DerekKY1980

When you say 2G for sprint technology are you in fact referring to the technologies labeled 1XRTT and 1XRTT advanced? Sprint does not have any 2G sites still in existence. This is a common mistake and an easy aggrevator for the one named AJ.

well I guess so I just went by an app called CellMaps   my area is really bad on Sprint  my signals  fluctuates between 1 and 3 bars up and down at my address   go east  a bit  and  it's worse

A CDMA monopoly isn't really possible because of the large number of CDMA operators in the country. There are still super-regional operators that offer CDMA service. Also, in the marketplace, CDMA is considered a technology of limited scale. The disappearance of CDMA would not be nearly as problematic, since there are no markets outside of the United States where CDMA is the dominant technology (or even used anywhere near how much GSM/UMTS is). Verizon Wireless, for example, is planning on exiting the CDMA ecosystem within the next 8 months. Remember a monopoly is only such if it is deemed valuable. The CDMA ecosystem has been losing value over the last five years, and continues to do so.

I guess that makes sense.  And you are right Verizon said they would get rid of it by 2021    If this does go threw  I really hope they switch off CDMA and go direct to HSPA+   cause  here in KY  it seems  T-Mo  has more 2G coverage than Sprint     and  if it goes ALL  HSPA+   then  might make better coverage between the 2  for all of Kentucky    according to a map I've seen  T-Mo covers about 80% of Kentucky with 2G  where as sprint covers about 20-30% with 2G (just guessing here not actual facts lol)

I have a question...  someone mentioned that  the AT&T/T-Mo  merger failed because it would make a GSM Monopoly    if   Sprint/T-Mo   merge   wouldn't it be the same?  I mean they would have to either  go CDMA or GSM     if they go CDMA  then wouldn't AT&T have the GSM monopoly after all and if they go GSM  then wouldn't Verizon  have a CDMA  Monopoly?

With that being said  I think the Merge would be a great Idea IF they bring somebody from T-Mobile to help them convert CDMA to HSPA+ like T-Mo is doing (or going to do) with Metro   with NV  800/1900/2500 LTE along with  w/e T-Mobiles is  would be pretty fast  I would think especially if they get the 700Mhz from Verizon. I do know they would have to sell some of T-Mobiles Spectrum but  even so  the  700/800/1900/2500   would  work nicely.

Some areas didn't have enough sites and it created small islands of voice networks. Other areas were covered enough but they blocked them anyways. It's an Ericsson thing you'll never understand.

created small islands?    not sure what ya mean    like they had alot of  networks instead of 1 whole network?  as for the not enough sites  I do know what ya mean by that  my WHOLE county only has 4 towers on Sprint

And really tricky.. Downright impossible to connect to 1x800 in most Ericsson markets since they have them all blocked.

Why do they have them blocked  if they are adding to them?  just wondering

btw  tgrgrd00   as far as I know I am 1.35 miles from the tower on Sam Jones LN  off Oak Hill Rd.

LOL I just saw that myself  right before I saw that u replied   like I said in the 1st post I signed up awhile back and at the time was on Verizon I switched to Sprint on Oct 31st/Nov 1st cause I got tired of paying $80 for 500MB when I could pay the same price to Sprint for unlimited and have the iPhone 5c now tbh I don't like it lol

Ya I called Sprint about this  and  the guy said the tower hasn't been upgraded to 800Mhz for LTE  but  800Mhz for voice. has however  coverage has not improved so i'm just wondering if they are on crack LOL or just don't know what they are talking about

Hi  I am kind of new here signed up awhile back but never posted  but I have a question regarding the engineering screen

As you can see in my img...  

I am connected to Band 25 (1900?) Sprint said that  800Mhz LTE  was turned on   on a tower on Sam Jones LN  in Somerset KY 42501   which I am about 1.35 miles from the tower   if 800Mhz is turned on shouldn't the band say 26?  or 25, 26?   I didn't read thru the 100 some odd pages  so if this question has been asked  I do appologize