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1 hour ago, cooltech6597 said:

I wonder when b71 will disappear since it's already going away in some other markets

Where has B71 been shut down? I would have expected that to linger since I don't believe VoNR is in widespread use yet. Certainly not on my phone.

7 minutes ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

Apparently the outage is device specific. Even on the same account, one device will work and another won't.

That's a really weird outage. S21 Ultra, no issue so far. Didn't hear any complaints from my family in KC also on my account. Hopefully whatever it was is about solved!

10 minutes ago, Mr.Nuke said:

I'm on edge right now in Omaha.

9 minutes ago, though said:

Lincoln, NE is out.

Odd. I still have normal service in midtown/downtown Omaha.

14 minutes ago, though said:

Down in Eastern Nebraska.

Still working fine in Omaha (aka eastern Nebraska).

12 minutes ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

Edit: Yep it's a nationwide outage. 

I guess Omaha isn't in this nation 😛

Working fine here.

9 hours ago, cooltech6597 said:

Been finding a ton more planned T-Mobile colocations on American Tower sites. I plotted the ones I have found so far on this map https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/edit?mid=1j1yez8HvoZDWCt9AIhYkfdM1V7ddtGg&usp=sharing

Goes nicely with the data that @Rickie546 has managed to dig up out this way.

2 hours ago, clbowens said:

Also, what case are you guys going to use?

Ordered the Spigen thin case. I like there cases, currently have the same version on my S21.

13 minutes ago, NE5G said:

I am only aware of 2 sites (really 1) in Kearney and 2 in Grand Island. Based on size, Kearney could benefit from another 2-3, as well as GI.

Yeah 2 Sprint conversions. One barely in Kearney on the south side along I-80. The other a few blocks north just south of Hwy 30. It does seem like they could use at least another site. For the northwest side of town.

14 minutes ago, cooltech6597 said:

Wouldn't that be just the same as looking at the eNB? (since its just a base 10 to hex translation) 

Pattern is just easier to see for me in the hex values, as that's the way we have always tracked sites, through their HEX GCI. Never saw them in DEC format until Cellmapper came around.

20 minutes ago, cooltech6597 said:

Happened to come across a new T-Mobile colocation in Dafter, Michigan (upper peninsula). Seems to not have n41 installed according to this American Tower site brochure photo, and looking at the filename it seems to have been installed sometime around September 2021. It also appears T-mobile is using either AT&T or Peninsula Fiber Networks for backhaul (AT&T is on this site as well, so it would make sense AT&T is using their own fiber, and T-Mobile is using Peninsula Fiber Networks). Might go through some other areas in the upper peninsula on the American Tower site locator to see if there are any more T-mobile new colocations. These rural builds are very exciting! 

GCI is 063865 so it follows the pattern. May have been installed for a while but was definitely activated recently given that GCI. (Change the enb settings to Hex on Cellmapper, it makes it a little easier to follow).

2 hours ago, swintec said:

I am on Advantage Premium (what became of SERO) they gave me $1000 for my S20+.  that brings the ultra down to $8 and change per month.

I see the "up to $1,000 off" deal when I log into my account, but it says on "eligible Sprint Max plans." When I click it, all I get is the full price phone and no option to trade in my device. Really annoying. Oh well. Paid in full at BB so won't have a monthly payment to deal with. Just no early shipping for me as BB would only allow me to do store pickup for some reason.

I believe it's pretty much the same size as the S21 Ultra, which after a week stopped feeling so huge. I think you'll like the pone once you get it!

10 hours ago, swintec said:

I preordered the ultra with the great tmobile deal for it.  I am hoping it is as amazing as my S20+ is.

I preordered the S23 Ultra. T-Mobile didn't give me squat for deals. Apparently since I'm not on a Max plan, there were no discounts and they wouldn't even let me trade in my phone. Went through Best Buy with a $400 trade in for my S21 Ultra. Thought the trade in would be better, but whatever. Had $200 in BB credits I used too. Can't wait to pick it up next Friday. My S21 Ultra has been fantastic, have absolutely loved the camera on it, but starting to feel the battery life. Especially under 25%, it just crashes super fast.

28 minutes ago, cooltech6597 said:

Where do you get new tower plans for American Tower?

Digging permits for fiber/power pulled by T-Mobile. American Tower sites are just easy to look up since we can find where they are easy enough.

4 minutes ago, cooltech6597 said:

Here are the new sites in the Toledo area from the last few years. All of these are Sprint conversions, and they still have a few more Sprint sites to convert

That's a decent number of new sites. Nebraska is likely the oddest market in the country, as T-Mobile didn't exist here until a few years ago. Until last summer, their footprint didn't really extend much out of Omaha, Sprint had a much larger footprint. But I'd like to think that their aggressive expansion here is a signal that they intend to follow through on their rural expansion plans. Given the number of American Tower sites that we know they are targeting across NE, KS, MO, IA, AR and IL, it does seem that they have an expansion plan ready to go. Unfortunately we haven't done any digging for the OH area so I don't have any details there for you.

4 hours ago, cjauregui said:

Is this normal for T-Mobile to wait this long to upgrade a tower?

They upgraded/converted a few sites here after the permit expired. However, I'm not sure how strict Omaha is about those, there seem to be a number that have lingered after the supposed expiration in the past that still got completed.

There's a lot of colors here, but the teal and purple sites are expansion. Currently we have 50 tracked, with at least 17 more permitted. Based on the latest coverage map update, I believe I need to add a few more expansion sites.

We've also had 121 Sprint conversions (yellow/orange), with over a dozen still permitted (green), though we're not sure if those will come to fruition.

19 minutes ago, cooltech6597 said:

New Vertical Bridge site built for Tmobile near Red River Gorge area.  Maybe T-Mobile is starting to build out new sites and colos in rural areas now...

T-Mobile has been building out new rural sites for the last 6-8 months. It may not be as noticeable elsewhere, but we have had 40+ new sites come online in Nebraska. There have been new builds in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri as well.

If you change the site data to display hex values on Cellmapper, look for sites that begin with 05D, or 062 - 063. Those are new sites in the last 6 months.

1 hour ago, Trip said:

Recently it suddenly started flashing yellow at me when it sees 311490, which draws my eye (it definitely didn't used to).

311490 has always shown as yellow to me. When the network started showing that here I turned off the secondary PLMN reporting and it just showed the normal T-Mobile PLMN.

Have $200 in Best Buy credits so I think I'm just going to bite the bullet now. Wish the trade is was slightly better, but they're offering $20 more than Samsung is. I haven't kept a phone for 2 years... ever I don't think. The S21 Ultra is the first one I've done that with. Upgrades are so incremental anymore didn't really make sense to upgrade last year and it really held up. Starting to feel the battery life now though so it's probably time.

On 1/19/2023 at 8:04 AM, dkyeager said:

Sometimes lately I have noticed my n41 SA gets stuck (no download) despite good signal. If I switch to wi-fi and the back a few minutes later it is fine again. Any one else noticing this?

I have noticed this on my S21 Ultra. Not sure if it is a network bug or phone issue, but when on n41 SA I get stuck with no data, texts won't even send. Sometimes toggling airplane mode doesn't even fix it if it goes right back to n41. As soon as I connect to WiFi again texts start sending and everything goes back to normal.

59 minutes ago, chamb said:

The one I have close to home is a Sprint keep site that was stripped and has new TM equipment installed.

It is broadcasting the standard TM bands and also band 26. Located in Upton, Pa.  Low population around the site.

That is pretty odd. We did have one keep site here that when the Sprint equipment was stripped off, they kept one Sprint RRU per sector (was common when they kept Sprint B25 on air on the keep sites) but they maybe accidentally? put the B26 RRU up instead of the B25 one. But I only ever saw one site with that configuration.

20 hours ago, chamb said:

Are you hitting band 26 on these sites?  For some reason, T-Mobile is keeping band 26 alive on just a few sites. Maybe to keep the license active????

Different market, but I have seen B26 on a couple of keep sites between Omaha and Kansas City. The towers have T-Mobile equipment installed, but no signal yet for nearly a year. They left the Sprint equipment installed and running for some reason.

30 minutes ago, towerhugger said:

here are 2 towers there right now (one for AT&T, one for Viaero) and I could be wrong but I do not believe this is an American Tower location.  If not, it seems encouraging that they're open to locating on other sites.

They are going after American Tower sites pretty heavily, but they are using others as well so they're not limiting their options as best I can tell.

The coverage map updated to better show the Scottsbluff coverage yesterday, looks like they did full build with n71 and n41!

1 hour ago, dkyeager said:

T-Mobile continues to buy up ED licenses plus a few AW and WT in the middle of the country (Iowa etc).

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-390578A1.pdf

Where do you look up what area the licenses cover? I see ones for Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. At least, I think I do. I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at.

2 hours ago, RAvirani said:

If both SIMs are connected to the same sector, the second SIM displays that it’s connected to the second carrier like so:

Doesn't the [2] indicate the 2nd SIM? In the past ^2 on the Provider/Band line was used to indicate second carrier. Unless that's not what you're talking about.