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3 hours ago, jonnycando said:

Sprint and tmo closely overlap everywhere i go here lately so if i run out of sprint there isn’t any tmo either....so if I can’t have a home signal  I’ll be just as likely roaming on USCelluar or on some mysterious extended network 

oh and i found out that the

field test menu is borked in this beta... it loads but displays nothing...oh well it’s early for ios 14, not even warm let alone fully baked 

Bleeding edge

7 hours ago, jonnycando said:

Oh yes forget about that did I 🤪

So are you now on T-Mobile all of the time or perhaps roaming on T-Mobile when Sprint Shentel signal is weak?

11 hours ago, crazy_vag said:

It's only 8% that missed last payment, unless we have June data already:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/success/mortgage-payment-delinquencies-in-may-coronavirus/index.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/30percent-of-americans-missed-their-housing-payments-in-june.html?&qsearchterm=house payment

3 hours ago, crazy_vag said:

Why?  How is B41 more reliable than home Wi-Fi?   Or is that a "matter of principle"?

Band 41 through a Magic Box is faster for a lot of customers.  They may not have an ISP or a good ISP.  By my definition, bad ISPs don't offer true speeds greater than 200Mbps down, are unreliable, ban or slow down certain sites and ports without telling customers, have no option to get rid of a data cap.  AT&T for example offers 1Gbps in new condos and upscale homes, but leaves out neighborhoods with buried cable and even most neighborhoods with above ground cable (they had plans which they dropped).  So many people's choice on internet is dial-up at 53kbps, ISDN dialup at 128kbps, ADSL at 3Mbps, VDSL with at most 75Mbps, rarely WISP, satellite has caps and can't do Zoom etc because of lag.  (Most of these should be good markets for SpaceX etc.)

Then you also have budget reasons.  30% of American homes skipped their house payment this month.  Why pay for internet twice?  Many homes only internet devices are smartphones and tablets with LTE.

Cash flow wise Dish may have gotten Boost for nothing.  https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/dish-to-raise-1b-for-general-corporate-purposes  Boost was the most profitable part of Sprint according to the anti-trust judge.

Only certain plans are eligible. Other than paying activation fee and monthly taxes, there seems to be no catch.  ED1500 does nit seem to be eligible.

17 hours ago, ingenium said:

If it's showing a true B25 neighbor and not bad data, then it's because the T-Mobile network is asking the phone to scan that earfcn and report the PCIs, earfcn, and signal strength back. So it would suggest that T-Mobile is planning to start using it at some point.

If you look at signaling messages in NSG, you can watch it happen every second or two. It's how the network does handoffs basically.

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Not gifted yet to be able to access those details

https://www.thetechie.de/2020/06/t-mobile-initiates-4-billion-bond-sale.html?m=1

The layoffs make sense to lower the bond costs.

5 hours ago, dewbertdc said:

I’ve seen a few Band 25 neighbor cells registering on my T-Mobile iPhone, but I can’t tell if that’s just MFBI on Band 2 or something else. Is there an easy way to tell?

4 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

I think it is MFBI.

I have a Sprint phone and 3 Tello (Sprint) as well. Definitely from two nearby Sprint sites base on known PCIs plus earfcn. Locking onto b25 on my T-Mobile network phone gets nothing. 

Edit:  My T-Mobile normal is b71 from 1 of 3 nearby sites. A fourth T-Mobile site is getting b71 but not public yet. All of the T-Mobile sites are Sprint Co-Sites.  Inside that perimeter lies 4 Sprint Sites. These two b25 neighbors are the center most.

18 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

I have also noticed that they have not done anything with band 2/25. It is a problem that they have to solve pretty soon. But for T-mobile/Sprint colocated sites, if they're going to visit sites for adding NR41 panels and RRHs they might as well move the Sprint equipment over. What I am afraid they will run into is incompatibilities between enodeBs and RRHs from different vendors. So they probably have to add additional band 2/25 RRHs that are compatible to whatever enodeB T-Mobile is using. They can add Sprint band 25 spectrum to T-Mobile's 2/25 up to 20Mhz per RRH due to power limitations. Then they have to add another RRH for whatever spectrum is is left. This is going to be one giant mess and will take money and time. They will have to prioritize what will get done first. They have elected to prioritize adding NR 41 to all T-mobile sites and probably the Sprint sites they're going to keep.

I have been seeing band 25 from a local Sprint site on my T-Mobile MVNO phone occasionally for the last few weeks in the same way as I do band 71 sites before they become public.

7 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

Still going to take them 2 years. Capex is not going to kill them if all they're doing is adding band 41 to 65,000 sites, what's going to kill them is adding 10-15000 new sites and rebuilding Sprint sites as T-mobile sites.

With the Fed basically throwing money at public firms perhaps this needs to be all rethought.  I wonder what percentage of T-Mobile customers are currently being carried due to Covid-19?  If this level is relatively small, perhaps they should be borrowing lots at this time to speed up the process significantly.  However they should not become error prone.  properly done, they have a very good window of opportunity.

4 minutes ago, jreuschl said:

I've done a few profile updates over the last few weeks and I'm still on Sprint, at least in the Milwaukee area.  I'm concerned about what service I will get with my S10 because while Sprint isn't great here, T-Mobile is even worse, and B71 is only deployed in a few areas.

They seem to be putting their eggs all in the 5G basket, not caring about keeping any of B41 for LTE.  DSS can allow this, but all they've said it is buggy.

In most metro areas there is enough for both. Getting Magic Boxes off b41 to wifi will given them 20Mhz.  In small city areas with 55MHz effectively then are activating 15Mhz LTE. Hard to determine if that is to leave 20Mhz for 5g or not.

2 minutes ago, jreuschl said:

Is T-Mobile making all of B71 5G also or can that be used for LTE?

The spectrum is split between 4g and g5 LTE.

On 6/18/2020 at 9:36 AM, bigsnake49 said:

Why has it taken T-Mobile so long to implement something like Google Fi that selects the best network/band among T-Mobile, Sprint and USCC? I mean they only had 2 years?

Because they plan to dump most Sprint sites (most of which are co-sites). They need to get to being one network, one accounting system etc as soon as possible since those areas are where the synergy is.  Failing to do so quickly will crush their capex, since it is paid for from profits rather than a sugar daddy or smoke and mirrors. You want everyone focused on achieving a few simple objectives.

34 minutes ago, IrwinshereAgain said:

Apparently, ATT is going to layoff 3400 workers also.  At least according to the CWA in Akron Ohio.

https://www.businessinsider.com/att-layoffs-thousands-jobs-cut-covid-19-june-2020-6

https://www.channelpartnersonline.com/2020/06/16/cwa-says-att-job-cuts-to-impact-thousands-nationally/

There may be far more layoffs.  The Fed expects the economy to take several years to recover.  The scale of the layoffs depends on possible additional funding from Congress.  Workers no longer in under supply so firms will do as they must or as they wish.

5 hours ago, red_dog007 said:

It'll be interesting to see the net jobs of TMobile over the coming years. In 3/4 years time will it be a net increase or decrease.

One thing I've been curious about is these job promises. I highly doubt it requires a net increase. So if you promise 10,000 jobs, layoff 15,000 and over the next few years you hire 10,000 people back, you fulfilled your promise even at a net decrease of 5k people. It's a similar situation at whatever states were promised.  You just move people around or layoff and rehire to hit your 1000 new employee goals for that state.

Assuming network build success, T-Mobile will need lots of stores in small towns/rural areas to match the duo. Building up will take longer. Eventually they will thin out their network support ranks once they reach a unified single network.

43 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

Yes I have force 5G by selecting b66 nad N71

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Let us know if you pickup n41. Thanks

2 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

Yep it add the camera fix and FINALLY adds 5G on tmobile!!! Unlocked S20 Ultra!!

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Does the band selection work? (n71 will still need an anchor band of course).

Can you get n41?

Thanks

2 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

You could end up with an empty 5G network and a overcrowded 4G network and then you will have to subsidize your customers moving to  5G handsets. You better be able to share your M-MIMO between LTE and NR either through EN-DC or through DSS or you will have a lot of unhappy Sprint customers. You also better integrate band 2/25 quickly.

Don't disagree, but not required by the FCC.

On 6/12/2020 at 11:31 AM, bigsnake49 said:

I will keep repeating myself, I hope they prioritize the integration of the LTE network over the deployment of 5G. There are not a lot of S20 customers right now and probably close to 120M of LTE customers. Give your current customers a reason to stay by optimizing access to both networks for customers.

5G is the focus because it is really the only item that is required by the FCC for the merger. We could say the speed targets are related to density, but could also be achieved by reducing the number of customers. Doubt the later is their plan, but if T-Mobile/Sprint becomes the next Sprint/Nextel merger...

7 hours ago, iansltx said:

Yeah, at my place B41 beats T-Mobile speed-wise, and forcing my phone to B26 allows it to maintain signal better ~3/4 mi west of here. It's not that B66/B2 are *bad* per se, but they aren't anything to write home about here.

What's funny is, as the top-tier Sprint customers get new phones, or get the SOC enabled, Sprint's network will just get faster, so until we get n41 there'll be more and more incentive to stay on legacy Sprint LTE.

B26 will definitely get better. B41 spectrum will likely be shrunk by moving to n41 once they get rolling on more site work. B25 is likely most vulnerable to spectrum being moved to T-Mobile b2 or n2 or n25 (which has more bandwidth per carrier).

FCC put in almost no Sprint customer oriented network restrictions into the merger so we either accept or move to another carrier. Even that is being rushed by pushing people over before sites have been converted thus limiting customer rational judgement.  Accept or pick new carrier since T-Mobile can do what it wants.

1 hour ago, dewbertdc said:

Probably only folks who have a VoLTE capable handset with all of the T-Mobile bands, perhaps whose primary usage is in an area where there’s extra capacity on the T-Mobile network. 
 

There’s a method to their madness to minimize any negative experiences for existing T-Mobile customers and folks who are being migrated from Sprint, it’s probably just not obvious to those of us who don’t have inside knowledge. 

I hope they have started to use their data for this. Plenty of Samsung S20 users had netter Sprint service and non-existent T-Mobile service in some cases.

8 hours ago, davidtm said:

Pixel 3a on Sprint here . . .

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Likely Samsung S20s in areas covered by T-Mobile towers.

5 hours ago, S4GRU said:

That negotiation was in good faith and agreed.  To fish for a better deal after the fact is just so ridiculous.  Does he have no honor?  He probably feels he has Tmo in the corner since they have to sell as part of the settlement.  But this could blow right up in his face.

Robert

Some people negotiate before the deal, others after.  Trump has historically used a similar model to Ergen.  The Fed has been pumping money into their system so most large firms can get financing even if in trouble, so that should not be an issue.  FCC historically has been weak on enforcement thus leaving the Department of Justice.  It is a political year. What plays best for Trump at this point? What if Biden wins? Most of us would not play this game.  I don't think T-Mobile wants to either.  Perhaps T-Mobile will spin off Boost, or at least dust off the other suitors.  

7 hours ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

Since the T-Mobile version already supports B25/B26/B41 as well as the usual T-Mobile bands including 5G, I imagine they didn't need to resubmit to the FCC. It wouldn't surprise me if they don't even switch out the boot screen.

The key item would be dialer codes or a hidden menu to allow band selection.