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  1. Paynefanbro
    AT&T has an LTE DAS and enterprise WiFi installed at City Point in Downtown Brooklyn. My phone automatically connected to attwifi because of the Cricket line. Pretty cool given that it's a relatively new building.
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    I agree it's horrible on a side street like that. However if it were placed somewhere on Delancey I wouldn't care. The street is extremely wide, the sidewalk is extremely wide, and nearly every building dwarfs it. I don't think the people deciding where these get places are taking into consideration things like that. It seems like they're just going to carriers and asking "where are you struggling to get a lease for a site and need coverage the most?" then plopping them down wherever they point on a map.
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    I don't mind them in the more dense part of the city however I think they stick out like sore thumbs in areas like the one pictured above where they're taller than the buildings that surround them. I'm guessing that when they're rolled out citywide they'll start to be seen as just another piece of NYC infrastructure like lightpoles. I prefer them shrouded like this as opposed to leaving the antennas exposed like I've seen in so many other cities. Exposed antennas look sloppy in my opinion.
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    T‑Mobile Lights Up Standalone Ultra Capacity 5G Nationwide
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    NYC residents complain about ‘ugly’ LinkNYC 5G poles
  6. Paynefanbro
    @T-MoblieUser207 We can remove the following from the keep site tracker: Sprint eNB 196636 Location: 40.68111913290647, -73.8339083121252. While it is upgraded, it turns out this one was a Sprint collocation and the permit was to decommission Sprint and upgrade the site at the same time. Sprint eNB 80078 Location: 40.74589946533523, -73.85602436482927 This one is just a decommission. Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.745437727615325, -73.89051607250086 Also just a decommission. Next weekend I'll check out a bunch in the Bronx.
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    Two more conversions! Sprint eNB 73974 is now T-Mobile eNB 306883 Sprint eNB 79179 is now T-Mobile eNB 326110 — — — — — Bonus Link5G I spotted while driving. Located here.
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    T-Mobile loves giving us an EOY bump to n41. Surprised they didn't just go straight for the full 50MHz carrier and shut off Band 41. Maybe it's because they know that they want to launch n25 soon and they'd rather keep the 10MHz of Band 41 around for relief on the LTE side. — — — — — As an aside, I got the cricket test drive that gives you 3GB and 14 days to test the network. So far so good. 5G performance in my house is better than Verizon but worse than T-Mobile. For one, I can actually connect to C-band on AT&T in my living room whereas I can only get it on Verizon if I'm by a window. Similarly, AT&T's LTE performance is better than Verizon in my house and about equal to T-Mobile. Here are some speed tests on both networks in my living room, where I get the worst performance on any network. I'll likely take a walk to the AT&T site serving my home to see what peak speeds I can get tomorrow. — — — — — Edit: Slightly faster on LTE and 5G when right under the site. I'm really impressed by AT&T's LTE speeds honestly. Verizon definitely has faster peak C-band speeds though at the moment. Too bad there's no DoD antenna on any of the sites in my neighborhood for me to test.
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    Still waiting on them to open up the checkbook for the biggest spectrum squatter of them all, Nextwave. They recently announced that they’re gonna use the BRS/EBS to build out private networks. I feel like it’s BS and they’re just doing it to create a sense of urgency for T-Mobile to buy it before they start actually deploying it.
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    T-Mobile may be looking to spend big on fiber home internet https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23445777/t-mobile-home-internet-fiber-5g-partnership-search Original paywalled Bloomberg article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-07/t-mobile-seeks-fiber-optic-venture-aimed-at-home-internet
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    eNB 43268 in Downtown Brooklyn is likely another multi-gig backhaul site. I'd be able to confirm it if my phone would connect to n41 but unfortunately I kept getting stuck on mmWave. Speeds on mmWave were 600/50 which is a bit above average for mmWave here. Also the site on top of BMCC (eNB 41276) got a backhaul upgrade. Saw 767/119 while driving past it.
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    Thanks to this I was able to find a bunch of keep sites we missed. — — — — — eNB known, permit submitted: Sprint eNB 9294 Location: 40.830928401503634, -73.81780539746549 Sprint eNB 79179 Location: 40.67973691573384, -73.77804925050886 Sprint eNB 196636 Location: 40.68111913290647, -73.8339083121252 Sprint eNB 73974 Location: 40.67631783868167, -73.88721591955405 Sprint eNB 9019 Location: 40.58568338251566, -73.9445502357372 Sprint eNB 80078 Location: 40.74589946533523, -73.85602436482927 Sprint eNB 9987/9988 Location: 40.79461727593334, -73.79656358971245 Sprint eNB 9100 Location: 40.76766721423075, -73.99561632478108 — — — — — eNBs unknown, permit submitted: Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.745437727615325, -73.89051607250086 Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.756427706128086, -73.98882983223739 Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.760189936486206, -73.96885442740289 Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.840684672278606, -73.873443189382 Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.86216305440526, -73.86242468456577 Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.88011736054097, -73.83639761487673 Sprint eNB Unknown Location: 40.898951728182226, -73.84563781456855 — — — — — Sprint eNB 6714 is on the keep site map but is listed as location unknown. It's located at 40.715043365864, -74.01530642396074. — — — — — I'll probably visit some of these to determine if they've already been upgraded sometime this weekend.
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    Another site with upgraded backhaul. eNB 45767 in Chelsea used to top out in the 600's a couple months back. — — — — — Nostrand Ave station on the 3 train has that switch flipped that makes your phone show 5G when you're only connected to LTE. My phone was reporting full bars on 5G but NrConnectionStats showed absolutely nothing on my phone. Still fast at 140Mbps but I'm not a fan of the false reporting. Also held signal well into the tunnels leaving the station so that was new for me. Maybe I'm just late, I've ridden the subway only a handful of times since the pandemic started. Down from riding it literally every day of my life before that lol
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    It's back! Pretty much nobody on it. I nearly maxed out the 5MHz Band 26 carrier on it and I never used to see pings that low on Sprint LTE.
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    Anyone else notice a backhaul increase recently in Lower Manhattan? Yesterday I ran into a number of sites between Canal and Houston that were showing speeds of 700Mbps+ in the middle of the day. For example: Edit: eNB 50088 in Downtown Brooklyn too. This site never used to be this fast. First test on n41 120MHz, second test on mmWave 100MHz with the typical high ping. Once again these are at peak times so I'm assuming it can get over 1Gbps depending on the time of day.
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    Looks like Neville acknowledged the value of mmWave for FWA again. https://www.lightreading.com/5g/t-mobile-shows-big-customer-gains-promises-more/d/d-id/781403?
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    Neville has mentioned in the past that T-Mobile has explored the idea of using their mmWave spectrum to provide internet to entire apartment buildings much like Starry has done. Picking up Starry could give them a bit of a head start on that plan.
  18. Paynefanbro
    New T-Mobile site in Sterling, CT with 180MHz n41 and 1.6Gbps speeds. Absolutely insane!
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    My only question is what happens when EBS licenses overlap? Do we know how it's determined who uses what and where? For example in NYC, NW Spectrum (NextWave) has two leases that apply to 2624-2640.5MHz covering all of NYC but T-Mobile also leases that same slice of EBS from someone else that covers most of NYC, but not all. Check it out here: NW Spectrum: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=4113406&parentKey=null NW Spectrum: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=4113401&parentKey=null T-Mobile: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=4371791&parentKey=null In Queens, most of Brooklyn, and most of Manhattan T-Mobile is using that spectrum to create a 100MHz n41 channel. However in much of Staten Island, the Bronx, southern Brooklyn, and upper Manhattan NextWave blocks them from using that spectrum and T-Mobile's spectrum is split in two into one 34MHz block from 2590-2624 and one 49.5MHz block from 2640.5-2690.
  20. Paynefanbro
    Went down to Dumbo to test that site on Grimaldi's. The good news, speeds are great everywhere outdoors. I was seeing nearly 500Mbps sitting on a bench near Jane's Carousel without line of sight. The bad news is that in TimeOut Market speeds still suck. They're usable but they won't go above the low teens. The second you step outside, speeds climb back up above 200Mbps. T-Mobile just needs an infill site in the part of the neighborhood bound by the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, and BQE. — — — — — Also the site on top of Sweet Chick in Prospect Heights is still insanely fast.
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    One more keep site. This time in Coney Island: T-Mobile eNB 894791 Location: 40.575474469699365, -73.98828739183008
  22. Paynefanbro
    1.9Gbps over 160MHz of spectrum (120MHz NR + 40MHz LTE) in Long Island City. — — — — — As an aside, I'm surprised that with the amount of LAA T-Mobile has gone through the hassle of deploying they haven't allowed aggregating it with NR en masse or even enabling NR-U. I know Milan has seen LAA+5G on select sites in the past but that feature seems inconsistently deployed. With LTE, T-Mobile was limited to 60MHz of Band 46 due to aggregation limits on the UE side but with 5G, they could easily go above 100MHz of n46.
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    Sprint eNB 74807 converted to T-Mobile eNB 893446 (40.912314944943354, -73.83685018328866) Bonus speed test from the site. 40MHz, no second carrier from what I could see. Sprint eNB 74823 converted to T-Mobile eNB 879711 (40.918340614561544, -73.81986721486727) Sprint eNB 76809 converted to T-Mobile eNB 878027 (40.92748872281188, -73.85343332944689) Sprint eNB 74756 converted to T-Mobile eNB 893809 (40.92371008212241, -73.86538499506544)
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    Passed by both of those T-Mobile CBRS sites in Manhattan today. My phone wasn't seeing Band 48 at all. I was able to see every other band though. Maybe CBRS is being used for testing as opposed to commercial use on those sites.
  25. Paynefanbro
    NextWave re-emerges with 2.5 GHz private network service https://www.fiercewireless.com/private-wireless/nextwave-re-emerges-25-ghz-private-network-service https://www.nextwave5g.com/nextwave-news The only way for T-Mobile to get up to 190MHz now is to either buy out NextWave in it's entirety or wait until NextWave's lease is up and attempt to "outbid" them for the right to lease the spectrum from the Archdiocese. I'm really curious what NextWave wants for the spectrum that neither Sprint nor T-Mobile were willing to pay them to get off of it. Also what caused them to decide to finally put it into use? Did T-Mobile threaten a lawsuit? Luckily T-Mobile has 60MHz of C-band + DoD and a ton of PCS to make up for it.
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