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Yeah, but V might take the position that they lost the value seeking customer and not the premium customer. They may be ok with that.

I would agree with that thought process until they came out with a competitive pricing plan today. Interesting that it was on Oct 1st.

They have for the most part been standing back and watching....

Which is fine, until T, Tmo and S starting taking subscribers.  For V to pull a higher churn rate could impact stock price up to 4-5% which investors don't like.

Lol. Good thinking Johnny

 

@JohnLegere: You know our 4x100 w/ 10GB LTE offer? Yeah, it’s no longer expired. #rundontwalk

 

 

 

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If I had a choice between T and Tmo even with his offer, this is a no brainer answer. Pay a little more for T and a much bigger bucket.

The photographed antenna panel does seem to represent an AT&T infrastructure bandwidth expansion. Previous antennas supported Lower 700 MHz (band 17) through AWS-1 1700+2100 MHz (band 4). This antenna supports Lower 700 MHz (band 12/17) and Cellular 850 MHz (band 5) via its low frequency port, as well as PCS 1900 MHz (band 2), AWS-1 1700+2100 MHz (band 4), and WCS 2300 MHz (band 30) via its mid/high frequency ports. And it does appear to have dual mid/high frequency ports.

 

Antenna gurus, can you corroborate?

 

AJ

If this indeed is right (I learned never to doubt you), this is a quite interesting set up. It is flexible for whatever holdings they have for that market. The question is now, is this set up necessary for them?

It's either aws or pcs for their second lte carrier. Market by market type of stuff.

 

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Thank you.

Does T have that much AWS nationwide?  I know that WCS is really there only expansion band (outside of the impending auctions).

Stats update:

Albuquerque

83% of sites accepted.

61% LTE accepted

55% 8001x accepted

Rio Rancho

69% of sites accepted

62% LTE accepted

54% 8001x accepted

Just updated to 8.0.2 and I've still got cellular service!

 

 

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Ok now that you guys have, i am doing it.

 

Also, I am in Des Moines for the past couple of days. The switching between bands is awesome. Des Moines only has 25 and 26.  It is awesome. In the factory warehouse, I expected to lose service. Didn't. In the vault (band deposits). Didn't.

Looks like the iPhone 6 display review from displaymate was very positive overall - putting the iPhone 6 displays among the top of the best screens found in smartphones.

 

"iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have their displays reviewed, found to be ‘the best LCD ever tested’

"A great screen is about more than the number of pixels, though. Apple has traditionally been very good at color reproduction, with most of its panels hitting the full 100% sRGB Color Gamut. Last year’s Retina iPad Mini was a notable exception to this, but the new iPhones are on top once again. The color accuracy is similar to the iPhone 5S and roughly 10% more accurate than the Galaxy S5′s Super AMOLED panel. In fact, the contrast ratio is even better and more consistent on Apple’s LCDs in bright ambient light than it is on Samsung’s AMOLEDs, which is unexpected."

 

extreme tech:

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/190675-iphone-6-and-6-plus-have-their-displays-reviewed-found-to-be-the-best-ever-tested

 

much more in depth-

displaymate:

http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone6_ShootOut.htm

I have the 6 for my daily and work related. It plays nice with iOS 8 as well (except for 8.0.1).  The screen is a definite step up from the 5.

Got my 6 back down.  Apple chat confirmed 8.0.1 only affected the 6 and 6+ for this no network issue.  It took me an hour as I had to download 8.0 again.  Restored and working.  Chat also confirmed for me that 8.0.1 will be up in a couple of days.  HOwever, this time I am going to wait a couple of days.

Sooo I really hope apple fixes this yesterday. Here I am with no touch id and no cell phone service 

i am on apple help chat and we are resetting my iOS back to 8.0

 

Suggest you all do the same.

6

6 carriers times 20mhz = 120 total mhz used.  that is simply astounding. 

 

Most areas will realistically only need one or two B41 carriers.  But if fully deployed, that would be speed to the max (not even counting carrier aggregation).

My wife started playing with my 6 last night. She has a 5s.  She is basically sold to the bigger screen.  She was complaining about how big they were getting but once she had it in her hand and started surfing/calendar lookup and other items, she loved it.

I finally received the 6. No tests yet but I am in love with this screen. It is a little sad that Apple took so long to this party.

Unrelated to your current conversation, but I was headed out to the far north of Rio Rancho Saturday and took a moment to do some Sensorly mapping.  Glad to see the folks at the Sprint call center finally have LTE in their area.  Always seemed terribly ironic that they were hosed for so long.

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the tower over there was accepted a little while ago (week or so).  I believe it was included with the most recent completed map update.

Were you getting 2.3Mbps from 3G or LTE? If it was LTE, it's remotely possible that they have converted the WiMax site to run Sprint B41 LTE. I have confirmed in my notes that it is a Huawei site, capable of dual mode with LTE. However, the site is T1 backhaul for Clearwire and would not provide very good throughput speeds, unless they upgraded the backhaul.

 

If you were connected to 3G, it could be a good sign that the backhaul has finally been upgraded for Sprint in Alamogordo and maybe you will get LTE soon. If you get a chance to run over to the WiMax site and check to see if you get a strong LTE signal there, take a screen shot and a speed test when you have your strongest signal.

Robert does this mean that abq could have band 41?

So is B41 being added to current NV towers? The map only shows one tower here in Alamogordo, but I was getting 2.3Mb on the southwest side of town. It seems that it was coming from the Verizon tower. I think that is where Sprint has it Wimax at. Is there an IOS app for finding towers?

As far as I know, B41 will be added to all sprint towers but first on te towers that are overburdened. I think it will be a while till band 41 starts to show up. I have found permits relate to band 41 though.

 

First question, were you connected to LTE?

Also there really isn't a iOS app to find towers.

It's still hard to say. But I'll take a stab at it. If all the users were just loading static webpages and using apps that pull static data, each sector of a 5MHz channel could support hundreds of users. Maybe even 400-500. If they were each just pulling up a new page every 2-3 minutes. It could probably be pushing a thousand. So long as they all didn't hit ENTER at exactly the same time!

 

And each Band 41 channel can handle about 3x the traffic of a Band 25 5MHz channel. So you can triple those numbers for B41. And Sprint can deploy between 3-8 B41 carriers in each market. Meaning when deployed to maximum capacity, B41 could support from 9x to 20x more capacity per sector than B25.

 

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*Picking jaw off ground*

Stupid ups. Dropped by at 1pm and no one home. Obviously didn't drop off the phone. Can't pick up at distribution as sprint doesn't allow. Now waiting till fng Monday. Sob

 

 

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Mine should be showing up with UPS any minute! The guy in the mail room at my work said UPS normally shows up at about 10:30. Too bad I have so much to do today that I won't get to play with it much until later...

I just got the text from ups saying it is out for delivery. Just waiting for the delivery text.

 

 

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FINALLY got my tracking number!

 

Being held for delivery tomorrow.

@jroepcke51 You wouldn't have come across any permits with construction to a new tower being built? Next to Walmart and the corner of I40 on the westside?

Do you have a pic?

That equipment doesn't look like anything sprint is using. I seen it today. I think it's AT&T.

Most likely as they have more permits in the system than any other teleco.

 

 

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The two sites I'm waiting on are San Pedro and paseo and Wyoming and San Antonio.

Have you seen Wyoming and SA lately? If not, go check it out. The other has had its first permit since May.

 

 

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Do not know how much stock I can take with this, I was on the phone with customer care out of Alb, about my phone, I asked about the LTE and they told me it is Scheduled to be online within three months. What got me is he added sprint spark within six months.

With as many permits as I have found for B41 equipment, it is reasonably possible in the next 180 days. All permits I have found are on sites that have LTE going.

 

Well I hope they hurry up and do the towers by me! Got that text message from them like a month ago and still no LTE at my house

I don't know where you specifically live but I wish they would get with it and start lighting up Band 26. I don't know what the hold up us.  That potentially will help you.