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22 hours ago, RedSpark said:

Familiar territory..... This isn't going well.

1.1 Million wireless customers lost since August 2020.

Although Dish continues to lose customers, the 210,000 wireless retail net subscribers that Dish lost in 2Q is an improvement over the 343,000 that it lost in Q1 2022 and the 245,000 wireless retail subscribers that it lost in 4Q 2021.

In addition, Dish reported a wireless churn rate of 4.39% for 2Q, which is an improvement over the 4.64% churn rate it reported at the end of Q1 and a decline from the 4.95% it reported in 4Q 2021.

 

I view Dish as a beta wireless company even if you ignore Genesis.  They just leave so many loose ends.  At first only new customers could get the price reductions, but only online.  When I signed up for a three month deal (did not trust them for a year) it comes back and tells you the $45 rate is monthly.  You have to trust them that it will be only every 90 days (I eliminated autopay until after 60 days).  Now I was just given the option on another plan that was excluded.  There was no publicity of this change, it just happened.  

Look at 5g.  With AT&T the icon appears to be on all the time, 5g or not.  When using T-Mobile you sometimes get it other times not.  This seems to be related to the sim card interaction with the phone model or maybe being in a market with Genesis.

Talk to stores about anything technical? Russian roulette odds of finding someone knowledgeable IMO.  Now it does appear that they are trying to set up intelligent systems to make up for this.  Telephone was quite friendly and tries to be helpful. 

Great potential, but I agree that it sounds like Sprint.

50 minutes ago, tybo31316 said:

So, is auction 108 T-Mobile buying up the spectrum that they are currently leasing?

That is being done separately. For a while T-Mobile has been buying up ED licenses when possible else signing long term leases. 

We have a separate thread on FCC auctions which is covering 108. Short version is most of the counties only have one bidder, and c3, which is most attractive to T-Mobile, has the least competition.

Round 5 is posted to the above links.  Ohio is about the same (bids slowly increasing on contested licenses).

Let's look at WV.  In terms of the c3 license that would benefit T-Mobile most, it is only contested in Kanawha and Mineral counties.  78% of the 3 licenses are uncontested.

https://www.lightreading.com/5g/tepid-demand-taxation-fears-drag-at-25ghz-spectrum-auction-for-5g/d/d-id/779397?

If bids end up where expected, and licenses with only one bid are effectively done, there could be a huge disparity in license costs from high demand to low demand areas.  If the bidding ends as predicted, and it takes the FCC another month to complete additional paperwork and process payments, the T-Mobile could be adding any new spectrum to its existing sites in October/November.  Rural performance could drastically increase plus many more areas could be opened up for Home Internet as well

Been following these guys for a long time. Should have posted about them before.  Here is an interesting article about their current status: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/starry-likes-its-chances-during-these-tough-economic-times

You can get your own data here (must filter first): https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/auction108/reports/product_status

I looked at Ohio. 54% of the licenses only have 1 bidder at the end of round 3, The only counties that are not settled in any of the 3 licenses are: Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lake, Licking, Paulding, Putnam, Williams. Licking is Columbus. The rest are up north towards ichigan (Go Bucks!!) or Ontario (within 3 counties of the border). My hope is this means T-Mobile goes to at least 88Mhz contiguous band 41 in 88% of the Ohio counties.

auction 108 round 3 now added.  Link to data files does not work yet: https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php#county_details_table_overlay

6 hours ago, mdob07 said:

Still no n2 or n25 either. Really surprised on that one since they've publicly shown tests results using an S22 and n25+n41+n41. To me it kind of takes away from the validity of that test since they used some sort of custom firmware, makes you wonder what else they might have modified. Its not really a "stock" device at that point.

On many Samsung phones, the unlocked phone has far more bands available (at least with the s2 ultra and a52 5G).

44 minutes ago, red_dog007 said:

Man, what a mess.  I don't care too much to go over all that data to see what is actually available white space spectrum for any given area I am interested in.

It would be nice in areas where one carrier has it all to straighten 2.5Ghz licenses out.  I would start by getting rid of the radius licenses, then duplicate BRS licenses.  Then consolidate the legacy licenses into 50, 50, 50, 44.

Failing that, I hope the c3 and c1 could work out a lease agreement for the 6Mhz at the start of the 2.5GHz spectrum.

Still seeing n7 in neighbors. Sent diag.

Some counties without BR (BRS) licenses showing in the FCC database are Greenbrier, Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Raleigh, and Summers in West Virginia.  Some of these counties are partially covered by BR radius licenses. nothing showing on Cellmapper.net. 

West Virginia use to have a number of small WISPs.  T-Mobile 2.5 strategy here seems to be to acquire those BR and ED licenses or leases, several of which are pending.

Looking around this morning at the first round ED results.  Some surprising places did not get bids.  Most have encumbrances or Native American lands (possible requests in process).  This includes places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, Sacramento plus unsurprising places like Alaska.  I will leave it to others to drill down in the counties maps links above in the FCC tool to see what is happening.  Some may likely be wrongly priced.

I would hope that T-Mobile has placed a bid for almost every county for all three frequency areas.  Likely other bidders are speculators, WISPs, Dish and AT&T.  Verizon is possible but unlikely IMO.  I am assuming that future bids can only be placed on counties where a bidder had a bid in the prior round.

C3 is the most important ED frequency range for T-Mobile in most places given how it surrounds BRS.  If you look at Ohio, There is competition for c3 on in the following counties:

This means 72 counties are uncontested for c3.  Lets look at a typical county in detail and see what this means.  Guernsey county is located at I-70 and I-71 and has the small city of Cambridge OH.  Without C3 it has the following 2.5GHz:

(WQPV228 - Shenandoah Cable Television, LLC is listed by the FCC but is only in adjacent counties)

Assuming c3 plus internal BRS guard bands, it changes to this:

Guard band use when frequencies are controlled by same firm on both sides have been approved for a while.

More details, credit u/porkpineapple on reddit: https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php

Auction 108 first day: https://www.rcrwireless.com/20220729/spectrum/2-5-ghz-auction-raises-100-million-in-first-day

Checked Columbus permits for the last few months. Currently just a few Verizon, back to April and May is mostly Starry with a few AT&T T-Mobile and Verizon plus one Crown Castle small cell. I figure most work is now rural in our area.

Columbus n77 update:

Most of the prior sites with n77 are now not only active, but are no longer high demand only, ie your drive up to them and see n77.  New n77 sites have also been installed, thus the Verizon map is no longer grossly exaggerated, but rather is now just stretched, which the other carriers also regularly do.  For example my house is supposed to get n77.  I do not see it on the second floor, but it is now just a mile or two away.

8 hours ago, mikejeep said:

It's hard to describe.. without getting into a programming discussion, I'll just say it's more complicated than that.. sent you a PM 

If you hit a wall, remember that some of us have written millions of lines of code over time.

I would love an n7 kludge fix to reset it as n41 done as a line in settings (we have others like this)  Why? I am locking in various Samsung phones to the current release where the Samsung band selector app still works on Verizon and AT&T. Whether you do this or not, I bought a pitcher of beer for your great work. Thanks.

Huawei equipment risk explained: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-huawei-china-defense-department-communications-nuclear/index.html

New update rolling out for T-Mobile. https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-A326U/TMB/doc.html

This likely wipes out the Samsung Band Selector app, but if phone is only on T-Mobile the dialer code for this likely still works.

Unknown if it fixes NR41 SCP being reported as NR7.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/att-ramps-5g-mid-band-buildout 

s22 phone to hunt AT&T is basically now required

Here is the auction 108 mapping tool.  While it is designed to work by county, you can actually see the existing license coverage nationwide.  https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9c850f093a764fa89638e1f79bff4ec2&extent=-15411262.2446%2C412451.8577%2C-5539267.1675%2C7809110.2108%2C102100

Note: unclaimed BRS is not covered in this auction, thus a future auction will likely be required for this.

2 hours ago, RedSpark said:

It's impressive how quickly T-Mobile is integrating Sprint's network assets. Its dramatic improvement over the last time period in the Rootmetrics report reflects that.

The biggest improvement in a national level test for T-Mobile likely will be when the auction 108 in concluded and the 2.5 GHZ spectrum is awarded.  That won spectrum can almost immediately be turned on in T-Mobile's existing sites that already have band 41.

The 108 auction is scheduled to begin in 8 days.

https://rootmetrics.com/en-US/content/us-state-of-the-mobile-union-1h-2022?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=us_state_of_the_mobile_union_1h_2022&utm_campaign=blog

National ranking: AT&T, then Verizon, then T-Mobile (which is most improved with best 5g).

On 7/19/2022 at 1:08 AM, 4GHoward said:

DISH Wireless 5G Buildout Status Report..

https://files.fcc.gov/ecfs/download/ca31afd7-0ea5-4d8e-988e-9e0e3c56eb1e?orig=true&pk=cb77b2ec-1a58-dbc6-139b-ad192cfd5d9b

 

How long until the confidentiality comes off? I remember looking at the wimax site patterns, which included their unpublished sites. Hoping for the same with Dish.