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I don't think we can conclude anything about Minnesota until we start seeing them show up on the weekly reports of sites complete. I would not consider them behind schedule right now though. While enhancements definitely help, they are no Network Vision. More carriers and t1 lines have a limited effect.

I've had the complete opposite, but it was southwest of Leech Lake and my ATT phone was 2g. In rural areas, you just gotta go with whoever has the closest tower to you.

This deserves a whole topic!!! Not sure where the topic would go, but I would love to see Sprint take on Verizon's 850 coverage. I know some places in northern Minnesota that T-Mobile and Sprint would both like to venture into (selfish).

Ya my thinking might have been crazy. I was thinking about a medium density area, you would probably want to downtilt the 800, but not the 1900. Since you have more spectrum/phones in the 1900 LTE, you would want it to cover the entire area. I was also thinking that in that situation maybe 1900 LTE would travel slightly further than 800 LTE since you have independent control of LTE on 1900. The more I think about it you could downtilt your 800 as much as you want to make sure 800 and 1900 cover the same area - Disregard as irrelevance.

Hopefully 0 downtilt LTE 1900 covers the entire area of 800 cdma with downtilt. If they can cover that scenario, they could pretty much cover anything I think.

I would have liked to have seen Sprint offer SDC for free as well for people with unlimited plans. I was going to try out the new Android app, but saw that it is $5 a month. I wonder how much it costs them monthly to run that service. I think more people might stay if that wasn't an extra $5 per device per month. Also doesn't seem compatible with my phone for some reason.

Does my profile say I have an Iphone? I must have misspelled Evo 4g. I was just looking for a little help from the massive influx of LTE users today.

It would sure help if there was a Sensorly app for Iphone.

irev210 - Thanks for this info! It would have been nice for them to post per second, since a lot happens over a year and they have to be assuming full capacity all the time.

I was thinking of something where each antenna could support more than one band.

They'll probably have to do something like Apple's dynamic antenna for all of the antennas in each phone soon.

Would contiguous carrier aggregation take up 2 antennas? This could be difficult, as it takes an antenna away from being able to do carrier aggregation on other bands or other parts of PCS, also probably the cause of the battery drain.

That would be a really neat inclusion in the LTE spec. I did a search to find out more about this, but no luck. Do you have more information on how this would work, maybe a spec sheet, or keyword? The closest I could find would be Intra-band Contiguous Carrier Aggregation, but it seems like this could be done with 2 5x5? What is the capacity increase of 1 10x10 vs. 2 5x5 with carrier aggregation? I don't care much about top end speed increase, but that seems worth investigating too. G Block: 1910-1915 MHz and 1990-1995 MHz Proposed H Block: 1915-1920 MHz and 1995-2005 MHz so they would definitely be contiguous.

If half of the 10x10 is outside of what existing phones support then I don't see them being able to use any of that spectrum. Any phones that don't support H probably wouldn't work on that spectrum at all. That's like all LTE phones sold in the first 2-4 years. But my understanding is limited.

I just don't see them traveling all the way out to northern Minnesota or really anywhere outside the cities to add a 5x5 carrier for PCS H.

Well to continue that, Sprint probably wont visit a lot of these towers again for 10 years for an upgrade like this! Thank goodness they are installing 800 on the first go around! Any new spectrum upgrades would probably only happen in major congestion areas.

Careful, you're starting to sound like wiwavelength. Seriously though, can't those panels/RRUs do H? I mean it's so close!

AT&T Hoping to Snag WCS Spectrum in San Diego -Phonescoop It's only a matter of time now before they come for Sprint's WCS spectrum.

Sprint's Samsung Galaxy S III Getting A Small OTA (L710VPL13), Brings SWYPE, Better LTE Connectivity, And More - Enhancements/Fixes - Inclusion of SWYPE keyboard - Improved LTE connectivity - SMS Messaging improvements - EAS sync improvements "This update, which is build number L710VPL13 for those who like to keep up with that sort of thing, is rolling out in stages beginning now."

Hopefully the H auction waits as long as possible until Network Vision revenue comes in and Sprint can actually pay for more spectrum.

I think Sprint has the better argument. Let's get some of that H! Dish hasn't even started deploying anything or announced a partner/vendor, this couldn't delay them that much.

Hopefully it drops to free asap on Amazon. The SIII is $150 on Amazon for existing subscribers right now and probably worth an extra $100-$150 over this phone, not $50. I'm really considering this phone and might pick it up when it becomes free.

CDMA voice is part of Sprint's long term vision. It's not going anywhere for a while. One of the main reasons is that it can provide HD Voice quality on a sliver of spectrum compared to gsm, which is clogging the pipes for ATT/T-Mobile right now. Also, Sprint really needs to finish Network Vision, with the 800 mhz LTE deploy, to see exactly what their LTE footprint looks like. They need to make sure that coverage would be ubiquitous enough to offer voice over LTE, and be able to drop back to CDMA if coverage is not there. They don't have any LTE roaming partnerships with other national carriers and LTE doesn't travel as far as CDMA 1x by a non trivial distance. I would like to see them wait on VoLTE, until Verizon has worked out all the bugs.

It's just normal It's just normal "band-aid" updates. Iowa will not be getting LTE or Network Vision in the next 6 months. It is not part of the first or second rounds of Network Vision..