Fraydog

The key for building penetration will be Alcatel getting 800 MHz CDMA working in your market. I see you are a sponsor so you can see there's only one site in the Miami metropolitan area that has 800 CDMA deployed, near Homestead. When AlLu starts turning on 800 CDMA en masse, that's when you will see a big difference. T-Mobile simply doesn't have that sort of frequency that can pierce a Faraday cage like Sprint will have through the US at the completion of NV 1.0.

Also, to be fair, the RF performance on the EVO LTE isn't that great either, as AJ and others have documented here on S4GRU.

For one bar of 3G, that's outstanding, especially the ping time.

Does Tmobile have better building penetration than sprint or is it just me? I got a tmobile hotspot since most places I go sprint 3g is extremely slow or the lte just won't penetrate walls but tmobile I get 14 mbps down consistently throughout my house on hspa 21 and no less than 5 anywhere else even if the signal is kinda low. I thought since tmobile uses 2100 for the download and sprint uses 1900 that sprint would be better

Network Vision towers will fix that problem in two stages.

1. The 1900 signal from Network Vision cell sites will be stronger due to remote radio units (RRU's for short) mounted behind the antenna. This leads to less signal loss and greater output.

2. 800 MHz CDMA1X on modernized sites will enable better in building call performance. After Nextel is shut down, Sprint will launch LTE over the old Nextel frequencies which will add another layer of speed and capacity to the existing 1900 LTE.

3. Upon Sprint's acquisition of Clear, Sprint will also be using band 41 (2600 MHz) to launch TD-LTE in urban areas to bring forth even greater speeds and capacity.

2 and 3 in particular are going to be things T-Mobile cannot do.

I'm guessing T-Mobile started modernizing their sites in the SF Bay much sooner than Sprint did.

More completely useless G rhetoric in phones. This should be an exciting announcement but when I read the substance it bores me to sleep. When DoCoMo and Ericsson come up with something that can get to over 10 Gbps over wide distances similar to LTE, then I'll be all for upgrading a G.

Possibly a sprint nexus 4 soon?

http://gsminsider.co...+the+insider%29

 

"Lte enabled device"

I'll believe it when I see it, but it would be nice. I got to hold one at a T-Mobile store the other week, and it's a very nice device.

 

 

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After the clown show that was the last run of CDMA2000 on AOSP (with Verizon suspected to be the culprit for CDMA2000 devices getting pulled from AOSP) I would be shocked to see any Nexus on CDMA. What's likely going to happen is a Nexus that supports Bands 4 and 17 along with the rest of the GSM family of standards and Pentaband WCDMA/HSPA 42.

At least there is tangible, trackable progress within the STL metro now. They need it given the USCC takeover... though I could see Sprint take their time to switch people in St. Louis.

I am hoping that Sprint adds a next generation Airrave that has LTE capability as well as CDMA2000 and EV-DO, that would function as part of an LTE HetNet.

Ugh....Windows Phone....I will never go back to a Windows OS phone...LG Incite and LG Expo were 2 of the worst phones I ever had.

Those are pre WP7 and WP8 Windows Mobile phones. I don't know if you can compare those to the current, modern Windows Phone 8 OS.

From the Android and Me link:

While there is a sizable user base to be captured with CDMA devices in the US, the amount of negotiating, update hassles and AOSP headache needed outweigh the benefits. Right now, there’s simply no easy way to craft one device, and have it work everywhere.

I've seen AlLu RRU's in person, unfortunately they are the ones belonging to the Death Star. Still, I am going to try to find all the AlLu pictures posted tonight and see if I can start a Spot the Panels thread for AlLu. There are lots of pictures in the Samsung areas so starting a Samsung Spot the Panels is not that hard.

Is it because they will be able to deploy in 20x20 MHz configuration I believe? What's the theoretical throughput of a network like that on 2600 MHz frequency?

 

I know that it'll have an insane amount of capacity for connections.

The connections in Band 41 (the US configuration of 2600 MHz) will be using TD-LTE 20 MHz blocks. This is more efficient for providing download capacity as you only need a 20 MHz block as opposed to a 20x20 block for FDD LTE blocks. Asymmetrical capacity that's in that band is perfect for het nets and DAS applications like what is being discussed on this thread.

If you want a REALLY TECHNICAL explanation, watch this video.

Rohde & Schwarz webinar: TD-LTE - A separation from LTE FDD ...

OK, my bad... The next time I'm up I'll browse the Illinois sites to see if I find anything.

Is anything ever going to come here?

It would be nice for something to come down the pipe but I'm not holding my breath since Sprint seemingly has no desire to push Windows Phone.

Not to mention the first LTE cell on the Illinois side of the river in Columbia.

The Board of Directors of Clearwire are asking shareholders to accept the Sprint offer.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57584179-94/clearwire-board-urges-shareholders-to-ok-sprint-offer/

Extended LTE is a common sight on VZW when you are roaming on another CDMA network for voice but still getting VZW LTE signal. USCC areas where Verizon has LTE but no voice network built out get this a lot (an example of this is Western Maryland). The LTE network is native, it's CDMA that is not.

At least, that's how it works on VZW.

 

Fray if you could would u take it down? I don't know how. I didn't realize this was gonna go to a violation of rules place. Curiosity kills the cat.

 

 

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I absolutely can and will take it down if this starts advocating violation of Sprint T's and C's.

Or it could be one cell with a bunch of handsets trying to hit one LTE cell and overloading it. The latency is very good, so I'm betting the speeds get better when Sprint, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent can get surrounding LTE cells installed and activated.

 

Verizon needs somewhere to run their CDMA for the next four or five years, so they'll need to keep either CLR or PCS.

 

Just an opinion here but, while I'd like to see PCS H head Sprint's way, they really should go for 600MHz TD-LTE.

 

By contrast, as long as T-Mobile is uninterested in rural, 600MHz isn't a big deal for them. If they bid on it, with the intention of changing their outlook a bit, I'm fine with that too. But having only one 5x5 LTE channel available in SMR certainly isn't the end-all, be-all of low frequency spectrum (even with PCS to back it up).

 

I will say though that, when T-Mobile and Sprint merge (I think it's a when rather than an if), I wouldn't mind seeing 2500 holdings sold over to Dish. That frequency is a better fit for fixed wireless, and PCS + AWS solves your mobile capacity problem on LTE with less site spacing issues than BRS/EBS. Heck, the combined entity might have enough spectrum to eke out 20x20 LTE everywhere, whether in AWS or PCS, and that's kind of phenomenal.

I wish Verizon would add the CDMA channel cards to their current LTE RBS and keep a quality CDMA2000 network for the next 10 years. From my usage, it really seems as if the CDMA side of their network went downhill. Voice quality in particular has went down the toilet. VZW would best take notes from Sprint in that regard.

Qualcomm is already throwing up red flags on TD-LTE in the 600 MHz block of spectrum allocation. T-Mobile has an interest in the 600 MHz auction and their plan is 5x5 FDD blocks. That's a lot less likely to draw the ire of Qualcomm which holds a huge amount of power of this country's spectrum policy.

SoftBank should keep as much spectrum as they can. Even keeping 100 MHz of Band 41 with T-Mobile would likely be positive.

Sprint ended up going with the highest quality vendors they could have used. I take it Huawei could have beat Samsung, but other than that? ZTE is kind of cheap crap from what I've seen. Huawei would have opened up too many concerns with some of the backdoors they have in their routers as well as the concerns that they stole Nortel IP.

Like Tampa said, back on topic.

There are the off-topic threads in the general forum. Better yet, I really wish the NYC people would try to start an upgrade tracking spreadsheet on the members side like the NOLA and the STL members have done. Let's use this resource productively to learn and help each other out.

Hey that's Flexi BTS! Not sure why is it at the bottom of the site. They're usually mounting it at the top. Interesting!

That isn't much different than Sprint's GMO sites where they have the RRU's on the ground. There's four Flexi racks there, so I'm guessing two are GSM/WCDMA/LTE channel cards and the other two are the radio units. It's a four sector tower so each rack feeds two sectors.

It's replacing nearly 10 year old equipment so I'm guessing T-Mobile engineers had to move quickly and that's what ended up happening.

I can detect lag at almost 50 ms. I'm way more of a latency freak than speed freak. I'd take 50 ms at 10 mbps over 100 ms at 20 mbps.

This thread is walking on a fine line. I wouldn't advise anyone on any course of action that would terminate people's accounts with Sprint.