JWMaloney

You can easily pull your MSL from ADB.

Throttled by design!

No, I said that, when I posted the stats and graphs. Then you said "Stats and graphs are not going to sway me or change how I feel about this." I would infer that to mean that you don't agree with the practice. If what you actually meant was that you disagree with the statistical analysis, and that the practice is therefore unnecessary, then I apologize, and I would like to hear your reasoning.

Just to confirm, you'd rather 35% of connected users get 0 Mbps than for one person to have to have slightly higher latency?

A reminder, this is for new activation only; it doesn't work if you use the Framily merge offer with existing lines.

The .17 radio will give you slightly better dBm numbers and will hold onto a weaker LTE signal longer. But I've found that I get better 3G speeds than LTE speeds in places where the .17 radio stays on LTE when the .23 radio would switch to 3G.

I'm hoping the only thing that happens is you get pushed down to 3G, because it's difficult to alleviate a saturated air link even with throttling throughput. EDIT: If LTE doesn't have that problem, I would love to know.

Then it sounds like the perfect graph to demonstrate the point I was trying to make about the existing 1900 MHz deployment.

There's also no four-antenna phones, this is theoretical. "We showed what would happen with 30 MHz of spectrum in 2.5 GHz and 20 watts. [...] Sprint's not using MIMO 4x4; there's no four-antenna phones that exist today (that I know of, anyways -- certainly no eight-antenna phones), but we wanted to still give LTE the benefit of the doubt."

Sprint has 32 macro sites in downtown San Francisco today. Take a look what would happen if Sprint deployed a single 30 MHz TDD-LTE carrier in Band 41 on all of them: With 100 users connected to one macro site trying to share capacity, almost 35% of users would get practically zero throughput, and no user would even approach 5 Mbps. Even with LTE-A, over 20% of users would get practically zero throughput, and a few would get slightly over 5 Mbps. So what Sprint has decided to do is prioritize connections at overburdened macro sites today, weighing priority for individual users based on a moving average of their last month of total usage. This isn't Sprint trying to punish heavy data users or make them pay more -- this is Sprint trying to allow everyone fair usage of their spectrum-limited network. It is perfectly reasonable to say that a user who has used a large share of the network in the last month should be de-prioritized first in the event of congestion; otherwise, nobody can access anything.

You can subtract the 8,000 non-redundant Clearwire sites from that number.

There's another minor Hangouts update out which may address this.

The post I was quoting already said that. I was saying they won't have to build 45-50,000 sites if they go with pCell.

That's more indicative of a problem with the charger and/or cable. There shouldn't be a possible way for the battery to die while the phone is pulling 1.2 amps from the charger. EDIT: Obviously there is also something draining the battery on the phone (probably the camera bug), but again, it just shouldn't be possible for the phone to use more power than the OEM charger can provide.

He means Google Voice integration: "Not sure if this is tower related ... or GVoice issue"

The link at the bottom goes back to my reddit post, neat. Funny nobody picked up on it when I made the old post two months ago...

This is what a Hangouts GV call looks like: http://i.imgur.com/wUUPZn2.png

There's no way they're going to build those sites. They'll host the spectrum on NV sites which goes nicely with them using Sprint voice coverage.

He pretty much revealed Dish's business plan in the video -- build out with native pCell coverage and fall back on Sprint 3G coverage (labeled MVNO in the video) outside of that. For Sprint, pCell would be the better alternative to building thousands of new metro sites.

He also gave specific examples of comparison between pCell and Sprint and Softbank LTE infrastructure. It's fairly obvious Sprint and Dish are going to need something like this.

Man, that was painful to watch.

Sadly it only does it on its own when I'm not using the device.

Happened to me last night. I was sitting in a movie theater less than half a mile from the local tower, and my phone went from a -106 LTE signal to 3G.

I would like to point out that if you are on an Everything Plus plan, and you switch to Framily online, you won't be offered Everything Plus data pricing options (3GB for $7.50/mo or unlimited for $15) and will have to pay the normal rates (3GB for $10/mo or unlimited for $20). But if you call Sprint Care, they will allow you to switch and keep your Everything Plus account and get the discounted data rates. I just did it a few minutes ago. I was also able to avoid the $15/mo/line still-in-contract fee by selecting unlimited data, which I didn't even realize was possible until it was offered.

So in that case, would T-Mobile's CSFB automatically tell the phone to pick up an incoming call on a CDMA band? Or could it possibly tell it to pick up the call on WCDMA if the UE can handle it?