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I don't know how excited I am for this. My experience on Calling Plus is VERY mixed with quality. Often folks on the other end complain I sound very choppy on a Calling Plus (on LTE) call, also losing audio for a couple seconds. Other times it's like I'm sitting in the same room with them. I hope there are some improvements afoot over Calling Plus quality. 

This jives with the comment the NC and southeast regional manager told me.  "We're going to be putting small cells on light poles all over in 2016, honey". She actually said every 4th light pole, but that was probably a quaint southernism to mean a lot. 

SCP just showed me "Extended Network LTE Roaming (USCC)" here in Madison in my work building where I don't get very good Sprint signal. 

Also, there are not many areas nationwide where the LTE+ Roaming exists.....will this expand in the future?? 

Interesting that my Note5 specific device coverage on the website isn't showing the new LTE+ and LTE Roaming?  I'm certain it qualifies, right? 

Super pumped to have LTE roaming in Western Wisconsin!!!  Even with the 300mb cap, it'll be great to not have to wait for eons for anything to load. 

I wonder if the Sprint Nexus 6 will get WiFi Calling support as part of the Android M update.

Nope.

I knew that NFC antenna would be moved to the top of the phone (ala Apple) with the finger print sensor on the back.  Wouldn't make sense to use it that way otherwise if it were more center placed as they are now on most phones.  Too bad it won't have wireless charging (or Sprint WiFi Calling). 

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/07/13/here-comes-motorolas-next-line-up-of-phones-all-at-the-fcc/

I'd really have no problem with soft caps set up in the 20+ GB range.  That's a little lofty to reach monthly for 95%+ as you said.  Good write up!

No, we did not miss it.  Both Milan in his comment and I in my article mention the likelihood of the Snapdragon X7 LTE (MDM9635) standalone baseband.

 

The RDFs may lend some credence to that connection, but they also list the processor chipset as "Istor," which makes no sense.  So, that calls the accuracy of the RDFs into question.

 

AJ

And the RDF says it has an SD card slot that supports up to 128GB SDXC.  Basically, the details beyond build number and MAYBE OS version of a RDF page really can't be trusted.  But again, this one says 5.0 when it was made clear that it was launching with 5.0.2.

Do we know any more information about the modem yet since the pre-orders have begun for the S6ers? 

Wow, that's very good news.  Just hope the build out is fast, fast, fast!  I'll keep sending in my network reports via the "Sprint Zone" app.  

Oh man, USCC addition would be huge for rural wisconsin. West of Madison is completely roaming.

Ha, how about North Wisconsin of all places being one of the first. Thanks AJ! 

Son of a biscuit eater. Anyone want to trade for a regular S4?  

Fantastic break down. I'm disappointed in the lack of SVDO for the S4 as Madison won't see usable LTE for quite some time, I'd guess. I really don't want to get the HTC One because no removable battery and no expandable storage......grrrr.....tough decisions. I'm just hoping this X phone has merit and Google will shock us all with something amazing and usable on Sprint with LTE (but I'm not holding my breath). And as much as I think the idea of wireless charging is nice, I didn't realize the signal took a hit because of it. However, world roaming (assuming there's a sim in there??) would be very nice addition as I find myself overseas quite often these days.