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I wish we had some details around the deployment, activation, and locations of the 2nd B25 carrier. It's been this mysterious factor in Chicago now for like a year.
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Really, they must not have HD voice compatible phones? I have a family member who has one, the voice quality was pretty darn good when I was trying it out on his device. Yeah the legacy voice quality sucks.
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I guess I am more interested in what the LTE service characteristics are like in the city vs. the wide open suburban landscape of Lake County. If you get a chance to do more testing down in the Loop, Lincoln Park, Wrigleyville area let me know. I am looking for how their AWS LTE compares to B25 LTE, its more apples to apples than trying to compare blue and red's low freq bands of LTE. My assumption is they are similar, but who knows.
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Yeah I noticed recently too, I was down there for a graduation ceremony a couple weeks ago. There service was putrid. Can only hope the two bands really help fill in the missing services down on campus there.
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It's AWS spectrum LTE, It might have a wider pipe, I believe its 10x10 in Chicago, so speeds should be great, even during peak times, but its signal propagation characteristics are probably quite similar to the B25 we have now. I'm sure LTE drops off just as much if not more than our B25 in the same profiles; basements, building interiors, parking garages, elevators, subway stations, old crappy brick/cinder buildings.
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I am really confused by what I am seeing at my office location in Irvine. I use SignalCheck Pro from MikeJeep, my phones says I am connected to EV-DO/1XRTT (-98dbM) at 182-198 Waterworks Way in Irvine, CA. But when I go to the NV Sites complete map I see there are no Sprint sites on Waterworks Way, which is a tiny little connector road just about a 1/4 mile away from me. What gives?
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I wouldn't buy a tri-band phone that doesn't support carrier aggregation. I think those devices are coming to Sprint in the 2nd half of this year.
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Damn dude, freaking California!
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Well if thats the case high frequency signal carriers won't be good fits in these areas, they just don't carry as much blanketing coverage and signal penetration to be as effective as low frequency signal carriers then. This means Sprint and TMobile are really poor options in many of these Orange County locations. Both depend on core 3G and LTE networks in the PCS and AWS spectrum blocks, upper teens and low 2000s in MHZ. Those are going be much poorer networks than those anchored to 700-800Mhz spectrum blocks such at ATT and VZW's LTE, although both have 3G services in the 1900Mhz range too. Nice to hear OC communities want to keep 1997 cell service alive.
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Someone is (should) get fired.
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Lovely.
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I kind of dispute this idea that my location is too far away or too isolated to receive decent Sprint service. I measured the distances from my office location, where I am getting both 3G roam and no service indoors and out, to the two nearest Sprint towers. One is LTE active the other 3G only, but both are NV complete, not legacy. I really dont get it. I am 0.8 and 0.9 miles from two towers and constantly stuck on Metro PCS crappy roam, no service indoors, and occasionally a sub 100K eHRPD signal outdoors. I don't believe that being less than a mile from Sprint towers in an urban environment is supposed to produce the horrible experience I have receiving. Their towers have to have greater coverage than that otherwise they would need double the towers in urban areas. Maybe I am missing something about the towers out here specifically?
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Where is Mhammett jumping for joy? The latest NV sites complete now shows all the towers in Dekalb are 3G/800/4G accepted!! This is a miraculous day for our resident NIU Huskies homer! Always nice to see Chicago actually get some LTE acceptances. Besides Deklab this NV update had a few others scattered about; Hoffman Estates, Glenview, Gary, Burbank. Of course still waiting on a few, wouldn't be Sprint if we weren't still waiting on few tower upgrades though right!!!
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Looking at the sensorly maps the LTE coverage leader is definitely VZW for the Irvine area. And I see what you are saying about this arbitrary line for Sprint coverage. Move south of the Costa Mesa freeway and the coverage is pretty weak with gaps everywhere. Any clue what the spectrum size is out here for VZW and ATT on their LTE networks? Both should be dual banding at this point right?
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Well I was saying before in the NV Sites Complete forum I have a decision to make anyway, my contract is a few months away from being up. I was under the assumption ATT/VZW have 10x10 carriers deployed here in the 700-800Mhz range. That should be quite blanketing in LTE coverage, my concern on re-upping with Sprint was exactly this, if I am re-upping for tri-band I was concerned I am just going to run into pockets of poor service and delayed deployment for years to come. A bigger concern given now I am a traveling consultant away from my advanced market of Chicago.
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Thanks for the advice, I checked Sensorly it doesn't appear Sprint has blanketing 3G service in this area let alone LTE. VZW/ATT looks OK, VZW a bit stronger. That 700mhz spectrum seems to really be a big lift given the way the density of towers in Irvine has been described.
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This is exactly what I am experiencing in and around my client's location in Irvine. I even get 1xRTT roam outdoors and occasionally no service. Indoors is even worse. I was not prepared for this. I may need an additional device to get my work done while I am here, is there any provider that is known to have excellent coverage and capacity in and around Irvine?
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Hey OC friends. I am always in the Chicago forum, but now as I have been assigned to a project in Irvine this summer and going to be spending a considerable amount of time out here. I am having an awful difficult time finding and maintaining useable service here in Irvine. I am not getting anywhere with "do a PRL update" Sprint Care folks, can anyone here help me. I am working at the corner of Irvine Center Dr & Sand Canyon Ave. Both indoors in a low level office building (near windows) and outdoors I am either on 1xRTT roam from Metro PCS, EVDO from Sprint, or no service. Depending of where I move in this building or where I am outside is what changes my service, but in any event all three as essentially un-useable for data and bare bones for calls (except for when it goes no service). What is going on out here with Sprint service, is there something I need to know or take into consideration for my device?
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I have never had an issues with the speed tests, they have always seemed legit. That's also why I do them at Midnight because I know traffic and load is low and I can see what an unloaded speed would actually be. Unfortunately, the max I get around my hood (Lincoln Park) is usually between 2-5 mB/s, and during crowded hours during the day both in Lincoln Park and downtown anywhere between 0.1 - 1 mB/s.
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How come when I run speed tests with Ookla, one right after the other, and I switch units from mB/s to kB/s I get two wildly different results. I am I missing something here cuz I don't think the units are matching up correctly. In fact this happens every single time I run B2B tests and change units. Does this happen to anyone else?
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Here is the Chicago version of PCMag's recently released article on Fastest Mobile Networks of 2014. Even with Spark unfortunately Sprint didn't score so well. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2459213,00.asp
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http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-prime-photos-leak-2014-6
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I saw significant EVDO in Malibu, Calabasas, and Santa Monica.
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Yeah many of us myself included have discussed the stark performance differences between suburb and city users. The population density makes a huge difference when we are talking about one 5x5 LTE carrier for all. Hopefully, by the end of the year the timelines hold true and the entire area is covered in Tri-Band spectrum so all Chicagoland users receive them same experience no matter what location.
