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  1. greenbastard
    I wonder what T-Mobile will do with the 33% ownership of Tidal? Marcelo is also a board member of Tidal. What will happen to that?
  2. greenbastard
    You should call Sprint and get it removed. While the MagicBox isn't charged a monthly fee, I believe there are taxes associated with it that are charged to you (or at least that was one of the claims made around the web). Maybe someone can verify if this is the case or not. I'd still play it on the safe side and call.
  3. greenbastard
    Just experienced those 6 hours of T-Mobile outage and I hated it. No voice or texts, period! I remember whenever Sprint had outages. I would at least roam on Verizon and have voice/SMS service. Not with T-Mobile. No service all day. This is probably the only negative I can think of to come from this merger for Sprint users.
  4. greenbastard
    Did you forget to log out of your main account and into your sock?? Sort of odd both T-Mobile and Sprint are simultaneously having service issues in Southeast Texas. T-Mobile has blamed it on a cut fiber line.
  5. greenbastard
    It still would have been a terrible idea. Selling spectrum = slower speeds.
  6. greenbastard
    Compared to the midband spectrum of the other three carriers, it is. In the market to the south of me, Sprint only owns 30 Mhz of midband spectrum. Verizon owns 60 Mhz of midband spectrum, At&t owns 90 Mhz, and T-Mobile owns 80 Mhz (PCS+AWS). But this doesn't change the fact that your suggestion was a terrible one. Selling their spectrum would have been a disaster of epic proportions. Their network has never been dense enough for 2.5 Ghz to work properly in most markets. Midband spectrum was crucial for their survival while they figured out how to properly deploy B41. Unfortunately they never got around to it for a myriad of reasons we've beaten to death on this board.
  7. greenbastard
    I don't know if this was a SCP/Qualcomm bug or not, but maybe T-Mobile has turned on MFBI. It only lasted a few seconds. This happened on my T-Mobile SIM btw....I don't have a Sprint account at the moment. I may buy a cheap prepaid line and then port over for the 1 year free promo just so I can track T-Mobile LTE roaming rollout and then the merger.
  8. greenbastard
    VZW EVDO roaming is available on some sites inside the Texas triangle. Once you get into East Texas (east of I-45), At&t LTE takes over as a roaming partner. Unfortunately, this arrangement has left a lot of holes in roaming. I can confirm that the area west of I-45, south of SH-30, and east of SH-6 has no data roaming whatsoever. From what I've been able to map, AT&T LTE roaming is available on I-45 starting at the Freeman/Navarro County line and ending at the Walker/Montgomery county line. On I-10, At&t LTE roaming starts somewhere inside Gonzalez county and ends at the Colorado/Austin county line.
  9. greenbastard
    They probably won't have to unload any lowband spectrum. At&t at one point owned 100 Mhz of lowband spectrum in Dallas. Sprint+T-Mobile won't own more than 60 mhz of lowband spectrum in most major markets and 70 Mhz in the rest of the country. Midband spectrum is where we'll see some moves happen. I think they'll end up trading the spectrum they have to unload to At&t/Verizon for spectrum in other markets where they still fall below the spectrum screen.
  10. greenbastard
    T-Mobile offers it. Unfortunately they only do it where US Cellular offers VoLTE and it only works on T-Mobile branded phones. Also, since US Cellular only has VoLTE in Iowa, it falls behind iWireless in priority, so roaming is pretty rare.
  11. greenbastard
    You're probably getting Band 66 instead of Band 2 but see Band 3 instead.
  12. greenbastard
    The closest thing I can think of is T-Mobile's DIGITS.
  13. greenbastard
    My issue with the timing change was that poor upload speeds became very noticable whenever you went below -110 RSRP or if you were indoors. Before I ported out, I would routinely turn off B41 just so I could send an MMS in a timely manner. Before the timing change, I could see at least 0.5 Mbps on upload even with a weak signal. After the change, speed tests would routinely time out during the UL portion.
  14. greenbastard
    No one is saying that. Upload limitations on B41 are due to the change in timing configuration. Sprint should have waited for interband CA phones (B25+B41) or at the very least allowed intraband CA upload on B41. Changing the timing configuration made it hard (and sometimes impossible) to do trivial things such as sharing pictures or sending MMS with a weak signal. In places where I used to get 1-2 Mbps upload, I could no longer do video calls. Speed tests would even time out on the UL portion from time to time after getting 10 Mbps on the DL. Upload speeds are more important than ever before in today's social climate (sharing everything we do). Sprint needs to address them if the merger doesn't go through.
  15. greenbastard
    I think it does. But 256 QAM on B41 seems a bit redundant. In order for 256 QAM to work, you'll need an extremely good SNR (north of 18-20 dB). The only times I ever got a clean signal like that on B41 was whenever I stood next to a tower.
  16. greenbastard
    It'll be impossible to roam on T-Mobile in most of Wyoming. Outside of Cheyenne, the only LTE band they use is LTE B71.
  17. greenbastard
    They still do EVDO data roaming too, but the speeds are capped just like they are on At&t LTE and it's not widespread. Before porting out last month, I was able to get data from one Verizon site in rural Texas. I also noticed that domestic roaming that counts towards your roaming allowance has blocked off video services from places such as YouTube. Videos will not load at all.
  18. greenbastard
    The spectrum helped them more. It has had a longer impact on the T-Mobile network. That cash they got was probably used up within a year. The spectrum is still adding value to the T-Mobile network.
  19. greenbastard
    Exactly. Dish and Comcast are sitting on some very valuable low band and mid band spectrum.
  20. greenbastard
    No. He bought Sprint with the intention of merging it with T-Mobile. That was the goal from the very beginning. He even said so himself.
  21. greenbastard
    Even with that amount of Massive MIMO, what would coverage look like on the lower end of that spectrum? I can't imagine more than a city block outdoors. Indoor probably non-existent.
  22. greenbastard
    The actual numbers.
  23. greenbastard
    Wow. Lazy Journalism at it's finest. Canada =/= USA. Canada is tremendously huge, yet has a fraction of the population that we do. Canada has around 38 Million residents to be split among three carriers. Sprint alone has way more subscribers than that! Why not use Mexico as an example? They went from four national carriers to three and competition is still good. They don't have unlimited data (and never have), but price for data has gone down considerably as time goes by.
  24. greenbastard
    I didn't listen to the call and haven't found a transcript. But is there a chance they meant for this to happen once VoLTE is launched?
  25. greenbastard
    The roaming is probably only for areas where Sprint offers no service for now. It's probably just like the At&t roaming Sprint has where it only works in the boonies.
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