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On 10/22/2021 at 12:31 AM, iansltx said:

Unlimited Plus Subsidy (business)

I never realized those plans had the issue too. I was told on my everything data plan I should get the same video speed as unlimited plus but it hasn’t been fixed yet. So I’d say no.

On 10/18/2021 at 10:32 PM, iansltx said:

Per Reddit, 1.5 throttle will get fixed in a few weeks. I'm actually 100% okay with an 8 Mbps throttle for video, despite the network being able to consistently deliver 50x that here. But 1.5 is a bridge too far.

What plan?

11 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

iOS 15 out and so is the new indicator via Carrier Update.

I’m guessing it won’t show on a sprint sim, right?

17 hours ago, jreuschl said:

Low 700s seems to be the highest I've seen on a 100Mhz site.  I wonder if the backhaul will ever be increased further.

I’ve gotten up to 850 down in STL on n41 100 mhz.

On 8/18/2021 at 10:21 AM, jreuschl said:

It sounds like the bad T-Mobile breach does not affect the Sprint side.  The hackers apparently got almost everything under the sun for TM customers...  SSN and DL included.

Is that confirmed? If heard conflicting info on if Sprint was affected or not.

On 8/9/2021 at 8:40 PM, notsrealinc said:

I'll be floored if they fix this. It's been an issue since last December and IDK why if they fix it that it took this long. That is pretty much the only thing stopping me from going to a T-Mo SIM.

The fact that a Sprint SIM was still unrestricted I guess was a sign. 

I’m still skeptical as well. I trust the source so we will see. Only thing I can think is they want to fix before TNX is mandatory because then people won’t have another option anymore and will be getting fcc complaints.

On 8/6/2021 at 8:38 PM, Yuhfhrh said:

Any plan that specifically doesn't mention 1080p (~6mbps) or 1080p+ (unthrottled) is throttled down to to 480p (~2.5mbps) right now on TNX. This may be something T-Mobile tries to force down Sprint customer's throats, even though it's inconsistent with how they've treated their own customers with legacy plans before video streaming limits.

 

I’m hearing they are intending to fix it.

On 8/6/2021 at 5:04 PM, Dkoellerwx said:

Sounds like mainly older Sprint plans. But not sure, I haven't given up on TNA yet.

I’ve heard from a decent source that legacy plans at least Everything Data will be fixed to get hd instead of sd like it currently is on TNX. It will have the same video experience as unlimited plus.

14 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

Yes. If it lets you do 4K your good. Make sure your in a area that’s fast enough though 

I don’t think the speedtest app is being throttled which wouldn’t show a video throttle. It would show you can do 4k when you can’t.

Ive heard that the video throttle on legacy plans is supposed to be fixed.

On 8/4/2021 at 10:38 AM, iansltx said:

Does seem that way. Maybe between now and then they'll figure out how not to throttle video to 1.5 Mbps on all TNX lines.

My guess is 6/30/22 is when the Sprint mobile core network will be decom'd, so Sprint SIMs will stop working. New iPhones coming with T-Mobile SIMs seems like a good guess.

One question I have is whether T-Mobile thinks they'll have all Keep Sites swapped over to T-Mobile equipment by then. If so, I should be able to switch my family back over to T-Mobile based service at that point, as I don't imaging they'll do those retrofits without at least n71. Or are they expecting to switch L-Sprint sites that remain to T-Mobile's core, and upgrade equipment when they get around to it?

Every TNX line is throttled to 1.5 mbps? Every plan?

1 hour ago, iansltx said:

100 MHz n41 is live in Austin and...Bentonville, Arkansas.

Guessing this went live on Tuesday or Wednesday in Austin; network was acting a bit wonky on Tuesday. Noticed it yesterday, as I'm still a little too far away at home to catch n41. Peak speed in Bentonville 1/3 mi from the site was 675-700 Mbps down, 80-90 Mbps up, with the upload speed only possible with a 20 MHz B66 anchor...which seems congested at times. They also have 5 MHz B2 here as an anchor, which predictably leads to slow uploads. n71 is 15x15 here. Sprint B25 is two 5x5 channels.

Weirdly, seems like I'm being routed through Nashville, so latency is rather high, and tethering performance is somehow quite poor...maybe it's due to congestion on the PCC meaning that the difference between on-phone and tethered priority is the difference between a usable connection and...not.

Also, VZW (with the old Alltel SID for CDMA) is what you end up using inside the Crystal Bridges museum, though the area has WiFi so not the end of the world.

At least a few sites in STL are now at 100 MHz.

I was at my cities freedom fest tonight which was presented (sponsored) by T-Mobile. They had a booth there and a COW site. During the concert T-Mobile became pretty much unusable for a period of time even with the COW. Does anyone know what these cows broadcast? Are they b66 only?

15 hours ago, jamesinclair said:

I ordered through the Sprint website and am still get my ED1500 "contract" subsidy credit

It says a phone and sim card are coming, so we will see what happens tomorrow. I assume if theres a Sprint sim inside the phone, when I pop it open it will clearly be branded as such? That would be the best option for sure.

And if not, can I just use my Galaxy S8 Active sim? My flight is this upcoming weekend so I wont have too much time to get things sorted.

 

 

Just so you know. Once you TNX on the Everything Data 1500 plan, your video will be capped to 480p. With the sprint sim there is no video cap.

1 hour ago, mdob07 said:

I would caution against making that statement for everywhere. Personally I switched my line from Sprint to T-Mobile right after the merger completed and even then it was already a better experience and has only gotten better since. Also keep in mind that T-Mobile will continue to take from the Sprint network and redeploy on its network. Here they've already trimmed both Sprint's B41 and B25 spectrum. This will vary city to city though, but even if Sprint is still the better of the two networks now it's only a matter of time before that changes. 

If your on an LTE device that’s correct but on a 5g device it doesn’t really matter both will be on the T-Mobile network.

4 hours ago, Member21 said:

Hi All, wondering if someone can weigh on several things:

First of, my situation: I'm still rocking an S7 and family members of mine have an iPhone 6 (ios updates ended a while ago) and an iPhone 7 (still gets ios updates).  I received a letter from Sprint saying that my S7 will no longer work starting on 1/1/22 (due to no VoLTE support, etc.)  The letter did not mention the old iPhones.  The old iPhones do not have a VoLTE toggle in the settings (but my company supplied iPhone 7 on VZW has VoLTE and hence has the toggle).  As far as my S7, I was thinking of replacing it anyway, so I am considering getting an unlocked S21, either from Best Buy (where I believe they will provide a SIM card on Sprint's behalf) or directly from Samsung (where I believe I would need to order a SIM card through the My Sprint app).  

My questions are as follows: 

1) How is it that the old iPhones were not included in the Sprint "device end of life" letter.  Will these old iPhones get the VoLTE toggle, maybe through a carrier update (especially on the 6, which doesn't get ios updates)?

2) For my potential S21 purchase, and maybe this is a silly question considering Sprint is really pushing all legacy customers to order a T-Mobile SIM card, but I presume that for all new phone purchases where Sprint provides the SIM (as mentioned above, either through Best Buy or the My Sprint app), the provided SIM will be a full on T-Mobile one?  If so, will this SIM card no longer provide access to Sprint towers (unless it is a Sprint "keep site", which will eventually get moved over)? 

 

The iphones i believe will support VoLTE once they have the TNX sim. 
 

As for getting an s21. Since it is a 5g device it will use the T-Mobile network primarily even on a sprint sim. The sprint sim will connect to non keep sites if needed. I would personally try to stay on a sprint sim on that device unless standalone 5g is important to you.

56 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

What 5G mode do you have your iPhones in?

“5G On” or “5G Auto”?

“Allow More Data on 5G” or “Standard”?

We use “5G Auto” and “Allow More Data on 5G” for our iPhone 12 Pro’s on TNX and none of them have the issue you’re describing.

 

 

Most of the time 5g on, Allow more data on 5g.

Has anyone with one of the iPhone 12 models with tna been experiencing periods frequently where your phone will not connect to 5g? I cannot explain it. Sometimes it happens when I lose service and sometimes just randomly. Sometimes I can force the phone to lose service completely and when it reconnects it finds 5g right away, other times I can’t get it to reconnect that way. I don’t think it’s a device issue hardware wise because all four of our iPhones do it. It doesn’t happen with our one device on TNX. It has to be some kind of software glitch with sim provisioning or something. Anyone else experiencing the same?

On 5/18/2021 at 7:38 PM, BlueAngel said:

Just got a phone call from executive services, they're switching me back and crediting my account for the last 3 months for the difference! I'm pleased. 

I knew they would be able to help you. Glad it worked out.

3 hours ago, RedSpark said:

At a certain point, the customer service experience on legacy Sprint may drop to the point that customers leave for another carrier.

When T-Mobile says "T-Mobile Network Experience", it can't leave customers with a throwback Sprint customer experience, whether it's customer service that doesn't know how to do things or a website that clearly isn't being updated and in a "just keep the lights on" state for certain account functions, as was my experience.

Frankly, the legacy Sprint customer experience is going to continue to worsen until T-Mobile creates and announces an initiative to move everyone over and sunset the Sprint brand. This will take money. Right now T-Mobile is probably spending the bare minimum to keep the Sprint website afloat until it does that.

Just my thoughts of course.

I think they are planning to get all sprint customers to eventually opt into tax included versions of their current plans which will transfer to the T-Mobile system. People on legacy plans like myself on Everything data. I believe they’d like to see us leave or switch plans. Throttling our video on TNX is a terrible move unless they want us gone.

15 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

That would be great, they kept telling me the plan no longer exists in their system which is a lie. At least the Canadian girl I talked to was very nice and understanding and did what she was allowed to do, wasn't getting anywhere with the India people it was almost like a joke everything was lost in translation. 

You should email mike.sievert@t-mobile.com. This get you a response from the executive team. It helped me when no one else could fixing device credits.

18 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Finally got connected to a Canadian, very helpful and understood what I was saying! Sprint Unlimited Freedom no longer exists, they can't put me back on it. So I am back on the taxes included plan with a $20 a month credit. Love how they just put me on the most basic plan to make the bill appear normal but it's obviously not video streaming looks like hot garbage if I am not on my VPN. Once my lease is up I may be jumping ship, we shall see.

What vpn do you use?

46 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

5G has been available from the start on TNA. All my devices are on T-Mobile 5G, n71, n41 with n66 showing as available once it's deployed.

I never get any spam calls, there is a spam blocker active from Sprint or T-Mobile, don't remember which at the moment.

Don't really see that as an advantage at the moment. n71 isn't all that impressive, need the anchor band to really deliver real 5G speeds.

So to me... don't really see a reason to use TNX yet.

For most it’s not an advantage. But to me in a rural area at edge of cell it’s the difference between 5 MHz b71 LTE and 15 MHz n71.

13 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

I may have missed it, but what are the the benefits of moving over to TNX on a 5G device that would automatically have TNA (prefer the T-Mobile network). It doesn't seem like it would change the network experience all that much. My devices are all TNA, and on the T-Mobile network all the time except while near Sprint Keep sites. I'd prefer to keep the easy access to Sprint sites since Sprint have a bigger network than T-Mobile here.

Only advantage is standalone 5g.

4 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

T-Mobile seems to have activated 5G roaming with U.S. Cellular 

 

Too bad they only allow roaming in specific areas.

15 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

In the new updates for the Samsung phones n66 is now enabled for tmobile and cell mapper has a case.

I looked at the case on Cellmapper. Said a 40 MHz channel. Is that incorrect? T-Mobile doesn’t have 40 MHz or 66 anywhere do they?