dkyeager

True, given your phone supports the bands and 3g is still on local towers (Verizon has removed 3g from many sites). I don't believe VoLTE 911 is supported on other carriers.

Not to mention we currently have an estimated 20% unemployment rate. State worker compensation systems overwhelmed and unable in most cases to handle 1099 claims. A lot of gaps in the social safety net. Super fast issuance of the first CARES Act checks, but may not be until October until all are issued. A long time to wait without a job or health insurance during a pandemic. Most people live paycheck to paycheck. Any interruption could sent some over the edge. Lack of an ambulance for 30 minutes could mean death.

Cavalier attitude considering how many people are dependant on their phones, especially for emergency calls.

T-Mobile completely brought down its sites several times in Columbus last night for B71. Took about 20 minutes between 6:30 and 7pm (prime time). Not impressed. Sprint typically would wait until midnight, a far less busy time. Personally think they should give warnings like "We plan on bringing up more low band capacity tomorrow evening. Service interruptions are possible."

One thing I will miss about Sprint is them waiting until midnight to bring up new sites etc. T-Mobile completely brought down its sites several times in Columbus last night for B71, between 6:30 and 7pm (prime time). Not impressed. Sprint typically would wait until midnight, a far less busy time. Personally think they should give warnings like "We plan on bringing up more low band capacity tomorrow evening. Service interruptions are possible."

Modem frequency reporting working fine on rooted LG G2s using Android 5.x with latest SCP.

The key issue is to convert markets as quickly as possible while doing a good job. I would only deal with the outliers in terms of T-Mobile roaming on Sprint. After all, it plays against their marketing message.

As of March 31st you could go to the settings for each one of your devices on Sprint.com and just check a box to add it on your account. I have not looked since then. Let us know if you have issues by posting a new thread under general topics.

You guys seen any n41/b41 going up on T-Mobile sites yet? Or AWS 600/700 on Sprint sites? Pics if possible would be great. Stay safe.

I am on everything data 1500 along with a few others here. Reasons to stay: corporate discount, you have many lines, 200 more MB per month of roaming data, 5g access, no VPN or gaming limits, full resolution on videos, 50 GB per month hotspot, Hulu and or AAA. Post on Reddit for reasons against, mainly $$. Personally waiting for market to be converted before committing to any carrier. Will then look at new plans. Secondary rounds of layoffs will hit economy harder. 2nd wave of Covid-19 would be worse but if we can quickly ramp up testing to billions per year we should be fine and start to recover. Best wireless prices will be then.

I only update phone every few years. How has the telephoto aspect improved since the v20 days? For example, a cell site? Thanks

We have grown beyond one carrier. Try 5ggru.com or wirelessguru.com

The real question is how many of T-Mobile's older phones support Band 41. This will have relevance in the retention of some B41 LTE for the new T-Mobile configurations.

I would expect the US Cellular will do as it has done in the past: sell off underperforming markets, thus gradually fading away.

it will depend on the merger results from a customer perspective.

They will try to trade to make them more contigous for future 5g. Likely will be done as part of mmWave trades along with other bands.

They did not bid for that in Ohio because they have 800mhz of other mmWave in the metro areas plus surrounding areas. Much of it is contiguous.

I figure somewhere in the country new equipment is being installed on T-Mobile sites for the former Sprint bands. That should tell us which markets will be converted first so keep your eyes open!!

Sort of like many golf courses: fancy designer built course gets lots of publicity but soon goes bankrupt. Next owner buys at a heavily discounted price. Thinks first owners were just bad managers but fails. Third owner get golf course at huge discount and makes money.

Just wait until you have some criticals in tbe log before you call them as well. Take screen shots of criticals in log and power levels above 50db. Tell them to check logs before you reboot and offer to send them your screen shots showing the logs with critical and above 50dB upload power levels. Tell them how old your cable is. Your goal is to get them to send a tech out to your place. Good luck!!

No charge here in Ohio. I had the route carefully planned to avoid crab apple roots. Needs to be marked with special flags. They cut straight thru. I had an arborist look at it and then Spectrum paid for two years of tree fertilizing.

Yes one of my cm600s was doing that. Fixed by have cable replaced. My SNR downstream is around 39dB, upstream is about 44.5dB

Don't forget that recycling your modem likely erases useful error logs.

If your area is covered by a recommended or ordered stay at home/quarantine and/or school closures/spring break it could be overloaded by more gamers and work at home folks. Switching to Spectrum business might then be the answer. Typically you get higher priority and quicker service (not true with other business offerings such as wowway).Spectrum business rates have fallen a lot in recent times.

Spectrum could say it is the modem if you own it. (Likely not since you did not include logs which modem owners typically get.) Power levels are too high upstream generally speaking, but need the modem model to be certain. However lack of correctables points to network overload. Typically a new cable run to your house is the best solution if more than a few years old. Alternate best solution is to trim a few inches of the end af each cable. Alternatively a newer modem may sometimes solve the issue since they typically cover more of the less used frequencies.