon, ATT, and Tmobile usually have it disabled.

Thanks, I didn't know that. That's a major selling point for me. At least they didn't disable it on the S7.

 

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Thanks it's working with Project Fi on Sprint, but not with my T-Mobile Sim. Is that a bug?

 

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Engineering screen of 5x is not broken other than for Carrier Aggregation SCC values.

I heard it was. Can you please tell me the dialer code to access it? Thanks

 

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Ok, there is a known bug with LTE Discovery where in Alcatel-Lucent markets it mistakenly displays the 2nd B25 carrier as B26. I would suggest downloading Signal Check (Pro) (developed and maintained by Mike, a member here) for tracking LTE connections until the bug is resolved.

Thanks for that. I definitely have purchased that app and will have to reinstall it.

 

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No need for this. Healthy skepticism is warranted given the situation, but you cannot flat out say it's impossible.

 

 

What app are you using to identify LTE bands?

LTE Discovery because the Engineering screen is broken on the Nexus 5x and 6p.

 

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Can you post some shots of your engineering screens and the location?

 

I'll admit, I'm skeptical, but I would be thrilled if you did find an active B26 site in Los Angeles.

I would post one, but the official engineering screen is broken on the Nexus 5x. Which is the only Sprint phone I have.

 

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S4GRU has already stated that it isn't cleared just yet. We thought they cleared it but it was wrong. So that's impossible if you found band 26 active in SoCal. I live here also. I would have noticed by now.

Sorry. I didn't know this. Thanks

 

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That's impossible

How? If the spectrum has been cleared and they're deploying it. Isn't it possible that they've turned some clusters on.

 

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Any more updates on the rebanding progress?

 

Once the rebanding is complete, how long will it be before we can expect band 26 in LA & OC counties?

 

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I'm getting band 26 occasionally in LA county by LAX on Project Fi. I'm not sure about OC.

 

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Has anyone seen LTE band 26 deployed yet? Or are we still waiting for San Bernardino County to vacate the spectrum?

 

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The PDF I linked to on the Washington DC VoLTE/HD Voice test placed Sprint CDMA2000 1X Advanced call quality in the same boat as T-Mobile's UMTS HD Voice. The big jump was to VoLTE where HD call quality was similar on all three carriers. Who do I think has the best VoLTE setup right now? AT&T even though it's enabled by market.

 

- eSRVCC fallback is down to .14 seconds on average, which is barely noticeable in the real world.

- Better low band spectrum position means better VoLTE coverage.

- Even when leaving the HD footprint calls can quickly and reliably continue on the circuit switched network for both AT&T and T-Mobile.

- AT&T had the best call setup times.

 

T-Mobile's VoLTE implementation is hurt by less than ubiquitous low band, and Verizon's is hurt by no eSRVCC fallback. All three providers had similar quality for VoLTE calls even though T-Mobile used the 23.85 Kbps codec and AT&T and Verizon used 12.65 Kbps.

 

I give the Death Star plenty of grief but I feel like they have done well with their VoLTE implantation.

Awesome info, but I'm curious as how Sprint can technically fall back from a VoLTE call? Can't you only fall back using UMTS? If Sprint can fall back to 1x then why isn't Verizon doing this? Thanks.

 

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Back-haul...the unsung Wireless hero.....

Anyone know what type of connection is needed for a Macro site..

If Cable or Fiber is available in the area are a couple Residential Style connection good enough?

Or are we talking about dedicated commercial pipes?

 

Also, how far can Microwave go....how many towers could you daisy chain together with Microwave backhaul.

 

Keep seeing Microwave dishes attached to Towers in odd spots...as if to provide backhaul as an afterthought.

 

Anyway, i thought of another "Sprint First"...Digital Call Routing technology rather than Circuit Switched calls like the other carriers had.

Carriers perfer Fiber then microwave then copper for backhaul. Microwave requires line of site. Fiber and microwave are converted to Ethernet. I'm not sure if they do that with copper. I'm not sure how long it goes. Don't the other 3 still use switches? Except for maybe VoLTE calls. That should be digitally through iP.

 

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I believe he was referring to MetroPCS in NYC, not Sprint.

 

-Anthony

Ok, that makes more sense.

 

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Yep. It was evident in that their network was a mess. They deployed 1x throughout NYC, then they started EVDO but never finished and went straight for LTE. They went all in with DAS and such but it meant that when you dropped LTE, you almost always ended up on 1x which was a messy experience to say the least.

Wow. In LA they fully deployed EV-DO, so it wasn't as painful dropping off of LTE. Network Vision made EV-DO is ok, but they need to be more dense here, and need to deploy band 26 badly. T-Mobile is extremely dense, fast, and their low band (band 12) fixes their coverage gaps in certain buildings I go in.

 

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My point with my list of "Sprint Firsts" is that they are tenchnologically competent. They use cutting edge technology, rather than just following the market wherever it goes...another example, being Carrier Aggregation, they take the frequencies handed them by Nextel and Clearwire and make the best of it.

 

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The same could be said of T-Mobile. They starting building out fiber to their sites in 2008. No other carrier thought fiber was the future. Or preficted the data usage spike. Then AT&T started to get hit hard with iPhone users that killed their network. So they started deploying better backhaul in late 2009. Now it's paying off for T-Mobile. They deployed a lot of LTE extremely quickly. Now they still have a long way to go in co-locating on sites and getting sufficient backhaul. I hope they hit 300 Million pops by EOY. Their newer LTE equipment also helped them be the 1st carrier to launch VoLTE nationwide. T-Mobile's smart decisions in past years has helped them make such a quick turn around. Sprint has been innovative, but made bad business decisions in past years like WiMax and how they dealt with the Nextel merger. I'm not sure if it was Hesse or the board. I would bet it was the board, because of bad decisions before and after Hesse. Hopefully Softbank, Mr. Son, and Marcelo can make better decisions and take the rest of the board with a grain of salt. Sprint can be successful in the future, but it will take time to fix problems from the past.

 

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http://www.cnet.com/news/metropcs-launches-first-4g-lte-market-and-phone/

 

I stand corrected. Kudos for remembering correctly sir.

No problem. I remember them wanting to beat Verizon to the punch. I think the 1st market was Las Vegas or Boston.

 

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Compare to T-Mobile.

 

First to LTE... no, that would be Verizon.

No. Metro PCS was the first to LTE.

 

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Use a svlte device if you want data and voice without volte turned on.

 

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I don't think any of their 2015 flagships have SV-LTE. The Droid Turbo, iPhones, S6, M9, and I assume the Note 5 don't. Verizon has a huge issue with LTE density in a lot of places, so their VoLTE suffers because of it.

 

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Nah, the $15 SIM fee is T-Mobile's activation fee. Remember that anytime anyone mentions Sprint's activation fee. Technically, the Uncarrier[emoji769] thing to do would be to ax the SIM fee. Legere raised it instead.

 

For the record I think Sprint should kill off the activation fee, and then call for T-Mobile to kill the SIM fee.

Yeah I agree. Isn't Sprint's activation fee still $36? Just curious. Also if you upgrade using Jump On Demand they don't charge you the SIM fee and they don't charge tax; unless at the end of the 18 month lease you decide to keep the phone. Then you get charged the remaining balance + sales tax immediately. Unless you return it.

 

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AT&T added that $15 activation fee that applies to Next and BYOD. Also I think the new plans are a way to force people into paying more for a bigger bucket they don't need, but that's highly subjective. (I personally find the 15 gig $100 plan a great deal for our needs, and am on it)

 

Verizon had some pretty good plans, but the larger 12 GB plan for 2 lines for example is $10 more then the old 15 gig plan and is missing 3 gigs. The smaller plans may be ok though.

The $15 fee is like T-Mobile's Sim fee. Both are very overpriced, but by you saying raising prices I thought you meant on their rate plans. Not adding ridiculous fees.

 

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If T-Mobile goes to Comcast then I think we're doomed. This is probably why AT&T and Verizon have not given into the competition and have instead RAISED prices because they know what's coming down the line... At that point Sprint/Softbank will be our only hope.

When did they raise prices. AT&T just added 5GB to their $100 plan to make it 15GB total, before it only had 10GB. Verizon dropped the price of 15GB from $100 to $80, but raised the line access fee to $20 from $15. T-Mobile is making them respond slowly, but they are still making them respond. If Comcast buys T-Mobile I hope Sprint can become the new disrupter to make the big 2 get better.

 

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The more reason COMCAST is the choice for DT.

 

• Again any transaction with the approval of DT for what its asking for will be the dismissal and replacement of the current ceo and management at tmobileus. The new owners, acquisitioners, will expect nothing less.

 

Truth!

Yup your right. If Comcast does buy them; it'd be extremely sad to see them kill the competition in the industry through T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the current disrupter in the industry. Comcast would never let T-Mobile keep doing free, and innovative things for customers. If it happens I'm moving my line to AT&T immediately.

 

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PS. The reason why talks stalled with Dish was directly due to the question of management in charge.

The fact that DT thought that Dish's stock was extremely over valued, and that they wanted more cash also contributed to stalling the talks.

 

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