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  1. 5 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

    Found 2 more expansion sites that are live on I-80 in Nebraska west of North Platte, plus 3 more Sprint conversions, though they are not live yet. Still a few spots where signal drops to roaming for a while, but they are getting really close to having that huge Nebraska gap filled in! All the details are in the Nebraska members thread.

    If anyone happens to be doing any Alabama sites, will you guys share a link with me? I have tried to find any sort of map related to Bama but I don't think anyone is tracking around me. I am close to upgrading.. after 3 years with my Note 20 5g..Nothing really wrong with mine but my wife's won't charge with the plug-in..and she has to use wireless. Just haven't done it yet. Keep hoping we can get a 2-upgrade promo.. but it's always just 1 promo that is great...then the 2nd upgrade is like freaking horrible...no deal on any part of the 2nd upgrade. We want to upgrade together but don't want to have such a huge difference between pricing on the two phones.

  2. 10 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

    All I've been doing is taking screenshots of the coverage map at each update and comparing it to the last one. I haven't been watching Alabama, so it'd probably be up to you to see if anything has changed.

    I've looked, albeit not comparing the SS ... but just a check-in from time to time.. not much has changed around me (specifically within 20 miles or so).. Central AL (between Bham and Montgomery) isn't a priority area, I'm sure..so I doubt there will be much to brag about anytime soon. Maybe I'm mistaken..I'd love to be wrong.. as I was with Sprint for years and just dealt with the service being somewhat sub-par. Now that I have Firstnet the past couple years, I do have an option if it's emergency.. and I like Tmobile's policy of not restricting IMEIs on their network. So far I've been able to use my MR5200 hotspot with my Tmobile unl tablet plan SIM without any problems...

    Same goes for my firstnet phone sim.. it's in a MR6150 hotspot.

  3. 48 minutes ago, the_intern said:

    That's a fantastic pace and looks like they are serious about building a native network even off the interstate. 

    In Utah, the latest update shows n41 in rural places like Eureka (population ~650) where no one else even has a site, Gunnison (pop 3400), Lynn (not sure on pop, but very, very little), Hideout (pop 1200) recent Sprint conversion , Strawberry Reservoir, and Torrey (small town, but tourist destination). New site / roaming over- build activity also seems to finally be showing in Southeastern Utah. They are really pushing these upgrades into rural areas to meet their 300MM Ultra Capacity goal next year.

    Is there any maps out there for recent updates to Alabama?? Just curious if there's anything to be said for the horrible coverage Tmo has around me.  I'm still at a point where i have to use a pebble thing..or whatever their femtocell is named.. and if I don't have it plugged in, then I have either the x for no signal, or roaming to AT&T (tower is a mile away and my firstnet phone gets great speeds on that tower).. but no TM roaming on that particular tower.

  4. 26 minutes ago, dkyeager said:

    I analyzed some of the early cellmapper finds of Dish in Las Vegas and found some were likely using Boost Mobile T- Mobile sims and not the more recent Boost Mobile AT&T sims.

    With a regular T-Mobile sim you can easily see other plmns operating in your area.  I have not seen 313 340 yet.

    I was contacted (email) and offered to participate in the testing of the Dish cellular network..Since I don't reside in the LV area...I couldn't take part in the initial testing. 

    Hopefully expansion will allow me to take part in the future and I can report findings on it here...if that does happen.

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  5. I've noticed the past 2 weeks or so..using that Tmobile femtocell (I forget the name they call it, but it provies B66 using my home internet connection) must be having issues or something. My GN20 5g keeps needing to be airplane cycled because texts error out.  Even using wifi calling it still happens. It's been fine all this time and suddenly it's doing this. Also... people aren't able to call me when it's hung and needs to be cycled.. I've tried to call when it's happening and it immediately hangs up without the call going through.

  6. I haven't seen anyone saying much on this..but have the airave/airvana's officially been decommissioned?? 

    Noticed a couple of weeks ago mine had 2-3 red lights ( I'm thinking 2...but I don't want to get up and go look)...

    I've tried the pin-hole reset...unplugging...still get the same thing...it's appearing to be offline..

     

  7. On 7/9/2021 at 10:10 AM, though said:

    How did you obtain the Tmobile femtocell? Are you on Sprint billing or T-Mobile billing?

    I'm on Sprint billing...but I was able to get a trouble ticket sent up, and the system sent me a text message with the ticket number and a phone number to call in about the ticket that was opened... The agent told me if I would switch one of my 5 lines back to a Tmobile SIM, he could order me the femtocell..but I had to have one of the lines on a Tmo SIM for him to be able to order it. That is how I got it.

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  8. Well, the femtocell works as it should. Calls, texts and data all are OK ...even though I'm completely out of service coverage, with not even a spec of fringe to connect to...and the closest signal is 2 miles away...

    B66 AWS is what is shown on SCP...

    (Irony edit for a fun fact)

     

    The irony in how this is connected....I have the Airvana/Airave on Sprint still hooked up...which gives my Sprint-SIM'd devices connections... but I am using the LAN port on the Airvana as the WAN connection to the Tmobile Cellspot...

    So the Airvana is connected to the Cellspot. Seems to be working ok..but I need to log in to the Airvana and possibly DMZ the Cellspot so there's no weird double-nat issue on the Cellspot...or other weird things. So far calling, texts, etc all seems to work fine.

    Tmobile Cellspot

  9. Well..I just received the Tmobile femtocell. I am not sure if this is the device referred to as "Pebble"..but here's the model number: ALU 9961v2 4GLTE CELLSPOT. I wasn't sure exactly what they would send...since they've gone from some sort of cooked-firmware Asus routers, to some type of femtocell as this. Has Nokia on the back of it.

    I've had it for about 3 hours and it still hasn't finished activating. Since there is ZERO signal here..not even fringe signal... I have to go somewhere else to let it catch a couple bars  then bring it home and see if it's going to hold.

    "somewhere else" where I go to get signal is 2 miles up the road. Literally speaking...

    And it's B71 that I latch onto...if they would just bump the power a few mW...wouldn't take much to get signal to me.

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  10. I was told by a tech that I called in and talked with (because a trouble ticket was created, and I received a text msg saying "call <this number> in regards to ticket #_______ at your convenience"...)

    that my account actually says that Tmobile is NOT recommended because network conditions in my home area aren't the greatest. He told me that he was going to 1)issue a request up to some higher techs/engineers about the power levels of b71 in my area, 2)issue a new ticket about coverage in this area, and 3)switch me back to Tmobile SIM on just my phone, then placed an order for the Tmobile Pebble.

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  11. I had a tech try to switch me back to TMO SIM yesterday -- well, he actually did switch temporarily...and it wouldn't activate (at my home), so he switched me back to Sprint. I'm in the 3rd week of having a non-working phone unless I'm within range of wifi that is fast enough to have wifi calling connected. I had to call the store and explain to the tech that during the screen replacement that I had 3 weeks ago, it appears that an antenna wire was not connected because wifi works fine, but cellular doesn't hardly work at all..and the way it goes is: WIfi calling connects and works. VOLTE will connect and work. LTE will pass data but no voice calls...Roaming won't connect at all. At home, in range of the Airave (B41), i show on SCP that it's on the Airave...but soon as I place a call, it goes from 4 bars, 3 bars, 2 bars, 1 bar...then 1 bar of R...then the call just drops. Same for places where VOLTE doesn't connect and it's just LTE only...has the same behavior.  It's strange that my wife has the exact same phone..and hers will work fine but mine will do the 4-3-2-1, R, then drop.  I explained to the tech in the closest store...detailed my hours-long convos with various levels of tech and online chat..and told her that i just wanted a working phone...so, over the phone, she was nice enough to just order me a replacement. I told her that I had brought the phone in to have someone take it apart and verify everything was connected..but all they did was "run tests" on it and didn't do anything to the actual internals...which doesn't solve the problem.

    I was forced to use my Firstnet phone for the past 3 weeks and missed a couple of job interviews because the apps I put in were a day or 2 before I had the phone screen replaced due to stuck pixels. So I'm not sure who's tried to call...but unless it's been on wifi calling...they haven't managed to get me.

  12. Visited a Sprint-converted-to-Tmobile store last  week because my GNote 20 5G suddenly had a small cluster of stuck pixels that wouldn't go away (tried 3 apps that ran "tests" and made it flicker like crazy)..so they replaced my screen - and battery. 

    Something didn't get plugged back in, or came loose...now I can literally watch the SCP app bounce from B25, B26, B41 back to B25...all within 5-6 seconds. Try to make a call with 5 bars and it suddenly drops to zero bars and the call doesn't complete. Headed back to store tomorrow to see if they can fix it...

    But beware the "techs"...doesn't sound like they check everything like they should.

    I was 3 miles away last week after they replaced my screen when i realized they kept my damn stylus and I had to turn around and go back!!

  13. I wish I could get some detailed signal information for my area...

    Using a microtik LHG with a quectel EM160R modem...I was able to do an antenna scan and find Sprint signal...but it wants to latch on to "extended network" ...and doesn't report MCC/MNC of "Extended Network"...however the signal for Extended is around -68..but it also says "roaming not allowed" above the LTE interface. 

    Won't show any of that when i put an AT&T or Firstnet SIM in the LHG...only when I use the Sprint SIM. (not TMO sim).

  14. 17 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

    That's interesting. At some point in the merger process when the the Sprint brand is "no more", they'll have to migrate all the Sprint customers to become T-Mobile customers and account for the current billing status of each account/line so that it's a seamless transition. We switched our lines to TNX, so I guess that's a predicate step for it. Hopefully they can do this while the "plane is in the air" and not require what that manager told you.

    I definitely don't want to pay 4 phones (probably $2500+) off just so I can turn around and put those same phones right back on as a Tmobile customer, just to get...what..maybe $20-$30 a month in savings?

    I am sure if they wanted to really give a discount, they could.

  15. While Tmobile is doing hardly anything near me...I can't say much for AT&T either. 

    I have been assigned as the administrator for firstnet for my FD...so I am able to order prod/services for the station and members...and I'm here to tell yall..AT&T isn't doing much better with the B14 rollout.

    My station, according to the map that AT&T gives me access to (basically it's a map of all the towers in the USA with a dot on each tower's location), is 3.5 miles from 1 tower to the east, and 5.9 miles from another tower towards the southwest. With towers that close, and the Microtik SXT LTE on the roof of the station...I can barely get a -95 on B14 and B2....

    I even changed out the modem in the 'Tik to a Quectel EC25-AF and it still doesn't do much better.

     

    And Tmobile advertises discounts for first responders...i found out because I clicked a Facebook ad showing a discount...

    They called me and said I needed to verify with paperwork..and to physically take the paperwork to the nearest store -- so I did. I printed out my AL Fire College certification for Firefighter II...

    The manager of the store told me that there was nothing he could do because I am still considered a "Sprint" customer, and unless I paid off all my devices and started over, the discount wouldn't apply to me.

    WHAT?!?!?

    So yeah... not the best thing to hear. 

  16. 17 minutes ago, stlman314 said:

    I found 2 here in the STL market. However neither of them have been turned on yet.

    I don't know what's going on here either (35150 // 35044) since there is apparently no permit system or what-have-you...it's hard to find much information...

    However...it is becoming like a broken record now with Tmobile...every time they speak to me (chat, phone)...the SIM swap speech.  Maybe some account notes would help mitigate this..but I'm on Sprint SIM STILL because Tmobile sucks bigtime here. Like literally there is not even a bar at my house... So much suck that I can't even activate a Tmo SIM at home...The last time I attempted...I had to leave and drive up the road 3 miles just to get activation to work.. 

    For 2 weeks I dealt with the wifi calling not working correctly (it would work for about an hour after we got back home from being within Tmo coverage then would just quit allowing calls/texts)..and zero bars of service -- inside, outside..whatever..the phone said "no service"

  17. Trying to use Sprint/Tmobile with a 5g unlocked hotspot is really not easy. 

    If you order a test-drive from Tmo, apparently they lock the SIM to that cheap hotspot and you can't move it... Not sure if it's done pre-shipping or if it's done upon turning it on and registering on the network...I will find that out in a couple of days... but it's not easy to test out the network with a hotspot device.

    I guess I should note that the hotspot being used isn't whitelisted on ANY carrier  yet... but I don't think that should matter (It does work fine on AT&T and Firstnet and Tmobile business plan)....

  18. I had to switch back to Sprint SIM. 

    Far as tower info...I can't find much for AL... I know where the towers are for 35150/35151...but I can't seem to find much for permitting in this state.. 

    I don't even think there are any users still hanging around here that are AL residents...

    Just having the roaming capability that I didn't have with TMO is saving me ...because without a femtocell, on TMO...I got absolutely NOTHING. And wifi calling is a joke... 

    1.5 - 2 miles away...I can easily pick up n66 ...and B2. Here's hoping they see this ATT tower that's 1 mile from me and decide to colocate if they can get that option.

  19. On 3/18/2021 at 11:59 AM, Luuminator said:

    I live in metro Detroit and it feels like I am now being throttled with my sprint SIM card. Twitch won’t play anymore unless I am connected to WiFi, I keep getting connection issues using my bank app, and Amazon . Those are other apps that won’t run properly. My wife and 17 year old are also having issues with different apps/web. All our iPhones are up to date and have been restarted. Just curious if anyone else is also having issues 

    This is why I fear going back to a Sprint SIM. My sons are still on Sprint SIM with their phones, which we just got at Christmas. The two notes that I got 2 weeks ago were sent with Sprint SIM inside, but with TMO SIM in the box that I was told to replace and activate...

    FirstNet phone obviously works great...I didn't really want to get a 2nd phone + carrier for myself just to have service at home, but I really can't afford to miss a call...  And is this going to be like Sprint 10 years ago? I called in to cancel back in 2010 and instead was sent an airave... the Samsung version. Told that Sprint would be growing and service should improve. I will say that I was able to make roaming phone calls, even though i was far from having native service...I can't even do that now. I don't understand why I can't even place a call on AT&T towers .. when with Sprint SIM...unlimited roaming for voice and 100mb of data was allowed. (also throw in texts)...

    3 miles away from my house, 600mhz works great... so that means it's here..and likely on one of the towers that within 7-8 miles from me...so why can't 600 propagate far enough to just get me 1-bar.... 

    Another great thing would be a Magic Box in a 600/700 variant for Tmo...

    Or even something to boost band 2...since I can get a bar or so of that in the lower section of my front yard. Frustrating isn't the word .. we've been kinda left out in the cold by customer service... I gave up on calling in because I can't understand half of them.

    I know for a fact I can't be the only person who's just not feeling great about the merger and what's happening with the two networks..

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