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MagicBoxes are a different animal than Air Harmony Small Cells.

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Are these shades of Sprint I am hearing from T-Mobile? Often Sprint has built its towers around here a number of miles from the nearest town. which results in lower speeds and the entire town is on one sector. I also wonder if T-Mobile is building out before backhaul, which is the usual way Sprint has handled adding bands and channels.

This confusion could be eliminatedby adding: If PCI 450 or greater then SC#2 else MM#2. The upper limit is MagicBoxes starting at PCI 488 (which matches our market sheets) as mentioned here: Hopefully 5G has more PCIs available.

So many groups have made up their minds first, find facts to back them later. In a more straightforward article would want to see the models assumptions in detail. The article quotes Dish, whose role is typically to drive up the costs of mergers. Without Dish doing that for the purchase of Clearwire, there possibly could have been billions more for Sprint network expansion or lower prices.

All small cells that we have seen in Ohio have a PCI of 450 or greater.

The bigger question is which Sprint phones will T-Mobile upgrade the firmware to make them more compatible with both networks and what will be the discount given for us to get upgraded phones to replace the other incompatible ones?

Likely are some people avoiding Sprint because of merger talk, but then some are moving from T-Mobile hoping to be grandfathered in on cheaper plans. A good opportunity to talk about network improvements and 5g.

If Sprint has Band 41 in your area (deployed or not) you could also possibly have a mutual leasing arrangement with them to make your spectrum contiguous. Compared to 15Mhz, 20Mhz would be more useful and have slightly better building penetration and be less susceptible to interference. The FCC may address contiguous 2.5 spectrum -- or they may not. Initially the thought was they tabled this issue until after the mid-term election. They may have tabled it until after a merger decision, which could be a year away based on recent mergers.

Is there Sprint service in your area? If so, you might be able to cut a deal with them to lease your EBS in exchange for free access for your students (at least the poorest). Band 41 LTE can cover large distances. WiMAX is more like Wi-Fi with each sector on a different frequency. What Band 41 do your Chromebooks support or are they WiFi only?

Sensorly 🤬 IMO abandon ship. Root metrics does it by hexagons. Cellmapper is good when you don't have local market maps. It has been having issues lately like Sensorly, but supposedly upgrading servers.

Yes, very tight spacing. Would definitely need more FCC realignment. The alternative is with CA upload in the latest flagship phones, it could be better used with (3x3) + (3x3). The problem is it no 5G support since it is so small.

Band 26 will be the last bastion of CDMA (1x800). It does have the benefit of being national in scope, which it not true for 600 Mhz or 700Mhz. Ultimately it would be good to trade it for more 700Mhz or 600Mhz. Then perhaps A.J.'s dream of redoing all 800Mhz to get more usable band sizes could be realized.

I can understand using B25 + B41 + B41 CA to improve upload speeds. I am still trying to grasp using B25 + B26 CA. The primary benefit would be for VoLTE IMO when B25 access is variable, but perhaps I am missing something. B26 is often overloaded so only in the least populated areas would it give a pure speed boost. Any other thoughts on B25 + B26 CA?

How are they using these 10MHz third carriers? iirc the other two are 20 MHz each and are CA. Is the third just for parking or does it perhaps act as overflow or load balancing?

Recommend that the moderator purge the off-topic political comments above just like any other spam. Then purge this one at the same time.

If no success, try the international desk.

How close are you to the nearest Canadian shore? With 25km requires lower power iirc. LTE 800 typically opens up like an umbrella - very short distance/small coverage area first, with full extend not reached for several months. B26 3x3 and 5x5 both work this way. Typically 1x800 is done first, so you could check the distance for it to see the maximum boundary if limited for some reason. Of course 1x800 normally far exceeds LTE 800.

These are registered to an account. If the account goes away it it likely that the Magic Box or Airave service will also disappear. They are likely just trying to recover the fee Sprint has or will assess them which I think may be $150.

Here are the current T-Mobile FCC Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service (UU) licenses, commonly referred to by the trade press as millimeter-wave or 28 Ghz or 39 GHz: (source: FCC) We don't know what T-Mobile may have won in the 28 GHz auction, which will be release with the upcoming 24 GHz auction results. AT&T and Verizon have tied up most of the 39 GHz spectrum, which is extremely fragmented between them in the few areas I have checked. The 39 GHz auction for the remaining spectrum and locations is to occur after the auctions mentioned above.

Thanks, corrected. mm could also have been millimeter-wave. The FCC has other terminology mentioned next.

If you are using VoLTE, you will want to use the MB Gen3 as production. I encourage you to use the other MB at another location: work, charity, library, bar, or restaurant, etc.

Thanks for the number. They were mentioned. Small cells are so macro dependent. Gap coverage may no longer be valid. RF shadow coverage primarily aimed for indoors would more likely remain. T-Mobile may want to preserve the spectrum or increase their capacity by going fiber backhaul. Some or all could also be used for 28Ghz 5g. Tribanding the former Clear sites would definitely help to improve indoor urban VoLTE, but we have only seen one done and are running out of time.

We know the average age of a phone is approaching three years, but that likely has a long tail. The first phones with VoLTE mentioned in their FCC certification was about three years ago, therefore at least half of the Sprint phones in use are CDMA only. The FCC hopefully requires that T-Mobile either upgrade the smartphones firmware or provide a discount for the less popular VoLTE capable or CDMA only models (required by FCC in Shentel-nTelos merger, done by T-Mobile in Metro PCS merger). Sprint's current VoLTE efforts amount to little more than a box checked to say they have VoLTE. The minuscule number of VoLTE phones say Sprint is really still a CDMA carrier in terms of voice calls. They likely realized it would be too much pain for too little gain for them at this point. Call performance typically has dipped with the introduction of VoLTE until the network is density is increased, which Sprint last did with the introduction of WiMAX outside of short range lower powered small cells. Getting VoLTE to cover the range of 1x800 (B26 covers only the range of 1x1900) would be expensive. Hopefully the FCC requires T-Mobile to cover this like the Shental-nTelos merger which required all CDMA areas to be covered by LTE.

Could it have been through a VPN you use or with an old website when IPs did not always fit the country range? If you have a sim card on another carrier or an unsmashed old phone that could have been compromised as the first step in this hack along with any associated accounts. Check any related accounts in order of unsecured money: bitcoin etc, brokerage, credit cards, bank accounts, other credit. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6294825?hl=en