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  1. bretton88
    I've had it happen. When I get kicked to the 3g GMOs my phone (nexus 5) will often not connect to data. It will show the 3g icon but not throughput any data.
  2. bretton88
    While the relationship between Pioneer and Sprint did end ugly (if I read things right), the new Sprint management has shown a much greater willingness to accommodate partners, so I wouldn't think that it would be too hard to get pioneer back on board, their legacy networks are already compatible with the Sprint network.
  3. bretton88
    I know that it is entirely possible to make a great network setup over 2.5ghz. Sprint has proven such. Clear just made such a poor example of it. Reading that white paper on the issue, the propagation decrease to 3.5ghz wasn't as much as I initially thought (I am an engineer, I took an educated guess). It just won't be cheap to deploy it, especially for a company that has tower spacing based on low bandwidth networks (ahem, VZW). That's probably why they're only looking at it for hotspot type capabilities.
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    And people think the 2.5 spectrum is expensive and difficult to deploy because of poor propagation. This would be even worse.
  5. bretton88
    That's good for what? 3.5G? Hard to call it 4G if they deployed that little bandwidth.
  6. bretton88
    Worse, the article says that Swiftel has been profitable so they have even less incentive to give into Sprint's requests.
  7. bretton88
    Denver had B41 practically vanish overnight. And they where an original market.
  8. bretton88
    Did anyone ever find out where the FIT area was?
  9. bretton88
    I don't see how us cellular (USCC) would fit here. They overlap with sprint in several places and compete. If they went full native for sprint, why would one even bother getting a USCC plan? I would think that would be one of the major obstacles in their negotiations with sprint.
  10. bretton88
    That makes sense. It will be nice to see Next-Tec back as native coverage. I was pretty impressed with their network when I was roaming on them earlier this year.
  11. bretton88
    Does the rrpp include the 3G networks as fully native too?
  12. bretton88
    I feel bad for iWireless if this deal goes through. They're a T-Mobile affiliate and would be left in the cold if this deal went through. Unless the death Star gobbles them up
  13. bretton88
    How did they even allow him to sign up for service?
  14. bretton88
    I see it all the time, especially when I have a good data connection. It's annoying to have the data dropouts.
  15. bretton88
    I'm just going to say this, be happy with those percentages. In the eastern Iowa market, it's more like 60% GMOs.
  16. bretton88
    I wouldn't have any problems with Sprint's GMO setups if they also had ordered backhaul and LTE for them too. In eastern Iowa, GMOs mean crappy 3g for a long time still.
  17. bretton88
    I agree, that felt like a farewell and thank you to the team for all they've done. I'd be curious to see how much of the T-Mobile network team stays in place after a merger.
  18. bretton88
    Please be US Cellular as one of them. I wonder what the holdup is.
  19. bretton88
    I would say a lot of people are coming around to liking this modem, especially since Sprint seems to be fixing the network issues that are affecting it.
  20. bretton88
    This is probable. And since .15 users ignore eCSFB they know where the coverage should be so it's an annoyance when the modem works as it should. A lot of other tri-band phones just kick to 3g and the user doesn't know there should be LTE there. This is one case where the extra knowledge hurts us, lol. The only question is, why kick to 3g and not another LTE band?
  21. bretton88
    Would a Nexus 5 be able to access all that coverage if it was LTE? It has the radios to handle them.
  22. bretton88
    Yes, but T-Mobile is upgrading those sites to LTE quickly, which would make it so sprint customers could access it with a compatible phone. Now it would take more work to make it voice compatible.
  23. bretton88
    Ironically, sprint customers stand to gain a lot more coverage than T-Mobile people do. Especially in the west.
  24. bretton88
    Interesting, that map shows more increase in coverage than I think most people assumed. I know it's mostly edge coverage but T-Mobile is working on bringing that up to LTE.
  25. bretton88
    Wait for the G3, lol
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