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So a couple times in the past few weeks my phone would not come out of standby mode. I would hit power, hold down the power, press home button and volume keys. After 30 seconds it would come alive. Anyone else had this issue?

 

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I've had that happen, randomly. But something even more random, today my battery is at 44% with 10 hours on battery. Usually I'd be recharging it by now. Only about 2 hours of screen on time though.

Nope I circle a 1 miles radius... still band 25 only

 

 

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So you have a verizon and a Sprint phone?

And their is not telling when that will be

 

 

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Are you sure it's not broadcasting? Seems like a waste to just have it there.

Probably want to turn it on in clusters

 

 

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A cluster would imply they're installing multiple sites within an area. I haven't taken a look at where the sites of the other permits are. They don't need to turn them on in clusters, the eCSFB problem was with the initial NV equipment.

I wonder why it's not active yet

 

 

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How long ago did it change to "inspection" status on the website. Might be that it hasn't been inspected by the city inspector. Once it is, I doubt It'll take long to start broadcasting. The one site I was wholly aware they were installing B41 took about 3 weeks after the panels were up to start testing and broadcasting. They fiddled with it for like a month.

That looks like B41 equipment used in Ericsson land on the setups hanging off the side of the building. The shorter flatter panel is the B41, the larger rounder looks like NV equipment.

it's on top of a Marriott hotel hard to see the the panels. I will take a pic to see if you can make out anything

 

 

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I'm inclined to say the NV panels are the ones handing off the side of the building. The new panels should be right there next to them.

another site under review for modifications. Now I'm more convinced that sprint has a decent funding set aside to have a good amount of sites converted to band 41

 

 

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The 1600 airway says it's ready for inspeaction, have you checked it out to see if they have 2 panels in each sector?

If OpenSignal is reliable at locating sites then I believe I may have found a new cell site around Sulphur Springs Rd and Foster Rd in southeast San Antonio. It might explain why when I first moved into my house my phone was constantly roaming on VZW or spend a lot of time in 1x800. Now I'm on LTE 90 percent of the time. I'll try to confirm one of these days. The site appears to be a full B25/26/41 build colocated with another vendor and not in the Original NV build or even part of the Clear and Nextel sites.

So far that is 5 sites... i will check in the coming weeks i hope they can get most sites done by summer.

 

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Doesn't El Paso have like 80 sites top? I've never counted them, but if they did approve enough funding for it they could have all of El Paso fitted with B41 by summer. They won't,but I'm saying they could.

Yeah, all of this sounds like you'll just have a better upload experience.  It doesn't sound like it'll "increase" B41 coverage.

Well band 41 coverage is limited by the reach of the upload signal, so if you can be farther away from the tower and still be able to upload then coverage increases.

Then how does it work?

 

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High performance user equipment, increased power output from your device. You can already download at decent speeds on a weak B41 signal, you just can't upload so usually you're moved off the band. A cell phone with increased output should minimize that occurrence. Band 41 cut off on my device is around -117 dbm, even though I still get downloads of up to 17 mbps and timeout on the upload.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOIHFxFj7vS/

 

So that's how it looks when they blow

 

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That's some low quality fake video. They could have at least tried a little harder with color video and none of those vhs tracking lines on the screen. A time stamp would be nice too, it being a security video and all.

It gives new settings under the advanced sub menu allowing you to turn enhanced messaging off and on at will.

Anyone else's phone doing random reboots without your input? Mine has done it twice today and several times in the past though not with such frequency.

How do you know if you've received the push?

I opened the app and it asked if I wanted to turn on enhanced messaging and then some wizardry happened about sharing your sim info with the mobile provider. Didn't get any other updates.

El Paso needs a lot of work, sadly. Even Madison was relatively good as far as reliability goes. It's not a fast market, bet comparing it to the reliability in Denver, it was there. Seems to be the Sprint team is going, we're not the fastest, but we still work for your day to day needs. Except in IBEZ markets below 2 million people

It's great if I don't use my phone or I have it on airplane mode. Lasts through the day.

Please what? The point has been sprint problem in the market place. Several irrelevant excuse have been given and I explained why I believe them to be irrelevant. If grow tired of the discussion don't participate or read it.

 

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Not having money is hardly an irrelevant excuse, nor is being unable to acquire permits, you try building a garage without a permit see if the city doesn't fine you and forces you to demolish it. Work is underway. I get your point, simply narrows down to "sprint sucks and I'm going to complain about it." You're not saying anything new in your arguments, same old Sprint can't execute and their network sucks everywhere, though it doesn't suck everywhere. Again, network inconsistency is ubiquitous through all the carriers, hardly a Sprint only issue. Sprint is just scrutinized more for some reason. If the network doesn't work for someone they'll move on to the next one when they can and it'll either work for them or it won't. From a consumers point of view it's as simple as that. By the way, I have money invested in Sprint and right now I'm up, so we'll see where their plans take them.

My point has been consistent. I dont get what you don't understand.

 

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Consistently inconsistent. We've read all the angles about this debate, we do everytime T-Mobile claims they're the best network. We know Sprint has a plan. TMo is strapped for capacity and the 4×4 mimo seems like the cheapest option to upgrade since they're frantically trying to get more low band spectrum to fill in all the markets that need it. All networks are not ubiquitous, there's anecdotal evidence of that from all networks all over the internet from all the unhappy customers as well as the satisfied ones. Now please.

 

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My point is these excuses are not relevant to a consumer. A customer doesn't care nor should they care about why your product is sub par, they care only that it is sub par. Now, maybe you can make it worth it to them by being cheap, but that isn't likely to generate the kinds of margins needed to pay down 30 billion in debt when your revenue is around 32 billion. That is the problem sprint has and I am not sure it is solvable.

 

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You were talking about it being the cheapest or being the fastest in a competitive market and now you're talking about excuses, debt and consumers.

The problem with sprint is not with the spectrum sprint has, but with the companies ability to deploy it in a fashion that gains it a competitive advantage. Now, it seems they aren't even staying competitive and that is a problem.

 

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Reading through that reddit thread it seems Tmo is the one trying to stay competitive through their deployment of 4X4 MIMO. Only a few devices are currently capable of even using it so it's not a huge deal until they can move more people to capable handsets. Sounds like a good opportunity to get people to upgrade if they're experiencing slow connections.

 

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This could give credence to the whole Note 7 4x4 idea, although this is for the S7 only right now.

 

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/lte-advanced.htm

Probably didn't want to include it since the phone is currently not for sale. It's the same SOC, so if it's true that the S7 can do 4x4 capable then so is the Note 7.

So Sprint's GS7 and GS7E are also capable of 4X4 mimo since it's the same SKU.

 

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I can't imagine anyone actually complaining about it after October.

I would hope not, especially since they have the option of upgrading the plan or going to a different carrier.

 

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