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Mike, the status bar LTE signal indicator becomes stale and will not update for some reason when on B25.

I haven't paid attention before the beta update but is the ASU measurement broken now on Samsung devices?  The reason I am asking is that my S8 is only showing (99 asu).

So Sprint Zone is still on my S8 has Sprint Zone auto updated to My Sprint for any of you?  I downloaded My Sprint app but Sprint Zone is still there kind of dumb having two apps that do the same thing.

Mike, anyway you could take off the band class when the frequency class is enabled in the notification shade?

Mike, anyway you could take off the "MiniMac?" Or just make it optional, not digging the screen clutter.

Are the mini-macro B41 gear not as good as the 8t8r stuff in terms of coverage?  Powerout and such?  Can the mini's do beamforming even?

 

Just curious cause the part of town that has mini B41, going inside a store (walmart or food city) drops to B25, yet where the 8t8r sites are at, I still get B41 inside stores (lowes, walmart, hhgregg, etc) all located in different areas around the tower.

 

Maybe the mini's aren't at full power yet?  They seem to have decent coverage outside.

NSN mini macs are 2T2R, comparable performance to Clear B41 sites. In my experience with the mini macs they really shine when a cluster of them are in operation.

How about eHRPD?

eHRPD is pretty much EV-DO, the call would still drop going from LTE to eHRPD.  

Well, here is something I may leave T-Mobile for..............

Arysyn sorry but after the first five sentences all I see is blah, blah,blah....shorten your posts others will thank you.

I think there ought to be more incentives to do so. One of them in my opinion, is to merge the device installments of ownership with leasing. Such as having a 12-month lease period, with leasing of $5 per month for every $100 MSRP, $#49 to $#99 costs rounded up, under $#49 being used as a downpayment, then at the end of the term, either trade-in and continue to pay it off til full MSRP payment has been met.

 

 

What's the difference in CSFB and SRLTE?

No B41 in your area?

 

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Yep it's working now actually getting 2.5 inside the house. Restarted the phone and all is good now.

So I pulled the trigger and turned in my S7 for the S8, love the phone but one thing that is irking me is this phone loves B26. At my house my S7 would stay parked on 1900 inside (-96 to -100) the S8 camps out on 800.

Unique gci & pci.

 

GCI starts 0E and PCI is in the high 400s and 500s range

 

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Gotcha, does it just use one PCI?  

Tim, do these magic boxes use a unique GCI and PCI or do they share the same GCI/PCI from the cell site that it connects to? 

Network vision was the complete rip and replace of the old legacy network with modern enbs. They never promised nor planned lte on every site though they're doing that now with management back indoors and 3G only sites bumped to 1st priority.

 

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Is Ericsson completely out now, or has some of the Ericsson employees been shifted to Sprint's network management? 

Sounds like Network Vision all over again.

 

After all these years, the initial LTE overlay is STILL not done. If that isn't alarming, I don't know what is...

 

I appreciate the enthusiasm though.

 

 

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You make it sound as if Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile do not run into planning, permitting, or engineering issues.  The majority of Sprint's cell sites have LTE its just a handful that do not.  Up until about two years ago Verizon and AT&T had a couple of sites here that were only 1X/3G EV-DO and HSPA respectively.  They will all get done...Soon^TM   

@JonnygATL

 

Your entire post is a mess.

 

Yeah, Sprint should totally stay put and not expand. [emoji23]

 

 

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Fabian Cortez is that you?

Are they though? Without the proper investment, they've been playing catch-up to everyone, even T-Mobile.

 

Sprint just started deploying small cells in NYC. VZW? They've been at it for two years and have already committed to deploying more.

 

Now they're deploying small cells in suburbs and other less populous communities; places where Sprint won't get around to improving for a few years because they need to work on their urban network first.

 

IMO, this is Sprint's biggest weakness, suburbs near major cities. Once you get out of Boston proper, Sprint's network starts to thin-out rapidly. Verizon already has small cells and oDAS systems to solve this problem (Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Newton, etc)

Sprint not improving their network in smaller communities is not true.  I live in small town with a population less than 45,000, all four major carriers are located here and almost on a regular basis I see tower crews doing upgrades for Sprint and Verizon.  

Verizon has been busy adding AWS and even erected a few new monopole cell sites, Sprint has been busy adding Band 41 2500MHz (NSN mini macs and 8T8R) to all their existing 800/1900MHz sites, cell site optimization, replacing 1900 RRUs, and even adding 4x MIMO PCS upgrades here.  

I know right!

 

I wonder why they are only deploying that is pretty limited considering the available technology.  I guess once they go with Config 1 it'll provide up to +200Mbps. This gear is like NEW NEW, had just a single carrier online and I was able to pull 60Mbps off it.  So having 200Mbps capacity should last a while. 

 

Just they have more than just 40MHz worth of 2.5GHz spectrum and this stuff isn't even 4T4R.  When all the other carriers have 3~5 antennas per sector, Sprint goes "cheap" on their second antenna.

 

But hey, if deploying these small units allows them to deploy to 2 or 3 additional towers at the same cost as something like the 8T8R gear, I'm all for it.

NSN just completed a cluster of four mini mac installs here in my town within a week.  All four sites went live within two days after the install and B41 coverage is blanketed in my town town with a few cell sites having 8T8R.  My download speeds went from 5-14Mbps on 800/1900MHz to 75-110Mbps when outside.  Very impressed with what these NSN mini macs can do as far as coverage, I don't see 800MHz or 1900MHz anymore when I am outdoors.  My phone hands off from 2.5 to 2.5 without it dropping down to 1.9 or 800 when traveling around town.  Very impressed! 

Still waiting for a call from Sprint, anyone else still waiting or got a call and got turned down?

As much I hate to say it, I think John Legere would win in a race against Marcelo.

Sorry but Legere comes across as a two packs a day smoker. 

Yes. It is interesting to see that AT&T LTE was preferred over 3G though…very interesting indeed…

I was quite shocked because 3G EVDO is strong where I was but my phone decided to hop on over to AT&T's B2. 

Does AT&T and Sprint have an agreement for LTE? Was in an area where Sprint hasn't upgraded the last cell site that lacks LTE and noticed my phone connected to AT&T B2 in the Bristol downtown area.