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It would definitely be interesting to see that happen... Certainly would be a logistics nightmare, but T-Mobile's PCS spectrum could be of a lot of use to Sprint in a lot of markets. Not sure what would happen to the considerable amount of AWS spectrum that T-Mobile owns.... Perhaps future capacity?

Biggest problem would be merging the two networks of course. Since Sprint is deploying mutli-mode tower that certainly would help the transition, as they could support GSM in the for the next few years while people transition to the LTE/voLTE network. This is just something, that if actually happened, would take a lot of time. Not sure if Sprint would want to go through that after Nextel.

Areas where I had full bars in Tampa now I have one or two or it roams during the last month. This happens in certain areas though notably the Busch Gardens area and the suburb of Brandon.

Yeah the Busch Gardens/USF area is really quite bad now.

I thought cdma/1x advanced had only launched in Chicago and there were production prls to use the towers?

 

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Ah this may be the case. I haven't been following it too closely for the past couple of months. Finally found time lol.

For the record, what channel number could I expect CDMA 800 to be in the ##DEBUG# menu?

I just flashed that custom PRL in the DL Center so I can start searching for those CDMA 800 sites as they go live. I think I am most excited about the kind of coverage that is going to bring.

I haven't had many dropped calls while transitioning from tower to tower, but I have noticed a few towers near me "have gone missing" so to speak. Hope NV is the culprit and that we can start enjoying the benefits soon.

Can't wait to see Tampa start showing up on these schedule maps. Work is still set to begin in July, correct? Also, do you guys have CDMA 800 site into in the Sponsor section? I've been thinking about donating since I enjoy this site so much.

Wish my Epic supported ESMR so I could test out these channels as they pop up! By any chance, has someone compared the signal strength of the 800mhz channel to a phone using just 1900mhz in the same location?

Yeah, that was kinda crappy, but at least Clear's 4G network doesn't disappoint here. A little extra battery drain, but I was able to use data and Google Talk for texting while the network was down.

Hopefully the recent problems around here were Network Vision related....