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I really do wanna love T-Mobile -- and I would jump (pun was NOT intended) all over them with their new uncarrier, etc... but the main problem is if you see a city limit sign -- there is an small one right below it that says "Exiting City Limits, entering EDGE zone"...

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As far as voice quality -- I can speak to all four carriers here in eastern SC -- I have had them all in some form the last two years pretty extensively (on the phone a lot for work and have bounced between prepaid carriers before settling where I am now with VXW and Sprint)... Sprint is very good for voice quality. T-Mobile and ATT seem to have been nearly the same. However, my new Verizon iPhone is horrible for sound quality. I have to ask "what?" many times a day -- likewise do the other parties on the line. Very disappointed. As far as data -- I found that ATT always had 5 to 10 mbps for me no matter where I was rural or city -- HSPA -- no experience with LTE as I didn't have an LTE phone (and LTE is nonexistent in Horry County due to the local tele company screwing it up for ATT)... T-Mobile was just as fast -- but only inside city limits -- once that speed limit sign says 55 -- 2G EDGE is all ya got. Verizon is a very solid LTE 99% of the time and only twice have I seen "3G" and once "1X" since I have had the phone. I would love to tell you about speed tests, but due to capped data -- I am afraid to do more than one or two here and there... Thus my love for Sprint. Sprint is slowly getting better (the 3G side is improving daily -- unless that is all the tourists having left lol) -- but I think it is going to take LTE800 to fill in the gaps to have that "solid" LTE like Verizon has -- especially away form the more dense urban sites... Just my anecdotal observations of course... I am sure some of this has to do with what kind phone I was/am using -- where I am more often than not -- or what PRL I am running (joke)...

Ha! the xxxxxxxx "Z" is totally normal for a follow-up model.... I am holding off until next year when they release the Zing Z2

Put it in a bag of rice (dry and uncooked of course) and let it sit a few days... hope for the best.. if it was off at the time it might safely dry out...

Very interesting... my parents and sister's number showed "nothing wrong"... my wife's phone number showed a closed ticket stating NV has been completed on her site -- and my phone number shows an updated ticket from today showing NV is going on on my site. Seems pretty random, really. As far as what site I am all over the area any given day and not in the same place but every few months so who knows what site is getting it's NV on right now... (I have seen a lot of people on sites I know as Sprint sites this last week -- should be good for acceptance reports in the near future)...

Ahhhh, the 800 PRLs -- I can only attest to not having picked up 800 on a standard PRL. Can't find any logs for Signalcheck like the ones you showed me (how do I access that). Only evidence I have of NOT having connected to an 800 is not hearing that special 1x800 chime I set up (I have only picked up and used 800 so far on a trip to St. Louis when I was in eastern KY... that was cool)...

I have never gotten 800 that I could tell when in or passing through Hardeeville nor at any location I have been in in Savannah (and I have looked a lot since it was the GA/SC coast's first 4G site a few months ago)... unless there is something new that I just haven't noticed yet.

Check out Sensorly -- just mapped some new 4G near Hwy 31/Hwy 22 from what I believe is a newly accepted 4G site near the ocean near the Wal-Mart north of Myrtle Beach.... I am sure I will head that way this weekend and if I do I will do more mapping...

I would totally presume they are actively scrambling to get the whole 4G thing turned into 3G/4G fast in this market... This would be a "network problem" IMHO...

Okay, I see the edit on at least one of the post... I do recall that A/L generally has more Red and Yellow and less Blue than the other markets -- and even the few exceptions are filling in FAST (see 100plus updates in CLT today).... As for my other question, is all this "Cool Story Freakin' Bro" (all I can think of when I see the acronym) stuff affecting the dual-band iPhone as well as the tri-bands? Question is for anyone, not just you... Thanks again!!! EDIT: I found this answer below the wall post today from Robert..... The iPhones are neither Triband nor SVLTE. They are capable of using CFSB,and use that feature on WCDMA networks. However, they do not use CSFB on the Sprint network as far as I know. But please understand that CSFB is not a device feature, but rather a network feature. It's just that a device transmission path design would necessitate its use. The iPhone 5S and 5C are only dual band LTE on the Sprint network. But that probably explains why Apple chose to omot the third band and go the route of their devices using CSFB on the Sprint network. The new iPhones are the same as the older single band iPhone 5 on the Sprint network, just with one more additional LTE band. They do not support SVLTE. I do not have enough understanding of Apple devices to explain why.

This whole ordeal intrigues me but doesn't really affect me.. Two questions: I have just seen three mentions of A/L having no 4G only sites -- that they bring 3G up before or during 4G upgrades... Yet there is one on the map (between Whiteville and Wilmington NC) in the Myrtle Beach market.. and a ton more in neighboring markets (such as RDU and CLT)... Second question -- since the iPhone is dual-band and I believe not SVLTE (right?) -- are the iPhones having the same problem as the G2/N5 etc TriBand phones? Thanks!

Totally different experience than mine....

Well, after all that -- and all the hoopla of the single band on the Note 3 -- that is what she is getting -- the mega was just too big for her.. didn't hurt that Amazon Wireless has the Note 3 for $249 right now....

Took my mother to a store that had one of the fake ATT phones and the size was a bit big for her (she really like the Note 3 size -- damn the price and single-band)... but she thinks she will get used to it (doesn't talk much on it.. looks forward to using it like a tablet)... I just want to find it a bit cheaper (wirefly or amazon maybe) since it really isn't a $199 subsidized phone (I think the unlocked ones are going for $400ish new from what I quickly saw)...

That is the same size SIM that came in my first phone (see picture to the left)... I remember looking at it awhile back and thinking about how it was basically the same thing as the tiny SIM cards we use nowadays, cut to size...

..long time coming in this thread... Between this market and the other three markets in SC (Myrtle Beach, SC/GA Coast and even now the Rock Hill area of Charlotte market) progress is accelerating across the entire state of South Carolina... I actually do not think there is another part of the country moving along as fast as we are starting to. Seriously people, stop complaining and become a sponsor and check out the maps -- it is starting to look real good.