greencat

http://www.phonearena.com/news/RootMetrics-assesses-carrier-performance-in-airports_id67540 SIAP I have said for a while this is one area Sprint could DRASTICALLY improve the customer opinion of them. Get band 41 pointed at the airports ASAP. Should have been a top priority. They couldn't even win Kansas City.

But seriously, it'd be nice if Sprint would give an update on this.

Ever since B41 was turned on here my phone sits at 1 - 2 bars and is regularly in the -110 dbm range. Just kills my battery even if I'm not using the phone. And B41 getting turned on has done nothing for the problem areas here.

people dont get USCC because they live in those markets, they get it because they want service when they travel outside of those markets to the other small towns in the area. For example: when you live in Des Moines and you want to take a day trip down to Knoxville (Iowa, not Tennessee) and visit Peace Tree Brewery and go boating its nice to have a usable phone signal instead of 1 bar that's on roaming with data service that's too slow to even register and drains your battery superfast.

If you start a $2500 bartab for an S4GRU function you're going to get about $2400 back, everyone knows nerds can't hold their alcohol

Hopefully they can get ALL the remaining backhaul in quickly this Spring/Summer. Pretty gross to see all those places at less than 90% for the LTE acceptance at this point.

Glad to hear that. Hopefully there aren't any holdups.

Wish we could compare it to the LG G4 right away. Cmon LG, speed your game up.

I agree exceeding their original plans at a faster rate would be a nice change. However having ONLY 50-60% of the towers ( a rough guess) with B41 is unaccepable. Hopefully they finish it out for complete coverage.

On my LG G2 from the dialer if I dial ##debug## I can click on LTE engineering which shows the band I'm connected to. I'm not sure if this works on the G3 but it might be worth a try.

3 months ago you said "Not all towers in Lincoln are getting B41" Now you said "B41 is deployed almost everywhere in Lincoln" Did something change?

Storage space on phones is the biggest ripoff. The cost to samsung or apple to give us 64GB instead of 32 is minimal, yet they won't do it.

Volume discount.

So it will be RRPP and CCA capable?

They're subsidized in that the customer isn't paying $600ish that Sprint or VZW or ATT pays Samsung or Apple for the device. It is fairly obvious that Sprint ATT VZW are marking up the devices which should push more people away from buying them from those companies. If cellphones were a digital item they'd be pirated more than movies and music. The consumers lose when dealing with monopolies.

Tell me more about your internet cellphone legal theories.

It is interesting that you have only 3 towers, but they've been optimized. I hope that happens to my area. I'm often in the -110 or higher range and that range kills my battery.

If the cell phone companies would have an open dialogue with customers/residents they could probably get more towers in optimal places accomplished. There are tons of places to put towers that'd be of limited eyesore.

Actually yes, I have started to pick it up. I talked to a guy who claimed he worked on the towers and he said they're done installing the equipment so it looks like we're just waiting for the sites to go live. The site I use the most is probably not a very congested site so I'm surprised to see that it already has B41 live. Maybe they're just firing them up that quick? IDK.

So I finally have band 41 turned on in my area and one of my main towers and am regularly seeing it in the last few days. However I have noticed that my signal strength on my phone is rarely less than -105 db and the side effect of this is my battery is draining MUCH faster. I have the LG G2 and the battery is pretty strong on it. Often I'd end the day with 50% left, admittedly my usuage varies, but I'm definitely a heavier user of my phone, in the last few days I have consistently found myself in the 10-20% battery life range. Hopefully phone companies realize this and offer larger batteries due to this side effect of faster cell service, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen with the Galaxy S6 which is rumored to have just a 2500 mah battery.

For many years from 2000-2011/12 when ATT and VZW were investing BILLIONS on their network SPRINT did NOTHING. I guess if you call skipping the spectrum auctions doing something then yeah Sprint did something. Or maybe you want to brag about their achievements with wimax? While other companies were setting themselves up for success Sprint was doing NOTHING. That is simply true. Edit: I forgot they did buy Nextel. Maybe you'd like to use that as an example... 4G networks are also more efficent so costs to the company are actually less... Be exponentially better than piss poor doesn't take a lot. The reason people rag on it is another topic entirely. And I don't think it has to be what it is, it could be a lot better.

Not for customers who will end up paying more than $200 for a phone...

We've been paying for it for years but Sprint hasn't done crap, which is why they're 3 years behind Tmob, ATT and VZW. Sprint has some of the highest revenue per user in the industry so again, we've been paying for it. The bolded might be true, but those companies don't have as much of an issue with customer retention as Sprint does. So get over it. (Man, it does feel good to type that. I might end all my posts with that.) The rest of your post is your opinion and you're entitled to be as wrong as you want. Could you please provide me with all your info? I'd like to supply everything to you for the rest of your life. I could retire on just a few customers like you.

Sprint down 4% right now on heavier than avg volume. No public reason atm.

So potentially many sites at phase one markets need upgraded backhaul?