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Found 5G coverage between 41st and 43th street on the west side (7th ave all the way down to west side hway and 2nd ave and 3rd ave between 42nd and 43rd st). Averaged btwn 150-250mb peaked around 400mbs. 

Looks like 5G is live on Times Sq. Speeds were nothing spectacular, but solid nontheless considering it was packed as usual.

Some Sprint 5G testing in Chicago..

Power outage in midtown. Looks like backup generators are doing their thing since cell service has not been interupted so far.

5 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Something else to note is that in NR TDD config 2, all 13 timeslots are flexible.

This means cell sites will be able to assign any and all of the timeslots to either download or upload on the fly. This will do wonders for Sprint's speeds when they count. Imagine running a speedtest on an unloaded sector where you used the entire 60 MHz carrier to download and then the entire 60 MHz carrier to upload. That would be fast. 

Didn't know it was dynamic, that alone justifies moving all spectrum to NR as soon as possible.

26 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Yes SA NR deployment with ENDC on the downlink. UL NR+LTE ENDC will likely be deployed in the future although I'm not sure the exact forecast on that. 

Current SA NR uploads look very promising so far. Do you think NR+LTE UL ENDC would help improve at the edge signal in a meaningful way?

27 minutes ago, Flompholph said:

There are 41 small cells and at least 40 blue dots. So I am going to go out on a limb and say blue is small cells and red are the other 285 upgrades.

Exactly my thought.

6 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

The tweet states that 285 macro sites have been upgraded and that 41 small cell sites have been brought on air.

That figure doesn’t seem to correlate with the number/color of dots on the map image.

You should tweet Mark to confirm.

3 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Very nice. What’s the difference between the red and blue dots?

Looks to denote upgraded sites. 

Talking about upgrades in the DC area..

2 minutes ago, tyroned3222 said:

 

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Refresh the page, should be visible..

26 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

 
This is my VZW speed

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Also to be fair, turn the corner when V attaches to 5G, the device hits over 700mbs as long as its within 200-300ft LOS from node.

22 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

 
This is my VZW speed

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That's all well and fine, an unloaded tower proves very little, this is comparing two of the same devices in the same location. Its a huuuuuge win for Sprint. Chicago has a ton of folks using all networks and this clearly shows what happens when comparing them under similar circumstances.

Turn the corner away from a Verizon 5G node and this is what happens, it drops to LTE and Sprint keeps a solid 5G connection.

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15 minutes ago, tyroned3222 said:

Ya, sprint performing on 5G like carriers are performing current with LTE advanced. Sprint will have better averages and coverage, but what happens when average consumer gets on 5G

 

 

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Keep in mind that Sprint is using ENDC to share LTE and 5G spectrum on 5G devices. Its quite a handy tool to balance the load. It will take a huge uptick of NEW customers to saturate the added airlink.

1 hour ago, tyroned3222 said:

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What market?

Update* Never mind, just saw the GPS location on the ookla app.

4 minutes ago, though said:

I like, however, aren't those typical u/l speeds on Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile for 4G?

Are they tho? Think about it for a second, its just more spectrum online, regardless if its 4G or 5G. While peak speeds on those carriers are up there, average is a whole different story. Sprint is saying 100mbs+(vs 20-30mbs on LTE) is very typical on Sprint 5G. 

2 hours ago, RedSpark said:

Glad to see this!

Quote from interview with John Saw..

Four more markets -- New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Phoenix -- will get 5G in the next "couple of weeks."

2 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

Hmm. Mine flat out doesn’t work. Now if I have my phone on LTE and I connect my iPad to it through hotspot, then it works. Other wise if I try from my phone or from my iPad on their own it doesn’t work.

Try turning off your firewall on your desktop for testing.

16 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

Does anyone know why Sprint blocks Remote Desktop connection? Works fine over Airport Wi-Fi, home Wi-Fi and Verizon LTE. It’s very quickly getting on my nerves. 

Ive never had that issue..

2 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Aside from all that there is still no excuse for not doing 25+25+26 tho

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Did you read what he wrote? Clearly losing higher orders of MIMO is a huge deal, and might not be a worthwhile trade off even more so on Band 25/26.

41 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

FDD-TDD limitations due to different radio technologies. Samsung phones has the most advanced radio configs and thus supports the most carriers but have limitations on MIMO streams as in no 4x4 MIMO on any component carriers. Most other devices are FDD+TDD and some are FDD+TDD+TDD but again there are limitations on MIMO streams.  

Most of Sprints 1.9 network has 4x4 or 2x4 now live  and a large portion on 2.5 is 4x4  so that's a chunk of downlink capacity being traded off. It's a large balancing act and with the turnaround inside of Sprint and with the rudderless leadership, we can see why many projects do not come to fruition.  

FWIW, FDD+TDD was identified early in the industry on as one potential solution to slow uplink speeds years ago alongside uplink CA using higher order MIMO. It is not the end all solution but a very useful tool in the toolkit if they can figure out how to use it. 

Forgot about MIMO, thats a biggie.😑

36 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

The LG G7, G8, V40, V50, Pixel 3A, 3A XL, 3, 3XL, S9, S9+, Note 9, S10e, S10, S10 Plus, S10 5G, iPhone XR, XS and XS Max all support it.

That's plenty of "device ecosystem " and way more than just three 5G devices yet that is being rolled out.

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As Tim mentioned to me earlier, there is one major downside to mixing TDD/FDD, none of these devices would support more than 2xCA while on TDD/FDD on PCC so you'd lose access to that additional capacity.

Bottom line, this isn't exactly the be all end all resolution for some of these upload issues.

Another M-MIMO..

On 43rd and Sixth Ave..

Beautiful shot!

Courtesy of WSJ, they wrote an article about 5G deployments use of Chinese hardware.

Link to article..

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-considers-requiring-5g-equipment-for-domestic-use-be-made-outside-china-11561313072

More M-MIMO

This one's on 116th street and Park Ave..