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  1. Paynefanbro
    Fastest speeds I’ve ever received on T-Mobile. From eNB 45498 while inside of the nearby Dunkin.
  2. Paynefanbro
    eNB 47152 at Charlton and 6th Avenue got upgraded with those new mini-antennas like the Grimaldi's site. eNB 43902 at the corner of 6th Ave and 17th St is one of those gigabit T-Mobile sites. Impressively this was about a block away from the site without LOS. — — — — — Edit: I spotted another Dish site last night at the intersection of West 139th St and Broadway. Like all the others, the antennas were up but no radios were connected.
  3. Paynefanbro
    There's a Sprint keep site at 40.725819975430746, -73.8590039877854. No idea what the Sprint eNB is but there's a permit for it to be converted to a T-Mobile site. I also came across a permit for a new site at 810 Broadway in Manhattan. There used to be a T-Mobile site on a building across the street (eNB 47241) but the building was demolished in 2018 and the site was never replaced. — — — — — The infamously slow T-Mobile small cell at the intersection of Nostrand and Sterling Pl seems to be offline. No amount of airplane mode cycling will get me to connect to it. Ironically, with it offline performance in the area is a million times better since the macros are much better performing. According to cellmapper it has likely been offline since December 2021. Similarly, the AT&T small cell at the intersection of Nostrand and Eastern Parkway is also offline. No idea for how long though.
  4. Paynefanbro
    Great catch, thanks! I’ve been holding off on mapping them because I thought I was going crazy. I only located it yesterday.
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    Are T-Sprint eNB 839727-49 and T-Mobile eNB 58563-3/13 the same small cell? It's a Mobilitie cell and physically it looks like every other Sprint one but according to Cellmapper there should be a T-Mobile small cell in virtually the same spot and there aren't any other Crown Castle small cells around that provide the signal strength reported in that location. Also I've come across a handful of Crown Castle reserved poles with both Verizon and T-Mobile present. Verizon eNB 82815-22/24 is the same as T-Mobile eNB 127424-6/16 Verizon eNB 82815-12/14 is the same as T-Mobile eNB 127424-4/14 Verizon eNB 81621-2/22/24 is the same as T-Mobile eNB 129525-5/15
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    Is it time for mmWave 2.0? — Pongratz https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/it-time-mmwave-20-pongratz
  7. Paynefanbro
    AT&T uses a combo of ZenFi and Extenet in The Bronx, majority ZenFi though. In Brooklyn and Queens it's >90% Extenet. In Manhattan they use a combo of Crown Castle and Extenet. — — — — — I've also found that some T-Mobile nodes are using the same eNB across multiple nodes. Take a look at T-Mobile eNB 47904-12 in Queens. It's two different small cells under the same eNB. Same thing with 47903-13. To represent both I've started "splitting" the eNB by putting the Band 66 eNB on one node and the Band 2 eNB on the other node.
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    Dish installation at Kings Highway and Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn. — — — — — We can remove Sprint eNB 9017 in Coney Island from the keep site map. Despite broadcasting the keep PLMN, a site decommission permit came through earlier this month and they're not replacing the antennas. — — — — — An issue I've run into with mapping AT&T is that they have so many bands on their sites but phones seem to (mainly) passively connect to AWS and PCS only. I can see that my phone sees Band 12, Band 14, and Band 30 but they're listed as eNB unknown so they aren't getting added to sites I'm connected to. Unfortunately I can't band lock without rooting this phone and I don't feel like going through that hassle. I've also found that my device will occasionally drop T-Mobile and get stuck on Verizon's network (I guess through some sort of roaming agreement) so I've been passively mapping all three carriers despite only paying for one which is pretty cool.
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    Currently holding back tears because I came across a NextWave permit in Crown Heights.
  10. Paynefanbro
    I've been confirming AT&T sites on Cellmapper recently and one thing I've found is that they silently built out a pretty big mmWave network in the Bronx. Extenet and especially ZenFi are doing a ton of upgrades AT&T's existing small cells. I wasn't keeping count but I've seen dozens littered throughout the borough. A lot of the "proposed" ZenFi sites in the DoITT database that are located in the Bronx are existing small cells that have been upgraded to include mmWave and the LTE omni-cantenna on top. Check a random one and 7 out of 10 times it's already upgraded. AT&T has ok macro density but their small cell density is absolutely bonkers. In some neighborhoods they have one per block. They remind me of Sprint in that way. Their strategy seems to be spacing sites pretty far apart so they can turn up power and cover a lot of people broadly but the small cells do a lot of heavy lifting, adding coverage and capacity at street level. It's the complete opposite of T-Mobile who goes for maximum capacity by having a million macros but they sacrifice coverage slightly because they have to adjust downtilt and power to reduce noise/interference. T-Mobile has a lot of small cells of course but not nearly to the same level as AT&T in my observation. Take a look at the western half of the Bronx. It's like 10+ small cells for every macro. I also appreciate how consistent AT&T is with eNB and cell numbering. It helped a lot determine exactly where the small cells are.
  11. Paynefanbro
    T‑Mobile Expands Leading 5G Network with Additional Coverage and Capacity https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-expands-leading-5g-network-with-additional-coverage-and-capacity
  12. Paynefanbro
    Got a Samsung Galaxy A13 5G. It's Dual SIM and I have a cheap Boost Mobile 2GB plan for mapping AT&T in one SIM slot and an inactive T-Mobile SIM in the other but it still connects to the network. Now I'm able to map both carriers at the same time. So glad to be back in action lol.
  13. Paynefanbro
    This was the part that annoyed me the most. They likely launched an entirely different site and the email restriction so that they don't poach higher paying prepaid subs from themself with the launch of this but it's pretty easy to get around using a forwarding email. None of the Samsung phones do but the moto g stylus 5G and all of the iPhone 14's have hardware support at the very least. A software update should be enable it at some point in the future. Do we know if Boost Infinite actually includes access to Dish's own network? Band 70 support is a weird omission given that it'll provide a much needed boost in speeds and capacity to their own network, making it much more comparable to the Big 3. In the case of NYC, that's the difference between 50MHz of spectrum and 90MHz of spectrum (up to 100MHz if they choose not to renew T-Mobile's lease of the 600MHz D-block). Aggregating n66+n70+n71 would give them theoretical peak speeds of ~980/130, more than adequate for a company of their size.
  14. Paynefanbro
    The Boost Infinite beta launched today. Looks like it’s $25/month for unlimited talk, text, and data. You’ll get deprioritized over 30GB though. https://beta.boostinfinite.com/#
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    I think the verbiage is pretty open-ended so it may apply to all of the small cells however NYC is unique in that our small cell locations are reserved by specific franchisees. I don't know what the rules are about other companies making changes to a franchisees small cells. If it applies to ExteNet and Mobilitie then that's awesome. If it only applies to ExteNet then that's ok too I guess. My nearest Sprint small cells are ExteNet and while I'm certain that one will be decommissioned because it's pretty much right under a T-Mobile macro, the others might stick around. 🤞
  16. Paynefanbro
    ExteNet strikes exclusive venue deal with T-Mobile Biggest takeaway for me is the second to last paragraph; Between the Crown Castle deal and this one, T-Mobile is gonna have a massive small cell presence citywide.
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    ExteNet strikes exclusive venue deal with T-Mobile https://www.fiercewireless.com/private-wireless/extenet-strikes-exclusive-venue-deal-t-mobile
  18. Paynefanbro
    Forgot to mention that I traveled all over the lower Hudson Valley last weekend while using the Verizon eSIM trial to directly both carriers' coverage on one device as opposed to using a second phone. Coverage was virtually the same in my experience with the biggest exception being the Bear Mountain region. All along the Long Mountain Parkway from Woodbury Common going east, coverage remained virtually the same. Both carriers reported similar signal strength going all the way down to 1 bar at the same times but when I arrived at the roundabout near where Long Mountain and Palisades Parkway meet up with one another, Verizon had a much stronger signal compared to T-Mobile's 1 bar. Verizon has a series of sites installed all over Bear Mountain State Park to provide signal to visitors. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like any other carrier attempted to do the same in the 2+ years since they got built. I just took a look at Cellmapper and it seems like AT&T may have collocated on one of the sites late last year but none of the others. Because of these sites when you're driving on Bear Mountain Bridge and along Bear Mountain Bridge Road going south, Verizon has slightly stronger signal than T-Mobile. — — — — — I'm thinking about buying a burner Android phone to get back into mapping again because I drive around the city a lot and never get the chance to do so. I have a Galaxy S7 Edge in a drawer with an inactive T-Mobile SIM but it doesn't register LTE at all and it doesn't have Band 71 so it's not that useful for me. Any recommendations for phones/plans to map cheaply?
  19. Paynefanbro
    T-Mobile eNB 879491/879493/879494 on the keep site map is located at 40.77536940167816, -73.92011957697034. Sprint eNB 5762 is now T-Mobile eNB 306271. Located at 40.582064139078206, -74.16175767702059 Weirdly both of the new Sprint conversions that have been found in Staten Island (eNB 306271 and eNB 326459) were sites I visited earlier this summer but neither of them were broadcasting the keep PLMN at the time. In fact, Sprint eNB 5762 was completely offline when I visited. I suspected both sites were keep sites based on their location relative to neighboring T-Mobile sites so I was surprised when I didn't spot 312-250 coming from them. Glad to see T-Mobile still kept them. Also T-Mobile isn't done with non-conversion new builds in the city. T-Mobile eNB 894075 is a brand new site added this summer on Rockefeller University's campus in Manhattan. It gives me hope for neighborhoods like Red Hook and Williamsburg that desperately need sites along the waterfront.
  20. Paynefanbro
    Nearly every site I encountered in the Bronx was running N41 SA. Consistent pings in the low teens and speeds were actually great. Sprint eNB 9294 got converted but isn't live yet. Location: 40.83091697219704, -73.8178106151994 Sprint eNB unknown, now T-Mobile eNB 310677 Location:40.880070855974395, -73.83644046611454 Sprint eNB Unknown, now T-Mobile eNB 894775. Bonus speed test with 2CA and N41 SA. Location: 40.8989406640668, -73.84564472722599 Sprint eNB Unknown, now T-Mobile eNB 894854. 40.86220687471859, -73.86242513896488
  21. Paynefanbro
    AT&T urges FCC not to grant T-Mobile’s latest 2.5 GHz licenses https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/att-urges-fcc-not-grant-t-mobiles-latest-25-ghz-licenses — — — — — Actual letter submitted to FCC by AT&T here: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsEntry/attachments/attachmentViewRD.jsp;ATTACHMENTS=JG3Kj8QGVvpprLw2hqTS7JQy1pxbs7gfvv33KxtSN3dBKTRWRQ3G!990034342!-414398754?applType=search&fileKey=1490028782&attachmentKey=21623913 T-Mobile's response letter here: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsEntry/attachments/attachmentViewRD.jsp?applType=search&fileKey=1824573146&attachmentKey=21628501
  22. Paynefanbro
    C-Spire is listed as it's holding company Telapex, Inc.
  23. Paynefanbro
    U.S. Cellular is Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.
  24. Paynefanbro
    Sprint eNB 9410 got converted to T-Mobile eNB 315016/315017 Location: 40.59324792710544, -73.99464499188356 Sprint eNB Unknown got converted to T-Mobile eNB 219605 Location: 40.6352148980485, -74.02952503317536 Sprint eNB 9019 is now T-Mobile eNB 894864 Location: 40.58570059216386, -73.9444011027088 Sprint eNB 75141 on the keep site map has been converted since the summer but it wasn't live. Looks like it finally went live as eNB 307405. Location: 40.629401378763696, -74.07910762994678 — — — — — Also I confirmed the location of most of the oDAS in Staten Island on Cellmapper so now we have a more accurate sense of site density. 99% of them are ancient Band 66 only small cells that were first installed as HSPA small cells back in 2009/10 and upgraded to LTE in 2015.
  25. Paynefanbro
    I was on the 4th floor at Alamo Drafthouse. While Cricket was only showing LTE and absolutely refused to connect to 5G, T-Mobile was showing 5G UC in the status bar. Unfortunately I don't know if T-Mobile was connected to the neutral DAS on the LTE side of things and pulling 5G from the macro or if my phone just opted to connect to the macro for both.
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