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Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread
rackhivee replied to Nextel49's topic in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment
The only thing that's going to happen is they will cut down on goodies and keep the same prices, which doesn't go against what they promised the DOJ. Pretty sure we'll start seeing our unlimitted plans throttled a few months after the merger and Dish just sucking and staying an MVNO until VZ, ATT and the new tmobile paying a premium for their wireless licenses. Not anything diff6from the previous mega mergers from airlines, ATT/Time Warner, ATT/DirecTV and ATT/Cingular. All just fluff. -
I believe my phone actually picked up B26 in Las Cruces, at least signal check displayed that. I’ll be back there in February, I’ll verify if it was a true hit on B26. B41 runs at 40+ Mbps and B25 at 20+ Mbps, hardly any slow spots in Las Cruces. I imagine El Paso still has some bad areas, but at least around Bowie Bakery I had useable service whereas before it would just timeout.
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Also, on a separate note, my magic box is providing upload speeds I had never seen before from it. Upwards of 6 mbps. Is this a result of the 64 qam on uploads?
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The small cell in my neighborhood is getting close to having backhaul deployed now that ATT is bringing FTTH to the neighborhood. The pole is right by the primary flex point and its handole. Also saw them pull the main backhaul fiber from a handhole a block north from the small cell.
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So visiting Las Cruces this weekend, drove though El Paso and I-10 seems to be fixed between just east of downtown El Paso all the way to Las Cruces. Las Cruces itself seems to be covered with 8t8r's as I am seeing 3 carriers in the south, central and northern parts of the city. Just the addition of B41 unloaded a lot of B25 for those less lucky areas. Haven't seen MM and it's curious that El Paso has those while Las Cruces gets the better equipment.
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Something from Forbes Regarding the in screen fingerprint scanner everyone keeps hoping for.
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Well that explains it. I'm actually impressed they upgraded their current customers without having us call in for the upgrade.
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Unrelated to Sprint, anybody here from San Antonio that uses Spectrum for their internet service? The past few days my internet speed has gone up, damn near pulled 200 Mbps DL just a couple minutes ago. 150 Mbps last night. I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering if they are changing their 100 Mbps tier to higher speeds or if I'm just getting lucky with this. I haven't made any changes to my account.
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Looks like the small cell I found a couple weeks ago is close to coming live. It Needs a power meter, don't know if this will be a relay or if it will have a different type of backhaul. Don't know much about small cells. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yYsqb51_yI9kbGZccxXqy9ds4j1laxDz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/121fw6XrIBB3FW8jngwdQ0qa9xHw3tUWh/view?usp=sharing
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This is the first sign I have seen of Sprint doing some physical work in San Antonio since a few permits that came through earlier in the year. I tried looking for permits for this install, but I didn't find anything in the portal for either Sprint or Mobilitie. This makes me wonder if Mobilitie has a subcontractor working this area.
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Here is the tag on the pole. No equipment on it yet. It just came up this evening, around 6 I'm told.
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I found a Mobilitie light post in my neighborhood tonight. I will post a picture when I get home from my walk with my dog.
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Before MB I was usually parked in lackluster B25 and B26 in and outside my house, pulling less than 1 Mbps. Only had B41 ocassionally in my bedroom on the second floor. I managed to test that B41 service a few times at -115 dBm and pulled 30 to 50 Mbps, but only in my bedroom. Not in the front yard, not in my backyard or anywhere else around my neighborhood. Now I get around 10 Mbps throughout the house and around my property, which is a 10x increase from before, uploads remained consistent at around 3 to 5 Mbps. Obviously if I constantly had B41 service I wouldn't have requested the MB.
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I think my MB is running a single carrier of B41 backhaul. I get speeds of a third of what my phone can get in the one room in my house that gets any B41 with 3 CA. Between 10 and 16 Mbps where the phone alone can reach 30 to 50 Mbps download.
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I do not. That's the only one I know about.
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Definitely that upload speed is killing Sprint's score still. Overall the network has improved a bit since the last testing period. If you spend all your time downtown like most tourists it won't seem as bad as it appears. The rest of the scores most closely reflect the true experience, not that network speed test.
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I switched to this phone from an LG G6 and I'm noticing a difference in the RF performance, a positive difference. At home I had never pulled over 1 mbps in upload when connected to B41 and this phone just pulled 4.5 up at a -118 dBm, which is the type of performance I expected from the G6. I'm happy I made the switch so far.