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2 hours ago, stlman314 said:

Found this in St. Louis yesterday

 

 

Where in STL? Are those the 2.5 panels?

1 hour ago, RedSpark said:

Thanks.

freq_band_ind shows 41. Guess I'm still on Sprint....

Hey at least your on B41. I was stuck on useless B25/26 most of the time with .17 up and down. If I had more connection time on B41 i wouldn’t have minded staying on the legacy sprint network.

37 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Where did you look in Field Test to see this on an iPhone?

What does it say to show that you're on T-Mobile's network?

Go into field test, LTE, serving cell info and it shows your LTE bands.

47 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

I am here to declare that I was not one of the million people.

Well, I woke up today and noticed my data speeds were way faster so I checked field test on my iPhone and I’m on the T-Mobile network now. 
 

What’s the iPhone SE on us deal T-Mobile announced for T-Mobile and sprint postpaid customers? Anyone know the details? Or is that only available for first responders? In the news release it says all T-Mobile and sprint postpaid customers.

Does anyone know what markets T-Mobile is going to be focusing on after NYC?

23 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Not for the first 7 years that's a stipulation to get the merger to pass. TMO didn't have to pay att when that merger failed for the first 7 years.

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I thought it was just giving dish a certain, very good price for the first seven years. Not free use.

22 minutes ago, dkyeager said:

I have hear rumors of iPhone users being offered to have improved phone service, which means changing from Sprint to T-Mobile.  Great if T-Mobile is better at your key places, else no so good. See Samsung Galaxy S20 thread or merger thread to see why. iPhone would not be as easy to correct.  Basically best done once they have actually converted T-Mobile sites by adding n41, which you will have to wait for at least the next version of iPhone.

Are you saying some sprint customers with iPhones are getting offered the update to prioritize the T-Mobile network?

1 hour ago, tybo31316 said:

I just received a carrier update on my iPhone to 41.1 anyone’s knows what changed?

I just got it. Don’t notice any difference so far. My moms old 6s is on 41 and doesn’t seem like it will get the new carrier update yet.

2 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

I think it's possible, already around me service is getting really flaky, and I am obviously on T-Mobile a lot more now. I was just out getting some grub and my service literally just dropped to nothing then it popped back up on T-Mobile when I was on B41 previously with a great signal. They are moving full steam ahead it seems and I am ok with that.

Service for me at home the past week on sprint seems to be a lot slower. Pings times are way higher than normal. Speedtests failing to start.

30 minutes ago, S4GRU said:

As much as I would like it, they are not planning a combined Sprint/Tmo LTE network.  Sprint's LTE network will run on the side.  Every time someone upgrades their device, they will be on the Tmo network.  Sprint LTE customers will dwindle over the next few years.  They will use new Tmo 5G as a means to try to draw people over. 

They will raid Sprint spectrum to drive network growth over at the new Tmo.  The Sprint LTE experience will be in a steady state of decline, until they finally make the last people in each market move over as they pull the plug.  In the interim, they will allow Sprint customers to natively roam on the Tmo LTE network when they run out of Sprint LTE network. 

In reality, they want Sprint customers to come over, but not too quickly.  So they can keep ahead of the curve as they upgrade their network for nearly double the customers.  It's a balancing act.  If they don't do it just right, they can lose millions of customers quickly to the Duopoly.  But they don't want to keep the Sprint customers too happy over on their old network.  They need them to want to move when the time is right.  If they make it all smiles and happiness, then they will be happy to be forced to move, and also want to churn.

Robert

I understand the need to move people over slowly but forcing them to upgrade their phones when many have just upgraded to a brand new iPhone or other device that is only LTE capable is not the right way in my opinion. If sprint customers can not get access to T-Mobile LTE network in decent amount of time or without buying a phone they don’t want or to spend $1000 that’s not right. Many sprint customers are on a lacking LTE network that is barely usable for a lot of people and now has no upgrades anymore. I can already see customers complaining and their not going to say “hey I’ll buy a $1000 phone to get better service” they are going to go back to the duopoly.

12 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

There will be no loss of service. None 5G devices will still have their LTE access using 2/25,4/66,12,71 likely just not B41

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Yeah I get there won’t be a loss of service but for people on LTE devices capable of both networks but stuck in a market or area that just doesn’t perform well on sprint LTE will still have a long wait for better days.

9 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

At some point all sprints customers will become TMobile customers and sprints towers, the keep sites, will be upgraded by TMO and aws,pcs,600,700, along with TMobiles 2.5 will be on them

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Yeah I heard that before but with all the 5g talk and nothing about integration for LTE customers it doesn’t sound good.

51 minutes ago, S4GRU said:

The plans, as I understand them, is Tmo will take 60MHz for Tmo n41.  Any remaining spectrum in the market will be used for Sprint B41 LTE.  Only in 2.5 spectrum constrained markets (less than 80MHz), will there be possibly no B41 LTE for Sprint customers remaining after the switch.  There aren't many major metros in this scenario.  Tmo is not planning to open up B41 LTE to its customers.  As Sprint LTE usage drops, they will refarm remaining B41 to n41.

Robert

Maybe this is a dumb question but as more I hear it seems they are only working on 5g. Is there never going to be a network integration of the LTE networks? Are sprint customer going to be stuck on sprint LTE until they upgrade to a 5g device? Or will there eventually be a full integration or plan to allow sprint customers to access the full T-Mobile network on the LTE side?

1 hour ago, nexgencpu said:

VoLTE seems to be live while roaming on T-mobile. 

Yeah I posted last weekend that I was able to make VOLTE calls. 

4 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

They will keep some B71. DSS should allow all of it for both

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That’s what I was thinking as well.

23 minutes ago, PhillipJames89 said:

Yup. 4G will be b12 b2/25 and 66 i believe.

They better keep some b71 for LTE. If they don’t their coverage footprint for LTE will shrink dramatically. That would leave a lot of places without any lowband LTE.

1 hour ago, bookertdub said:

Were you able to get the additional 20 gigs at no extra charge ontop of your normal 50 gigs due to COVID-19?


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Yes. We currently have 70gb. One question I forgot to ask the agent is what happens when I reach that limit? I just want to make sure there’s no overage charge.

On 4/18/2020 at 6:44 PM, bookertdub said:

Just tell them you want the 50GB hot spot. Also Sprint during this time during this Coronavirus situation is adding an additional 20GB ontop of the normal hotspot.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/11/06/sprint-ups-mobile-hotspot-limits-50-gb-launches-faster-4-g-network/1898490002/


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Promise this is my last post about plans... I just wanted to thank you for telling me about this and after 3 hours spend on the phone with sprint they finally added 50gb hotspot for no additional charge. Again thank you.

47 minutes ago, ingenium said:

Something indicating T-mobile while on the call, such as T-mobile LTE bands. Also make sure that the field test screen isn't stuck.

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Well, I have a screenshot of the field test page updated just before placing the call and the call and LTE in the status bar but it says my file is too large to attach.

48 minutes ago, ingenium said:

Do you have engineering screenshots showing it while on the call?

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I’m on an iPhone XS. I can get screenshots if you tell me what you need from field test.

4 minutes ago, bookertdub said:

Can confirm the 50 GB hotspot while being on the Everything Data 1500 plan. I've had it for about a year or 2 and learned about it on Reddit. I called into Sprint regarding it and they added it with no extra charge.


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Do you think they will still add it for no extra charge? Is that 50gb per line? What do I need to do to get this added?

42 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

iPhone 6's don't have T-Mobile's "meat and potatoes" frequencies... that's whats up.       You don't have Band 66 or 71 (big time especially band 66 (AWS spectrum T-Mobile is densifying their network with it)).    You need new equipment period. You're missing out on coverage because of it.    Even most "cheap" phones have what you need.  The iPhone 6 is just too old.   

from Phonescoop, these are the bands your iPhone 6 has: 

LTE  1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 8 / 13 / 17 / 25 / 26 / 41
WCDMA  1 / 2 / 4 / 5 / 8
CDMA  850 / 1700 / 1900
GSM  850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

only some versions support CDMA, LTE bands 38/39/40/41

I know what bands the iPhone 6 supports. There was band 2 T-Mobile coverage and no sprint coverage and it won’t connect. I know they can because they have in the past.

I just noticed I’m making calls over VOLTE while roaming on T-Mobile. Has anyone else seen this yet? I’m posting this comment while on a phone call and on band71.

Okay, I can definitely confirm speed caps are gone now in my area. Getting great speeds in a rural area where sprint has nothing. The thing is family’s older iPhone 6/6s phones won’t roam onto T-Mobile at all. Not even on band 2 which they have before in the past but now they just stick to uscc 3g. Anyone have any reasons why that would be?