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12 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

I know that a lot of us are gungho about this merger but once the excitement dies down you are faced with the reality of it. Here are some sobering thoughts:

1. The combined company will be approximately $70B in debt

2. They need to integrate the two companies from the business point of view

3. They have to put T-Mobile equipment on 10-11,000 Sprint sites

4. They have put new Sprint/T-Mobile equipment on another 10,000 brand new sites

5. They have to subsidize new handsets that contain all frequencies

6. They have to subsidize 5G handsets

7. They need to deploy 5G nationwide on the combined network

That's just off the top of my head. I am sure we can come with additional expenses. That's a lot of money!!! now they sold Sprint's 800Mhz spectrum to Dish and Boost also to dish for about $5B so that will help but they will still need a lot of money.

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.

On 1/27/2019 at 7:38 AM, tyroned3222 said:

Yup, and as far as I know that’s still with out band 26 and sprint went ahead and launched volte here as well


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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.

El Paso and Las Cruces are night and day from when I was there a little over a year ago, especially Las Cruces.

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?

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.

I didn't take any pictures of the sites in Las Cruces, but from what I gathered they replaced their old equipment with 16t16r equipment.  It was a great experience overall, even on B25.  B26 will be a great addition there.

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.

3 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:

Also,all of the sites that got Mimi macro upgrades last year ... Are all permitted for upgrades again ... Just thought that was interesting

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If they're getting ready to start rolling out B26 they probably need to go install RRU's since they probably hadn't bothered, being in the IBEZ and what not.

Something from Forbes Regarding the in screen fingerprint scanner everyone keeps hoping for.

3 hours ago, BucketHead25 said:

Charter has announced speed increases for several markets recently.  http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Leak-Heres-the-New-Charter-Gigabit-Markets-Launching-Next-Week-140899

This forum has actual results from users in those markets http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31733904-HSI-Charter-speed-increases

Well that explains it.  I'm actually impressed they upgraded their current customers without having us call in for the upgrade.

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.

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

2 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:

I spotted the sprint panel that provides band 41 on top of the Sprint store ...

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Is that where the Hollywood video used to be next to Taco Bell?

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.

Here is the tag on the pole.  No equipment on it yet. It just came up this evening, around 6 I'm told.

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.

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.

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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Excelente.

I thought Sprint only had 15 MHz (7.5 + 7.5) of original PCS (A-F) spectrum in Las Cruces? Or maybe that was in Deming/Lordsburg...I can't remember. One of those towns along I-10 was definitely spectrum starved.

Well, from a post in "The Wall" about VZW & TM spectrum swap I gathered that it has 20 MHz of C block allocated for Sprint and the usual 10 MHz G block for a total of 30 MHz in Las Cruces.

I think sprint can do 10 MHz on b 25 in las cruces

 

 

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You might be right. I'll check the logs and compare to previous EARFCNs for Las Cruces unless someone beats me to it.

I was in Las Cruces this weekend and the network experience increased significantly from the last time I was there in early June, even though they only have one B25 carrier. Everywhere in the city that I went to the network was great. I didn't take any engineering screenshots though.

Ya makes sense ! Do you happen to have another site to check the permits In El Paso the one permit site has been down for 2 weeks now

 

 

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I do not. That's the only one I know about.

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.

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.