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Wow it would make sense to add hspa as a LTE fall back. Because falling from LTE to 2g is a hard drop.

 

 

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I would hope not because the switching between LTE and 2g would be bad. But that'll also be sloppy deployment just to get a LTE signal out.

 

 

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Ohhhh ok I never knew that it was bad. I guess the good thing is that they will in fact come back and fix it within a reasonable amount of time.

 

 

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I'm not sure just how bad the lte 1900 GMO will be (at least on freeways) because the 2g signal is pretty strong. Worst case you keep switching from 2g to lte but at least you're not on 2g 100% of time.

I'm pretty sure you need a permit in order to begin work on the tower structure.

What's wrong with GMO 1900 LTE? Is T-mobile using that?

 

 

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I think GMO lte means no RRH which means 1900 lte range is reaaaaally bad. They're just reusing same 1900 antennas that have been tgere for 10+ years.

Yes TMO is using GMO 1900 lte as a quick and dirty way to get lte up and running. Later they'll come back and put 700/AWS/1900 RRUs up.

Individual site permits can take weeks or months in big cities, individual site backhaul can take months or years no matter where the site is, lease negotiations can take months, building new sites takes all of the aforementioned plus weeks/months to actually build the tower structure etc. Multiplied by 2500 (50 sites in 50 states) you have a giant headache.

@maxsilver obviously Legere is bsing about verizon especially since most of lte coverage past past 250mil is GMO 1900 lte. Good luck penetrating a paper bag with THAT lol

I don't think TMO would mind it if sprint bought us cellular cause then sprint would turn around and sell 700a immediately to Tmobile.

Maybe Tmobile would prefer to buy Cspire for its customers AND 700a but it'd settle for 700a

Why is 50 sites per year per state hard?

Your experience is supported by the 2H RootMetrics report. Sprint's speed index came in just below T-Mobile but they tied Verizon for reliability.

 

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/columbus-oh

Umm what about the 5ghz lte? Is that gonna pan out?

well t mobile has a LTE outage on my block and there is HSPA+ service but no LTE any where near the tower

I used this service.

Now that it's fully legal again, there are services to unlock Sprint iPhones. I used one that is legit, in that I restored my iPhone and it said "congrats, your iPhone is now factory unlocked." I tried a T-Mobile SIM and it worked perfectly. My question is that should I need to get the phone replaced under warranty and go to the Apple store, will they give me a new unlocked phone for domestic use? Like I said, the phone seems to be completely factory unlocked... Just not through Sprint. The service said it was done through "Apple factory unlock." not Sprint.

 

For those of you that say there are no unlocked domestic Sprint phones that are sold, there are, just through Apple directly if you pay full price.

What about it?

IBEZ is a separate issue.

No. There is no band 41 within 60 to 80 miles in any direction here. Just band 25 and 26.

Yes they have but at peak times I have seen sprints network even with optimized band 25 and 26 brought to its knees. Just yesterday it was so many people in my area that even with all 3 bands I couldn't pull a web page and speed test refused to load.

Having both B25 and B26 available is good for coverage and speed on both bands. B26 acts like a second 5x5mhz carrier in conjunction with B25, but with the added reach of lower frequency spectrum for coverage and especially in-building propagation. Optimized B26 should have about the same coverage as 1900mhz 3G, maybe even slightly better.

 

B41 overlay is where capacity comes in to play, as B41 is the capacity/speed band. In areas where all three bands are available, speeds and coverage are great.

 

Sprint's 8t8r B41 propagates almost as good as B25, whereas Clear B41 doesn't propagate nearly as good.

 

 

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50% LTE 800 was reached a couple months ago as per internal documents S4GRU has reviewed.

 

In the past 3-4 weeks a substantial amount of LTE 800 was activated in numerous regions and areas where they did not exist previously so they're way more than halfway done by now and probably around 2/3rds done.

 

Example: My market Sacramento -- 2.5 mil pops in the metro. 1 month ago no LTE 800 anywhere in the region. 2 weeks later and more than half the metro has LTE 800 to be found. Just last week I found more LTE 800 in the north side of City of Sacramento which I didn't find in my logs or observation since I first noticed it going live.

 

Ofcourse it isn't all rainbows and butterflies since Ericsson didn't properly configure the sites that had 2.5 live to accept handoffs from the other bands.. :'(

Even band 25/26 is not a bad combo at all. They really shine in rural areas where the combination of the two equals plenty of coverage and capacity but in urban areas of 80,000 or more this combination is just not enough.

If you want a good chuckle, read the few hundred comments following this article:

 

http://www.tmonews.com/2014/12/are-you-happy-with-t-mobile-moving-you-from-legacy-to-simple-choice-or-new-plans/

 

Not everything is beautiful at T-Mobile and TmoNews. Some Magentans are in the pink, others in the stink.

 

 

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The plan changes may have affected many but obviously it didn't affect the vast majority of customers.

Just an update on this.... I tried. I tried to convince him to give Sprint a try. My friend is leaving Verizon for T-Mobile, and this is how TMo did it.

 

TMo got his interest with their 2x for $100 offer w/tethering. Sprint had nothing like at the time. TMo offered the free phone test for 7 days. He liked it required no money up front unlike Sprint's 30 day test trial. He tried SpeedTest at his house and was getting 66Mbps d/l. (I am in a Sprint Spark market and have never received such speed, so I had nothing to show him in return.) He went to another area of Houston and got 90.2 Mbps D/L. Never I have I received such speeds. He mentioned the speed smokes his Verizon phone.

 

He knows he is not going to use all that speed, but he believes with speeds that high he will have a more consistent experience. In other words, there's a lot of room for speed loss and still have a satisfying experience.

 

I showed him Sprint's new 2 lines unlimited for $100 deal. He said it's just like TMo's, nothing more. So, he's already warmed up to TMo on performance grounds and ease of trial, and Sprint is offering a package slightly less than what TMo has.

 

Oh well. Like I said, I tried. I did my part, but Sprint has to do their's.

t-mobile doesn't have a band 12 for chicago, the big t and vz own the block. They won't be giving that up neither

It's 8:45 pm in Yukon, OK. I'm a quarter mile from Sprint's cell site at SW 15th and Mustang Rd. I can see it from my window. I can connect to B25 and B26 from my house. Both deliver less than 1mbps down, and 2-3mbps up. It's just congestion, plain and simple. It's bad. T-Mobile, on the other hand, is making some pretty big moves nationwide, including here in OK. Lack of low band spectrum in the state will continue to hinder T-Mo indoors, but their cell grid is pretty dense. I'm really impressed with the rate at which T-Mobile is improving the network here.

Why is it that AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless able to have 700 Mhrz? Is the IBEZ thing similar to the Channel 51 thing?

Ibez thing is that Canada and Mexico have not yet reconfigured their 800 band to match USA