Tengen31

Interesting.  A network you barely ever connect to wins the prize for best network.  I suppose if you never leave the urban core or, like, go inside buildings.

- Trip

 

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Wow awesome, I just got this phone and I've seen loads of actual SA 5G in my area.

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Yea this is the Samsung A71 5G through Sprint

25 minutes ago, stlman314 said:

Found this today in STL

 

 

 

I was actually wrong that is NSA 5G. I was thinking that was the Samsung version of service mode but that's the sprint version

16 minutes ago, stlman314 said:

Found this today in STL

 

 

 

Awesome how fast?

Found this today in STL
 
 
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Does this mean I am ACTUALLY connected to NSA 5G?

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According to Field Test on my iPhone 11 Pro, I'm now picking up the following at home here in DC:

LTE Neighbor 0

Band 12 (-68 nbr_rsrp)

LTE Neighbor 1

Band 41 (-80 nbr_rsrp)

LTE Neighbor 2

Band 41 (-98 nbr_rsrp)

LTE Neighbor 3

Band 41 (-101 nbr_rsrp)

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No Band 25/26.

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In the rest of NYC Sprint was able to deploy 60MHz for Band 41 but in the Bronx their third carrier was something like 10 or 15MHz for a very long time. T-Mobile's n41 carrier in the Bronx is only 20MHz whereas in the rest of NYC it's 40-60MHz.

It provides another ~50Mbps of capacity to the network so it may be worth it. Especially since Sprint (now T-Mobile) has been constrained with Band 41 in the Bronx in the past.

T-Mobile got 10MHz of CBRS in the Bronx. Dish got 20MHz in every borough except Queens where they got 10MHz. Verizon got 40MHz in all 5 boroughs. And Spectrum Wireless got 10MHz in every borough except the Bronx. It also looks like Cox (the cable company) got 10MHz in Queens.

Verizon tries to prevent T-Mobile from getting more 600 MHz spectrum
Verizon says the FCC should not allow T-Mobile access to additional 600 MHz spectrum to “dramatically expand” its lead “in many of the country’s largest markets without subjecting these arrangements to the same rigorous competitive analysis the Commission normally applies to transactions that exceed the spectrum screen.”

So what's stopping them from putting M-MIMO on all their sites in a market, maybe even host 20Mhz on their band 2/25, and then re-sim all Sprint phones in the same market.

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Does anybody know whether T-Mobile partition their M-MIMO between NR41 and B41?

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It’s not. Here in DC we have:
A 1850-1865, 1930-1945 (Legacy Sprint) - 15x15
E 1885-1890, 1965-1960 (Legacy T-Mobile) - 5x5
F 1890-1895, 1970-1975 (Legacy T-Mobile) - 5x5
G 1910-1915, 1990-1995 (Legacy Sprint) - 5x5
I noticed MFBI was enabled around the time they announced the merger and roaming agreement with Sprint, so I assume it was for the benefit of Sprint roamers. 

T-Mobile is broadcasting B25 MFBI on B2 around here, but it’s only a 5x5 slice so it’s usually pretty congested and probably not worth their while to combine with a fairly clear 20 MHz channel of B41.
Just noting the logic that I’ve observed on my phone - that the network and my device seem to want me to sit on a strong B41 signal when it’s available vs the “legacy” T-Mo bands. 

As I recall, B41 CA support is either 41+41 (2CA or 3CA) or 25+41. If T-Mobile wanted folks to CA, they'd have to run MFBI on their B2 sites to broadcast B25, mirroring the way Sprint would've rolled interband CA out.
But, given that T-Mobile is using B41 surgically for capacity at the moment (same way international carriers tend to use B7), they'd rather phones sit solely on B41, where even on a 20 MHz channel speeds are good enough, vs. spreading load across B2, where at the moment they tend to have less capacity than Sprint did on B25.
For example, Sprint has 10x10 + 5x5 of B25 here. T-Mobile has 10x10...and that's it. Contrast to double 10x10 of B4/66 (all within the B4 blocks) and I'm constantly surprised when my phone prefers B2.

Well, if they can entice people to get new phones over the next 3 years with a fantastic 5G network, I think this could go a long way to get users off phones that can't essentially forever roam on TMobile's network as well as grabbing customers from VZW/ATT.  As TMobile reduces the amount of spectrum on B25/41 users could get frustrated at slower speeds and seek a phone upgrade. 

When on band 66 texts seem to hang for several minutes or not go through at all. 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-mobile-overtakes-t-america-200100963.html

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August security update out for factory unlocked.

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I'm very curious to see the ping times and overall performance.

According to Reddit, this update added support for standalone n71 and n41. There was also some internal documentation that showed that T-Mobile has already started deploying standalone 5G. Their 5G network in North Dakota is almost entirely standalone at this point.

Right now you have a total of 12.5x12.5 of cellular spectrum for each cellular carrier. You have 7 MHz of ESMR. You could have 30 Mhz of band 26 owned by the cellular carriers and couple of Mhz for guard bands. T-Mobile does not want the band 26 and neither does Dish. Otherwise Dish would not have an option, they would have a firm agreement.