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there is no such thing as lte plus either. Either way it is no secret that Sprint needs more FDD spectrum and I'm glad they are doing something about it.

Isn't LTE plus just a word play on LTE-A (advanced) features? I think Sprint is the only one being close to honest on their LTE branding.

And I totally lost LTE connectivity, I'll be connected but no data forcing the phone to 3G mode works wth... don't know if it's a tower issue or not but this keeps getting better and better. OK well down detector says there are massive outages across the country, great.

 

Fastest 3G I've ever seen however

 

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3G has been performing that way for quite a while now. It's great in overloaded areas when all connections are timing out and most people aren't aware they can turn off 4G. (Vz, ATT, TM and S)

So, you're unnecessarily digging up old posts that have already been answered.

 

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Anything to discredit Sprint progress. (See what I did there?)

I was wondering the same thing. I wanted to change the values but I don't want to break anything.

I have mine set to 2.

Does setting the NextLTE do anything to reduce LTE scan times? I am not experiencing this getting stuck on 3G, or maybe I don't notice if I do get stuck.

Leaving!?! I wish I could go back. Just spent the last week around the state. Great network along the front range. In the mountains, where there is coverage it works well. Spent a couple days in Salida where there is no real service other than roaming in Verizon. And no WiFi where we were! So that was interesting. (I did know we would not have service beforehand so I was prepared).

 

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Yup. I still like it here, but I want my money to go farther than it does here. It kind of sucks I couldn't afford a house until they were this expensive. I don't see the value proposition, as someone who lived here long before anyone considered this a good place to live. It's weird, for many years "everyone" outside the state looked down their noses at this state. So yeah, I'm leaving, sadly.

Colorado seems to hae one of best sprint networks in the country. I am seeing speeds of 60 mbs to 70 mbs and I even gotten couple test with 102 to 110 mbs. I wonder what was sprint motivation behind deploying great network in colorado

Probably the growth of the past couple of years. I'm leaving this state next month.

More low band could help too. *Thinks of 600 mhz auction, gets sad*

 

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Still wouldn't solve the immediate problems that small cells address. It would be too little too late. I haven't found an area with service so poor that my phone calls drop and texts don't go through.

Just curious, what's the difference if any between Sprint Spark vs Sprint's LTE Plus?

 

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Spark was the initial tri-band network with band 41. LTE Plus is carrier aggregation on band 41.

Sprint's problem has never been a monetary one (I don't think a 10b capex will make any difference). Its almost always been execution. It seems counter-intuitive to continue spending at the same levels instead of seeking a proper balance of expenditures and profits. While yes it would be great to install an 8t8r setup in every corner of the USA, but how realistic is that really...Not only from a financial stand point but from a logistical one.

 

They really are taking a completely different approach, and the fact that they added customers and lowered churn says a lot.

 

Analyst saying Sprint will fail!?, well, that's great for them to short the crap out of that stock, nothing more nothing less.

 

Have we not learned from the past?

Thank you.

All corporations through history clean their balance sheets before mergers and acquisitions. So as much anyone anyone wants to be in denial Sprint is basically getting their financial house in order for exactly that.

 

 

That's right, cutting costs and expenditures in order to stay in business is too mainstream. Having a financial road map to profitability and liquidity is wrong. They should forget all about their financial obligations until they make it or go under.

The Marshmallow update for this phone is out now.

Truth is Marcelo made the statement of "18 to 24 months" in May of last year so it hasn't even been a year. People must've misunderstood that to mean 18 to 24 hours, which is when they want their upgrades, now. Sprint hasn't been the Now Network in many years.

That does sound pretty bad, especially if it's happening across the entire market.

Has anyone noticed slower speeds and texts not being sent? I've been having this problem for over a month now especially at work. I reported the tower today so hopefully something will be done soon. Also, I've noticed my phone jumps around a lot among the 3 bands a lot more than it did in the past. Is this to be expected as certain bands on towers get crowded?

I had been experiencing the same jump across all 3 bands here at work in Denver for a few months, but that seems to have stabilized the past few days and am now parked on B41. Maybe you're experiencing optimizations still. It was very annoying, but I didn't experience those service disruptions though.

I hit the update button to check for an update and it's downloading a 1.3 GB file right now.

So, this is my experience so far! Im not bashing sprint or t- mobile.... t- mobile site density much better then sprint by a long shot. Band 4 20×20 is lit up just about everywhere that i have traveled so far. So, that should mean im getting much faster speeds then i am on sprint? Ether T-mobile has such a huge makets share here or there backhaul is not upscaled to support 20×20 mhz yet... tower at my home area i can only use 4G LTE between the hours of 5am and 7am. Everywhere else im getting between 1 and 4mbps...but desnity is great i never drop below 5 bars

 

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I would look more at the SNR values more than the service bars. That will give you a clearer picture of what is happening with your service. Also if the 20 Mhz FDD carrier is a new deployment you might be right about the backhaul.

Very exciting. If this is NGN small cells it is definitely more equipment than I thought would have been necessary though. I thought these things were supposed to be one small module with power going to it... Not separate base units, antennas, and microwave.

No Microwave. Think of it like an airave of sorts that uses existing B41 as back haul. Like a coworker only gets 5 mbps at edge of cell but the existing macro has like 50 mbps bandwidth close to the macro. So the total mbps would be 50 mbps, extended beyond the existing macro footprint. Or something like that.

I am not 100% but I believe you can do google voice integration to your Sprint number and then simply use the Google Voice dialer to make phone calls. Again, I am not 100% but I believe I read somewhere that this is possibility. Might be worth looking into if you're interested.

It's kind of funny because a lot of people are resorting now to turning off BingeOn from the recent news so a lot of the people that already stream 1080p videos all day still do and now there's new people streaming 480p everywhere now because of BingeOn. IMO it seems like it's backfiring. Also, this doesn't even consider the fact that some people likely downgraded their plans due to BingeOn so T-Mobile has a lower ARPU now.

 

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I read this article

 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles-bingeon-optimization-just-throttling-applies

 

And thought it was funny they dressed "throttling" as "optimization".

 

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Anybody experiencing unreported battery use? There's like a 50 percent overhead off of the actual use. It reports 40 percent usage by OS, apps, screen but only 40 percent battery remains and 20 percent is unreported.

 

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I'm up in Loveland and just noticed a 2 by B25 and was wondering what thats about? Thanks for any info.

B25 square? That's a second B25 carrier.

 

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So I woke up this morning with an update from Sprint, forgot what it said but it reinstalled all of the Sprint apps. Anyone else have this happen?

 

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Just now downloading the update. Probably the monthly security update they committed to.

 

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Just noticed the quick battery drain from the voicemail app. No freezing though.

 

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How is the Band 26 deployment going in San Antonio? Seeing better coverage yet?

 

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