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The rest of the story with this deal appears here: https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/dish-strikes-1b-deal-samsung-5g-vran-handsets: "Samsung handsets in the mix Besides network gear, Dish is lining up 5G devices from Samsung as well."

Seems a little late for these type of announcements, at least for the 3 frequencies currently being used and their implimentation. Of course this may be for the next phase of using all their frequencies: "The Samsung radios will also support all of DISH's Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum bands (including n71, n29, n66, n70, n48 and n77)."

Your test showed 5:30pm, prime time. How does it differ at 4:30am or what ever time has the fewest users? (NYC never sleeps goes a very old song).

Will be good to see your AT&T 3.45GHz +n77 results.

Although US Mobile now reportedly has higher priority than Visible thus may give better speedtest results and better access to priority restricted bands such as n77 in some areas. US Mobile has been discussing multi tenancy like Visible recently thus may become more cost effective for hunters.

US Mobile offers international calling from the US and wi-fi calling from overseas with international roaming being promised iirc. Tello offers wi-if calling from anywhere as well.

I think Swiftel is a good choice given how small the numbers are. The CDMA numbers are likely people who still have LG G2s etc. Really no penalty under Sprint since they had all bands. ideal for people who barely use their phones and thus likely quite profitable. Could also be people on special government programs who T-Mobile feels are too risky to serve given audit requirements and changing policies. The big three's ecosystems are more dependent on phone sales than they want to admit. The T-Mobile $10 plan is another way to try to retain the old phone users who move to MVNOs. Not certain whether the free 5g phones will continue after Sprint network and T-Mobile 3g shutdowns roughly on July 1 . Noticed how T-Mobile gave themselves more flexibility by listing time periods rather than fixed dates.

Interesting notes: Acquired customers, net of base adjustments (1)(2) 12 — 806 — (558)(1) Customers impacted by the decommissioning of the legacy Sprint CDMA network, who did not migrate to the T-Mobile network, have been excluded from our postpaid customer base resulting in the removal of 212,000 postpaid phone customers and 349,000 postpaid other customers in the first quarter of 2022. In connection with our acquisition of companies, we included a base adjustment in the first quarter of 2022 to increase postpaid phone customers by 17,000 and reduce postpaid other customers by 14,000.(2) In the first quarter of 2021, we acquired 11,000 postpaid phone customers and 1,000 postpaid other customers through our acquisition of an affiliate. In the third quarter of 2021, we acquired 716,000 postpaid phone customers and 90,000 postpaid other customers through our acquisition of Shentel’s Wireless Assets. I assume other customers is from MVNOs (perhaps old Dish customers, since most MVNOs are prepaid, including current Dish.) Other clarifications are welcome.

I think some new motorola phones will be the first, XT2213 and XT2215 https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-tips-motorola-phones-with-special-dish-att-bands

https://www.lightreading.com/private-networks/dishs-private-5g-strategy-gets-clearer/d/d-id/777029? This is how they will use some of their other spectrum, specifically 3.5GHz

I have even found Dish sites in small towns outside out Columbus, OH. I wonder if bringing them all up as protection sites is an option? Initial service just to public beta members may also be an option until they get the system bugs shaken out.

Three NR spectrum bands being put up now: Band 71 (600MHz), Band 66 (AWS) and Band 70 (AWS-4) source: https://www.lightreading.com/the-edge/the-time-i-visited-dish-5g-cell-site/a/d-id/775576

We have a lot of sites in Columbus OH. They appear to be targeting only high density areas with large aparment buildings and the poorest parts of town.

How does this work? What about over home wi-fi? What if you switch sims to another carrier? How long is required?

Historically T-Mobile would only add bands to sites when really needed. Is that changing?

New security update on S21 Ultra factory unlocked today for April 1.

Cleaning up a rooted Moto G7 power that I really only use for signal hunting. Does SignalCheck Pro work better with Android 9 or 10?

Here in Columbus, Sprint site decommissioning has been going on for a while. Bare poles rising in some cases. Dish has been building new sites like crazy. Permits indicate many of the bare pole sites won't stay that way. The one area that I think will largely be dropped is power sites (plus small cells unless T-Mobile uses them for n77). We also have Starry.com, a mmWave WISP on many sites, done during the last year. Columbus continues to grow rapidly and Intel's new fab here should keep that going. There is still cell carrier and phone interest here, but most of that is on Google Hangouts. Occasional reports. Simply not the same without Goggle Fusion Maps. We cover all carriers now.

Hopefully T-Mobile gives Shentel land more time for conversions. But they are no longer the cuddly uncarrier, rather a large corporation. They could send in a large number of crews to work on their desired sites at the end. T-Mobile has historically done rural areas last. I would watch the markets that now cover the area. For West Virginia that appears to be Cincinnati and Pittsburgh based on T-Mobile market maps. Likely Richmond on the east side and DC. Maybe Philly etc. Less likely Columbus. I would watch Huntington, Charleston, and Roanoke iirc. I think we all would have preferred that Shentel been kept as an affiliate. Would have given them a model for large parts of the west where T-Mobile does poorly. Analogous to regional carriers for the major airlines.

Are you on an original Sprint sim or the TNX sim? I personally expect T-Mobile to accelerate the shutdown of Sprint only sites where it has no conversion plans. The number of new T-Mobile permits in Columbus this year is greatly reduced, while Dish permits have greatly increased. Pressure on Sprint users has been occuring for a year or so. Priority of Sprint plans was reduced. Video throttling in Sprint plans with no throttling. Test shutdowns of parts of the Sprint network. At some point soon I expect "free" 5g phones to disappear. Automatic conversion of Sprint to T-Mobile billing has now started according to a Reddit post. The train is leaving the station. T-Mobile is now focused on getting their synergies. Have they handled the network conversion properly? We should know by early fall, if not sooner. First up will be rural coverage with the loss of 1x800. Hopefully n71 will be enough. Hopefully there is enough capacity in urban areas. Hopefully any holdouts have an alternate carrier chosen if T-Mobile leaves them in the dust of abandoned Sprint sites. T-Mobile is trying to avoid falling on their sword like AT&T did with their 3g conversion and VoLTE allow list snafus especially with MVNOs. Business can be brutal.

I expect more issues like this until they finally kill off the Sprint network. In the fall we will finally know the true T-Mobile network holes.

Verizon maps are very inaccurate for UW in northwest Columbus OH. Might be competive pressure. Hopefully a future oriented map by like 3 months or so.

If you can easily repeat the issue, I would try for a replacement.

Perhaps in here:https://www.edn.com/3gpp-release-16-what-are-the-key-enhancements-and-new-features/ Found it interesting thecrelease 16 introduces so many new features rather than just bug fixes.

To hunt for n77 with US Mobile black sim, a Verizon MVNO, with the latest factory unlocked release, only allow for band 66 and n77 using the the Samsung Band Selector app or equivalent. if you allow n78 as well SCP and cellmapper will fail to see it. Of course you can also tell by doing speed tests, which are basically needed to trigger it. Open to suggestions on less data intensive methods.