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1 hour ago, RedSpark said:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/08/dish-network-the-trump-era-fix-for-the-sprint-t-mobile-merger-heads-into-its-final-death-spiral/

What a mess.

My view is the merger followed closely by possible chapter 14 bankruptcy is planned by Ergen.  Whether it goes as he plans remains to seen. Stockholders usually get haircuts and suppliers take over. I assume the spectrum is legally hidden away, which will likely need to change.  Bankruptcy could also just be a terror tactic to get better terms (for now). Band 26 will be on the block.  White knight not possible until during or after bankruptcy proceedings.

I do agree that the way Dish wireless is being run is a dumpster fire.

Italian Riviera

1 hour ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Maybe this is a regional thing... but T-Mobile has way more B/n41 sites than Sprint ever did across Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. Including quite a bit of rural coverage that Sprint never touched.

Likely. A few of the sites appeared not to have 5g, or just had n71. Not real scientific: passenger. no site stops. Was using 4 or 5 phones on T-Mobile.  Ran into some Verizon roaming. Some deliberate, more for short distances. Some coverage better than Sorint.  Never observed Band 41 LTE or Band 26 LTE. Some phones were Band locked.

Had phones running on the duo, but was not interacting with them. 7.5 hours of driving.

7 hours ago, iansltx said:

Splitting hairs, but sat capacity is fine. Issue is sat coverage area is rather large, and there's only a 5x5 LTE channel (likely at low modulation) worth of capacity to play with. The satellites themselves have tens of gigabits of capacity, but require a proper terminal to tap into that.

Time will tell.  If popular, will they added more satellites to reduce coverage area? Will this also apply to an hurricane or earthquake damaged area?

19 hours ago, cooltech6597 said:

Don't know if this is a T-Mobile or phone issue, but if my phone uses SA and chooses n41 as the PCC, n25 or n71 don't get aggregated so it's 2ca n41 only. If the PCC is n25 or n71, it will use the full 4ca combo. Not sure what's up with that.  

I think each market or region is making many changes. With n41 SA as primary I have seen on a regular basis: n41 SA 100Mhz plus n25 SA + n71 SA + n41 SA 80Mhz.

Today about 90 minutes east I saw n41 SA 100MHz + n25 20x20 × n71 + n25 SA 5x5.  This was in an auction 108 area. Throughput 10 times greater at on point (was congested).  Also an 108 area were sites likely in process of being upgraded, but need to double check this mathematically.

I took an interstate route to an event them a divided highway/ two lane road back.  It dawned on me that T-Mobile likely has fewer band 41 sites than Sprint, especially away from interstates.  This could be a problem for Home Internet expansion. Hopefully it does well on existing rural n41 sites so they upgrade the others.

Edit: So I did the math on Jefferson County Ohio area with the Ed and Br licences.  The eastern sliver (Pittsburgh) max bandwidth is 72, northern sliver (Youngtown) max is 72 twice, north 1/3 and rest of county max is 55. New auction 108 max is 108 and 72 (could beg for the rest).  So I believe in my seeing 80 and 100 MHz, the 80 MHz was just transitory in the upgrade process. Time will tell. Will test on some future trip.

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1030712968789/1

Very rosey reports from SpaceX of satellite to phone performance stating ingredients it even worked inside. Note the testing was done at low altitudes.

Operates on band 25 g block as was noted in the past.  Number of satellites will be key, as well as how use is limited, since satellite capacity is finite.

Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/s/MrnobMcnMR

On 3/7/2024 at 12:36 PM, Dkoellerwx said:

Anywhere that has less than 80MHz on n41 doesn't allow for it to be the primary carrier on SA out here, but allows for it to CA with n25 and n71. That's why you don't see n41 on any western Nebraska or Northeast Colorado sites on Cellmapper. They're all 50+30, 40+40, 20+40, or something like that. At least they were. n41 was there, but was never the primary carrier. But still allowed to operate as 3 or 4xCA while in SA mode. Not sure if that's what you meant, but that's what I've seen on some very rural sites that appear to be using all the spectrum available at the time. 

 I am now just seeing SA in my market with either 100mhz or 80Mhz as primary, an FD SA, then the other SA b41.  Will be out again looking for auction 108 live spectrum very soon.

1 minute ago, Trip said:

I had locked my phone on n41 to make sure it would show me the two n41 carriers.  I assume it also aggregates with n25 when unlocked.

- Trip

Mine was floating around for a few weeks but now seems stable for about a week. Neither scp or cellmapper accurately report it.

50 minutes ago, Trip said:

Looks like they finally killed B41 LTE here in favor of wider n41.

https://imgur.com/a/EUa8v4V

- Trip

Interesting that you are getting SA n41(100) + SA n41(90). With 194MHz n41 total here I am now seeing SA n41(100) + SA n25 (15×15) + SA n41(80) in central Ohio. No band 41 LTE so 10MHz wasted.  At 0.5 mile my max speed at 4am was 1050/45. My site is getting slightly slower. About 10% slower with second sim turned on.

3 hours ago, PythonFanPA said:

Got another G-Play System update - 1.7 meg again and no change in the patch date after, still 1/1/24.   Experienced the same oddity a few times on the S22+ as well. 

On the same g- play date with factory unlocked ultra.

Sent in diag on s24 ultra factory unlocked. T-Mobile "n38" not allowing note.

10 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Rural Nebraska sites had 100+40 before the spectrum was allocated, I'm sure they'll put it all into n41 as they never bothered to but B41 on the expansion sites out here. 

Another possibility is to divide up NSA and SA with one getting 100MHz and the other getting 80MHz or the remainder. Some people on Reddit have reported seeing this.  I may have seen it, but did not test it well enough to comment yet.

Wonder how they will handle greater than 100Mhz in rural areas?  They could do LTE CA, but considering most of the phones are 5g this likely makes little sense.

3 hours ago, schmidtj said:

From Big Cities to Small Towns and Places In Between, T-Mobile Customers are Getting a Massive 5G Boost

Not wasting any time exploiting the Auction 108 winnings.

Now we have our timeliness which is as expected: "over the next few days, covering nearly 60 million customers".  The other 20 million customers will happen as they build out towers.

B26 is data only on two sites here in Ohio. Calls will hangup on first ring.

In Zanesville OH, With 50Mhz n41, gave me 45/30 yesterday outside the courthouse. They should now have 138.5 contiguous n41 now, which should make a significant difference.

2 minutes ago, iansltx said:

Re: 800, the band class is wrong for anything other than B26 LTE and n26 NR. Though I wouldn't be surprised if T-Mobile could throw Ericsson and Nokia enough cash to add band 26 support to their existing gear, so we *could* see B/n26 come back if there's nothing better to do with the spectrum. B26 probably makes more sense as that would allow for dropping B71 LTE everywhere with negligible coverage drops.

Iirc T-Mobile is supposed to try to sell it first. I think IOT would be a good use case. The question with trying to replace b71 LTE is how many phones can support it? 

1 hour ago, tremendousjohnson said:

If that happens, it'll be interesting to see what a bankruptcy would look like.  Who gets Dish's spectrum?  This whole deal was structured to make sure ATT, Tmobile and Verzion don't get bigger.  Grab your popcorn.....

Bankruptcy could take years. Many painful years.  Now is the time to surrender to a white knight while it can still be saved.  Dish basically seems paralyzed.  Plenty of rational ways to improve cash flow. Start with Ergen not being the CEO.

Hunting auction 108 spectrum. S24 ultra 80mhz n41 nsa but only showing as nr on scp.  sent in diags.

 Edits: Picking up 100mhz on a32 and it is showing in scp. 

S24 ultra shows 100mhz when verizon sim turned off and appears correctly in SCP. May have caught the changeover but will double check later.

Edit 2: Redditors on auction 108 hunts have reported 100Mhz as NSA, 80 MHz as SA (second channel)

22 hours ago, schmidtj said:

T-Mobile wins more 5G spectrum over AT&T's objections

So now it's official?

16 hours ago, Rickie546 said:

Looks like the licenses for T-Mobile for auction 108 have been issued!

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMarketSum.jsp?applID=14456695

7156 licenses for T-Mobile (all that T-Mobile won). They are not yet geographically searchable, thus you would need to read through each one to find those that interest you (or get lucky). Not announced yet as a release for auction 108.  For an overview plus map see: https://s4gru.com/entry/442-t-mobile-goes-deeper-wider-in-25ghz-holdings-fcc-auction-108-results-and-impact/

As for those who say T-Mobile won in the regulatory ruling earlier this week, my view differs from most.  While T-Mobile finally gets its licenses, it will not have the same impact as two years ago.  The duo is spreading c-band far and wide.  Two years ago high speed 5g and home internet would have been revolutionary. Today it is an also ran in many areas.  T-Mobile will still have impact, just not as much.  For that reason, AT&T won.  Perhaps T-Mobile can remove some of the tarnish off its uncarrier reputation with a defeating the death star commercial touting its new rural coverage with high speed internet.

I checked some counties for T-Mobile auction 108 licenses and the licenses have not been granted yet.  I expect it will take a few days or longer.

No sign yet of n77 or mmWave (T-Mobile has like 800Mhz iirc). The mmWave has a deadline coming up soon iirc.  My guess is they will put it at busy interstate intersections.

What I see in Columbus is n41 (100), n25 (15x15), n41 (80). Lte only is 66 (20x20), 71 (5x5)  2 (20x20) or 66(20x20) 2 (20x20) 66 (5x5). So 12(5x5) is reserved for voice. 26 (5×5) is available for just desperation data from one site in two counties. 41 (10) is unused.

published: Thursday, February 22, 2024 19:30 UTC