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    Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    1 hour ago, lilotimz said:

    So 20+20+10? That's a new config that hasn't been seen before. 

    In many regions they have BRS high which is 2618-2673.5 which is basically 55 MHz wide. 2673.5-2690 is EBS which often times is not leased by Sprint so they use EBS where possible. I wonder if they could do 20+20+15... maybe..

    Yes, 20 + 20 +10. I thought I wasn't seeing it right at first, but here's a screen shot of it. 

    20181010_202532.jpg

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    Sprint VoLTE Discussion Thread Redux

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    40 minutes ago, ingenium said:

    It's possible that it's basically Calling+. In other words, it maintains the data connection, but there is no QoS. It depends if Shentel has implemented it yet.

    Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
     

    I suppose that is possible. It displayed the icon, but it's possible it wasn't actually VoLTE. I will say there were no stutters or anything on the call I did and it sounded good. I tend to be a glass half full person, so hopefully Shentel has it already implemented and maybe it won't be long until they turn it on here. 

    One can hope at least. 

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    Sprint VoLTE Discussion Thread Redux

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    That's voice call continuity. It has been a thing for a while.
    True, but this is the first I've seen it work with VoLTE. It worked with calling plus prior. It was just nice to see it working now with VoLTE. A made a test call of about 5 minutes where I transitioned towers, so it seems to be working well. There were no cutouts or anything either. It worked really well.

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    Sprint VoLTE Discussion Thread Redux

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Just something to try for those of us not in the VoLTE markets...

    I just started a call on Wifi calling and then turned off wifi. The call then switched to a VoLTE call. The icon appeared in at the top of the phone. I think there's a name for this, but it's escaping me at the moment. 

    Anyway, it's a start for us I guess. 

    This was in the Shentel market. It may not work everywhere. 

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    Sprint VoLTE Discussion Thread Redux

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Does anybody know how quickly (or slowly) other markets will get added to VoLTE? I thought the Shentel market would be high on the list but it seems we didn't make the initial cut. 

    I use calling plus at times and hate to update my phone to lose that capability until VoLTE is available. I also hate to hold off and not do the security updates that come with the system updates. I'm pretty much caught in the middle. 

    Calling Plus (VoLTE "Lite")

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Reviving an old thread to ask for help. 

    Yesterday, calling plus worked on my S8+. Today, it won't connect to calling plus. I turn it on in the settings, but the icon doesn't show up next to the LTE bars at the top of the screen as usual. I tried restarting, deleting the cache partition, dialing ##72786# to reprovision the network, a profile and PRL update, and nothing has worked. It continues to use 1x for calls. My wife's S8 active is connecting to calling plus, so it's not a network issue here. 

    Anybody have any other ideas? There are times I need data to work when I make a call. I've had this phone for over a year and this is the first issue I've had with calling plus not connecting. 

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    Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    My wife and I like the Shenandoah Valley; I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we find our way out there again.  That is, if nobody else gets there first.

    - Trip
    It's pretty here. My wife and I moved here in 2006 from PA and we haven't ever really wanted to leave. I live in Woodstock and work in Front Royal, both pretty decent towns.

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    Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Here is a picture of a Shentel small cell going in next to Central High school in Woodstock VA from FCC Commissioner Carr. A S4Gru member should find its exact location lat long, take close-up photos, and confirm its signal (too far for me to do).
    f5a55eab70e70129e65847f378b7cd5c.jpg

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    That looks like one of the two that are already there. I'll have to ride up there to check it when I get a chance. There were two B25 only small cells that were installed there a couple years back. Maybe they upgraded them to B41? I'll check it out when I have time. I only live about a mile from the school.

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    Samsung Galaxy S8 & Dual Sim/Duos

    in Samsung

    Posted

    1 hour ago, BlueAngel said:

    Well Samsung is rolling out a new update, CRB7 so guess we still have a long wait since I'm sure Sprint will need to do their testing and add the bloatware... This may be my last Samsung phone, this long for an update that was released more than half a year ago and still waiting.

    Hopefully it's better than the "CRAP" update. :)

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    Streaming Services Chat

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I just noticed you said Netflix was free - how the heck are you getting it for free?

    Sent from my BBB100-3 using Tapatalk

    I believe it says he's getting Hulu for free, which Sprint customers can get as long as they are on an unlimited plan.

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    Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Warning: Long, but worth the read. 

    I just wanted to give a good customer service experience with Shentel. On one sector of the tower closest to my house (Woodstock, VA), B26 had zero data throughput. I am mainly on B41 at my house, but on occasion I would drop to B26. Anything I was doing would get cut off, which was frustrating. Through the Sprint app, I submitted some network data tickets, but nothing ever happened. So after about 6 weeks, I sent a Facebook message to the Shentel FB account one evening before work with details on the problem, including the GCI of the B26 sector and the address of the tower. I work nights, so I didn't wake up until about 2PM the next day and saw I had missed 5 calls from a Shentel Employee. It was the RF Engineering Manager. I called him back and he thanked me for my detailed message and he said when they checked the stats on the tower, they realized they had an issue. They actually shut down that sector on B26 so phones wouldn't connect to the bad band/sector. He told me the RRH went bad and they had already put in an order for a crew to replace it. He all but offered me a job and thanked me for helping them diagnose the issue. He told me I should stop by sometime and talk to him. Long story short, I may go have a chat with him sometime, but I don't know that I would leave what I'm doing now. 

    Anyway, fast forward a few days and I got a call from a field RF engineer who told me they had just fixed the issue and did some other tweaks to the tower to make speeds better. He told me he is responsible for the general area around me and told me to save his number and call him directly if I ever notice anything else. 

    I also got some info from him about future upgrades for this area. He said they are waiting on Sprint to approve them adding a 20x20 B25 carrier, but that should happen soon. He told me there is already a 15x15 B25 carrier active near me that I'm going to try to see if I can connect to it. That tower also has B41 so it may be a bit of a challenge to get my phone to connect to it. One last thing, they are close to adding a third B41 carrier to have 3xCA in this area. He said that should happen soon too.

    A couple days later I noticed that there are now two 10x10 B25 carriers live on my "home tower." There used to only be one 10x10 and one 5x5. I wish I could have asked him about this, but I didn't know at the time I talked to him. I'm guessing this may be the speed tweaks that he mentioned. 

    This is all good news for this area and hopefully he and I can keep in touch. I asked if he could give me a tour of a tower one day and he said he would check with his boss to see if he could do it. I hope that I can do that someday. 

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    Calling Plus (VoLTE "Lite")

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    In the Shentel market, I have had good results with LTE calling plus. I was in the Richmond area though a few days ago and it kept breaking up when I was on I-95. I just hung up, turned off calling plus and called the person back. 

    As far as the comment about what bands VoLTE should use, calling plus seems to switch between bands with no loss of audio, so I don't see why it would really matter what band it uses. Just let it do it's own thing and go between bands just as "regular" data does. With voice packets having priority, it should be a good system in the end. I hope it happens sooner than later though. It really is nice to be able to look something up while on a call, or to have Google maps running in the car while on a bluetooth call and still getting updated traffic info. 

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