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  1. Gotcha, it was a Wednesday at like ~11 am. I have a iPhone 8 I am not sure how much CA it can do but I assume its decent enough to get good reception. I know on T-Mobile the unlocked iPhone 8 is WAY better than the SE I had. I wonder who is using all the bandwidth in Franklin, it seems like most people I know are on Verizon (which has gotten terribly slow in Cool Springs according to several friends). I definitely don't know what T-Mobile is doing but damn they must have some huge fiber connections at their cell sites. I generally get over 30mbps and have seen a lot of 50Mbps+ lately in parts of Nashville.
  2. Highway 96 @ I-65 & McEwen @ I-65 had B41 and plenty of bandwidth. It was as I went around the mall and on Carothers up to Moores Lane, I only noticed their wasn't bandwidth because I tried sending an email that error-ed out twice but ultimately sent the 3rd time. I will have to see how Brentwood and north is. I am likely moving that direction. I never really go to Murfreesboro (and once I change my job EoY I def don't need to worry about Spring Hill/Columbia). Is B41 deployed extensively in Nashville yet? I know we got it slow because the huge Clearwire deployment we had. *edited for grammar fixes
  3. I just got Sprint service and I have to say I am surprised to find that B25/26 seem to be super overloaded, Franklin is all over the board with cell performance with a few spotty areas that have speedy B41 and other parts getting less than a megabit, I only get x1 at my house but the map says I should get LTE. I have a unlocked iPhone 8. Thoughts? Are their that many Sprint users in this area? Seems like everyone I know is Verizon/AT&T I figured I would have decent enough coverage...
  4. There are still areas where I have seen Verizon 3G or x1 only so VoLTE calls would fail there, they don't have their entire footprint, if they shut down x1 it would dramatically shrink the calling maps, thats what I meant by no carrier being able to pull it off. Technically T-Mobile beat them to the punch for nationwide VoLTE/HD calling.
  5. I don't disagree, it would have been smarter for HTC to relocate the finger scanner to the back, I would imagine they could have kept the low end speaker on the front grill for a "fuller" sound.
  6. Understandable, however louder does not equate to better, I'd prefer better to louder and it's still better than any other phone I've heard, quality wise. And if that's the price of a smaller chin and "shorter" device I can live with it the M7/8/9 were to big for "regular" phones not everyone wants a phablet.
  7. I have heard the HTC 10 in person and the dual amp high/low setup is not as bad as you would think, the front speaker does the highs and the bottom one does the lows.
  8. I don think any carrier can really pull off densification for proper VoLTE (which is probably why we have seen minimal inter-carrier calling).
  9. I imagine they will shut down all consumer Clear/Sprint customers. I agree it shouldn't pose any real problems for Sprint. I do however hope Sprint steps up B41 deployment (I am sure Nashville isn't a hugely important market but B25/B26 networks seem to really struggle most of the day), now weather that's from tuning or something on the back end I am not sure.
  10. Just out of curiosity is B41 mostly in EBS or BRS? Could Sprint give those licenses up? Seems if my memory serves me correctly when Sprint merged Xohm with Clearwire didn't they bring like 60MHz to the table? Also as a side note I liked the Xohm name.
  11. Yeah basically AT&T is done with "wires" my parents according to broadband.gov have AT&T/Comcast available, Comcast isn't down their street, AT&T served the previous home owners with DSL and tell me they are to far to service it and the box is "full." I ended up having 2x T1s run to my parents house (thank god my dad has a business to expense it). AT&T spends next to nothing on landline expansion. Keep in my my parents live ~5 minutes off the Interstate in the 14th richest county in the USA.
  12. AT&T FTTH roll outs are to places that already have fiber, they aren't laying fiber to replace cables.
  13. Altice just bought Suddenlink (and Cablevision), plus I think Google would be the better buyer.
  14. If Verizon were to sell Fios assets wouldn't Google be a good buyer? I mean it would expand Google Fiber into new markets and gain them customers. And Google clearly has the cash. I thought Verizon was selling non-fiber landline stuff to Frontier?
  15. No the Pure Edition is a GSM only phone. It has the following band support for LTE (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 17, 29) All Sprint's and T-Mobile's lower A block 700MHz (Band 12) are missing. Do you have a article that says Sprint sold the highest number of Moto X's?
  16. It is interesting that Motorola would go out of its way to make it difficult for Sprint and T-Mobile. I mean lets be honest now that Sprint is getting its challenger groove back, and T-Mobile shows no signs of slowing down, why would Motorola cede badly needed ground to Samsung/HTC/Apple? I mean the Pure Edition even has caveats for T-Mobile as it lacks Band 12 LTE. That being said it will be interested to see what the Nexus X has to offer us. I am really hoping they put a better battery than the Nexus 5, I was using a HTC One M8 and could actually forget to charge that, versus the 3+ times a day for my Nexus.
  17. So just a FYI, Motorola and Sprint have confirmed that their will be no Sprint model. *Sorry I thought I saw a joint statement, but it was only Motorola that said this*
  18. I was always impressed with how well Sprint/Clearwire did with WiMax in Nashville, my neighbor used to be a Sprint exec and when they were courting HCA he let me tag along to them visiting cell sites. Back when that was the only 4G around for Sprint I could hit as high as 15Mbps. My only beef with WiMax was the coverage. Incidentally I am going to buy that 30GB data bucket to help my parents limp a long as their new house can't get any landline service. Until I am make enjoy people annoyed that Comcast/AT&T runs service to them, or setup a PTP to a LOS building that can get better service.
  19. Really? It seemed like all the repairs & backhaul that Sprint prepaid for so that Ericsson could deploy it as needed (since they are actually over seeing network ops) that they waited on until things got so bad and then their was a shortage of parts and backhaul takes time to get rolling. I think in fact the Evo had little to do with it, as the majority of my friends in fact had the Evo and it regularly beat my HTC Incredible on Verizon (3G speed wise). In fact I have never seen a EV-DO speed as high in my life as my buddy on Sprint with his Evo, he got 2.6Mbps DL, back in the day.
  20. I for one would love to see Sprint ditch Ericsson as it seems Ericsson was the beginning of Sprint's issues. Back when I was with Verizon, my Sprint friends always had better 3G speeds than me (around 2010).
  21. I have to say I helped a couple of offices migrate from T lines to FTTP and this is totally true. In my case I had to enact my backup plan because WindStream literally pushed the date like 4 times. I ended up going with Comcast Metro Ethernet and boy were they a TON easier/cheaper to deal with.
  22. Also on a side note, can you imagine if Sprint had been allowed to get MCI, man things could have been so different.
  23. It was mutually beneficial until the government changed the rules an hamstrung AT&T with the old rules and allowed new players a easier set of rules. Because of the "promises" made by AT&T when it hooked up the US with phone, the government held them to it while also allowing MCI to use its Microwave tech which was substantially cheaper. Being the juggernaut that it was AT&T could absorb the impact initially (not really much different from Detroit getting caught flat footed with Japanese imports), lets not forget when AT&T got split up it was a feeding frenzy over the parts, hell I remember when there wasn't even a AT&T wireless on the market before SBC bought up Cingular and BellSouth and then renamed itself AT&T. How would you make the case for nationalization when we have 4 national plays. In the old days their was just AT&T, and Sprint apparently since they were founded in the late 1800s in some form or another.
  24. I doubt very much that Vodafone would have agreed to a permanent ban/multi year ban from the US market. Besides could they not have a subsidiary buy it and run it independently if such a agreement was reached. Hell they could even hold non-voting stock. Besides that point, I think it would be a interesting investment as they would have similar technology paths, something the Verizon deal didn't have, as well as the fact that returns on profit are better in our market than most markets around the world. Not to mention it didn't see Vodafone and Verizon were all that happy with each other. Didn't Vodafone make a play for AT&T in 2004 with Verizon's blessing? As well as the fact isn't T-Mobile's last CEO at Vodafone now?
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