JossMan

The Federal Trade Commission notched a win for consumers on Wednesday when it announced a $105 million "cramming" settlement with AT&T. The fine is notable for a few reasons: It's the biggest one the FTC has ever made with a major mobile carrier, and, more importantly, $80 million of it will go to refunding customers who were taken advantage of in the first place.

Note:  Above is an embedded link that will take you to the Federal Trade Commission concerning AT&T.

Makes sense, got one every .5-1 mile, and near intersections

If they are running splitters every half mile or so its very possible that someone is prepping for a FTTH (fiber to the home) deployment...

Differently fiber, the second picture you took is an optical splitter...

Wait! We went from her to him?

 

 

Haven't you heard, she got old fast...

Doesn't work on my AT&T 8X.  

 

Robert

Is the 8X running 8 or 8.1? 

I would like it for my Windows Phone.  But I assumed that Window Phone would not even begin to give you enough information to make it useful.

 

Robert

Robert I have found quite a bit of info, we just need to start paying Mike full time to develop the WP SCP app.  

No, you're actually the first to mention it I think.. many have asked for an iPhone version though. At this point, I don't think I would pursue it.. I don't have time for the Android one On top of that, I would have to learn a new environment and get my hands on some more phones. If there was a way to just port the Android version to iPhone and WP, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but this type of app has some very-specific routines that can't just be copied over to other platforms.

 

-Mike

I just purchased a Windows Phone (Lumia 1520) a few days ago to what it they were like.  After doing a little digging and tinkering I found that the ##DATA# dialer code works for the Lumia 1520 and boy are there a ton of goodies 

A little late chiming in but this is great news for the folks of Montana and for Sprint making this move into the "Big Sky Country." 

I haven't updated my SCP yet but for the last few day's I'm not getting and info from the tower on 1x for example it does not show the address or sector info any more. Works fine on LTE though.....

Do you have location services turned on?  

Mike, have you ever considered developing SignalCheck Pro for Windows Phone?  

Wow what a nice read Robert, it almost seems like it was yesterday when people where getting hyped about the Evo 4G (WiMax).  I remember finding posts on the Sprint forums that you posted where WiMax 4G has launched both confirmed markets and protection sites.  If it wasn't for you I would have never bought the Evo 4G or the Evo 3D, I had no clue that WiMax was somewhat available here in the Tri-Cities area (protection sites). 

I applaud you and the staff of S4GRU for the hard work, dedication, and professionalism that makes this site my one stop shop everything Sprint (and more). 

I think we can all pat ourselves on the back because this is one tightly knitted community that keeps S4GRU entertaining and full of information.

Thanks S4GRU Community,

Josh

Market:  Nashville

Location:  Kingsport, TN...Blountville, TN

TAC:  11279

LTE Band: 1900MHz PCS Band 25

Market:  Nashville

Location:  Bristol, VA...Bristol, TN...Abingdon, VA

TAC:  11281

LTE Band: 1900MHz PCS Band 25

I have seen first hand a cell site on fire while in the public safety sector (police- 2 years, fire service - 8 years) while with the fire department.

An incident like this there is really nothing you can do except clear the area and let the fire burn itself out, the site we responded to years ago was a co-located monopole site, the fire started on AT&T's basestation equipment which then the fire spread to the cabling and right up the site it went towards the panels.  The site here experienced structure failure and collapsed within 45mins after I pulled the electric meters to all of the cellular equipment.  It was found that the site was improperly grounded which had caused the fire...

Communications Radio

Network Upgrade

Power Vision

Did you lose wifi?

 

 

Sent from Josh's iPhone 5S using Tapatalk 2

Nope everything works top notch

Its been a few days since I installed the NDC 4.4 KitKat update, its still running solid on my GS3.  

Are you on Boost or Virgin Mobile? The reason I ask is because NDC is supposed to be the build for them not sprint. Did you accept an OTA if you are on Sprint or did you go to xda-developers and download the ROM there?

 

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My GS3 is running on VM that I use for my business line.  Performance has improved as well as battery life, it's almost like having a brand new phone again.  Also got a PRL update two days ago that has substantially improved the 1x RTT/EV-DO signal.  

Mike, I think I may have fixed the MCC-MNC that was only displaying "3100."  I will report back when I'm in an LTE service area and will let you know if I was successful or not.  

Mike, I sent you a PM regarding this, I think you will be pleased 

You sort of answered your own question without realizing it. The toast message is a bit misleading since it says the GCI is invalid, but what is really wrong is the PLMN is invalid (I'll make a note to clarify the message). The app needs both PLMN+GCI to create a site note entry. I thought the single-band S3 reported the PLMN correctly, but clearly it's not; I saw the report you sent in, it's reporting the proper MCC (310) but not MNC (0). One step forward, one step back for Samsung.. they must not test out these things before it goes out the door.

 

-Mike

Mike, I think I may have fixed the MCC-MNC that was only displaying "3100."  I will report back when I'm in an LTE service area and will let you know if I was successful or not.