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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    I haven't seen any Band 41 in Greenville. My wife and I were on Woodruff Road Shopping today and she complained that the internet was slow on her iPhone 7. I would be surprised if Greenville doesn't get band 41 this fiscal year. I have also been to Clemson Blvd in Anderson and y'all need it badly. Basically, unusable. If Sprint could just deployed it in congested areas that would be enough. I get pretty good speeds in the suburban areas around the Upstate.

    Yeah Clemson Blvd and ever Downtown Clemson is nothing but Timeouts I did a speed test in Clemson I couldn't even get a complete but knock it down to 3G u get around 1mbps lol what I usually do in those areas and we need it bad but out laying areas are fine

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    Just a follow up on my B41 in Columbia I was only attached to 2 sites that SCP did not guess a band that fit the nokia mini macro B41 style. Both were near exit 9 I-77 one picked up 3 sectors so pretty sure about where that is and the other is just one sector so it would be a guess to where it would be. The different GCI for each sector makes it a pain to be sure though. It goes from 022A0731 to 022A3532 meaning there may be up to 10 sites live in the market some where to fill in the missing GCI.

    Good to know I haven't been to Downtown Anderson for about going tomorrow anyone seen any band 41 around Greenville/Spartanburg areas yet?

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    Nope. 12 was the only non-Sprint band listed in my phone, which is interesting because the phone itself is compatible with every LTE band currently used in the US. And while on that thought, I don't think I've ever roamed in LTE for some reason. I do head out into the boondocks occasionally and usually I roam on 3G only.

    I know a lot of areas around here in the Upstate are Roaming on AT&T now for LTE which this is a new thing happening I know I used it for a bit it did not count against my roaming data pool it's better than Verizon 1x roaming which sometimes never worked highest I hit in AT&T roaming has been 1mbps down which to me is better than nothing at least usable

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    Way I have seen B26 work in SC is if you are near a tower u will get B25 the further away you get then u will pick up B26 which I have seen around here in the upstate B26 is faster than 25 some areas 25 crawls but still won't boot u to B26 so in cases like that I just force my phone down to 3G to get over 1mbps cause when 25 is congested it goes down to 0.5mbps to timeouts

     

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Also want to note back in the days when it was suppose to be WiMAX they had a issue rolling it out in the market about some kind of Band restriction a provider already had WiMAX rolled out I think it was called Open range something like that I knew they where a few towers in Greenville SC 2 in Anderson SC and a Few in Spartanburg SC so I dunno if that is still a issue cause the company is now defunct

     

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Sprint is just to Slow with rolling out B41. They come up with priority crap. If you cover it then give it some capacity. B41 started in 2013. Att B30 started in 2015 yet att Deployment is ahead of Sprints.

     

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    What I know but if you look at Sprints coverage map in Upstate SC it's almost 100% covered so it's a major market they have been abusing

     

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Posted · Edited by jimmyray1990

    Anyone know what is going on in SC 5x5 LTE is getting unusable pretty bad when you have to force your phone 3G to stream stuff and im talking about in the upstate you can go 6 miles into Georgia on 85 and get B41 same way into North Carolina but all we have is B25 and B26

     

    Edit: Speed tests on LTE during peak times tops out at avg 1mbps to fails upload is usually fails

     

    3G is 3+Mbps down 2+up

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    That is strange I know the usual way on my iPhone I find out if I am on VzW I will dail a number wrong and get the VZW message to check my number but in that area I was connected to VZW on 1x and field test was giving me Band 17 for Data and those where the speeds I was getting with that I was able to load Facebook look at webpages when before when it said 1x it would not do anything at all

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    Okay what is up with sprint I went into Georgia today 2 miles in bam hit Band 41 along I 85 and even in the little town of Lavonia GA which is a hick town and they have 2xCA and on B25 they have 10Mhz and you back into South Carolina back on Slow Band 25/26 with 5MHz does sprint just not have the spectrum in SC I mean a small town less than 500 has 41 and I had it all the way to Commerce Ga which already had 41 which is also 2xCA now

     

     

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    Posted · Edited by jimmyray1990

    But I just want to also note it seems B26 just got fully optimized at the end of December of last year and the SBA tech says it's up to sprint as most of their towers in Upstate are B41 ready SBA towers as with my tower the panels are there but all pointed down which is kinda sad which he said they where installed in NV upgrades when adding B26 he said at full power and pointed outwards would cover 85 from MM 11 to MM 2 which is there next tower which has B41 equipped but pointed down position which will cover a lot of Lake hartwell area

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - South Carolina Market (Columbia/Greenville/Spartanburg)

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    Posted · Edited by jimmyray1990

    Sorry for the late reply I usually see if anything more develops over a few week span I mean I would be amazed if I could just see one B41 site cuts on I mean u can look at SC in whole 25/27 everywhere except some places that are 3G only due to being a very very rural tower one example type in Anderson SC go down south towards Starr and that is the last 3G only site left in the county 26 is strong I barely see any 3G anymore but I mean I find it odd and if there is some kind of restriction in place cause right when you get to the GA and NC state line on 85 B41 just stops and the only town in SC that had 41 is rock hill and that is a Charlotte Metro market so is there a block for 2.5Ghz in the whole state of SC I did see someone say the Myrtle beach area has a 41 site I mean there is only now 2 major providers for backhaul in SC now and that is AT&T and Spectrum since TWC is gone out of the midlands and coastal areas now and FYI B12 is full powered now but here is a kicker my T-Mobile phone dropped to Edge from a band 12 and my sprint phone stayed on B26 with a constant 4 to 5mbps down I mean just to be honest I think the upstate market is ready for VoLTE

     

     

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