JossMan

Ok so I signed up for service through Boost Infinite, I ended up getting the Motorola Razr got it today.  They sent the rainbow SIM 2.0 card.  Activation was a breeze, connected to Dish's native network (n70 and n71), took the phone out and... IMPRESSED with their network!  Getting 200 to 300Mbps over n70 and around 50 to 60 on n71 no coverage drops!  Gosh I hope Dish can get it together, VoNR was crystal clear as well.  Paying $25.00 a month for the Infinite plan and $10.00 for the Moto Razr.  Amazing deal... will do more testing this evening when I get more time.  But so far from what I'm seeing Dish needs to stay in the fight. Just rebrand off of damn Boost and call it Dish Wireless... 

On 6/1/2024 at 1:56 PM, iansltx said:

Boost Infinite with a rainbow SIM (you can get it SIM-only) is the cheapest way, at $25/mo, to my knowledge; the cheaper Boost Mobile plans don't run on Dish native. Check Phonescoop for n70 support on a given phone; the Moto G 5G from last year may be the cheapest unlocked phone with n70 though data speeds aren't as good as something with an X70 or better modem.

I tried going into a Boost Mobile store and they wouldn't sell me a rainbow SIM card, said that it would be dead as soon as I put it in the Moto Edge 2023... which I know is bs... 

19 hours ago, iansltx said:

Boost Infinite with a rainbow SIM (you can get it SIM-only) is the cheapest way, at $25/mo, to my knowledge; the cheaper Boost Mobile plans don't run on Dish native. Check Phonescoop for n70 support on a given phone; the Moto G 5G from last year may be the cheapest unlocked phone with n70 though data speeds aren't as good as something with an X70 or better modem.

Your referring to the $25.00 a month Infinite Unlimited plan?  I don't see any other plans on there even cheaper than that on their website.  I was looking at the Motorola 2023 Edge fwiw as well for $10.00 a month. 

What is the cheapest way to try Dish's wireless network?  Over the past year I've seen them add their equipment to just about every cell site here, I'm assuming just go through Boost's website?  What phones are Dish native?  

8 hours ago, mdob07 said:

Not sure on DSS since they haven't widened to 10x10 here yet. We'll see how long that takes, hopefully not another 3 months. I hope they enable SA on n5 soon, I get really good signal on n5 in my house but keep dropping to just b12 because the anchor signal is too weak.

I haven't been around in quite a while but what is needed for 5G DSS, is a tower climb necessary? 

On 3/24/2021 at 6:03 PM, Dkoellerwx said:

Ah, then you're probably looking at B12/71 on the larger one, with B2/66 on the other. Should be able to tell better when work is done, if you can get a closer picture. 

Will do I drove by the other day and there is actually 4 antennas per sector, ill snap new photos once they are done.

17 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

The shorter antenna is B/N41, so that's a good upgrade. Not sure what the other antenna is. Doesn't look like their standard B/N71 +B2/12/66 antenna. May just be B2/66 (or 12). Not entirely sure. Are there more than two antennas per sector?

Yea there are three per sector 

Noticed a crew here in the middle of town yesterday that completely ripped and replaced this entire site that was GMO 1900MHz LTE only, I don't keep up with T-Mobile's gear but they were putting up this brand new configuration today.  

20 hours ago, Destroyallcubes said:

By the way if yall need anything let me know I can try my best to answer questions,  and site questions (Have internal access to site maps,  and what's deployed on sites to a general degree)

Nice, I'll PM you have a question about a cell site.

On 6/5/2020 at 6:30 PM, Brad The Beast said:

Got some pictures

https://imgur.com/a/KpA4fZc

It's definitely for AT&T since the empty boxes were inside their fence.

Was AT&T previously on this site?  This almost looks like a new build

On 8/14/2020 at 6:47 PM, schmidtj said:

I moved to TMobile two weeks ago. Service has been exemplary at my home. Cell one block away -95db signal usually 3 to 4 iPhone bars. Today I noticed the signal was much weaker. -110db 2 iPhone bars. I don’t see any crews at the cell site so I’m wondering if this is a temporary outage or did the cell get shut down. Is there any way to determine this? What’s weird also the cell I’m connecting to now is a mile away (versus a city block) and my Apple Watch still gets two dots signal strength. Does this sound reasonable for a 30 foot cell that far away which is LTE band 2 and 66 capable. With the exception of the watch I’ve been using cellmapper.net to determine the cells I’m using based on PCI numbers. 

Either the site is down for upgrades, or your connecting to a cell site that has had recent capacity upgrades and your phone is preferring it over the closer site.  Band 2 1900MHz is T-Mobile's primary LTE band with B66 AWS 1700/2100MHz as an extra capacity layer,  you could have been connecting originally to the closer site that potentially had 700MHz LTE.  Best way to look at PCI's and frequency band indicators is going into your iPhone's dialer and typing *3001#12345#* and go to the LTE section and start tracking the PCI's near you.  T-Mobile might be a challenge because their PCI's all over the place (at least here they are). 

4 hours ago, dro1984 said:

I'm shocked that there is no faith in T-Mobile's ability to manage and farm their network almost like they don't have network engineers??   Sprint was by no means great with fixing or tuning their network (except the last 8 months of their existence).   

If the network does get really bad, then it's time to move to a different carrier.     I am staying only because of my Sprint plan that for $60 gives me pretty high priority and allows 1080p streaming on LTE.         But if the service gets so nasty then I will move on.    I'm thinking of AT&T because I hear they are really boosting and densifying their network.    Consumers Cellular for $30 or $40 sounds fine to me with an AT&T sim card.       I did call them and they can prioritize which network you favor with their sim (AT&T or T-Mobile)

I ended up bailing with 3 lines to AT&T, I can attest that AT&T has been busy adding capacity to its network.  When I left AT&T back in 2016 only LTE band was 700MHz and a couple sites had 1900MHz for capacity.  Since I've came back to AT&T every site here has B2 1900MHz, B66 AWS, and some B30 WCS sprinkled in along with FirstNet B14.  I get speeds well over 100Mbps pretty much everywhere I go, and I'm not use to that lol 

18 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

While I appreciate T-Mobile's urgency with respect to 5G. I hope they understand that the rest of us are still on LTE and they need to take care of us or we can always bolt. Just a reminder...maybe allow us Sprint LTE customers to quickly register on the T-mobile network using e-SIMs.

TMobile's LTE network is in no shape to take on an influx of Sprint customers right now.  The couple times I have forced my Galaxy S10 onto T-Mobile's network while the signal was strong there was a lot of congestion.  B2 was terrible and saw speeds less than 2Mbps and B12 was sorta better usually hummed around 10 to 15Mbps.  I quickly jumped back over to Sprint's network and tend to stay on it as long as possible until I am forced over and if things are not better by then I will bolt to AT&T.  

1 minute ago, ingenium said:

I have this issue as well (just shows 1x in my case), but it populates once I turn off wifi. I see you're on wifi in your screenshot. Does it work when you turn it off?

Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk
 

Hmm odd, yes I turned off WiFi and it populated instantly...

Mike how have you been?  Its been awhile!  Anyway one of the last updates has borked SCP, I do not get any LTE info and it takes a few trys of reopening the app to get it to work.  Background services and location are all enabled as I haven't messed with any settings, is this a known issue?

4 minutes ago, Grabber5.0 said:

 

I've always been afraid to change these settings on my phones. Are there any risk of disabling these and not being able to re-enable them later?

No risk, when your done just update your data profile and it will restore the settings. 

Pretty sure Legere mentioned this a while back, 2500MHz would be used for LTE and 5G NR. 

9 minutes ago, though said:

What's the dial code for the Note 10?

##DATA# passcode 000000 go to LTE disable bands 25, 25, and 41 and restart your phone.  You should come back to riding on T-Mobile's network.  You'll have to re-enable all Sprint's LTE bands or just do a data profile update to get back on Sprint's network.  I put my phone back on Sprint's network as T-Mobile still has the data speeds capped to 5Mbps here. 

For those of you with Galaxy S10's ##DATA# passcode 000000 --> LTE --> and disable LTE bands 25, 26, and 41 and you will connect to Tmobiles network.  I have been hanging out on it all day connected to B2, B12, B66, and even found 600MHz out in the wild.  I must say locating Tmobile sites is difficult PCIs are all over the place and not sure how their GCIs correlate to each sector.  Their network is dense AF here which makes it harder to pinpoint their sites.

Also speeds are still capped to 5mbps but found some neat configurations such as B2+B12 15+5MHz CA 

Meh looks like I will be hanging on to my S10 for a while longer, no 5G here and that 120hz display is sorta disappointing due to its only capable at 1080p, smart money will be grabbing the S10 once the S20 drops.  I will wait for a price drop or when they offer a better deal later on in the year  

1 minute ago, IrwinshereAgain said:

Wouldn't the New TMobile be a stronger competitor to the big 2, then the separate companies? 

Simple economics here; 3 carriers all happy with their subscriber base, or four carriers two bigger and two smaller that can compete enough to pull subs from the bigger two.  For the last 8 years I've heard Sprint wont be around in the next two to three years yet here we are.  Sprint would need to completely do a 180 with their board with an energetic CEO.  Legere was successful because he appealed to millennials Sprint needs a Legere plain and simple.

This merger is dead IMO, Son penny pinched just to get what he ultimately wanted.  Sons statement on paying back on bonds is the nail in the coffin.  30% chance this merger is approved 

7 hours ago, red_dog007 said:

If Sprint was on the verge of collapse, like a few weeks from filing for bankruptcy, this case would be a done deal. 

TMobile and Sprint would merge.  They could pitch and absolutely sell that. If a judge believes the numbers, no judge will allow Sprint to just fall off.  

If anything, I think the best thing for Sprint if this doesn't go through is to go private. 

Sprint can't afford to go private, they can't afford to buy back shares from stockholders, going private won't happen.  Either the merger will pass (60/40 chance at this point), if not Son will find a buyer for Sprint and take a loss (hello WeWork) and as a trader the way Sprint's shares are trading its almost as if market makers are already pricing in a merger failure.  Sprint would have to do some serious trimming off its balance sheet, sale portions of its network and subs, or even file Chapter 11.  I don't really see Sprint filing bankruptcy I've seen companies with worse earnings and survive.  Son just wants out of the U.S. wireless market and merging with T-Mobile is the fastest way to do so all while pitching this "5G for all" bs <--- I don't even have faith in T-Mobile post merger if it happens.  Sprint needs someone with deep pockets like Altice or another large cable company (and most certainly not Dish). 

11 hours ago, mmark27 said:

But if you go into EDIT mode there instead of view, then the radio button for Enabled is already green, so 🤷‍♂️ It seems to be working on mine. Probably just a display bug.

Yea, VoLTE still works on mine