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On 8/2/2018 at 3:01 PM, burnout8488 said:

Great news. I wonder if this will come with a subsequent final bump of B26 power levels to absolutely ensure the voice footprint is as close to 1x as it can get. 

 

The problem is generally the power from the handset back to the tower, not from the tower to the handset.

On 8/2/2018 at 5:18 PM, floorguy said:

yea i would agree.. after a week i turned it off... while "general" service around here is probably better than average. There are still to many holes, in areas where quite frankly there shouldnt.. Yesterday and today for example... I was at around 111 -114 signal strength B-41... and it wouldnt even pull up basic speed test.. Come on Really????  And I am suppose to have a business call???  Not good

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Voice calls should require less capacity than a speed test. A speed test is the most intensive thing you can do on a network, well, short of BitTorrent.

On 9/29/2017 at 10:30 PM, CrossedSignals said:

Is the doubling of the ping time coincidence or a consequence of using the Magic Box?

The ping time will approximately double because you're now going through two LTE links. LTE has a moderately high ping time.

This is even bigger news now that PR is basically destroyed and has to be rebuilt.

Do we have any updates as to what, when, where, etc.?

Why aren't there any clear cut phone winners? I'm in the market now for a new phone, but all of my options suck!

1) Strong RF.

2) CCA\RRPP bands

3) Waterproof

4) Wireless charging through a Seidio, Otter, whatever heavy duty case

5) SD card support

6) Removable battery

I think that's my wish list in order.

I'm guessing there's been no re-reversal of this?

Being one, the FCC loves supporting complacent entities.

The network hasn't changed for the better yet. In a market that is 97% complete, I have to say that I am not that all impressed. Still dropped calls and slow data speeds. Band 41 supposedly blankets my market though I am rarely connecting to it. Not to mention the fact that my phone jumps from LTE to 3G constantly killing my battery. My phone used to last all day not it only lasts 6 hours at most. I've stuck with Sprint for the past 15 years. Not sure I can stick with them much longer. Hopefully this Claure dude is action and not all talk like Sprint has always been.

If you have dropped calls at this point, I'd suspect the handset. I haven't had a dropped Sprint call in a couple years and I'm in a troubled Motorola -> Samsung market.

What frequencies are bands 4 and 12? I may already know when I read the frequencies, but what are the prior-to-LTE uses of these bands?

The CCA and RRPP are the biggest thing Sprint has going for it aside from NV2.0. Carrier aggregation and the like are peanuts compared to this.

Is that map our expected LTE coverage when implemented? Eventually? We don't have much impact on Big Red in the Dakotas, but we have similar dominating coverage in other areas where they are weak.

With the S4T, I'm not sure why we need the S3T...

why is it always negavtive for spectrum below 1GHZ

Crappy housings. Get rid of the metal housings. Give us real antennas. I'd like to see 3 dB or more out of a phone.

I was looking around in the reports, but I got lost. What are typical cell phone WiFi transmitted power and antenna gains?

NM... Found it....

https://apps.fcc.gov/eas/GetApplicationAttachment.html?id=1653623

MODULATION TYPE

CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK for DSSS

64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, BPSK for OFDM

MODULATION TECHNOLOGY DSSS, OFDM

TRANSFER RATE

802.11b:11.0/ 5.5/ 2.0/ 1.0Mbps

802.11g: 54.0/ 48.0/ 36.0/ 24.0/ 18.0/ 12.0/ 9.0/ 6.0Mbps

802.11a: 54.0/ 48.0/ 36.0/ 24.0/ 18.0/ 12.0/ 9.0/ 6.0Mbps

802.11n: up to 150.0Mbps

OPERATING FREQUENCY 2.4GHz: 2412 ~ 2462MHz

5.0GHz: 5745 ~ 5825MHz

NUMBER OF CHANNEL

2.4GHz:

11 for 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n (20MHz)

5.0GHz:

5 for 802.11a, 802.11n (20MHz)

2 for 802.11n (40MHz)

OUTPUT POWER 123.59mW for 2412 ~ 2462MHz

76.91mW for 5745 ~ 5825MHz

ANTENNA TYPE 2.4GHz: PIFA antenna with -2.94dBi gain

5.0GHz: PIFA antenna with -2.35dBi gain

I would like to report that the network issues proceed much longer than 2 weeks. People in DeKalb have been experiencing the issue since the beginning of the year and the problems have continued through this week.

I have fewer problems in my Evo 3D than other people report, but I do have issues every now and then.

I'm going to go with they either missed a tower or there are other problems because as I proceed into the suburbs, the problem lessens. I won't leave the 3D for the 4GLTE until they launch because I still use the WiMAX in some areas.