Galaxyguy

Market: Shentel

Location: Woodstock, VA

TAC: 32523

LTE Band: 800MHz Band 26

As soon as my wife gets back in town, I can post the TAC for Band 25. My phone locks onto 26 and very rarely switches back to 25.

Edit: When I just ended a phone call, my phone latched onto B25 for about 10 seconds before switching to B26. The TAC was the same on B25 as it was on B26. I was connected to the same tower both times I checked it.

Yeah, that's what I meant. I like the push notifications. It's just my preference. I'm sure some people would be annoyed by them.

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I have a question, why do so many people use tapatalk when the mobile site works so well?

I like the notifications on Tapatalk.

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Most likely congestion from all the pictures and video being sent out.

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Last night, I made a new topic in the Premier Sponsor section for discussion of B26 and B41 sightings and information specifically for the Shentel Market. The link included below will only work for Premier Sponsors. 

If you're a Premier Sponsor, head over to check it out. If you aren't, consider a donation to get to Premier level. The information on B26 and B41 is worth the donation. 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6216-shentel-market-b26b41-info/

"Maggie has always been interested in gadgets and new technology... with the Nexus 4 she carries."

Can you trust her as a writer when it says she's interested in new technology when she carries a Nexus 4 as her daily driver? Seems a bit odd to me, since a two year old device is hardly on the cutting edge.

No, they wouldn't. If the current 5x5 carrier was widened to a 10x10 carrier, the devices in question wouldn't connect at all. The only way to add the capacity without leaving said devices in the dark is to add a second 5x5 carrier. Which means there would be 2 5x5 carriers rather than 1 10x10 carrier.

 

-Anthony

That's how it is here in the Shentel market. We have 2 LTE PCS carriers and 1 LTE 800 carrier now live through most of the market. All are 5x5, obviously.

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Just one thing I noticed. My phone jumps between 800LTE and my airrave. I'm guessing that is good.

If you are getting service where you live, you don't need an airrave. You can just use cellular. Single radio devices (aka triband devices) such as yours, sometimes have trouble with the airrave anyway. The airrave is really only designed for people who have no service at their house or very weak service which causes them to consistently drop calls. As long as you can get voice service at your house, you can use wifi for data if need be.

I've never experienced an HD call in Shentel areas either.

I had my first HD call in the Shentel market yesterday. I was in the sticks so I actually dropped the call after a minute or so but it was definitely HD. I then called my wife back a little later and it was a regular call. So I'm guessing it's starting to roll out in my area.

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I never want anyone's MiFi. Give it to me as USB, mPCI, mPCI-E, Ethernet, etc. That way I can more easily get it into my device of choosing instead of relying on their crappy routers and WiFi to do it. I'd purchase dozens of them if they had them available. I could probably move hundreds of them. They'd facilitate great OOB access to routers and other devices.

I was just curious. I like the mifi so it can be used with my laptop or tablet. A USB stick doesn't work on the tablet. If all I had was a laptop though, I could see where it would be useful.

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Nothing yet on my Google Alerts, but any word of a triband USB stick?

I've not heard of anything like that from freedompop but I'm curious, why would you prefer that over a mifi?

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This thread has been pretty dead. I thought I would revive it by saying my freedompop mifi 500 is still going strong. I use it a couple times per month with the rollover data and have plenty in reserve now. I think I currently have about 3.5 GB if I need it.

The LTE/3G plan with 500MB per month, along with the rollover costs me only $8 per month.

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Thanks! My SCP logs show a new B26 entry at my house and I'm just curious if it came from a tower that previously logged B25.

If you use the note feature in SCP, it will show the same note for all bands coming from that tower. 

I apologize if this has already been asked before but can the GCI/PCI/TAC codes be used to determine if B25 and B26 is coming from the same tower?

The GCI will be the same between bands except for the last 2 characters if it's coming from the same tower.

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DC has launched ...

I guess I'll post this once again.....

D.C. market has not yet launched. It's not on the Sprint maps yet and if it were launched, LTE would show on the Sprint map.

Sprint, unlike other providers (Verizon) gives you access to LTE as the towers are upgraded instead of waiting to "launch" a market. When Verizon would "launch" a market, they would wait until most of their towers were upgraded, then "flip a switch" to light them all up at once. Until a market is officially launched with Sprint, they probably won't help much with putting in tickets for work on specific locations since it's not yet officially launched. It wouldn't hurt to try though. 

I have an S4t and the call I was on was unmistakable. You will know when it happens. My wife has the original S4 and I've never noticed it while talking with her in the Shentel area. I was in Allentown, PA when I received a call from another Sprint customer in the Allentown area when I noticed it.

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Has anyone experienced HD voice in the Shentel region yet? I just experienced it for the first time in the Philadelphia market and it's very noticeable. I'm certain I've never experienced it in Shentel's market.

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I'm in Allentown visiting family and had my first HD calling experience. The clarity is really amazing.

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Be careful. You could get hit with a charge from Amazon. Often when you activate a line through a third party reseller, you agree to a secondary contract that requires you to remain on the specified plan for a certain period of time. Otherwise, the reseller does not receive its full commission, so it hits you with a penalty fee. Double check the fine print of any agreement that you signed.

 

AJ

I asked Amazon and they said it would not be a problem to do it. They said their system just isn't set up to keep old plans.

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I just added a line through Amazon. When I ordered it, it switched my lines from the Everything Data 1500 to the My Way plan. When I activated the phone today, I called back in to Sprint and they switched me back to the Everything Data 1500. I was told that you have 14 days to change it back. I just logged into my Sprint account and verified it is on the ED1500. 

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Woot!! Sitting in my living room and my 1x800 alert went off! Maybe I won't drop calls inside anymore!

Most people probably have no idea where New Tripoli is but when I was young, I fished at Leaser Lake quite often and I had friends who went to NW Lehigh HS. Glad the network is improving in your area. There's one tower which serves my parent's house in Allentown I'm waiting to get LTE. It's a new site and it's only 3G accepted so far. We'll see how long it takes. I'm spoiled living in Shentel territory. 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5107-lte-800-band-26-sites-accepted-discussion/?p=334386

For those who are premier sponsors, check out my post in that section regarding B26 in Shenandoah Co, VA. 

I stand corrected. Have gotten so used to good 4G LTE coverage up there for so long now, I made the faulty assumption they've launched!

It probably won't be long though with how far along they are in the DC metro area.

DC has launched. Richmond has not.

D.C. has not yet launched. It's not on the Sprint maps yet and if it were launched, LTE would show on the Sprint map.

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http://www.nvdaily.com/news/2014/06/county-oks-new-shentel-tower.php

 

Shentel is replacing the tower at 1503 Cottontown Road. The old one couldn't hold any more equipment.

This might explain why there's been no 800 (1x or LTE) on the existing tower. I'm guessing they just did a GMO build on it until they got permission to build the new monopole. This is in my county so I'll try to keep an eye on it and post back when it's done.

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