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    I'm having ecsfb issues in most of the places I have gone so far, the tower that serves my house is the only one so far that has ecsfb working with band 26. I'm going to disable band 26 for now until ericsson gets their head out of their butt. Something else I've noticed since band 26 went live is that band 25 reception has gotten slightly worse by 3-6bd.
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    Well I got my S5 in, most of the day while I was at work I was stuck on 3g. After getting home and updating the profile and such I'm sitting on band 26 LTE at home. So far it is about 10db better than band 25 on my S4 though speeds are similar. Now I can't wait for band 41 to get here. Since we never got wimax and are an ericsson market it will be a fresh NSN 8x8 deployment :-)
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    I'm sure MU-MIMO is enabled which allows the network to treat each tx/rx path as a separate channel and serve 4 times more users at good speed than band 26 and 25 which only have a pair of antennas. So you may not have one user per sector able to get 240mbps but you may be able to serve 4 users at 60mbps. Total system capacity is more important than peak speed anyway.
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    I'm still using an svlte handset, my S5 is on order and should be here this week. I have noticed the tower briefly going off line from time to time with my phone briefly showing no 1x service. The signal also seems weaker since it got 3g accepted. Hopefully some optimization will take care of that. Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk
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    The one I listed is at 122nd and May. It's the one I most often connect to from my house.
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    Are you connecting to tower 48387 (xDB03)?
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    Yup, sorry about that.
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    Sounds like an ecsfb issue. Though I didn't think our market had any such issues. What is the closest cross street to your work location?
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    Non removable battery and no expandable storage are deal breakers for me. Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk
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    I guess it's about time to get a tri-band phone. I really want a GS5 but I'm hearing that it may have some reception and LTE handup issues :-(
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    The best I have been able to come up with is that the LTE coverage maps are projecting what 800MHz LTE will cover when the deployment is done. The maps are not at all representative of current band 25 coverage.
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    I've been contributing just a little. Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk
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    Is band 8 900MHz ISM?
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    Hopefully after the bulk of NV 2.0 is complete Sprint will turn their attention to filling in coverage and expanding it in areas that have outgrown current coverage. I just want Sprint to be the best it can be, that's all.
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    I'm hoping 800MHz LTE brings the data coverage up to parity with PCS voice coverage. Robert thinks I'm foolish for suggesting it, but I would really like to see 800MHz ev-do since my market has enough spectrum to support it. That way when I'm in the places that I lose PCS ev-do(and certainly don't have LTE) I will at least have some sweet 3g action. I don't think he understands how poorly spaced the sites are in the far east part of the metro. With how reluctant Sprint is to actually fill in or expand existing coverage with new sites I think my suggestion has serious merit especially based on financial feasibility. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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    Once my Touchpad had few too many drinks and I was able to persuad him to let me stick android in him. Now he hasn't booted webOS in years. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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    That seems like a little too extreme of a difference, almost like the ev-do signal was coming from a site further away.
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    You can really tell what areas I deliver to by looking at the Sensorly maps, all those neighborhoods that are almost solid purple :-P Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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    It's probably easier to manage interference from adjacent cells at a higher frequency. If the towers in your area are actually spaced appropriately for PCS then the noise floor on 800MHz is going to be higher. For those who live in areas with less than ideal(for PCS) site spacing 800MHz will be a godsend.
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    We are going to have to see significant 1xA handset penetration before the can start refarming 1xrtt carriers, likewise we will need to see significant LTE handset penetration before refarming of 1xEV-DO carriers can happen. Incidentally the 1xA handsets are also the LTE handsets at this point. My guess is that we will see deployments in unused or underutilized spectrum this year and then refarming will start next year. VOLTE opens a whole other bag of worms. Part of the reason it isn't rolling out en mass is because it is not as spectraly efficient as 1xrtt, not as power efficient as 1xrtt, and carries a significant coverage deficit. I'm sure one it is fixed we will see almost everything save for the 800MHz 1xA channel, one PCS 1xA, and two PCS 1xEV-Do channels refarmed.
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    This might also be a device specific phenomena. I can remember in years past where certain brands of phones would hold on to an absolutely unusable Sprint signal before switching to roaming and certain others would switch more readily. Of course I'm sure it is also very difficult to determine when to hand over to a different band, there are so many variables involved in getting a usable signal.
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    I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm pissed, just miffed I can't wait to start seeing some band 26 goodness. I actually feel like I'm whining a little too much here, so I should say that service is leaps and bounds better than it was 12 months ago. Just not quite good enough for me to cancel my Verizon line yet
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    According to my math it would take ~172mbps to fully serve a site with three 1xrtt carriers, three ev-do carriers, and one 5MHz LTE carrier(which just so happens to be the configuration in my market). This assumes voice is backhauled at 64kbps PCM, if Sprint is converting voice traffic to 64kbps PCM at the switch rather than the BTS then 150mbps may be adequate.
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    When it's really bad the connection just times out and no data services work. Other times it will will get to sub 100kbps speeds with several hundred milliseconds of latency which is very frustrating to try to do anything on. Trust me I wouldn't be complaining if it maintained greater than 2mbps with sub 150ms latency. Switching to 3g didn't help much when the connection was timing out on LTE, it was dial up speed at best. I suspect that the backhaul was saturated at that point, me thinks 100mbps isn't quite enough to feed a 4g accepted site.
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    Our only hope of salvation is a good dense band 41 deployment. Even though my market is in the top 50 we never got WIMAX and I have a feeling I won't be seeing any band 41 LTE until 2015 and still probably just on our four protection sites. I'm betting it will be 2016 before there is a real deployment.
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