anthony.spina97

Yeah, Charlotte is a major metropolitan area, not some one horse, mayonnaise sandwich eating, rural hick town.  

Yeah that's basically my summation of this place.

-Anthony

I can confirm this is true. 

As can I!

-Anthony

Charlottesville VA is long out of the way are you sure it's not Charleston WV.

 

As for the LTE some don't need "lte only" mainly people on galaxy s6 for some reason. nTelos is already rough without those handoff issues so it can be hard to tell.

 

Hopefully Pittsbugh was not as bad but it depends where you were. But that is a different thread.

It was odd. I was in driving through WV on I-79 (don't remember where now) and the SID that I was getting on 1x was 4379, which according to a website I had found, was Charlottesville VA. But now according to a web search, it is for Beckley WV and Morgantown WV (among other places). I don't have a huge knowledge of SID's so I got a little confused when searching. I was probably near Beckley when I was trying to connect.

And Sprint in Pittsburgh was great. I have heard many good things about that market and it lived up to it's hype.

-Anthony

No Circuit switched fallback [CSFB] is likely the issue, which is an LTE setup issue.  Contact nTelos so they have the option to fix it faster.

 

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Ah yes, I forgot the newest iPhones used CSFB. Too used to my old 5S where it didn't require CSFB, and then getting my current 6 Plus where basically everywhere I go there aren't CSFB issues. I most likely won't be contacting nTelos because it is not my home market. I was merely traveling through the area on my way home to Charlotte, NC from Pittsburgh.

Have we come to the conclusion that every tower is having CSFB issues for Sprint customers in the nToelos market? I had this problem the entirety of my time in WV. I only read back in this thread one page (I only frequent a handful of threads on the site) and from the sounds of it people were having to put their devices into LTE Only mode in order to latch onto LTE in these areas.

-Anthony

I'll post this here since it is relevant and really doesn't need to be in the PRL thread:

So I'm in Ntelos land, near Charlottesville, WV (confirmed via SID 4379), and I'm getting 3-5 bars of EVDO. Have to keep turning LTE off because everytime my iPhone 6 tries to connect, it drops to one bar of 1x and goes to no service. Disabling LTE immediately reestablishes 3G. So, at least for me, no LTE.

-Anthony

So I'm in Ntelos land, near Charlottesville, WV (confirmed via SID 4379), and I'm getting 3-5 bars of EVDO. Have to keep turning LTE off because everytime my iPhone 6 tries to connect, it drops to one bar of 1x and goes to no service. Disabling LTE immediately reestablishes 3G. So, at least for me, no LTE.

-Anthony

Do we have anyone in West Virginia?

Wait but aren't prls just for CDMA?

-Anthony

They (Sprint) might use those nice little tri-band panels that they have on certain sites to get both B41 and full NV bands on it too, depending on how close to another Sprint site it is.

-Anthony

Is this a problem on the iPhone 6S as well?

-Anthony

Iowa Wireless Services dba iWireless has a separate MCC-MNC from T-Mobile.

 

AJ

Ah okay. That makes more sense now as to why their coverage wouldn't appear as T-Mobile coverage.

-Anthony

T-Mobile has coverage in Iowa through iWireless, but they don't count it as native coverage on their maps (even though T-Mobile owns half of iWireless and they have no restrictions on roaming on the iWireless network).

So if somebody tried to map it on Sensorly it wouldn't show up as T-Mobile coverage?

-Anthony

Seems kind of ironic that T-Mobile claims to have much, much more LTE coverage than Sprint. Here's the Sensorly map of both carriers, condensed into a GIF.

EDIT: Won't let me link a GIF, so you'll have to look at the direct link.

-Anthony

Wait where?

The first page of this thread.

-Anthony

"Disadvantaged" individuals using cheap/free WiMAX for home Internet, I can understand.  But somebody needs to explain to me rationally why any schools and libraries -- as these non profits claim -- are using WiMAX for Internet access?  Is it their primary Internet access?  Seriously?  I will say it again.  Seriously?  Where are these schools and libraries?  Better yet, who and what are these schools and libraries?  Via tax payer funding, government programs, and other charitable outreach, schools and libraries have access to far superior wired broadband services almost everywhere.

 

 

AJ

The high school I went to here in Harrisburg, NC (a relatively small town) had 2 Gbps wired internet. And we were in no means a state-of-the-art school. So I can corroborate this statement.

-Anthony

The notifications used to clear a while ago. There must have been some kind of update in past several months that caused this bug to be introduced. It was only the past several months that the notifications won't clear anymore. I think it is more of a bug rather than a missing feature.

-Anthony

Define "demise."  AT&T is far too big to fail.  Millions of people would lose basic phone and Internet access.  That would never be allowed to happen.

 

What likely is happening, instead, is that T-Mobile continues to siphon off subs from AT&T.  T-Mobile has become the cool, new kid in school.  Will that coolness remain or wear thin?  We cannot say right now.  But T-Mobile will have to up its game to retain the subs it has gained.  That is the gambit being played.

 

AJ

Oh no, I'm not saying that they would go bankrupt or anything. What I'm suggesting is that basically, they could become the new pre-NV Sprint. Lose a ton of subs as your network slips behind your competitors because you didn't keep up with it.

-Anthony

Is it possible that this could be the start of AT&T's downfall? Their network is beginning to lag behind their competitors, with Sprint and T-Mobile catching up to them in many markets. And now they have lost almost a million subscribers this quarter, after losing a few hundred thousand more over the past year. Could this be the beginning of their demise? 

-Anthony

Mobile Beacon tweeted our WiMax Countdown and link to this thread:  https://twitter.com/mobilebeacon/status/656538089049866241

 

Interesting.

What's with the hashtag "StopSprint"? Never mind, I completely forgot who Mobile Beacon was up until now.

-Anthony

And this was a big one, too - 2GB is a lot to download. Fortunately, I was able to use iTunes & my work's fiber line to pull the updates. [emoji3]

 

 

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For those of us that were on iOS 9.1 beta 5, it was only a ~30 MB update.

-Anthony

Since when do they not allow updates over LTE under 100 meg? I'm coming from 9.1 beta 5, update is 30 or so meg and it's telling me I need to be on wifi.

-Anthony

Yes, but now are the days of deprioritizing unlimited data, no longer the days of full throttling. Verizon chose to completely end its throttling, and unlike its closest competitor, AT&T, Verizon isn't deprioritizing data. Sure, they raised the price by $20 monthly. For unlimited data on the nation's best network currently, at least until Sprint gets NGN and/or merges wit T-Mobile, Verizon's unlimited plan cannot be beat in most areas.

Except for that fact that new customers can't get on Verizon's unlimited plan. You have to be an existing customer who has the unlimited plan. So, if you're a customer who is shopping around carriers, Verizon's plan can most definitely be beat.

-Anthony

iOS 9.1 is out today. Anyone downloaded yet? Does it fix field test?

I'm currently installing it right now. I have been on all of the betas for it, and no changes were made to field test during that time, so I doubt that this version has fixed field test. At this point, field test is a forgotten part of the software in Apple's eyes.

-Anthony

I would show him episodes 4-6 then 1-3. That's how my father did it for my sister and I. Seems like the best way to do it, IMO.

-Anthony

with 4g/3g/Voice using 5x5 on 700 

The lower 700 A block is specifically for LTE. It cannot be used for UMTS. Plus, no devices would support UMTS on that frequency.

-Anthony

Is there carrier aggregation in Hawaii?

-Anthony