JWMaloney

I'm surprised you would have done that now over when Framily was promoted. Framily best-case scenario gets you unlimited for $45 or 1 GB for $25, whereas the new plans get you unlimited for $60 or 1 GB for $35.

Every single application I've found in Ericsson markets are using the CommScope TTTT65AP-1XR antenna. http://www.commscope.com/catalog/andrew/product_details.aspx?id=34916

It looks as though Ericsson has taken to sabotaging other markets' NV-complete Sprint sites rather than fixing their own.

Yes, did you enable it recently? Make sure the "Receive text messages on this phone" option is checked for your line in your Google Voice settings.

It depends largely upon the hardware configuration at the site. At sites with sufficient hardware, they should be able to do it remotely.

Third parties do not have access to that account type at all, but you can still upgrade through a corporate store and then call national sales support to get switched back to your plan.

I can think of at least one nearby. That band plan looks a lot like the one you and I were discussing recently for the 10x10 of the A block Sprint owns in Baton Rouge. If you recall, it looked like this: [ 1.2 guard | 1.25 CDMA 1x | 1.25 EV-DO | 1.25 EV-DO | 5 LTE | 0.05 unused ] I structured it that way based on the statement here that operation "near the edges of the service is forbidden in 1.2 MHz guard bands." Is that no longer the case?

Nexus 5 creates some pretty bad electrical interference when it's charging, or when it's sending/receiving data, or several other things. I have to remember to keep mine on the other side of my desk at work from my headphones cord. If I plug my Nexus 5 into my car's Aux jack and don't pass any audio, the noise is pretty bad.

I think this is a bug with the new unified location API in Kit Kat. I've noticed that some apps actually can block other apps from accessing GPS simultaneously, and I believe it happens when those apps are using the older API. I've specifically noticed it with Sensorly blocking Google Maps, but I've seen it happen in several other cases as well.

This one will do band 25 as well as band 5 (cellular 850). It's the one I was referring to that only does band 26 (and BC10) incidentally since it's adjacent to band 5, but it won't boost it much at all. http://www.wilsonelectronics.com/store/display/243/45/dt4g

Yes, the Wilson amplifiers will pick up band 26 LTE. No, it won't work very well. They're only designed to boost the cellular 850 band, but no notch filter is perfect. That's why they say on the box that they don't support Nextel.

Time to call Google for a replacement. Any chance you have a backup of your EFS partition that you can restore?

What happens when you're on LTE and somebody tries calling you?

What happens when you try to make a phone call? How are you switching the modes? If you're using ANY OTHER method than the radio info screen or the preferred networking type, that's probably why you're having trouble.

In my opinion, yes. Unless Sprint is planning to build out a rural footprint that rivals Verizon's, they don't need it -- they already have SMR spectrum. I don't think the article was expressly trying to make any argument. I think it was just an objective piece on the big four's spectrum holdings to make people think about something other than speeds for once. Ding-ding-ding!

Go get 'em! Duty calls. http://xkcd.com/386/

I wouldn't say that. They didn't count PCS A-F for any carriers on their maps, and even if they had, the implication is still clear: Sprint is in the best spectrum position.

They also failed to map (but did mention) the additional 5x5MHz band 2 carrier that AT&T is deploying in certain markets. They have another 15x15 of WCS almost nationally after their transaction with Sprint is completed. I believe they can use 10x10 of it without interfering with Sirius-XM.

You sure about that? I seem to remember someone posting photos of Ericsson NV equipment being installed on a Clear site in Texas.

You have to call to see if you're eligible, and you generally need the full account number (or phone number) from a line in another Framily.

Some existing customers are actually eligible for what is called "Framily merge."

Anything that can reduce the number of Airave units that retentions gives away is a good thing.

Are there places in the US that AT&T runs W-CDMA without GSM?

Even without inter-carrier HD voice support, simply running HD codecs on both air links will produce a noticeable increase in call quality. Traditional cellular codecs transcode your calls to a bitrate and quality that is lower than that of a regular landline, and this happens on both sides of the call separately since it has to traverse the PSTN. But with HD voice codecs, the cellular codecs are actually higher quality than landlines, so the PSTN is the quality bottleneck. In other words, today, a call between two HD voice capable handsets across cellular carriers should be of comparable quality to a call between an HD voice handset and a landline.