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Honestly the past 2 - 3 weeks I have seen a big improvement in download speeds even during heavy foot traffic on the Sprint Tower at Fashion Square Mall in Ch’ville. This is the one I’m always connected to at my apartment up the street. Upload speeds still averaging 2.4-5.xx but download speeds use to be around 25 down during heavy foot traffic times and 30-40 download speeds when the load wasn’t so heavy. Where my apartment is I’m always connected to Band 41. I am impressed that the download speeds have made a big improvement lately. 

18 hours ago, jonnycando said:

You can get the 14 developer or public beta profile right now... i dont think Apple is pushing it to 13 testers although i did somehow get pushed from 12 to 13 back when it began. 

When a new iOS comes out (ie 10.0, 11.0 etc.) public beta won’t come out for several weeks after the new iOS number. iOS 14 you can only get the developers beta till about mid July. Been beta testing since iOS 11. 

1 hour ago, jonnycando said:

I am on 14 beta....the morning after I posted the image, the darn thing started working...and I do find that I am on Sprint all the time except when I am definitely roaming...there are places along the James River where I have to be on US Cellular for that's all there is.....however I am getting wall to wall signal in Glasgow, which may be Tmo since I never had anything at there before....except a few seconds of actual Sprint as I pass over the Maury River and intercept the signal out of Buena Vista

Ah nice. Yeah waiting on iOS 14 Public Beta next month to come out for me to start testing it. Where I’m always at all the towers have both Sprint and T-Mobile. Haven’t roamed in awhile to see if it switches to T-Mobile. Hopefully sometime soon I’ll be able to find out. 

On 6/27/2020 at 4:56 AM, jonnycando said:

Sprint and tmo closely overlap everywhere i go here lately so if i run out of sprint there isn’t any tmo either....so if I can’t have a home signal  I’ll be just as likely roaming on USCelluar or on some mysterious extended network 

oh and i found out that the

field test menu is borked in this beta... it loads but displays nothing...oh well it’s early for ios 14, not even warm let alone fully baked 

The iOS 13.6 Beta 3 fixes the issue. Just downloaded it this afternoon. 

1 minute ago, bbostwick8 said:

Got it several days ago.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Guessing the T-Mobile and Shentel talks must be going well at this point then. 

Anyone else in the Shentel Territory get this text message today?

New PRL is out. Now at 55574. 

5 hours ago, Trip said:

I'm not convinced much has actually changed yet.  It seems to me like they've opened up roaming a touch more, but otherwise Sprint customers are still on the Sprint network as much as possible.  I have yet to connect to T-Mobile anything since the day of the merger.

- Trip

Honestly I haven’t roamed on T-Mobile yet at least here in Charlottesville. Considering that Both T-Mobile/Sprint have very well got the entire city covered atm. Hopefully once they start transitioning things over it will be more likely. 

This is what the plmn numbers and tac numbers on the tower I use at home in central va

1 hour ago, Trip said:

Shentel has posted their 4Q results, and there's a slide (page 7) in the presentation reiterating the three options.  That implies to me that they have not reached an agreement with T-Mobile.

https://investor.shentel.com/static-files/130ca6df-6deb-4f91-bdf0-aa2cfbdbff2c

- Trip

Thanks for the Shentel update Trip

57 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

I think US Cellular is a bit salty because they know their roaming revenue is about to plummet and their roaming costs are about to go up...

https://www.uscellular.com/sprexit?utm_campaign=uscc_20_ffp_ac_post_na_na_ps&utm_source=snapchat&utm_medium=psoc

I would say that they are very very salty about it. But that’s just my two cents. 

1 hour ago, dro1984 said:

Was on one of the tech channels on YouTube...   

A Sprint tower tech was saying speaking in anonymity that on closing (April 1) they are setting up to open the networks.   Meaning, via software update, Sprint will have access to T-Mobile and vis-a-versa... on April 1st.   Hoping this is true!   

 

On Tower Integration... 

They are setting up  Integration do begin nearly immediately as they are set to do market by market tower integrations   (combining towers/ moving equipment to best site). They will be doing massive mimo upgrades as much as possible at the same-time on 2.5, band 41, Band 25 (1900 sprint) band 2 (1900 T-Mo.) and Band 4 (TMO 1700/2100)   According to him, they have the maps ready and will only be combing towers that are very nearby each other to avoid interference.   The network integration will take approx 2 years, but realistically less.   Again, this is market by market... (Metro area- by Metro area).    Thoughts?  ...

That’s one thing I like about where my apartment is. The tower I connect to 75% of the time is right behind my apartment and sits right at the mall so it’s about 1/4 mile up the street. The tower has Verizon, ATT, Sprint, T-Mobile and US Cellular on the tower. And T-Mobile already has 5G up and running on that tower and a few others already in town. 

Just now, bigsnake49 said:

4 official Sprint stores and 2 official T-Mobile stores or are some of them owned by third parties?

I know the Sprint Stores are third parties. Not sure about the TMobile stores. 

Here where I live we have 4 Sprint Stores and 2 T-Mobile Stores. With one T-Mobile and one Sprint store in the mall up the street I’m sure one of them will close. With the other Sprint locations either rebranding or closing completely. 

New PRL is finally out updated from 55071 to 55072

6 hours ago, Trip said:

Massive MIMO in Farmville.

https://imgur.com/a/cFTDQVH

More in the Premiere thread.

- Trip

It’s been awhile since I’ve been down to Farmville. Nice to see they have massive mimo now since the last time I went down. 

I’m heading up to Massaponax Va to do inventory for one of my other stores. Not sure if it was covered under the DC thread or this one. But has anyone bee up their recently? How is service up that way now a days? It’s been a few years since I’ve been through that area. 

55070 out on iOS 12.1 on my iPhone XS Max

New prl is out 55068 on iOS 11.x.x

New PRL is out now at 55066 

Def would of been nice to have had Extended LTE when I went to go see family and friends in Maine back at the end of June. Was all roaming LTE and hit my cap of 300mb quick when outside of my coverage area in Maine. At least this is a step in the right direction.

29 minutes ago, jakeuten said:

If you open the app, leave the app for maybe 5-10 seconds and then reopen it (without force closing) the Cast option should show up. I've been running this build for about a week.

Ya that def worked thanks. 

Took about a minute and a half on my iPhone 7+ to download. Got the update at 105 pm est. Just FYI if you have the Hulu app you will loose the ability to cast it to Chrome Cast. Pretty sure it’s just the app. Since I can still cast from YouTube and Netflix. You can regain it for a min or so if you uninstall Hulu and reinstall it but will loose it again. 

New PRL's are out. Now running 55064 on my iPhone 7 Plus

Can any one check their PLMN and see if it changed to 310470(Shentel) from 312190(nTelos).

I would check but haven't figured out how to check it on the iPhone 7+ yet. But have been wondering if it has changed over though.