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Any update for Oregon/SW Washington market? We seem to have all the right ingredients for Volte including band 26, 15x15 band 25, fully deployed band 41 yet no Volte..

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1st my Question was why did I get the Update when Nobody knows when VOLTE will be available in Mississippi if ever? My Bet Never, will have a different phone by then, meanwhile there is a Update that does Absolutely Nothing! 1st Sprint should have added the Service, then Released the Update!

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Is Sprint phasing out Calling Plus in favor of VoLTE?

On 4/29/2019 at 11:08 AM, Brad The Beast said:

Would or would not?

Yeah wouldn't not sure why Sprint has done 10x10 A block by now. Verizon has to benefit from swaps also. That's why you should support the TMobile merger. The combined carrier could do B2 15x15+ B2 5x5+B66 5x5+B66 5x5+ B71 10x10. 

The Att and TMobile merger would have left us with 2 large carriers and an underfunded Sprint. The Sprint and T-Mobile merger could provide a third strong competitive carrier.  That seems like the difference to me.  Is there another way to look at it?

https://www.lightreading.com/business-employment/customer-experience/if-sprint-t-mobile-divest-customers-in-a-merger-they-could-call-america-movil/d/d-id/751153?
Interesting....

it is a lte and what is funny data on lte work  cdma network is nowhere to be seen i keep seeing voice network not avable   and the app to show more inof about celphone signal say the 1x network no signal like it was shut down 

i was asking about my phone stop working  for phone call and tex message .

What can i do since my phone was reset and it work on the cdma network since the cdma network say no new activation in that article .

and i am talking as best as i can 

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the reason why i ask is i doint know if cdma  can still be active it was full reset i herd in the new new phone can not be set  up on cdma do that mean old phone being full reset  

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I got to use it when I was in Florida in 2017. Had the S5 back then. Almost 100 down like 90 something and 40 up Sent from my SM-G965U1 using Tapatalk
 
 
 
 

Has anyone done any RootMetrics mapping since 15x15 band 25 was rolled out?

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May 7, 2019
The results will be posted at www.sprint.com/investors at approximately 4:05 p.m. ET.
Sprint management will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET to discuss the results.

Sprint has implemented ORNL to allow the network to push users from EVDO to LTE, although they seem to have halfassed the deployment. The ORNL transmit cycle is additionally usually configured to be so long that you might as well wait for the device rescan timer to push you back up to LTE. I've only experienced a good ORNL deployment in a few rare locations...I remember consistently reconnecting to LTE in Hawaii 10-15 seconds after dropping to EVDO. 

Historical the FCC would ask Verizon or AT&T to take over the Spectrum, Customers, and assets. LOL

Likely as Sprint (or their successor) would be selling it and they're keeping at least 1x800 up til 2021.

CDMA 1x1900 would probably be the first to go as Volte takes up more of the voice load and 1x800 covers the decreasing share of devices not volte capable. Evdo 1.9 would remain at least for edge of cell areas where LTE data just don't make it yet.

Likely to see a 3 MHz B25 carrier at least in some areas when this happens.

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Likely as Sprint (or their successor) would be selling it and they're keeping at least 1x800 up til 2021.

CDMA 1x1900 would probably be the first to go as Volte takes up more of the voice load and 1x800 covers the decreasing share of devices not volte capable. Evdo 1.9 would remain at least for edge of cell areas where LTE data just don't make it yet.

Likely to see a 3 MHz B25 carrier at least in some areas when this happens.

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Option 3:  Unrelated business purchases it (Dish, cable operator, Warren Buffet, General Motors, McDonald's, ???).

This could be a positive for the merger, gonna be down to possibly 3 carriers anyway.

I am aware. But as far as Sprint is concerned, it is going away. 

In areas where Sprint holds the PCS C block, CDMA is usually thinned down to two 1x1900 carriers and a single EVDO1900 carrier. This allows for 4x4 MIMO on the LTE carrier. 
In areas where 1900 holdings aren't contiguous and a single L1900 carrier can’t be deployed, EVDO isn't usually thinned as much as Sprint can’t run two 4x4 LTE carriers. 
I can see EVDO being shut down by year end and Sprint running a single 1x1900 carrier in the L1900 guard band (in addition to their 1x800 carrier). Because VZW CDMA is going away in a matter of months, Sprint is working hard to get a VoLTE solution up and running fast. Supplementing L1900 bandwidth and stretching L1900 to its maximum range will be key to voice reliability as it will free up capacity on L800 for VoLTE in edge-of-cell scenarios (where Sprint currently struggles). 

It will happen eventually, but probably not for at least a few more years. They'll keep 1x800 around for CDMA voice, and they have put a single 1x1900 carrier in the LTE internal guard band plus some overlap (Airave 3s, at least in some markets, have been doing this since launch). It's unclear if this was intentional, and if so, under what conditions it works. The real holdup is if/when they want to drop EVDO.  

In some markets, they've shut down the 2nd EVDO carrier to enable 4x4 on B25, so there are many areas that only have a single EVDO carrier now. I suspect they won't shut it down completely though until LTE coverage is solid, since too many devices now drop to CDMA in dead zones and then take forever (30+ min) to switch back to LTE. Data would then be unusable without EVDO, and most people wouldn't know to airplane toggle to get LTE back.

 

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Yay! Finally. That means PCS refarm too.

So what does this mean for devices that aren't VoLTE supported yet? iPhone 7 and older for example?

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I still don't understand all this delay. There are very defined roles for government agencies to approve or reject the deal. The DOJ with the anti-trust angle and the FCC with the concentration of spectrum. All the consumer angles as in possibility of higher prices or the potential loss of jobs are not part of the consideration process. Now there are potential DOJ angles as far as previous roaming contracts that need to be enforced, assignments of Sprint spectrum to roaming partners in exchange for free or low cost roaming etc, etc. The FTC might take into consideration the issue that the the deal might "substantially lessen competition".

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FYI: There are vast portions of the country without  significant amounts of Band 41.  Outside of metro areas 20+20+15 is fairly common.  There are many locations with even less.  The FCC has started discussions of making more available, but that is likely on hold awaiting a merger decision. 

I've already seen 26+25 though...

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