AgathosAnthropos

I'm making an assumption here that the places where dual-band 25/26 (and not 41) are used will primarily be rural areas. Meaning the capacity needs are less per site; so without CA, the multi-carrier B25 would only help an unneeded capacity strain (I say unneeded because if there was not enough capacity, they would add 41), but not improve peak speeds. Thanks for the info though everyone. One can hope for B25 CA then (I live in a rural area not likely to see B41 unless for that Dish/Sprint ISP).

For the dual-band sites (assuming no 41 due to not needing the capacity?) it would be awesome to see them refarm some of the PCS to potentially make 10x10 B25 to up the speeds. I would think that would be possible on the sites with lower usage, and hopefully could be done without a tech visit on sites that already have B25.

Do you use the ServiceState (getOperatorNumeric) or the CellIdentityLte (getMcc/getMnc) (or something else entirely) to get the plmn? If both, do you see the same behavior in reporting Clear/Sprint values mixing up with GCI's?

Jude Law is their first employee.

I believe that what he is saying is that Google also makes money when you USE your phone - unlike the actual carriers (generally speaking). Google makes money on Play Store transactions ( according to http://readwrite.com/2014/01/08/app-store-sales-google-play-android over $1Million per day in January 2014). So by putting more devices in more people's hands they have an artificial "subsidy" over the actual infrastructure owner/service provider. That's not to mention the fact that they make money each time you search and accidentally (or not) click on an advertisement (which of course they use their data collection mechanisms to target ads). The same goes with Google Fiber "disrupting" the landline broadband industry. They make money when you use your internet service so of course they can offer the service at a discounted price (again, artificial subsidy). These are generally extra revenue sources carriers/providers don't have. (Not trying to argue for or against Google doing these things since carriers/providers margins can be absurdly high and it is actually competition, driving down prices.)

It's a nice device, though call quality is odd (at least to me) due to not having a front speaker. Plays well with SCP. My only complaints are no root yet so you have to toggle airplane outside of SCP and no *#*#4636#*#* to set to LTE only (I use regularly searching for sites with my Nexus 5). Honestly, glad I picked it up. I switch between it and my Nexus 5 every once in a while just because.

http://www.laroccasolutions.com/training/78-rsrp-and-rsrq-measurement-in-lte This website has this text verbatim without quoting the source (S4GRU/AJ)?

There is also http://mychitchatmobile.com For lower cost and usage it looks like sprint mvno as well.

Define "high usage". This one caps at 60GB LTE (30GB of CDMA): http://www.wirelessnwifi.com/High-Limit-4G3G-Service

All of the screens I've seen of Sprint (8t8r) B41 has an odd market id - 009 in this case; and a sector id of 3X (X being 0-3? - and for that matter all of the B26 I've seen is 1X sector id). It seems like a legit Sprint B41.

That's because it's "fixed" in 4.4.4, released how long ago...notice how this article, written today, talks about it like it's still 4.4.3 - at least that's how I read this:

One major question I have about this plan is how does the new 8T8R deployment hinder this in exurban/rural areas? With the focus of Spark deployment focusing inwards on cities it will take some time for the more rural towers, which would benefit from this, to get the 2.6 equipment and so this isn't likely to expand too quickly, right?

While that is 100% true - I believe what people mean when they say you use more on a higher speed connection is that if I have equal time to browse the internet I can load 2x the pages (and hence 2x the data) on a 2x as fast connection in the same amount of time.

Bloomsdale, MO. The local WISP is lightwavemo.com.

This is good news (I've been reading about it since I saw it announced last December (http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-and-dish-to-trial-fixed-wireless-broadband-service.htm), hopefully more information comes soon). I'll definitely try it if it does go nationwide and nothing better shows up before then. I live in a rural area not far from a Sprint tower and this would be a great way to get decent internet since AT&T doesn't seem to support new DSL connections (and since they won't a lot of the smaller guys in my area won't) - they want to sell you a miniscule mount of GB/month LTE instead. And the only WISP that might reach my house is on the other side of a hill and I can't get a signal from without putting up like a 70ft tower. I only hope the data cap (assuming there is one) is high enough to be usable (50+ GB/month). I don't even mind if I'm throttled on speed to 5/10 Mb/sec as long as I get plenty of data to use.

So the flash-all script lists: ./fastboot -w update image-hammerhead-ktu84m.zip which is actually (images): system, userdata, boot, recovery, cache correct? My real question is which ones are required to update to 4.4.4, can I mix and match from 4.4.3 or is it best to just do them all? I guess it's worth noting that doing a diff on the two versions shows that only recovery.img and system.img are different - so are those the only two that need flashed?

I saw similar behavior this morning. It did a good job of handing off between 25/26/41 and 26 to new towers for my ride. It also seemed like some of the places I got punted to 3G (pretty sure CSFB issues) yesterday on 1.13 today I rolled with a usable LTE signal (did some tests at <= -110dB and got +3M in lots of cases). Maybe instead of falling to 3G on CSFB issues it rescans and jumps to 25? Also had my highest 41 speed today on this radio: I'm definitely liking this radio on my first use - we'll see how more usage goes. (Didn't upgrade kernel yet so I'm at 4.4.3 boot/kernel still)

I did something similar. Two days ago I set to LTE Only on my way to work (~45 mile commute) and I went seamlessly between 25-26-41 at what appeared (from my glancing at my phone every once in a while). No issues, a couple of successful speed tests (41 getting ~35Mbit at one test). On the way home the same day I went back to LTE/CDMA and it seemed if not at every tower hand off then every couple I would drop to 3G (only getting back on if I toggled airplane mode). Yesterday morning I did the same LTE/CDMA on the way to work but I didn't toggle airplane mode for the first (at least) half of the trip and didn't switch to LTE once (that's in like a ~20/30 mile stretch of known LTE). I toggled airplane and it switched to LTE but again switching towers would seem to drop be back to 3G. On the way home it was similar to the other on the way home experience. This morning I didn't pay attention.

http://www.android.gs/android-4-4-3-kitkat-update-for-google-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7-and-nexus-10-to-roll-out-on-may-23/ May 23?

How do you know it's not Spark that's causing it to take it's sweet time?

Does anyone else think Sprint was somehow confused with Googles dogfooding? According to http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/04/09/rumor-google-starts-early-dogfooding-of-android-4-4-3-public-release-expected-in-coming-weeks/ they released to 1% of internal employees the week before Sprints supposed release date. Wouldn't Google invest more time than a few days on rolling out the product internally for testing?

Nah, feeling good about that win Sat night over the Penguins more like it.