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I agree with that. Now if T-Mobile can make some deals to acquire more 700Mhz (AT&T?) to where it's almost national that will be great. Or if they can trade 700Mhz for 600Mhz with let's say Comcast or other 600Mhz holders that will be great also.

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I signed up for Sprint's unlimited kickstart plan and noticed there is a lot of "extended network" coverage near me. Today was the first chance I had to test it when I left native coverage. It switches to US Cellular but all I got was the R indicator on my phone. Same indicator when it switches to Verizon. I have my settings as Automatic for network instead of Home only. I also have data roaming turned off. Basically my question is, how can I know when I am on extended network instead of roaming? Most of the coverage west of me shows extended network with very little roaming areas. I don't want to get charged for roaming on accident. 

You won't be charged roaming while in the USA. Period. End of story.  
Turn on data and enjoy.  Talk and enjoy.  Text and enjoy. 
VZW/ATT data will be slow/unusabled and you only have a 100MB bucket.  After this bucket is used you are cut off.  Everyone else data experience should be usable and treated as if native.

Only LTE matters for VoLTE. 700Mhz iirc, which would also be different for Sprint to handle in setting up VoLTE.

Delay I could understand.  One possible reason for delay would be low band implimention. Should be good in the end but I don't know the current status.

So according to sprint customer support... PR will not be included for voLTE.   Anyone can confirm that?  What a shame.. if thats true.

Look again. Added a new pic. 40mhz lte. NR doesnt tell its spectrum.

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I was in Atlanta and Sprints 5G coverage was impressive but most of the time it felt like LTE speeds with a 5G icon. Kinda of like AT&T's 5GE. When band b41 LTE didnt work good then neither did N41. The highest speed I managed was around 450 which is great but it was not common. Also the fact that it was using LTE at the same time makes it even more obvious that Sprint is not putting the backhaul as a high priority. I went inside the Atlanta aquarium and had full bars of 5G but speeds at best was around 15mbps. Meanwhile Verizons LTE was doing around 75mbps and 40-60 upload too. 
All and all I gotta say I was left fairly disappointed and now see why Sprint needs T-mobile.
 
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USA Mobile Network Experience Report (July 2019)
https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2019/07/usa/mobile-network-experience
Here’s where Sprint stands. Lots of work to do... although Sprint was only .1 behind AT&T in 4G availability percentage.

Would the speeds increase if additional backhaul was deployed to these 5G sites, or is this the real-world threshold of Sprint’s 2.5 Spectrum?

5 mhz.  

Not really sure, I think a single carrier would max out around 35mb but with carrier aggregation you'll get more than that of course. In ideal conditions I can get close to 50mb around the island. 

Yep, for years now as soon as I got on the island I switch to 3g because that was reliable while lte performance was non existent regardless of the time of day or night or location. Now I don't have to do that anymore.

Seems like a slap in the face really.  Doesn't Ligado own 34x34 (entire LTE B24) but GPS sits right in the middle.  How much more do they own? B24 goes up to 1660.5MHz. This win is 1675-1680MHz.  Not even close to B24. 
 

Didn't know it was dynamic, that alone justifies moving all spectrum to NR as soon as possible.

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Turn the corner away from a Verizon 5G node and this is what happens, it drops to LTE and Sprint keeps a solid 5G connection.

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https://m.imgur.com/gallery/GeEBKYt

Anybody knows when voLTE will be available in Puerto Rico?  I saw that in the US is already available almost in 44 states.

This merger and the resulting DOJ circus is turning into a house party where everyone brings a booze to throw into the 32 gallon pale for the Party Punch!    LOL.... How many more players/ companies will the DOJ entertain before getting this done?   
This is the most bizarre regulatory approval process!

I don't believe Sprint/SoftBank will die. SoftBank has simply never given Sprint the capital it needed to compete. Masa put Marcelo in there to slim the company down and prepare it for a merger. At the same time, Marcelo fed the market stories like this: https://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-ceo-give-us-two-years-and-our-network-will-blow-past-rivals/ (May 27, 2015)
It's unfortunate that in the dogged pursuit of a merger that Masa passed on the 600 MHz spectrum to pursue a monopole deployment strategy, which everyone in traditional tower telecom (given their own inherent self-interest of course) said wouldn't work... and it didn't (costing $180 Million in the process).... and now Sprint is in the position of having to deploy 5G on a nationwide scale, without the economic benefits associated with having lowband spectrum to do it. Furthermore, Sprint's lack of lowband spectrum is one of Sprint's primary justifications for the merger with T-Mobile.
The DOJ and the market at large shouldn't grant SoftBank a merger under these circumstances. Real competition is keeping 4 carriers on the market. Reducing the market to 3 competitors is a net negative overall in my opinion.

Has SoftBank’s inability or unwillingness to invest in Sprint been put forth as a justification for the merger?

Do you think that this means that New T Mobile will have access to Dish's spectrum holdings while they "help Dish out"?   

Tyroned, I'm reading this same info, but not seeing the "DOJ still not happy part"?  Where are you getting this?     Can you link or post something?

Deal between dish and TMO is done, but DOJ still not happy




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It and most others were slated and actually prepared for VoLTE in January when the decision was made.

It's funny because Google actually included the sprint IMS settings for sprint volte but sprint didn't block the Pixel 3s access capabilities. Hence why force enabling it works on all sprint eNBs (macro + A4/3/MB OG - Gen3).

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The S9 was a phone, just like all the others, which they did not have time nor budget to customize software for.