Cardsfan96

We’re on the same plan I believe but we don’t get any hotspot. Are you saying you get 50gb hotspot with your plan? Hotspot is the only reason I would want to switch plans.

I know this may not be the place for this question but I’m not sure where else to ask. First sprint sent out the covid-19 email a few weeks ago saying everyone will receive 20gb of hotspot and other things. Does this apply to every sprint plan and account or only newer plans? I believe we’re on the “Everything data” plan that we have had for years. Second does anyone have an opinion on if we should keep this plan or lock in a different plan before things change?

I didn’t see throttling on T-Mobile for a while but was limited to certain bands. Just more recently I noticed the cap at 5. Hopefully that’s gone now.

I was roaming on b2 and b71 in the St Louis area and was still capped at 5. That was on Tuesday. Hopefully that’s changes soon! Update: Just went into the basement next to the concrete staircase to see if I could lose sprint connection as I have an iPhone... I actually was able to lose sprint LTE and my phone grabbed B71. I stood up and ran a Speedtest before my phone could pick up sprint again and I got 15 down and 5 up in my basement! Checked after the test and still was showing b71 and I believe it because sprint can’t even pull those speeds here upstairs anywhere in the house even during off peak times. It’s not 100% but I’m pretty sure the cap may be gone here now too.

Band 71 roaming was enabled in at least northeastern Missouri sometime around a week and a half ago. No change the first weekend after April 1 but the second weekend band 71 roaming was enabled.

Okay yesterday I posted they finally opened up b71 for roaming where I am again and today my phone locked to b12 over the b71 in certain places. I’m assuming this was USCC as I don’t think T-Mobile has b12 here to my knowledge. Haven’t been able to connect to USCC LTE in over a year either. Before this weekend it was roaming on USCC 3g and little b2 T-Mobile in parts of town. Big improvement for me.

Okay now after going back into a small town in rural mo where I go on the weekend a lot i am able to connect to b71 again. First time I’ve been on b71 around here in over a year. One question.Is there anyway to see how wide the the LTE channels are on an iPhone?

I’m not noticing any differences yet in eastern Missouri. Still not connecting to b71. Not noticing any difference in roaming yet.

So I’ve heard two different things now. First I heard before today that on day one it would be reciprocal network sharing on day 1 which is obviously not the case. Then I heard today two somewhat conflicting statements. First that for now users will stay on each separate networks. Then I heard another statement that Sprint users would be able to tap into the T-Mobile network via expanded roaming. Can someone clear up what exactly has changed today if anything?

I was under the impression that other people were getting access to band 71 already from the expanded roaming announcement last Friday. I think we have all been patient haha. I thought others were already reporting seeing changes made but maybe I was wrong.

Anyone have any idea why my phone still won’t roam onto band 71? In the area I am I’m only connecting to band 66/2. Then I drop to uscc 3g. I don’t get it. I have an iPhone XS and a little over a year ago when they first enabled T-Mobile roaming I was able to connect to it and it worked great. I was hoping this expanded roaming would enable that again but it doesn’t look to be the case for me.

Not sure it will help but they filed a report for the area. I guess I’ll see.

I really don’t understand it. Tempted to switch back to my Nexus 6p just to see if any devices are getting LTE roaming. Just frustrating because none of the carriers cover that area well and We can’t have U.S. Cellular anymore so... What do you suggest I tell Twitter chat support? The last time they wanted to try a device refresh from their end but I had to go through some link and I just gave up at the time.

Yes, I currently have an iPhone XS. The closest city to where I’m experiencing this is the Florida, Missouri area. My parents, who have iPhone 6 and 6s both can’t connect to LTE. Family members with iPhone X and XR’s experiencing the same. Just unusable 3g most of the time. All these phones about 8 months ago could connect to U.S. Cellular LTE regularly. My phone worked fantastic between the US Cellular LTE and band 71 on T-Mobile up until around December or January. I’m guessing all those phones lost it around the same time.

Thanks. I don’t really think I’m having having an issue roaming on U.S. Cellulars LTE unless everyone I know has the same problem. It just seems that LTE roaming isn’t active.

What kind of issues were you having? What’s a “hands free activation”?

I’ve only been seeing band 66 and 2 also.

I did message them through Twitter a while back about it and they just told me the usual like trying to update profile and prl then after I told them I did that many times already they said well roaming coverage and quality is out of our control and basically said there was nothing they could do. I know it’s not just me. Many people that have sprint have been there also and can only connect to U.S. Cellulars 3g now and it’s unusable for them also. T-Mobile LTE works to a certain point but not at our weekend place now that I can’t access band 71 anymore. I know I’m just rambling but it’s frustrating because I know how good it can be and I spend a good amount of time there with basically unusable data.

Spectrum gateways site shows they have nationwide 600 MHz. Most areas only have 5x5 mhz.

They do have some 600 MHz. Not sure if it’s nationwide.

Sprint’s 800 spectrum.

Roaming on U.S. Cellular in the area I’m in seems very restricted. I can only get 3g even right below the tower I use to connect to LTE all the time. It’s also seems the 3g is either throttled or is very congested. The 3g never works during the day but will get somewhat usable after 10pm. People I know who have U.S. Cellular have been in the same place and have full LTE with good speeds while I’m stuck on unusable 3g. I use to get T-Mobile LTE roaming until they quit allowing band 71. My data roaming experience went from an A to a D in a matter of a few months. It’s basically just calls and text.

It has been horrible for me the past few months. Pretty much useless data wise.

Is network usage on U.S. Cellular restricted at all? I never can connect to their LTE anymore and 3g is hardly usable until after 10pm.

Does anyone have any idea what will happen with Sprint’s roaming agreements with U.S. Cellular with this merger? That roaming is the main reason we even have sprint because none of the other carriers have solid coverage at our weekend place except U.S. Cellular.