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Something to take a look at. 

51 minutes ago, Rickie546 said:

Looks like 5g launching officially in NYC, DC, LA & Phoenix as coverage maps updated with it today!

Yeah been getting it ever since I bought The V50 in the DC area, but now it's official, no wonder John Saw flew to NYC yesterday.

3 hours ago, nexgencpu said:

FYI, looks like 5G is unofficially live on a ton of sites in NYC.

Connected from 41st to 47th St 51st to 80th St and from upper east side into the Bronx (with some LTE to 5G and vice versa swapping in btwn) handoff between LTE n 5G is ultra smooth with zero interuptions ( in a moving car while on a video call all the way through)

Speeds hovered between 90mbs and 480mbs (uploads btwn 4mb and 30mb)

Happy to finally take advantage of my V50, and glad that the TMobile deal didn't change the current 5G deployment here in NYC at least for now.

Same here in the DC market, smooth handoffs

Well looks like the 5G symbol is lighting up in DC and Virginia /DC market, Chantilly wasn't a fluke. 

Wet Willy

Oh and band 41 has a pci of 273 when in 5G mode I'm guessing. have to see if I can repeat my findings.

To add, it was at Route 50 and Centerville road, and yes it reverted back to LTE when I went north on Centerville road. 

The 5G symbol is up on my V50 and I'm sitting in Chantilly, VA right now. Yesterday it was saying LTE. Just noting a observation. 

Not Active yet, currently have the LG V50. 

5 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

How do you like it? Any 5G visible yet?

Not yet, here at work at Dulles

Well I now have the lg v50 in hand, picked it up from sprint yesterday

58 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Arlington to Allow Small Cell Facilities on County-owned Streetlight Poles

This is a big deal for your part of town @Trip!

Though you have the usual kooks chiming in saying the usual things about cell sites. It was also mentioned on WMAL this morning.

2 hours ago, RedSpark said:

All this news about 5G is great, but I was on Amtrak yesterday for a day trip between Washington DC (Union Station) and Iselin, NJ (Metropark Station), and Sprint’s coverage while on the trip was atrocious.

It repeatedly dropped to no 1x, 1x, 1 bar of LTE, or unusable LTE with more than one bar. (I have a fully updated iPhone XS and I reported the network issues where/when I could.)

It makes me wonder if any of Sprint’s Network Team has tested/ridden the Amtrak Northeast Corridor and tried using their device(s). How can they expect anyone to get work done (or other personal usage) while on the trip with this level of network performance? Hopefully Sprint addresses this, because 5G only goes so far in acquiring new and keeping customers. Sprint needs to address these fundamentals.

Darn did you ever think, that being in that metal can called a rail road car could have something to do with signal degredation. I travel constantly from DC to Newark and I get good results with my LG G7

Just now, Brad The Beast said:

There is potential here though that Sprint needs to capitalize on. Coverage is one of those. The other would be speed. Then they could say "hey, our 5G isn't quite as fast as Verizons but: ours is more reliable, we've got coverage that good enough to the point where you can drive around and hang onto it, and the coverage is good enough and fast enough to provide you a wireless home internet solution". But of course the last thing requires major backhaul upgrades. 

That's where that HTC hub comes in

You guys failed to realize though, with Verizon's 5g, you have to be standing within 300 feet or less of a node to get anything, while you can drive around with Sprint's which has greater coverage.

1 hour ago, stlman314 said:

Unless you are rooted or modded your phone it isn't VoLTE. It is calling plus which most phones can do.

Can still talk and surf either way while mobile and it works. 

1 hour ago, Tengen31 said:

Can you talk and surf over 5G or do we have to wait 5+ years for that to?

 

Sent from my SM-G965U1 using Tapatalk

 

 

 

I can talk and surf on my current LG G7 now. 

Good thing I stayed out of the fray, I'm already on vacation. 

Now Apple is going back with Qualcomm, they settled, Apple paid Qualcomm undisclosed amount, Intel getting out of 5g for mobile business. Intel wouldn't have had 5g modem until 2021.

I can attest to the DC area speeds, and sprint asked if I wanted a magic box for which is in my apartment up and running

I'm still using Microsoft edge for here on Android, haven't even thought about Tapatalk. 

I forgot about it to, and yes I'm still licensed, about to renew. 20 year mark next June. 

23 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

Sprint demoed RCS business messaging at MWC all the way back in 2017 so hopefully that'll be announced soon too.

Sprint has done rcs messaging every since the galaxy s3. 

11 minutes ago, JohnHovah said:

If that's the case and someone can confirm, that would be very helpful to those of us that try to help fill out map coverage.   If not sensorly, I am sure there is or can be another to pick up the slack (albeit from scratch)

That's funny the link is alive and well, my sprint rewards

13 minutes ago, cyclone said:

https://newsroom.sprint.com/my-sprint-rewards-program-thanks-sprint-customers-and-celebrates-with-valuable-perks-and-deals.htm

"We are giving customers great perks – including free pizza and discounted movie tickets – on their own schedule. This is our way of saying thanks for being a Sprint customer. At Sprint, we deliver."

Nice little dig, with "on their own schedule", to T-Mobile Tuesdays

Yes, I have the app on my phone, got the link in my email from sprint, app on both Google and Apple stores