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Probably either a new pattern for small cell or a mistake to forgetting to add the 1. The sector "31" points to B41 also.

The 8t8r antenna can be run at 8t8r 3 carriers or 4t4r 6 carriers[split the 8t8r 3 and 3].

I have been kicked off of B25 at -95 before due to capacity. I will watch for weak signal when I am in your area next time. That way I will be able to give you an area where I can keep weak signal for you to test. Every time I go into that market I find 2 or 3 new B41 sites it is neat to see. In my SCP logs I have 15 B41 sites where the strongest signal is -120 or worse.

Capacity is a limiting factor in how far sprint allows the signal to go. Some people don't like that reason but tough. I have seen multiple sites go 8+ miles on B41 when holding onto signal down to -130 still be good enough to stream video. And I have no issues in getting B41 inside many different hotels and other buildings. That is not to say I have not seen buildings kill the signal just that it will go through most walls. Different phones will be react differently even the same brand(two different GS5).

Adding more carriers on B41 is the way to go before densification. Going from 2 carriers to 3 carriers is the equivalent of adding 50% more sites to the area over night. Going 2 carriers to 6 is like adding 3x the sites to the area. As long as the distance between towers is under 8 miles (4 miles from each tower) most people even indoors will be on B41 if the capacity (more carriers) is there.

They are saved to the internal storage for my s7 the address is ... /sdcard/Android/data/com.lordsutch.android.signaldetector/files/ "Sdcard" is just the internal storage of the phone. There is no export it saves them automatically. I normally save the files to dropbox then delete the files on my phone or they get to big for google sheets.

In markets that track GCI the small cells can be unique. Every site is different but what has been found some GCIs are different. The city can tell the DAS companies what they want them to look like. If I were you I would have logging on in SCP and look for GCI above 800 for B25( so 012800xx plus). For those of you in Ericsson markets those higher GCI's can be B26 but in ALU the GCI should be different and be higher out of ALU's pattern whatever that pattern looks like.

Then you know what sprints small cells look like. There will be slight differences like the size and shape of the box half way up the pole. The quick way to find out where is start a NYC spreadsheet/Map. Then look for GCIs that are very high in the B25/B26 range that don't fit the nearby sites.

Being that it is mobilite and not crown castle they will probably have a box half way up and a small antenna on top. image http://mms.businesswire.com/bwapps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgid=173290&vid=5 article from 2009 about outdoor DAS in NYC. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090224005034/en/Mobilitie-Constructs-Fiber-Optic-DAS-Network-Yorks

I am a little surprised that 10x10 is deployed how it is or maybe the line is the road ways. Because as I drove up I79 it was bouncing back and forth between 5x5 and 10x10 from Canonsburg to Neville Island. Then it was solid to Wexford then I went on I-76 which was mostly solid 10x10 until Oakmont then back to jumping back and forth. I don't have the time or energy to track it but it seems they just plucked 10x10 anywhere instead of cluster launching it.

Finally caught the first carrier. B41 first https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wvg8nocuh8pon5/Screenshot_20160617-200605.png?dl=0 B41 second https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7q5bcsrg9vmrd1/Screenshot_20160617-185848.png?dl=0 B41 third https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qai18dii6zigut/Screenshot_20160617-183109.png?dl=0

For B41 31,32,33 first carrier 39,3A,3B second carrier and looks like 41,42,43 third carrier Also 3 different earfcn in the area. Tring to get pic of the first carrier it's to fast.

Look at the GCI sector first third carrier I have seen outside samsung markets.

Interesting find in New Haven, Conn.

For the PCmag tests I don't have any real issue with the download to upload ratio it is 40 to 20.(20+20 and 10+10) Also ping and reliability are each 20. Some carriers were scoring 100 and then other markets had higher scores but were ~95 I don't understand that. Probably a wieghted number that changes instead of a constant number to shoot for across the nation. When averaging Downloads>5Mbps, Uploads>2Mbps and Reliability. I was surprised how highly Pittsburgh ranked out of the 30 cities listed ATT (2nd), Sprint(7th), TMobile(16th),and Verizon (4th). I was surprised by their Miami scores with connecting to B41 enough that it should be most places but I am not showing any B41² in my SCP logs from a year ago.

I was in Hershey before a Beyoncé concert and I was surprised to see this living in town. It stayed around 4-16 Mbps pretty neat stuff with all those people tailgating.

Anyone going to the parade today? Hopefully they have some COWs and small cells in place for today. I don't think any network could survive the crowds that are going to be coming.

Easy there are no really big cities. Since the new CEO was hires Sprint has picked big cities and focused on them. Just think 75% of I-80 in PA is 3g only at least there is B25 and spots of B26 in the south making the network usable.

Yes you cherry picked those markets the only ones on the east coast with no B41 or limited B41. My B41 SCP data points.

Read the post directly above it. Looks like an unknown or unmatched GCI. Where was it beckley or farther south? Always nice to see new GCIs being found.

Texas was weird when I went there a while ago. 1x800 was only going 1/2 mile when I had the the 1x800 preferred PRL. So it would not reach tower to tower 1x800 would drop then I went a little ways and I would pick it back up. If greenbastard has not left the state it could just be a State wide issue. I seen the 1x800 issue in Dallas and Houston but it has been awhile since I have been there. (google timeline says ~2 years) Things may have changed but the range issue has been seen there with other technologies in that state.

This would be data on 1000s of people. At times data slows to a stop and US Cellular has 2 B5 5x5 and a B12 5x5 on the tower. It is not so much a hole in one market but where 3 markets meet.(Pitt,W PA,and nTelos) It has always been bad here even verizon users have their pockets of coverage they have to drive to. The tower that us cellular built is probably already paid for itself this year with roaming profits. What would it take 40TB at $5/GB to pay for the tower?

Does anyone know if shentel gets a list of amont of roaming and where that roaming took place? I am camping and it seems like only us cellular has data. Weak sprint 3G from 15 miles away and verizon is only 1x. I am fine with it the roaming data I was just curious. I also took a trip to kingwood WV so hopefully I was able to collect some data. It was mostly roaming us cellular and 3g on WV26 going down. I did take a speedtest on nTelos lte with rootmetric at autozone.

Those three area are inside the metro area. Metro != city lines. I should also define "not that many" from my first post does not equal 0. Mankato has enough towers to have capacity for everyone in the city to stream music or a third of the people to stream bingeon level video. Adding small cells will not fix large area of coverage. These 5G sites will have a range of line of site of like a mile to fill in coverage or shadowing caused by tall buildings. If there are stadium, concert, or other venue where large groups of people go to outside of metros these 5g sites may see the light of day at some point. But to say these are magic bullets for every where in Minnesota is wrong. B41 on towers already there is a large source of capacity that can cover most places.

Sedalia, MO >1500 people per sq mile and outside of minneapolis metro it is mostly <55 people per sq mile. Not really sure how that would mean sprint is going to put short range small cell on every house to cover everyone. Small cells are not a magic bullet for rural coverage for capacity maybe rural coverage no. I don't even have any 1x data in my SCP logs from St Paul meaning I was on LTE all the time. Outside of metros it should be nextel conversions or new macro sites not small cells.