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Yep. Though I should note, even with the NV 1.0 that's come so far (1.9Ghz 3G + LTE) I'm getting much better signal on my HTC One in a downtown office building - I can now generally keep a reliable connection during the day without the phone continually tower hopping. And in more internal rooms, connections are now possible with both technologies, where previously not even a 1X connection could be reliably established.

It will extend the range, or at least the penetration indoors, thanks to the 800 MHz rollouts. However, for call versions, that's a little ways away due to our presence in the DMZ with Canada. It is coming - if you look at the sponsor map you can see a couple of towers in the area with 800 launched. Just likely after they get through the 3G/4G initial rollouts around here. Only then will you see a difference in coverage. In the meantime, once 4G launches, you should notice better speeds on both 3G and 4G, when you're connected to those towers. Until 4G launches, you might notice minimal changes, but nothing significant until backhaul's in place. Once ALL of that's done, we can start talking about a potential 800 MHz rollout of LTE, but that'll be somewhat tough in this area due to emergency personnel being slow to move off of those frequencies. Additionally, then you'll start seeing the B41 LTE, for super-fast stuff where you can get it - but that's likely not until end of year at this point at earliest.

I'm not even going for LTE 800 - that, definitely will take a while. But a lot of non tri-band devices have 3G 800, which when combined with solid backhaul still should be more than usable across all of downtown for both data and voice. Re: Canada, as far as I know, that'll definitely affect the LTE 800 deploy, but the 3G will go ahead, just with lower transmission strength.

As far as I can tell right now, any LTE being received in downtown is purely testing/pre-approval LTE still, so I wouldn't take any signal strengths you're getting at this point as scripture. Once 3G 800 launches, cell service should be MUCH better downtown, even if it is low broadcast strength.

Yeah, I looked there - doesn't show as a provisioning option at all on an Everything Data share plan. App told me it wasn't provisioned either. Assume it's because the device isn't listed in sprint systems as compatible with the provisioning option? *shrug*

Showing as compatible from the play store on a Sprint HTC One Kit Kat. Edit: Interesting, it lets me install the app, but not provision the services over on the sprint site. Very odd.