Mr.Nuke

Yeah yeah, they must've not come to the DC market or didn't send a message over 160 characters because they wouldn't have won in that category. There have been too many times I've texted a family member on Sprint and they get it late. That was the reason I left and would come back if they did something like this.

That is the problem of using individual experiences in one market (and often a specific subset of places one tends to frequent in a market) to extrapolate generalities about the state of a carrier's network elsewhere.

With how terrible Sprint is with SMS (VZW too....CDMA in general)

Sprint outright won or tied for first in texting in 77 of the root metric markets last year. http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/map/2015-1H?category=text

B26 came before the second B25 carrier in Chicago? I thought it was the other way around, or I've just lost all perception of time.

 

 

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We had Band 26 acceptances for Chicago in late 2013. I don't believe second carrier spottings started happening before Early 2014.

Don't underestimate the fans.

 

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The NBA has fans for sure, but I sincerely doubt Sprint is going to lose any significant amount of customers over no longer being the official wireless carrier of the NBA or having the app. I also tend to be skeptical that the average NBA fan connects Sprint with NBA much less sees Sprint's advertising and says "hey if it is good enough for the NBA they should be my wireless carrier."

I love the NBA and I use this app every season. Shame really I see where Sprint is going with this. I do feel like Sprint is starting to take more than they are giving and T-mobile is doing the opposite. Not smart on either end. Sprint may take until customers start leaving again and T-mobile is going to run itself into the ground with all the feebies.

All over a NBA app?

Can anyone explain me what is the situation regarding the ownership of the 2.5ghz spectrum? I keep hearing half of it are leased licenses and that Sprint might lose them

In band Priority settings, B25/26/41 are set to 1.  0 is also an option.  If i want to ride B41, is this the most that I can do?  And I assume 1 has more priority over 0, so set B25/26 to 0 and leave B41 on 1?

Band priorities only tell your device what band to look for in what order when it is seeking an LTE signal. It is nearly zero impact because as soon as your device finds an LTE signal, the network takes over and puts the device where it wants it to be.

Would Sprint be interested in any of these?

Presumably yes. They just bought out the other BRS license holder in Lincoln of all places. I'd imagine they approach this auction and look at licenses on an individual basis to see if any of them make sense for Sprint.

Just had it happen on my Nexus 6, I think. It's hard to tell, since EVDO doesn't show the carrier. But 1x was Verizon at -90 and EVDO was -102. Is there a way to verify who the EVDO carrier is?

 

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Looking at the engineering screen.

Several S4GRU members noticed an update to the coverage map tool yesterday on Sprint’s website. One prominent difference was a significant increase in off-network "3G" EV-DO roaming, particularly in the Midwest. This new coverage happened to coincide with US Cellular’s native footprint. Yes, rumors have persisted over the better course of a year now about upcoming LTE roaming on US Cellular. That has not happened yet, but it may be progressing in that direction.

As of today, we can definitively confirm Sprint’s newly released PRLs (25026/55026) on most devices now allow EV-DO roaming on the US Cellular network. It is important to note this coverage is flagged as roaming, not pseudo native, and thus is subject to each user's monthly roaming data limits. Nevertheless, this PRL change marks a significant service improvement over the prior 1x roaming for Sprint customers in many US Cellular areas.

For documentation, below is a SignalCheck Pro screenshot confirming a connection to the US Cellular network from my Sprint Nexus 5 this morning in Wahoo, NE, as well as an EV-DO engineering screenshot confirming a carrier channel of 199, which is consistent with US Cellular’s Cellular A block spectrum in rural eastern Nebraska.
 

For a broader national perspective, where no Sprint native signal is available, US Cellular EV-DO roaming now should be the next highest PRL priority in the darker shaded areas of this map.

A link to the details, please?

Tim's posted speed test is above is mine. We are trying to finalize how we present the information and should have something up fairly shortly.

IF need be, i can test out and go to a spot where i know i would usually roam on USCC  and see if my phone treats it as native (already updated my prl)

Already been done in Nebraska today

I love that the new tmonews head guy lives in Omaha. Only a slight step up from Cam in England.

Anyone figure out how to turn on CA on the G3?

In  addition to not being CA capable, we've seen no sign of a second carrier here.

What did he talk about?

 

 

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https://www.periscope.tv/w/aGWiBTE4NTc4fDMyNjc4NzE0r_eXGxOOLNKbLHl1uFcIDJpJmrCvSKJu2dk17cmtca4=

With them only having protection sites, a full Wimax shutdown should be easy in this market.

As it would be in Omaha, but for whatever reason the protection sites here are still apparently active despite more than substantial protection coverage on the 8T8R deployment. It may also be part of the reason for our seemingly locally unique EARFCN in Omaha.

Except the cap was not the only issue here.

 

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The cap was the main issue for most.

Cap removed per Claure. We won!

We heard you loud and clear and we are removing the 600 kbps  on streaming video. #Allin and we won't stop

— MarceloClaure (@marceloclaure) July 1, 2015

Robert's editorial is up on the wall. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-387-editorial-marcelo-thats-not-quite-what-we-were-thinking-all-in-would-look-like-allindoa/

As far as I know, WiMAX never standardized a 15 MHz TDD carrier.  Clearwire deployed only 5/10 MHz TDD carriers.

 

AJ

And that would make sense his capture was centered at 2683.5 right where you'd expect a 10 MHz carrier.

...but only after total WiMAX shutdown.

 

AJ

Correct there is currently a 10 or 15 MHz WiMax carrier deployed there.

And AJ corrected be there is enough spectrum in EBS G1-G3 for a 15 MHz channel in the Quad Cities with adequate guarding.

We only have 5x5 carrier here for b25/b26. .

You are one of the markets with enough spectrum for a PCS second carrier though. If Sprint does anything else in the Quad Cities that may be the better solution.

There are a lot protection sites in those areas where it says Clearwire did not have spectrum. Like Waterloo, Oelwein, Davenport, Farmington, NM, Wausau, WI and others. So I wouldn't put too much credence in those. Clearwire picked up a lot of EBS in leases in 2008-2011 in places it did not have before.

 

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After a lot of time with the dashboard and uls searches of licenses last night Sprint has the EBS G1-G4 block in sublease from a John Schwartz entity (who is leasing it from someone else of course). It looks like Schwartz snapped up a lot of EBS and leases it to Sprint/Clearwire.

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMain.jsp?parentKey=2590283&licKey=3132022

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseAdmin.jsp?licKey=3132022&parentKey=2590283#

With the EBS A4-G4 blocks not being contiguous with their counterparts, and with band guarding as well; the best Sprint can likely do in the Quad Cities is a 10 MHz carrier in EBS G1-G3. chris92, posted a screenshot in the premier thread a couple of weeks ago of one of wimax protection sites and the carrier was right where you'd expect it to be with this information http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5375-nebraskaiowa-premier-thread/?p=424646

There are a lot protection sites in those areas where it says Clearwire did not have spectrum. Like Waterloo, Oelwein, Davenport, Farmington, NM, Wausau, WI and others. So I wouldn't put too much credence in those. Clearwire picked up a lot of EBS in leases in 2008-2011 in places it did not have before.

 

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That is where it gets interesting though because some of those protection sites are strategically placed. Off of the top of my head I remember from researching that Oelwein has 20 MHz of contiguous BRS.

EDIT: Waterloo has 20 MHz of contiguous BRS as well.