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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Does not sound like a bad idea at all. I already sprung for the G2. They did some downtilt adjustments to a near by tower and now I get a weak LTE signal on my girlfriend's GS3 but my Evo still won't connect. I will say that at least in Ocala I have LTE 50% of the time around the whole city. Indoor penetration seems to be a issue if your not within a 2 miles of the tower.

    I think that's what I'm going to go with unless the one max pull me away from the note. In which I don't think it will.

     

    Those places where you don't connect in doors with another device I guarantee you will connect in those same places.

    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Okay everybody after doing lots of testing I can confirm that the EVO is a weak LTE performer but not as bad as everyone thinks. If you put it in LTE only mode and leave it alone for a while it will pick up LTE in spot where normally it never would. Its not as usable as on the GS3 though which also confirms that HTC has 3G set as a higher priority than LTE on the EVO. If I have bad 3G coverage and LTE coverage then LTE seems to hold on longer but if I'm close to a 3g only tower and the LTE signal is around 118 dBm or so it won't connect. I tried it in a lot of places and it seems to work every time.

    With the latest update the EVO does connect more often. Compared to my fiancés iPhone 5s the EVO doesn't perform well. From what I've seen the iPhone connects faster, stay connected longer without bounce back and forth between 3g and 4g, overall better than the EVO. Her iPhone is pretty much connected to LTE all day long and inside buildings.

     

    If I can get a phone that has iPhone reception or better I wouldn't need a tri band device right now. I would just jump on the note 3 and get a trip band phone this time next year.

    Network Vision/LTE - Orlando Market

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    Did you have the 5 before the 5s? I just want to make sure that when I pay full price for the phone lol, that it's worth it. Granted I am going to sell my 5 online on amazon hopefully for like 300 + and I have a credit I can use on my cc, but its much money... If the 5 will perform that well in Orlando when LTE is officially launched, I wouldn't switch.

     

    Does the 5S have a better LTE receiver...Or whatever it would be called?

    The phone is actually my fiancés line and she didn't have the 5 before she picked up the 5s. Its her first iPhone. The reception is top notch compared to my EVO LTE but any phone performs better than it. If 800LTE connectivity is what you are looking for in the 5s I say go for it. Then phone is rock solid all around. I'm a long time android user and I'm considering switching sides to iOS. The only reason I dont is screen size of iPhones.

     

    The only issue that she had was this cheap case we purchased from Walgreen's was blocking the cell reception for some reason. Got rid of the case and everything is good now.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Orlando Market

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    Is 800 mhz LTE already available?? I am still debating the 5S specifically because it has greater coverage because of that delcious 800 mhz, and I don't want to be stuck with that till February of 2015 with crappy "T-Mobile" like coverage.

    I don't think there is any 800lte online anywhere in the country as of now, but one thing is the 5s is a great rf performer. It connects to LTE pretty much everywhere here in Jacksonville. Rarely on 3G even in doors. When 800 LTE comes online sprints network is going to be a beast and very reliable.

    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Software isn't difficult to get around if you don't mind rooting and installing a custom ROM. The button placement either takes time to get used to or you won't. I don't really have a problem with it. Besides, with the knock on feature and software volume controls, you technically don't even have to use the buttons. You can always wait for the Nexus 5 or something else to come along, too.

    I may sit back and see what's released between now and January then decide. I was thinking about getting the GN3 now and next year use one up to get the latest and greatest device. By that time Sprint's network will be full throttle with CDMA 800 and LTE running on all three bands.

     

    Edit - I root all my devices. I didn't take into account that I could put a custom ROM on but I like to keep my phones near stock. I'm running mean bean on my EVO LTE.

     

    HD Voice and future handsets

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    Posted

    The old plans were to have CDMA HD Voice and wait a long time for VoLTE.

     

    Maybe SoftBank wants to do this differently and that's why we are at an impasse on this. SoftBank may well want VoLTE instead. I don't know but I could see them wanting VoLTE for Japanese handsets to roam on Sprint here without having to add a CDMA chipset to SoftBank's Japanese phones. This is all speculation mind you.

    Make sense with Softbank adding TD lte to all clearwire and sprint sites.

    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Well after exchanging my fiancés 5s we received a replacement and it was doing the same thing as the first one. It would only max out at 3 of 5 bars and would hover around one bar and even roam. I took the cheap $5 Walgreen's case and the reception is great.

     

    The phone picks up LTE in many more places than my EVO does. Her phone is pretty much connected to LTE all the time. If 1900 LTE is this good freaking 800 LTE will be great. Now my only problem is I don't really like the g2 after playing with it at best buy. The one max turned me off with the s600 and the crappy finger print scanner. I'm in love with the note 3.

     

    What should I do?

    The Iphone 5s & Iphone 5c [not Tri-Band LTE] (was "Next iPhone to be announced on September 10")

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

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    I just bought my wife an iPhone 5s for her b day. The signal strength has been hit or miss we had a period where she couldn't send or receive calls at all but I narrowed that issue down to a tower problem. Even other places around town it seems that if the phone isn't on LTE it bounces between 1x And 3g. Could it be as provisioning issue?

     

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    Samsung Galaxy Note 3

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    I went into Best Buy today and played around with the GN3 that phone is absolutely amazing. I love everything about the phone except the fact that it doesn't have tri band. I wish we had the one up program in Florida because I would definitely purchase this phone then upgrade to the GN4 next year. Any phone is better than the Evo LTE at least in the RF dept.

    Is Sprint considering not bidding for PCS H?

    in General Topics

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    I would prefer they buy all 80 MHz and sell 2500/2600 after a 2 year period. With 1900 LTE propagation being so horrible, I would venture only only half of Sprints customers will actually benefit... My completed town only has about 2 percent covered with usable LTE... That means that 2500/2600 is a distraction for many and not a saving grace.

     

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    2500/2600 is a very important piece of sprints network. I wouldn't want sprint to sell that spectrum but sprint should try to shoot for 20mhz of 600 for coverage, in building penetration, and decent speeds inside of buildings and rural towns. Also the way sprint is overlaying the network I doubt the TD LTE network I'll get bogged down like the 700 networks out there because of the site density of sprints network.

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