JossMan

I have a suggestion.

 

What about merging this thread with the T-Mobile thread, renaming it "General Discussions of Wireless Business, Carriers, and Technology", or perhaps having a separate section on the site titled that, for all related threads and posts, which would make this section more non-wireless related and making it easier to navigate for the lighter stuff, such as trivia and games.

Bad idea, do you want the trolls to start coming out from under their computer desks? 

What would be really nice is some sort of mapping tool through the SprintZone app, detailing exactly which Sprint LTE bands are available as well as an average signal strength within a given area.   

Good.  Bring the hammer down, and let us finally get rid of unsustainable "unlimited" data.  Users will have to choose their appropriate data tiers and pay accordingly.

 

AJ

Horny Mike

Keep it up Sprint!  

Army surplus 

That's like asking which you like better: dog crap or cat crap?

311-490 is also Sprint / Clear. 

 

Sprint uses multi plm-nid broadcast for their prepaid users too and it's something in the 312 range IIRC. 

 Sprint prepaid accounts use PLMN 312530

Anyone knows when the list will be updated?

horse race

 One of the things I've seen people mention here is 800mhz optimization, which I'm wondering what that means and if that would have likely improved my experience.

Site optimizations simply refers to "fine tuning" which occurs on all three of Sprint's LTE bands not just Band 26.  Once a network is optimized you could experience a stronger LTE connection or find yourself with LTE in places where it was once absent.  

And there is evidence that network optimizations are ongoing, just look at the RootMetrics reports.  

Remember, signal to noise ratio (SNR) is just as important as signal strength.

I hope some details get spilled soon....Throw us dogs some bones please!!

Meh, I average around 900MB a month.

Military Jeep

I have mine set to LTE/CDMA, not global, but still see them. It seems to occur when the device is doing a handoff between sites or bands.

 

Sent from my Nexus 6

Well that's a bust, after I set mine device to LTE/CDMA I didn't see them for a good week and a half but...I just noticed it happened yesterday while I was working.  

My local municipal ISP just completed a 2.4/5GHz WiFi network (BVU OptiZone) for the downtown area of the city as well as all the baseball fields and city parks, quite impressed with the range and quality of the network in the downtown area.

For those of you that are seeing the "Unknown 0dBm," what network mode is your device set to (Global, CDMA/LTE, CDMA, GSM/UMTS)?  I was getting the unknown PCI when my device was set to global mode once I set it to CDMA/LTE I stopped getting the unknown PCI, this is using a LG G Flex.

Supply Depot 

Shhh! Don't tell AT&T marketing. That's how they make the nation's strongest LTE signal!

 

Using Nexus 6 on Tapatalk

And putting LTE radios at the top of towers 

Royal palace 

Is there away that showing LTE bands could be added for Sprint's prepaid offerings on signal check pro? I use Boost Mobile and,it doesnt show the LTE band. I was told to post here to request it. Thanks S4GRU

SignalCheck should be displaying Boost Mobile's LTE bands, what is the PLMN that is being displayed and are you using Lite or Pro?  

Honestly, I didnt think this would bother me but I realized that after all of this time I was conditioned to think anytime LTE had a number after it (26 or 41) I was connected to one of the 'special' bands. (special in that I really do not have many instances of 26 and 41)  So now I see LTE with 25 and it throws me off especially since on the tiny icons 25 and 26 look quite similar

Why not change the frequency band to frequency class i.e. LTE 1900 under the display settings?  

Is it only the south where the rebanding needs done?

Northern and southern borders and where any other public safety agency has not yet completed the 800 re-tune.