EliBohnert

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T-Mobile is great if you live in a larger city. But drive 10 miles out of almost city that has 4G and you'll be on Edge or even GPRS.

AT&T said all service has been restored now.

I totally agree with you that AT&T and VZW should be barred from obtain any more sub 1 GHz spectrum. AT&T and VZW already have 25 MHz of Cellular 850 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum.

 

There is talk about the FCC trying to free up the 600 MHz spectrum to be used for wireless carriers. I would like to see Sprint and Tmobile bid on the 600 MHz spectrum to improve their network. Also I would like to see in the future that the public safety band at 800 MHz be vacated where all public safety will be placed in the 700 MHz LTE band once the public safety LTE project is finished. I would like to see the 806-816 MHz and 851-861 MHz be freed up for wireless services where Sprint can bid on the rest of the remaining 800 MHz spectrum to have contiguous spectrum from 806-824 MHz and 851-869 MHz.

This x10000000

Sometimes I wonder about AT&T.

 

What does LTE Advanced matter when your top data tier is 4 gigs?

20gig to be exact

Uh oh, I'm double posting.

 

How I feel about this:

Sprints really got their work cut out for them if T-Mo gets everything done. LTE, iPhone, and great prices all in one carrier.

 

Just one problem- the no-contract idea. I simply can't afford $650 for a phone. $200 I can shoulder, but $650 is WAAY too much. $300 I would consider (Nexus 4), but there's that LTE problem. If Apple or Google can create carrier specific models at a nice no-contract price, I'm sold. I would go with Android in a heartbeat if I could get a CDMA LTE phone with Nexus 4-like for $300.

 

Oh, another problem. One that doesn't really affect me. Which is TMo coverage. They cover the urban areas nicely, but rural areas? Not so much. That's obviously not a problem in places like Baltimore, they have decent signal in most places, not always 3G though. And thats another problem. The 3G. They didn't convert all the towers in the first place, and they aren't planning to. Any EDGE tower will always be an EDGE tower. No hope of HSPA or LTE.

 

Okay, I'm done.

They plan on having there whole network HSPA+ by around 2014 I think? And then LTE is a large part of the network.

Good point, forgot to mention that. I did confirm this via the field test menus. On that note, the code to get to field test in iOS is ridiculously long.

Just add it to your contacts and then put it in favs in the phone app and copy and past from there

Who would do such a thing

T-Mobile

And Verizon and AT&T also offers similar Wireless Home Phone Services if you don't receive good Sprint Coverage at your service address.

Straight Talk has one for $15 a month unlimited calling, it runs off Verizons network.

So Sprint is just going to shut down the USCC network in the area that they buy out?

I'm using Windows 8 on my 8 month old Windows 7 laptop and I think its pretty good. At first it feels funny using the home screen without a touch screen but you get used to it. But Xbox music feels like a child designed it. You can't edit anything on the music name ect. Besides that I think its pretty good.

As good as that sounds, if NexTech does not build out before the FCC deadlines they will lose their spectrum. And when the FCC takes back spectrum because of not meeting build out requirements, you can never hold that license ever again. Very steep penalties.

 

If you can't build out per requirements, it's not worth ever owning it. The FCC may allow an extension if work is already under way or imminent. But in NexTech's case, neither is true. Because they do not even have devices and will have trouble obtaining any. It's not a good situation to be in.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II using Forum Runner

How hard would it be for them to offer 1 mifi supporting it and just have protection sites like clearwire did?

Sounds like Nextech should have joined with Sprint on their LTE plans and got access to LTE 1900 on G Block now and LTE 800 next year. They would be able to get devices, no problem. Buying that 700 spectrum was not a good idea.

 

Robert

But in a few years other carriers will want all the 700MHz they can get and they might resell it for a higher amount then paid.

I have the signal meter set to display the dBm reading of my Sprint iPhone 5 connection. My phone appears to oscillate between two signal states. One is a strong connection which reads anywhere from -70 dBm to -91 dBM, and the other is worse, often showing -106 dBm. What bothers me is that it will oscillate between these two states while sitting in the same spot on my desk. It also sometimes drops 3G connection when cycling to the worse signal state, and data transfer speeds are much worse.

 

My wife's iPhone 4S (iOS 6) displays a relatively consistent signal while sitting on the same desk and outside in use. It never oscillates or cycles as my iP5 does. Moreover, the iP4S signal is always -1 or -2 dBm better than the iP5 even in its better state.

 

Are you experiencing similar signal cycles? I'm trying to figure out if there's something wrong with this unit's antenna or chip. When I first got it, it wouldn't hold a 3G connection for more than a second. Now it holds the 3G signal better, but has this oscillating or cycling problem. What should I look for in the Field Test panel to investigate this further?

 

I've tried resetting network connections, tried doing a data profile update, tried resetting and restoring, I even tried activating a new ICCID sim card (which had no effect, went back to my original one). This is a replacement unit (bad bluetooth module on the first one), and I hate to be "that guy" going back again, but this is bothering me. Thanks!

Do you have to be jailbroken to get the dBm reading to always show?

I live in Saint louis and recently we (me, co-workers and friends) have had alot of connection issues and I have seen alot of trucks at Sprint towers, About 2 months ago the City Fire Department put out a RFP (request for proposal) to replace their dispaching system as well as computers in the trucks, etc. We were there to put in the bid for IT, ToughBooks and phones (we are reseller or Panasonic) and there were representitves for all the carriers there. Sprint of couse made the unlimited data push. What im getting at is I had heard they were leaning towards Sprint and the respresitive did make the promise to move the areas deployemnt up in schedule if they won the bid for data. So either its that, we are getting lucky and goning to be early or takes a long time to deploy!

My dad works for the fire dept in Webster Groves and in the chief car they have a Sprint smart phone for the maps and such.

I hope in 2014 sprint will announce.... Network Vision 2 (The massive rural expansion using SMR).

This. This is all Sprint needs to do. I don't care if they charge as much as AT&T or Verizon then. They would keep unlimited data.

Sprint should make unlimited data $50 and then also have limited plans for less.