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  1. Paynefanbro
    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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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    Went to Rolling Loud NYC at Citi Field this weekend. Over 100,000 people in attendance. Verizon is a sponsor of the festival this year so naturally they had a ton of COWs set up at the festival. I counted at least 4. As a result, they were virtually the only carrier consistently able to provide a data connection. I didn't see any Verizon 5G, only LTE. T-Mobile on the other hand was a very interesting experience. I was seeing an eNB 331804 which I'm 99% sure is a COW. They also seems to be doing some sort of traffic management because I noticed that if I left my phone idle in my pocket, it would drop down to No Service/SOS or sometimes it would sit on EDGE. But the second that I needed to send a text, make a call, or even use Twitter my phone would switch over to LTE or 5G to complete the task. In an active data session, my phone would constantly flip between Band 2, Band 66, and Band 41. Sometimes, I'd catch myself on the COW and other times I'd get pushed over to eNB 875868, the relatively new Sprint conversion nearby. The network moved at a snails pace though. Where Verizon took about 15 seconds to load Twitter or send a pic, T-Mobile could take up to a minute to complete the same task. Here's some photos of the COWs I spotted. I think that the first two are Verizon and the one in the distance in the third pic is T-Mobile's single COW, not nearly enough for an event that size. — — — — — Edit: Also no more Sprint at Citi Field
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    Northern Jersey market Sprint conversions: T-Mobile eNB 876455/56/57 Location: (40.61113401914055, -74.2524862287992) T-Mobile eNB 219129/30 Location: (40.75352065564415, -74.12406427496255) NYC market Sprint conversions: T-Mobile eNB 875964/66 Location: (41.39722227227573, -74.33717864431144) This one is in Orange County but was still part of ex-Sprint's NYC market. Sprint eNB 6881 -> T-Mobile eNB 216104/05 Location: (40.89755146946985, -73.80013909444185) In Pelham, just outside of the Bronx
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    If you find yourself in that part of Greenpoint a lot then it makes sense. I know if I lived up there I wouldn't be on T-Mobile lol. Luckily Crown Heights is the complete opposite experience. 500-700Mbps almost everywhere.
  11. Paynefanbro
    Stopped by the infamous Greenpoint Sprint keep site and it's not broadcasting anything. Antennas still up though.
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    Found two more new Crown Castle Fiber small cells yesterday. One in Long Island City located at (40.765999786777634, -73.93646507570648) and one in Manhattan at (40.73974895511102, -74.00523143962101). I didn't stop to check the one in Manhattan but the one in LIC wasn't T-Mobile's. I also stopped at the Crown Castle NG small cell in Downtown Brooklyn by BAM. Unfortunately I was unable to determine if T-Mobile was on it because there's a T-Mobile macro within spitting distance. Because of that I want to say it isn't T-Mobile's but if it was it wouldn't be the first time they've deployed a small cell virtually right under one of their macros.
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    On the flip-side, performance in southern Brooklyn has been improving quite a lot recently despite being stuck at 40MHz n41. 600Mbps+ is becoming a lot more common and 400Mbps+ is quickly becoming the norm. This result is from Coney Island tonight. Phone was also reporting NRCA but unfortunately I don't know what the second NR carrier is or the size of it.
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    All of the Sprint towers that serve my home were turned off for a while but they've been back online since at least Labor Day. I wasn't getting any sort of signal from them nor were they appearing when I checked the network selector as recently as a week ago. Don't know what that was about.
  15. Paynefanbro
    How AT&T's network chief hopes to cut a $1.6B electricity bill https://www.lightreading.com/climate-change/how-atandts-network-chief-hopes-to-cut-$16b-electricity-bill/d/d-id/780237?
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    Went out to Huntington for brunch. Great speeds on both LTE and 5G on T-Mobile and Verizon. 2CA on T-Mobile LTE and 3CA on Verizon LTE. T-Mobile — — — — — Verizon — — — — — Also forgot to mention that when I was passing through Woodbury, NY I saw a ton of little omnidirectional antennas on a bunch of the utility poles along Woodbury Road. I couldn't pull over to determine who they belonged to but from the looks of Cellmapper, both carriers use them throughout the town. For example, I believe this one belongs to T-Mobile.
  17. Paynefanbro
    It’s only $1.5 Million worth. They’re likely gonna sell or lease all of it back to T-Mobile. The only exception is the Fairbanks license which is probably gonna go to some Alaskan carrier like GCI. They screwed up thinking that they could bid up the cost of spectrum for T-Mobile. They didn’t bet on T-Mobile just walking away if they felt they were overpaying for it. I’m certain that the second they realized that they were actually winning some of the licenses they stopped bidding altogether because it was virtually useless for them in comparison to T-Mobile.
  18. Paynefanbro
    Looks like T-Mobile got the vast majority of licenses. AT&T and Dish didn't get anything and surprisingly Verizon picked up about a dozen licenses, the largest being one for Maricopa County, AZ. I wonder if they're gonna deploy it or if those were just ones they got by accident while trying to raise the cost of spectrum for T-Mobile. — — — — — T-Mobile also picked up some licenses in Alaska, namely Juneau and Matanuska-Susitna. Native buildout coming soon?
  19. Paynefanbro
    Let’s see how long that’s lasts. Remember when T-Mobile launched their “One” plan.
  20. Paynefanbro
    Another user on Reddit mentioned that they noticed that Sprint Band 41 was absent in eastern Queens last week. They hypothesized that the second n41 carrier is at 40MHz now but they weren’t able to confirm it.
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    T‑Mobile Customers Get Apple TV+ On Us with Magenta MAX https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/magenta-max-apple-tv
  23. Paynefanbro
    Went to Six Flags again and it is a complete 180 compared to the last time I went. Both T-Mobile and Verizon did some serious upgrades to the on-site monopole. On T-Mobile I got 100MHz n41 everywhere I went with consistent speeds of 350+ Mbps. I even broke 400Mbps in some places. You'd never guess it if you looked at the coverage maps because they haven't been updated to reflect the new coverage just yet. On Verizon there is C-band available however it seems that they're shaping traffic so that most people at the park are on a high capacity LTE setup instead. Cycling airplane mode would throw me onto a strong C-band signal but in about 3 minutes the network would kick me down to LTE as if it's trying to balance the load on their 5G network. C-band speeds were decent at ~200 Mbps and LTE speeds were more than respectable peaking at ~140Mbps. I switched my phone to LTE on T-Mobile and speeds were about equal to Verizon, peaking at ~130Mbps with slightly lower upload speeds. What a difference a year can make! — — — — — My fastest speeds on T-Mobile LTE and 5G: — — — — — My fastest speeds on Verizon's LTE and 5G network:
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    I'm sure nobody saw this one coming. From the loss of it, it's something big since it'll be announced by both Elon Musk and Mike Sievert. Any guesses for what it could possibly be?
  25. Paynefanbro
    40MHz n41 + 20MHz B66 and B2 in Bay Ridge. No evidence of NR carrier aggregation in FieldTestMode. Seems that T-Mobile decided that if they can't get the spectrum they're just gonna throw backhaul at the problem in the meantime.
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