afazel

I was just thinking about this the other day. It would make sense to me for Sprint to divide their 5+5 PCS bands into 7+3 or similar for better downlink with enough uplink to work well.

Back of the envelope calculations look like that would give 52.5Mbps downlink and 22.5Mbps uplink on a 7+3 and 127.5Mbps downlink with 22.5Mbps uplink on a 17+3 (I used 37.5 Mbps theoretical max on a 5Mhz carrier to come up with my calculations. Apologies if it doesn't scale that way).

Licensing permitting, that would seem to be a better allocation of spectrum resources. I know the devices don't work out this way, with the notable example of Samsung's 5Mhz FDD carrier limitation that I've seen mentioned so many times. Would this be something they could do later with some rebanding efforts, or am I just completely wrong?

I'm a Publix kind of guy. I feel dirty walking by a Winn Dixie.

Being in Fort Worth now, I miss Publix. Especially their sweet tea. I've almost perfected the recipe on my own, but it's not quite the same.

Hell's Bells

So how many of Y'all have shopped at a Piggly Wiggly?

I have! We used to call it "Hoggly Woggly," because of the Razerbacks I think. I was too young to care.

What about Winn-Dixie?

Now Network

garbage pile

Funny. One day support says they can't fix the legacy issue and stated the site will be a broken for 3-6 months, credits are given to customers during this outage. Next day Twitter folks tell someone else that all is well with the site. You be the judge of how effective that is.

It took a little bit to be sure, but someone ended up DMing me and getting my email address and worked with me. Told me about some issues with the tower (no specifics) and that I was actually connecting to a tower that was further away. He opened a ticket and kept me updated, and I let him know when my service improved.

I've had great success via Twitter.

NCAA Football

I have my Google Voice number set up as an alternate number. When I don't get the code via SMS, I tell it I'm having problems receiving the code and it lets me select my alternate number. Then I go to my computer and use my GV chrome extension to get the code. Usually I'm at or near my computer when I'm flashing a ROM anyway, so it works well for me.

lucky charms

Active Sync

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Panic button

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side entrance

bad boys

Late night

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First time

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Yeah, but your towers are broken

I'm about 2.2 miles from my nearest tower and have good LTE signal. Good 3G signal as well. My only problem is that on an N5 it holds onto LTE signal when I'm downstairs and I miss some calls that way =-/

Night crawler

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You will have municipal gigabit fiber. You may be so dazzled that wireless becomes an afterthought.

 

AJ

I'm one of the few who hold voice availability as a very important factor. I've been watching the 4G accepted towers there for 3G/4G acceptance, and am trying to make sure that the new house is within 3 miles of a tower.

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Can anyone confirm Chattanooga? Looks like I'll be selling my house and moving there really soon.

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Geek.com can eat shit. 

 

Not only did they steal lilg's spreadsheet, they also completely misunderstood the drawbacks and benefits of CSFB. There are advantages to not using SV-LTE, mainly better reception and battery life, not to mention that TD-LTE and SV-LTE didn't play well together. 

 

My daily driver is an iPhone 5S on Verizon and that device has better battery life than almost anything on Verizon except for the Droid Maxx. It's the only CSFB/eCSFB device on Verizon right now, though I wouldn't be shocked to see CSFB be more common when VoLTE is activated. It also has a much smaller battery than the Maxx. I think at least part of that power advantage is due to Apple's decision to use CSFB in lieu of SV-LTE. If Apple had used SV-LTE it would have had a large power impact on the iPhone's battery life. 

 

The only drawback to CSFB on CDMA is no text and surf, which is a capability I can live without. I could have switched to AT&T which has HSPA+ here but it's not worth not being on LTE just to get talk and surf. There's no Sprint native service in Chester so VZ/ATT are my options. 

Love the comments section:

A Google engineer said that the data up/down icons in the status bar drain the battery and increase CPU load, so I don't see why the spinning Spark icon wouldn't do the same.

Fire dog

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Junk fees

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