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Here in Austin we have 3 companies "offering" gigabit speeds.

 

Grande Communications offers it downtown in a small area but elsewhere the speeds have not even gone up.

 

AT&T currently maxes at 300 down and the advertised price also includes a $20 rebate for letting them spy on you and requires a 2 year contract.

 

Google Fiber is still building out and I only know of a few downtown apartment buildings and a couple libraries.

 

 

TWC on the other hand is offering 300 down BUT they have doubled everyone's speeds for free and their free wifi across town is actually really nice and fast.

Doesn't Suddenlink have service there? Maybe it was round rock I was thinking of, but Suddenlink was in trial of 300mbps internet near Austin.

Oh, that's right. Because TMO had such a great footprint.

Is it me or does the use of Collapse , in your quoted text, make it seem like it was Sprints only lifeline? It uses a hidden negative to still downplay Sprint. Calling it a collapse is a bit harsh, more like it was a withdrawl because Son Was smarter.

well, not everyone is on their highest speed package either.  but at the beginning they will probably have a hefty install fee as well for those early adopters.  Similar to what comcast does for their 505 megabit tier.

Well most people will use the lowest tier since it is plenty. But if the price was right I'd sign up if it was fiber!

and do what?  give every home their own node?  DOCSIS 3, at 24 channels bonded  provides about a gigabit for downstream and about 250 mbits for upstream with 8 bonded channels...and thats for all of the users shared on that leg.  Obviously one would never see those speeds in real world use due to noise and many other variables.

 

DOCSIS 3.1 is the only way to really make this reasonably happen (if they stick with docsis) but i dont believe that will be deployed in the field until next year or the year after.

 

maybe they will run fiber to the home for the gigabit tiers.  who knows.

It could be fiber to the Home. But idk if $250,000,000 will be able to provide Fiber to the home for that many customers.

problem is they never really say how they are going to do this.  They touched on DOCSIS but im not sure how they are going to deliver gigabit speeds over DOCSIS within the next three years.

Adding more fiber to nodes, along with more nodes. Docs is 3.0 is capable of over 1gbps.

So Suddenlink is on its road to offer widespread Gigabit per second Speeds to its coverage area. It offers tiers of 15,30,50, and 107 Mbps currently, and the new plans would start at 200Mbps(old 15 Mbps plan) and 1Gbps(old 107 Mbps plan). What excites me is suddenlink has laid so much fiber the past week. I have seen myself 2 separate crews. Running new fiber. And Tyler Tx is a Major data hub for Suddenlink. Anyone else have suddenlink for Home Internet? What do you think?

 

http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2014/08/suddenlink-begins-gigabit-upgrade

 

LTE speed is highly signal strength dependent (assuming air wave and back haul are not saturated).  So i think ideally you want to be on B26 as much as possible anyway as that will give you a better signal strength compare to B25 at the same location.

Band 26 -110 signal for me has less speed than, band 25 -110. I believe it is like that because more people are being moved TO band 26. But band 26 does perform decent here, At home I just got a -111 signal (with the Booster) from a site 14 miles away, as the crow flies.

So in a turn of events one tower in Tyler Tx changed to a TAC of 7956 for b25 , 8526 for b26. Just one tower. 7956 was our previous TAC we used here. Also our PCI reverted to a previous set.

It does cover band 25. I bought one of these when they first came out. They are very marginally effective (at least for mine).

weird b25 was worse with this for me. Band 26 us around 10-15 dBm better .

They work good I have heard.

Well Ill take the +10Dbm gain I got from this device. It works well in fringe areas, in Town with decent signal it isnnt bad, does extend the range, and such, just No need for it in town.

I know it isnt Scientific, but it does seem to have a decent impact on Signal, and usability! Speed test comparison same spot, with/WIthout Booster.

 

 

With:

 

Without:

We'll need screenshots of your engineering 1X, 3G and LTE screens before we can speak on it as it appears that "booster" would only work on AT&T/VZW for data.

I used it at home where my m8 only gets b26 in a rare occasion. With the Wilson sleek I got a -108 on my car will take screen shots at home in LTE only mode.

 

With Booster:

 

 

 

Without booster: 

So I picked up the Wilson 4g 460007(also referred to as 460107). Got it for under $100 at best buy (price match). I checked the specs which does not cover Sprint b25,b26,or b41 LTE. But I have actually seen an increase in coverage and usable signal in areas with almost no signal. How is that possible on b26, if the device specs state 824-869mhz regarding band 26?

http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=3610007&pid=1219092581508&pcatId=abcat0811002

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=304712&fcc_id=PWO460007

 

Edit New link added:

 

http://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/wilson-sleek-4g-23db-amplifier-kit-460107/

Speaking of ads, I heard at least 3 Sprint commercials on the radio in 1 Hour of driving.

Lol where do you pull these opinions out of? Jack up rates... god 

More poking fun at the "what if..." Ideas. Always am the "what if..." Guy.

How about the world's first tri-mode ad:  Marcelo in the first 1/3 of the screen ripping out equipment, Carly in the 2nd and Zombies in the last third.

Shouldn't the zombies be ripping out the equipment, Carly rides in on Band 41 bike, and Marcelo Jumps on ?

This rendered your previous post invalid, didn't it?

 

Point is, T-Mobile is giving consumers every right to leave the carrier at any point, and as you've stated Sprint will also gladly buy your existing contract if needed. There are quite a few options for T-Mobile subscribers.

I meant sprint offer that not T-Mobile. But it does stick you with a possible hefty phone device cost. Not always but can. But it does leave Verizon out of Those T-Mobile sub's(which is not a bad thing). It allows them to go anywhere, but doesn't a subsidized Phone? Just pay an ETF and you are good? To me it is better dependent on how long you've had them. If you have them 3 months for T-Mobile, making the minimum Payments on your phone , you could be stuck -$500+ in the hole, compared to a lesser -$330 in the hole. But opposite happens when its closer to the end of 2 years

Yeah but uncannier means no contract to most people. Yes you are left with paying off your phone, but at least you can go to AT&T with your phone.

Maybe so but what if ATT sucks in your area? You can't just take it to any carrier. You are stuck. Yes currently sprint will buy your contract, which may actual reap a huge benefit if this happens. Just my thought is a 2 year contract isn't as bad in my view, as device installment plans are also good. Customers should be given the choice. Maybe something to look into Is a device give back program on contracts, where sprint waives a majority fee of cancellation if the device is returned unharmed, in sellable condition. I'm sure a system like above could be possible.

Well DT doesn't care about long term because they are trying to exit the US market. They just want T-Mobile to be as attractive as possible for a buyout.

Sent from my Nexus 5

True which could be the while reasoning of "uncarrier" attract a buyer, then jack up rates, cause not everyone can leave and be stuck with several hundred dollars of phone cost left.

I don't know if the AWS-3 will be able to be deployed shortly after the auction. I know I read on this forum that the 600mhz band would be able to be used until 2017. So T-Mobile may be thinking near term. T-Mobile doesn't have cash for buying spectrum and sitting on it for 2+ years either.

Sent from my Nexus 5

It may be a year or so, but long term is in sprints favor. Short term AWS-3 would help T-Mobile out , but long term that may hurt them in lack of low band.

Hmm is it me or if Tmobile buys the AWS spectrum in the upcoming auction, where will they get Money for the 600MHz auction? Let T-Mobile over bid, go in debt more, and then leave the 600MHz for sprint to gobble up. They can't afford both

This is what I have had to do for the past 3 years.

 

Robert

I am about to jump on one, just to track ATT new sites, but Will use it for if I travel.

OK my two cents. If you need more data than 300mb of roaming pick up an ATT hotspot at best buy, and pay $35,iirc, and get over a 1GB of data. Pay less than roaming fees and no complaint about 1x only roaming. Or substitute it with a Verizon Hotspot. There are cheapers alternatives you can use.

 

$25 for 1.5GB for Att. Why wouldn't you use that instead of expensive roaming. Get more data plus you can only activate it for those times you need it for vacation.

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=771563&fcc_id=A3LSMT807P

 

Sprint shall be getting this Tab S. Looks like sprint maybe expanding its tablet portfolio. The only this is there Is also a Tab S with an 8.4" screen as well(WiFi only). Maybe sprint will get that one as well.

So was it me or did anyone else notice a class 2 permissive change on the FCC for these? Was dated 7/25/14. Looks to be a change.from 10W for 20mhz/20W for 40mhz, to 20W for both 20/40mhz.