pyroscott

The guy with the big brain...

Another analogy would be: The cell site is like your home wireless router. You can power it up and connect to it with devices, but without the internet cord hooked up to it, the router is mostly useless. Without backhaul, the cell site will not allow calls, texts, internet etc... It also is defined in the FAQ. A link is in my signature.

Been a while since we had this kind of troll around here...

Apparently they are not fans of phones that don't fit in their skinny jeans

The site is probably still in testing and tweaking. If it is in Miami, the market hasn't launched, so they are still trying to get all the sites properly set up. There has been many reports of major differences in speeds coming off a site that are vastly different days or weeks apart. One day a member sees 27Mbps and the next it has dropped to 1Mbps from the same spot. Luckily, Sprint is allowing connections in the interim instead of the way Verizon does it. Don't tell anyone you are working in an area and block access until it is done, tested and complete. If that was the case, there would likely be zero reports of LTE.

I thought MIMO 4x4 had, for lack of a better term, a beamforming effect and was more effective in increading speeds at the edge of coverage. I seem to remember something about it increasing speeds 100% at areas of lower signal strength while areas of strong signal might see a 50% increase in speeds.

Thread closed. Edit: thread reopened

If this thread continues to fill with complaints, it will be closed. S4GRU.com does not host Sprint's complaints.

There is nothing slow about the pace the Chicago market has been deployed. Chicago currently stands with 72% of the cell sites in the market complete and accepted by Sprint. The next highest is Baltimore at 51%. Chicago will likely be the first market complete. If there is a problem with the strategy Sprint employed with the rollout, I suggest you try an official channel for complaints.

At 100Mbps, you could burn through a 2GB AT&T tier of data in 2 minutes and 40 seconds. You could also burn through a fully charged battery in a couple hours. LTE advanced is not ready for prime time, and AT&T will not have it next year.

What? 1900MHz is PCS. Sprint hopes to win the auction and license the PCS H block. Once a new band class is approved including PCS H block, Sprint would likely deploy LTE in it if they won the auction. LTE Advanced is currently in development, with no plans on deploying it until power consumption drops for handsets using LTE-A. PCS H Block would be about equal to, but slightly weaker than PCS G Block propigation. This topic has several existing threads debating the H Block and Dish's AWS spectrum. Please utilize one of those for further discussion. This thread is closed.

Good for you. Can we get back on topic?

Initially, yes, the $10 was for 4G smartphones, so if you purchased your phone before the change, they would have been right in saying that you would not have paid the $10 fee for a 3G phone. In January 2011, Sprint decided to change that fee to ALL smartphones, (except those who were grandfathered on a 3G smartphone prior to 30 January 2011). If I was to dig up a HTC Hero (or any other 3G smartphone) and activate it, it would require the $10 premium data fee, but if I was still using a HTC Hero, purchased and activated prior to 30 January 2011, I would not be paying the fee. I also remember seeing some recycled, environmentally friendly, smartphone advertised as being exempt from the $10 premium data fee. Edit: it was the Samsung Replenish http://www.engadget....rge-on-froyo-b/ Sprint's reasoning behind the change... Smartphones use 10 times the data of a feature phone. A decent description which includes Sprint's press release is here http://bgr.com/2011/...g-january-30th/ My take, Sprint expected the 3G network would hold up fine. With Clearwire providing 4G, the power users and bulk of smartphone users would be on 4G, leaving the 3G network underutilized. Then, in late 2010-early 2011, upon realizing that there was no way Clearwire was going to be able to roll out 4G nationwide, they backtracked, added the charge to all smartphones, put plans into motion to beef up the 3G network and pulled the trigger on Network Vision. We are seeing the network upgrades all over (we used to refer to them as band-aid upgrades) in areas that have not been upgraded to network vision. Ericcson is adding T1s and extra carriers, but it is already too late in many areas as data speeds are crawling. Whether you choose to blame Sprint, Clearwire, or whomever you choose for the current state of the network, it is what it is. Network Vision is going to give the proper upgrade to the entire Sprint footprint, and there are already plans to keep up with increasing demand for data. This website is focused on the upgrade of the network, and not on complaining about the "mistakes" of the past.

There will be more sites coming online every week. How many depends on how aggressive Samsung is going to be in this market. They were really aggressive in the Chicago market, but they were battling handoff issues between new equipment and legacy towers, so they had to go fast to avoid a poor end user experience. Weather could play a big part in the Minnesota market, and could push the techs off the "towers" and onto rooftop sites. We will have to wait and see, but I would think that a good portion of the backhaul has already been installed as once the frost sets in, it gets a whole lot more expensive to lay cable... If the backhaul is in, and Samsung has ample equipment, the contractors should be able to aggressively upgrade the market. Also, if you are interested in becoming a sponsor, there is a weekly update of all the accepted sites and maps showing where they are. How to become a Sponsor

I wasn't saying the costs are passed on to the other southernlinc subs. I said it is written off as an operating expense for the southern company as a whole and passed off to the millions of "customers" that have no choice but to purchase their power from southern (short of building their own power generator)

I'm still trying.

Very true... it is quite concerning what the average Joe doesn't know.

Does that mean the label "asshat" is being retired.