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While on the subject of improvements to the Sprint website, can we please get a better coverage viewer tool? The current one needs to be retired back to the 90s, where it belongs...

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The only companies that have announced they will use Ericsson small cells are AT&T (Ericsson Radio Dot platform) and Verizon (standard micro RBS/RRUS). T-Mobile is macro-focused for now, but will announce small cell contract awards next year. Sprint, of course, uses Nokia in Ericsson territory.

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Has it? It doesn't appear to...

Only current generation models, if I remember rightly...

That would be problematic and invite disincentive to utilize the service. At what level do you start degradation? What's the rate of degradation? Do you filter by airlink? Band? Cell load? It's incredibly complicated to make that work, and the end result may not be attractive to current and potential subscribers. After all, who wants to use a service that's designed so that you don't use it? The only reason the full speed bucket thing works is because there's no step-wise degradation. It's all fast until you hit the limit. Not only that, there remains an option to have unlimited full speed data.

iPhones are special. Apple implemented a proprietary method using its iPhone Carrier Configuration system to dynamically rewrite portions of the baseband software and operating system configuration when SIM cards are switched. No other platform is capable of that, and technically, iPhones are not compliant with the spec because of it. Apple gets away with it, of course, because they are Apple.

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AT&T has 850MHz A block, 700MHz C block, along with ~20MHz FDD across multiple blocks of PCS, and ~15MHz FDD across a couple of blocks of AWS-1 in the area. I would imagine that AT&T has a better performing network than nTelos with that much spectrum.

MetroPCS metrocell and DAS systems are being repurposed as much as possible for T-Mobile. If they are CDMA/LTE small cells, they are going to be replaced with HSPA+/LTE small cells. If they are DAS, then T-Mobile will just reconfigure them for HSPA+/LTE (since DAS is generally airlink agnostic). They can't be used for Sprint because they are designed for AWS-1. Band 41 is 2496-2690 MHz, while AWS-1 is 1710-1755 / 2110-2155 MHz.

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