Fraydog

St. Louis probably needs 600 towers near Busch Stadium in the summer alone... getting a signal inside the stadium during a Cardinals game is brutal.

This.

I haven't tried with a 4G LTE phone on any of the carriers, but I know from going to games last year that Verizon was absolutely brutal to use. Data wouldn't even work. Lots of time, the phone would just straight go back to 1X.

I know US Cellular was the wireless sponsor of the Cardinals, but with the Sprint takeover of that market, I have no clue who takes over.

 

Does the new Dierbergs at Osage Beach plan to sell smokes, porn, fireworks, and walnut bowls?

 

 

AJ

I don't know but I know Rozier's in Perryville sells all that.

I would guess that A1428, the GSM model sold for AT&T in the US along with the Canadian LTE providers Bell, Telus, Rogers, and Fido can be upgraded to support CLR and PCS LTE with a future software update.

That's just a guess though, I have no way of knowing.

I wish someone from S4GRU would get in touch with the Engadget mobile editor Myriam Joire. I recommend AJ Shephard.

Maybe an epic flame war between CDMA and GSM will ensue?

There are a few areas where Sprint may need to add filler sites to keep coverage equal to USCC. There's a couple I can think of in Randolph County, out by the World Shooting Complex and one in downtown Sparta.

The most important part of LTE Advanced might be things like cooperative multipoint and the intercell interference reduction techniques LTE Advanced incorporates. Unfortunately that's not going to be hyped up nearly as much.

People think of me as an iPhone guy, and that's true, but...

Samsung comes out with a Note 10.1 with a HiDPI display, and I'm seriously considering because of the stylus drawing capability.

Once LTE Advanced with CoMP is available everywhere (2015 and afterward), I think it's feasible to, at the least, switch smartphone customers over to VoLTE with HD Voice. I don't think that CDMA will be sunset until at least 2020.

By the way, where'd HD Voice on 1X go? The Evo was supposed to have that but nothing launched. T-Mobile at least has HD Voice going over AMR Wideband running on conventional UMTS channels.

Sprint is going with the same design as the GSM models this time? My theory is that if Sprint had just gone with the One X design and called it the EVO, that they'd have better performance on it. They could have sold the AT&T version with CDMA enabled and had a better phone.

I've not had any love for American since they terminated most of the flights coming out of the old TWA hub in St. Louis.

If this can lead to the old MD-80 fleet going away, however, I'm all for it. Unfortunately the consolidation of the airlines is irreversible at this point.

I'm bumping this because I wanted to say that I made an argument for VZW to implement EVRC-NW on HoFo. For a lot of the more rural customers in the VZW footprint, that would be a more of a boon than VoLTE.

VoLTE is a big bag of hurt right now.

I can understand that. I just don't think I've filled up this thread with speed tests for other providers. For the most part, I put that information over at HoFo where the other network fanboys play.

Isn't this forum for sprint LTE roll out in Missouri market? Yep thought so, nobody is here to hear about att and Verizon

I think it's relevant to see what Sprint has to compete with in a given market. I don't think Sprint has to blow these companies away. They just have to get the new network rolled out. Given Sprint's relationship with CenturyLink, I think they'll do very well in St. Charles County.

But anyway, thanks for the snark.

I haven't received any In Progress reports yet for that area. Has someone seen work?

 

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I will be in that area later. If I see anything I'll let you know.

Wait, there's sites in the Illinois portion of the market being worked on? Could some of them be around Carbondale?

Yes, the end of the Chicago rollout. I know Chicago is way ahead of most places as far as a complete Network Vision rollout goes. That's good because Chicago needs it. I just thought it was curious cornfields got LTE before the most populous part of the market, as well as the area where the most business takes place. The craziness of the urban environment is a good reason.

Spite.

Sprint doesn't like people of the loop.

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My guess would be that it is simply the largest pain in the ass to upgrade.

Of all the places to put at the end, why put the densest and most populous part of the largest city in the Midwest?

I'm not understanding this.

8 Mbps on LTE is on the slow side for AT&T and Verizon in St. Louis. I've used a friends One X+ to get to 57 Mbps up there. Verizon is no slouch either. St. Charles isn't backhauled by AT&T like St. Louis City and County is, though. I'm pretty sure CenturyLink is the ILEC there.

Good to see this is being sped up. When STL goes live, I hope it's a case where Sprint gets it absolutely right. They need to, because Verizon and AT&T are really, really good there.

I think it's definitely worth something in the future. That's a big reason why they want it in the spectrum caps.

Verizon and AT&T would try to push out all the EBS usage and force that band into something like Europe's band plan, then try to buy the FD-LTE blocks, leaving Sprint with the TD-LTE spectrum. That's my first guess. I'm not sure it's obstructionist in the purest sense.

100 MM for a house? Even if I was rich I'd live in a crusty old house I'd modernize somewhat, like Steve Jobs' mansion. Maybe my vice would be a nice car. Maybe. Maybe a SL65.

I have no problem with the DOJ investigating, but if foreign ownership was/is an issue, why approve Voicestream to T-Mobile?

Also, the Huawei comparison doesn't hold for me. Huawei is owned by the Chinese government, SoftBank by an investor who went to college in the US and is very friendly to US interests. It's like comparing apples to oranges.

That's what people assumed here too. But when AT&T took over Rio Arriba and Taos counties here from Alltel back in 2011, Alltel customers received a notice in the mail saying they had 60 days to either get an AT&T device or lose 3G service.

 

True to form, AT&T shut down EVDO on the Alltel network about 10 weeks later and only 1x remained. My Alltel 3G roaming disappeared in AT&T areas. Well most of it.

 

I still got Alltel EVDO in Verizon areas for another year before they switched to start being labeled Verizon. And I still occasionally can get AT&T Alltel EVDO in remote areas where AT&T still has EDGE. AT&T decided not to shut down EVDO where it didn't use the 850 spectrum themselves.

 

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It might hurt VZW coverage a little bit. They can put up towers IMO, they have a monopolistic lock on Southern Illinois, they can deal with being a duopoly and make almost as much money.