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USCellular should enable SMR support in their phones and get a roaming contract for at least CDMA, and LTE too since it looks like this phone already supports LTE on 850.

Yep, if I-40E to the Texas state line is going to be without SMR 800 MHz, Sprint might as well skip LTE 1900 on those sites, too. The Alamosa legacy CDMA1X 1900 coverage on that route is already stretched incredibly thin. LTE 1900 coverage would be like a series of hotspots along the Interstate.

 

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Unfortunately on the current phones hotspots between 3g and 4g just don't work when driving. Once I lose 4g on my GS3 I have to cycle airplane mode or I wont see 4g even if I drive right by a tower. I predict the 4g search timer on my phone is 5-30 minutes. I haven't actually researched it yet though.

 

Trust me when I tell you the Samsung builds are anything but interrupted.

 

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I never understood that saying. It's like a double negative. Does that mean you think they are interrupted?

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I know it's being picky but the digital transition had zero to do with HD..just like it had zero to do with cable TV and satellite TV. Stations could transmit in 480i all day long if they wanted. And one more I want to add, there's nothing that makes an antenna a digital one Remember the Color TV antennas?

Well it had one thing to do with HDTV. It got a lot of people to throw away the big box for a cheap flat panel from Vizio

Was in Monticello this morning and did a speed test for fun. Got about 10mbps down and about 5mbps up... Very recently popped up so I would guess it will get fast... Can't complain though... Used to 1mbps down on good days around here with the 3g... Hopefully they start moving east on 94 from there!

That tower probably wont speed up much for that location. LTE speeds are generally signal/distance dependent on unloaded networks and to get 10MB at all you would need to be on the upgraded backhaul.

I travel the loop of the northern suburbs and usually stay in the 1-2MB range. Downtown must just be swamped.

Actually I don't know much about Verizon's 1900 utilization /850 geographic overlap, but it would be nice if they could be forced to divest some of their PCS holdings

If Verizon starts a network modernization project with LTE-A on AWS in the next year, then I have no major issues with their spectrum. They use their spectrum pretty efficiently and have the most customers. They have LTE capacity issues on 700 and they will need AWS sooner rather than later.

Also of interest, today USCC picked up the 700 spectrum from Verizon in Oklahoma including OKC, so look for them to deploy LTE there as well.

And there's the wrong mentality. Clearing them out is bad for everyone. There goes your ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, NBC, CW, etc. Peace out! Most satellite TV POPs use OTA to pick up the signal and send it out via spotbeam. Some cable co's use OTA for some TV channels where they could not obtain it via fiber economically. I use OTA all the time as the quality is better than what you can get over the cable or satellite signal, 19 megabits per OTA mux. Straight from the source. I know a few people who have gone to OTA only (even DVRs) with some sort of streaming supplement, like Netflix. You really can't beat that combination for $8 a month. I have a little rechargeable LCD panel that picks up all my OTA channels works great out at the camp, boat, and best of all hurricanes when there is no power or cable TV.

 

And there are a TON of signals there. 52 muxes, some contain one HD, and one or two SDs. Some have many SD channels. Too bad they didn't mandate MPEG4 during the conversion instead of just MPEG2. That would save two folds on things. Could have gone with 3mhz wide instead of 6mhz.

 

http://www.rabbitear...ket.php?mktid=2

I'm a cable cutter, totally with you on OTA broadcasts, but beyond ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, NBC, CW, how much etc. does each market really need? The FCC obviously believes less than they currently have.

And there goes the local TV channels... want to watch TV? Pay up! That's going to be a huge mess, even worse than the last big step.

I've heard LA will no doubt be the hardest city to clear. They must have a ton of over the air channels there.

Thanks guys! Thats one hell of a chart!

You probably already know this if you've read many of wiwavelength's posts, but in an FDD arrangement, the uplink and downlink are often in separated even in different bands. Also there's multiple AWS as it's just kind of the name they give to all the new spectrum they free up in that 1700-2100 range, except of course the 1900 stuff that was already allocated, as that's PCS.

I did a google search and that chart looks pretty awesome. One thing I ws looking at yesterday was the 5XX-6XX reverse spectrum auction of 2014/2015 where TV providers from ch. 39-51 will voluntarily be able to give up spectrum for cash. And Cell phone providers will buy that spectrum. The low band at least as far as I know of 700 came from tv blocks as well.

From the article I posted "no word on CDMA2000 1x/EVDO 3GPP2 suite making it." This could mean no Tegra4 phones for Sprint or Tegra4 phones paired with a Qualcomm modem.. Hopefully Samsung can do cdma+LTE in their modems for the Exynos 5.

I was hoping Intel would have an LTE chipset to announce too. The lack of one could be the reason why they didn't announce any new Atom based smartphones for America.

Getting LTE spots in Downtown Minneapolis, at long last. Nothing showing up in the Warehouse District as of today, though I did get word from a friend he had signal all through the night until he left for work (along 9th and Marquette). This is welcome news, because you could hardly use the 3g that was available at the time.

 

My first speedtest was run outdoors on Marquette and 5th St netted me 31kbps down / 44kbps upload, 1194ms latency. I was thuroughly dissapointed for a new subscriber, so this is welcome news.

You're right it's in Sensorly too! Keep in mind that the towers downtown will probably have a lot of down tilt and not travel very far.

The LTE stuff is interesting, especially the modem from Nvidia, Icera 500

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6552/more-nvidia-icera-i500-details-28nm-hp-category-3-lte-at-launch-4-later

the Intel conference has been boring, except for 7watt core chips that Anandtech talked about months ago. Mandatory touch on Ultrabooks seems really dumb to me though.

Clearwire is a capacity play for Sprint. I don't see Sprint hurting on LTE capacity on 1900 this year. A fast deployment for 2500 doesn't' seem that important other than to help Clearwire's wholesale financials.

Sprint seems to love to talk about their network. As soon as they can, I think they'll tell us their exact strategy for 800 and 2500. MWC Spring CTIA could be fun this year.

Is the antenna the issue though? I wonder if there are radio chipsets to support all those bands.

 

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Antenna is definitely the issue. All these new phones have the Qualcomm radio chipset that supports a bunch of bands both below and above 1hz. The iPhone is magical because of its dynamic antenna. If an identical phone can be made that supports all the carriers, phones should be a lot cheaper and supply shortages should be a lot less. Most phones like the GS3 need an antenna for each band supported. And without researching, I believe some carry multiple antennas for the same band to allow for SVDO.

Has VZW released an AWS capable handset yet?

 

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The link I posted a few replies back is their very first FCC filing for an AWS LTE device.

I knew there was a thread where my Verizon aws LTE device belonged.

Tab 10.1 Verizon AWS LTE

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-device-support-aws-lte-approved-fcc/2013-01-03

Does anyone know how to keep sensorly from turning the screen on every 30 seconds? GS3 CM10.1 nightlies. Active scanning only.

It keeps turning the screen on and getting a gps lock. I don't want sensorly running at all when I'm not mapping a trip!

The behavior right now will force me to delete sensorly from my phone.

From settings

-Passive scanning is unchecked

-Next wake time is never

General->Turn screen on while scanning is unchecked

General->Flush app from memory is checked

ok

Coverage will probably be something like:

NV CDMA-1x 800 > NV CDMA-1xA 1900 > Legacy CDMA-1x 1900 >= NV LTE-800 >= NV EVDO 1900 > Legacy EVDO 1900 > LTE -1900

NV LTE-800 might not travel as far as NV/Legacy EVDO-1900, or might travel further than NV/Legacy CDMA 1X 1900, not sure.

Network Vision LTE-800 might be greater than EVDO currently is.

My thinking is like this in order of highest priority:

1. Lower frequency travels further

2. CDMA travels further than EVDO. EVDO travels further than LTE.

3. NV increases coverage with RRU + antenna improvements