anthony.spina97

You retain HD voice when WiFi calling is enabled, while on the cellular network. -Anthony

iOS 10 will bring updates to WiFi calling on Sprint that allows SMS over WiFi and lets you retain the ability to have HD Voice while WiFi calling is activated on your line. It currently works on the iOS 10 Beta and is much better than before, IMO. -Anthony

Echoing what gusherb said, this really is a non-issue if your network is set up correctly with the correct technologies in place. I have Time Warner Cable's 300/20 plan and regularly get 350+ down and 25+ up, at all times of the day, with my neighbors also being on TWC. -Anthony

Make sure to let us know if it fixed your issue. -Anthony

Change your mind to what? Not get it or get it? I just saw a leak of the display panel that shows that the 7 is getting a 1080p screen and the 7 Plus is getting a 2K/QHD screen. -Anthony

Wow, really? I actually didn't know that. Here I thought I knew everything about the update lol. It's nice that I can actually turn on WiFi calling now and not lose HD voice! -Anthony

Yes sir, you are correct in your statement. -Anthony

Yes, I am absolutely positive. It's the way the network is set up here. The power levels aren't turned up, and I could only imagine what would happen if that tower service even more people. And it's not the topography, because I live in a relatively flat area with not a lot of tree cover. They just don't have the power turned up here. My best guess is because of lack of site spacing so they don't turn it up so that it becomes completely unusable. Basically the gist of what I'm saying is, what works for one carrier in one (or more) area(s) may not work for another in the same area(s). Yes, I do realize that that kind of contradicts what I was saying earlier when I was trying to compare my anecdotal experience to yours, and I'm sorry about that lol. -Anthony

Except here's a problem with this idea of yours. I live in a town called Harrisburg in North Carolina. It's basically a suburb of Charlotte, but has a population of ~15,000 people. There is a Sprint tower about two miles away from me (which is outside of the city limits) that I connect to regularly with a -113 dBm Band 26 connection, and regularly get less than 2 Mbps down and less than .5 Mbps up, and that's late at night, or "off-peak" hours. This is an example of the power not being turned up on Band 26, with it not covering a huge expanse of land, and not being far away from it. And yet, my speeds still suck. Compared to EVDO, I can regularly get over 1 Mbps down and up at most times of the day, with a -85 dBm or greater signal. Turning the signal up is not the solution. Densifying with more towers/small cells is the solution. I can only imagine how bad the speeds would be if they had the power turned up on Band 26 here. -Anthony

They're going to have to pry Framily out of my cold, dead hands. -Anthony

I second this statement! -Anthony

Notice how your "Usage" time and your "Standby" time are almost the same? That means that there is something that is constantly running in the background, even when you have the device locked. My suggestion is to turn off "Background Refresh" and to change "Fetch New Data" in your Mail settings to "Off". Those two things should save you a TON of battery. -Anthony

Correct. -Anthony

The Sprint version of the iPhone 6 lacks band 12 support, but other than that, it should operate perfectly fine on T-Mobile's network. As long as you fully own the device (no contract or easy pay/lease on the device) then you should have no problems getting it unlocked by Sprint, either. -Anthony

Actually, Sprint announced a new plan (called "All In") that had a 600 kbps throttle included in it for video, but Marcelo got rid of the throttle before people were ever able to sign up for it because of the complaining done by the community. So, technically, Sprint never throttled video on their network. Here's and article on it. -Anthony

Yeah the majority of people I can think of who heavily use upload are people who livestream on websites like Twitch and those who regularly upload videos to Youtube. But I highly doubt any of them are using cellular data to do so, so like you said, download should be weighted way more than upload. -Anthony

Wow! I'm very impressed with Sprint's showing in Charlotte! Granted, I tend to travel in their less covered areas of the market, so I tend to see the worst of the network here. But man! That's nice to see! -Anthony

I can't see Sprint only putting one small cell in to service a large neighborhood, considering it 1) probably wouldn't provide a substantial enough coverage increase to be effective and 2) would only provide a hot spot of coverage in an otherwise fringe area. Therefore, if there were multiple small cells covering this theoretical neighborhood, like Verizon is currently doing in a neighborhood here (thanks for that info caspar347), the likelihood of any/all of them getting overloaded isn't very high considering each one would probably only be covering maybe a dozen or so houses at a time. It would be very odd to me if Sprint were to move their equipment to somewhere that would cause a detriment to their coverage that that equipment was specifically put in place to remedy, so IMO that wouldn't be very likely to happen. And if Sprint and T-Mobile were to merge and they decided to drop those leases then so be it. If that caused a problem for me then yes, I would consider switching carriers to someone who better served my home. Good cell signal will be a high priority for me when buying a house, but no, I will not sell the house if that becomes an issue down the road. And wifi is irrelevant because either way, I will be using wifi. I want good cell service at my home because I would like to be able to make phone calls and send texts while home, and if my power/internet were to go out, I would like to be confident that I will have a back up in case that happens. -Anthony

I was just about to post something like this. Whenever I move out of my parents place post-college, one of the most important things that I will look for at my house will be good cell signal. I would have absolutely no problems with purchasing a house with a utility pole on it's property if it means that I get good cell signal vs. sub-par cell signal. -Anthony

I'm on the beta currently. Relatively stable so far; been on it since 4 pm EST yesterday. Definitely laggy with the animations on my 6 Plus, but it is very usable. Battery life seems normal, and performance seems the same aside from the laggy animations. Basically everything works, though. -Anthony

Sweet! I'm currently watching the Xbox E3 briefing until the Keynote starts, can't wait! -Anthony

More than likely yes. The AT&t/T-Mobile one will use the Intel chip and the Sprint/Verizon one will use the Qualcomm chip. -Anthony

For this website, that's actually not that bad of an idea to be honest. If I were you, I would be copyrighting this idea ASAP. -Anthony

Yeah I'm not sure what about 10x10 on Band 26 requires the equipment to be upgraded to release 11. Wasn't Verizon running release 9 for the longest time and they use 10x10? -Anthony

Yeah I was going to say, wasn't there an article or a post that said that the Clearwire network was costing Sprint something to the tune of half a billion dollars or so (give or take a hundred million) a quarter to run? -Anthony EDIT: Found the post. I overestimated a little bit. 200-250 million a year. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/7240-its-the-wimax-countdown/?p=450176