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As in Shentel?  Wonder if they'll be affiliates for T-mobile or if they'll buy the wireless business outright.

Looks like we’ll be changing over to Magenta


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Here is the part of interest from an Fiercewireless article (thanks to [mention=5637]PythonFanPA[/mention][emoji20]

First, Shentel’s Earle MacKenzie said, Shentel cannot file an injunction to try to block the merger. If the merger is approved, the combined Sprint and T-Mobile—generally called New T-Mobile—will have 60 days to decide whether it wants to purchase Shentel’s wireless business.

“If they do decide to buy our wireless business, there is a formula that you provide to our shareholders, a very handsome return. If they choose not to buy our wireless business, Shentel will remain an affiliate of the New T-Mobile and for the next 180 days, we have the option to acquire the T- mobile customers and that work in our 7 million POPs service area at 75% of the value of the customers and asset as determined by the merger value,” MacKenzie said during the call, according to a Seeking Alpha transcription of the event. “If we can’t finance the purchase, then the New T-Mobile will finance the purchase at their cost of capital for up to five years. If Shentel decides not to buy T-Mobile network and customers, then the new T-Mobile must turn off the T-Mobile network that overlaps Shentel within two years.”

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/shentel-carrier-at-crossroads-sprint-and-t-mobile-merger

Anyone know what happens to Shentel now that the merger is approved? Does Shentel get to stay? I know they have to fulfill their contract but I meant beyond that..

Just noticed in the most recent coverage maps that it now shows coverage all the way up the Ohio side of route 7 (Ohio River Scenic Byway).  This area used to have no coverage at all.  Four or five months ago LTE coverage showed up on the maps around Crown City, Ohio and I went up that way and still had no service.  The next month the map was updated and the coverage shown had been removed. 
Anyone know if this is accurate? 

If I happen to see it again I might take my chances and stop by to be nosy

That's exactly the truck I saw. I saw it up on Airport road today @ 120 Clifttop Dr, Beaver, WV 25813 . Ive seen it all over town the past few weeks.

I've seen a Silverado pickup plastered in Sprint branding visiting cell sites around the Beckley area. He was in a parking lot below a Sprint site doing something on a laptop not sure if this is notable or something routine?

Is that Shentel equipment?

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Does anyone know if Shentel will be deploying 5G or will that be taken over by Sprint?
The Sprint 5G map: http://coverageort.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp? currently only shows 5G deployed in the NoVA area which I don’t think is under Shentel.. (Put a pin down in a location to see if it already has 5G.)
I know it’s still very early but, I’m just wondering.

VoLTE isn't enabled yet in the Shentel market. I can carry over a call from Wifi calling to VoLTE (voice call continuity), but can't start a VoLTE call straight from LTE. I would think it will come soon, but it's not here yet. I live in the Shenandoah Valley and travel to Allentown, PA quite often so I go through a good chunk of Shentel's original area from Woodstock, VA to past Harrisburg, PA (where the Central PA market and then the Philly market pick up on I-78) and have yet to see it. I've been in the DC and Philly markets though and have used VoLTE and it seems to work well. Hopefully we'll get it soon.  

iOS 12.1.1 with carrier bundle 35.0 enabled VoLTE in soft launch areas..
Anybody in Shental area luck getting it to work?
iPhone 8 and up required. 

Apparently roamed on T-Mobile band 4 In Chambersburg,PA, south end. This area is normally fine with a great Sprint Signal.
Shentel area.
Do not know why I had this roaming and it was fine later when I went back the same way. No roaming on the return trip.

Email I saw about that site (East Waynesboro WA06SH310) states:
Site is now on air with 2 10mhz B25 FDD LTE carriers, 1 800 LTE 5mhz carrier, 2 TDD 20mhz carriers, and 1 TDD 10mhz LTE carrier.


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My personal experience back in 2015 when it was still run through nTelos they had a lot of B41 in Charleston/Huntington/Morgantown/Princeton but I never once saw it here in Beckley, even still 3 years later I frequently check via my family members devices for B41 and it's still a no show.

https://imgur.com/XLbo6lo
This is what happiness looks like.  The last major gap on US-15 in the nTelos expansion area is now filled.
- Trip

I dropped my G5 awhile back and broke the screen. Didn't want to pay the 150 (?) deductible for an out of date phone so I just went and got a different phone. I do miss my G5 from time to time. It took better pictures than any phone I have had to date. I did NOT miss all the bloatware and useless apps that came with it as part of Sprint and some from LG. Hope it gets Oreo soon!

Getting better all the time


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The tweet was from the Raleigh County Chamber account it seems to be open to the public and has an RSVP number to call. I am going to try my best to go just to hear what they have to say. Hopefully, it is more than just s promotional thing to have people sign up.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7TyvLtkcrdGmGRpU2

Watch for job opportunities in these areas in the coming months!


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Pretty good!


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I imagine coverage is aimed at the US 52 area.  It would be nice if they also took over Logan county from Sprint.