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That's because the slick and DSLAM are normally in the same "hut" and tied together. As long as the slick remains up (last-mile copper phone service)...the DSLAM will also remain up. Now if the C.O loses power and batteries run low, the DSLAMS may lose access to the internet backbone, which would still give sync but just no internet...it'd be like having the internet lights on, but no access.

 

That usually won't happen unless it's a week-long outage though.

I live exactly next-door to the slick which includes the DSLAM that I connect to...power goes out, I keep dial-tone because the slick still runs on battery. I can also still get internet using a backup -- and actually, I've used a vehicle inverter before and ran just my modem + desktop on the vehicle inverter.  DSL can do this. U-verse..I'm not sure. They use an IPDSLAM instead of the cheaper ATM equipment. Technically, it should be the same...if U-verse pulls the internet from a dial-tone as DSL does.

Little known fact. Most phone systems maintain there own power supply for landline based systems. In your case it may be a battery and/or generator system. In dense urban centers it is often generated by the phone company. Your actual landline phone also uses a different voltage. I think its 40 something volts but I have to look it up.

If you need to use WiFi calling at home or work you would be better off going with a different provider. we used to used AT&T years ago but they had like no signal at my house and there was a bad storm and the power was out including the internet. AT&T is still pretty bad in this area (country) and they may now support WiFi Calling but if the power goes out and there is an emergency it would be useless.

 

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One caveat. DSL still works during most power outages. I have a battery backup that I hook my router to and I still have internet access via wifi.

Many countries in South America (which Brightstar has a strong presence) use CDMA on 800/1900. Brightstar can refurbish these handsets and re-distribute them to those countries. The LTE bands may not be compatible, but many of these countries are not even opporating LTE services out side of major cities, if at all. Brightstar also plays a part in recycling used/defected Sprint handset. Behind the scenes, Brightar's synergies with Sprint is helping the Sprint be a profitable company again. You may not here about them, but they play a huge part (e.i. IPhone for life)

Was not aware that CDMA 800/1900 was in use in South America. That makes all this make a bit more sense.

I see your point now. However, Sprint still pushes older/used phones to it's prepaid brands. They are just choosing the devices wisely. For example just recently they re-SKU'd LG G2's (all colors) to Boost Mobile, to move inventory. It was a success! SPG (Sprint Prepaid Group) only wants to offer devices that offer the best user experience. Back to your point, with BrightStar now under the Soft Bank umbrella, I am sure they are assisting in moving returned and older devices. Sprint also uses pre-owned phones as retention offers to customers who threaten to cancel because of not having insurance or not being upgrade eligible. I am confident with the new CEO he is doing everything to reduce loses.

I was wondering about Brightstar. Exactly who is their market when it comes to Sprint phones. I was under the impression that other than the current crop of triband phones, Sprint phones could only be used on Sprint.

Why is it a bad idea for tri-band devices to be sold on Sprint Prepaid brands? Sprints Prepaid brands (Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile USA, Sprint Prepaid) represent over 14 million subs. Thats a 1/4 of Sprints customer base. I feel it is important that anyone one Sprints network have the same experience. If not, they would be losing more subs than they already have.

You make a good point but you miss the point I was trying to make. Sprint has historically moved its unsold/returned phones to the prepaid side. They won't be able to do that this time since they have made triband accessible to all brands. So now, instead of being able to shift the older phones to prepaid and phase tri-band in on that side, they now either must eat the cost of replacing handsets or face anger from customers on both pre and post paid over subpar service.

I'm pretty sure it was a nationwide outage unless you had an iPhone... Otherwise midnight eastern time texting outbound went down...

On the east coast and mine was fine inbound and outbound. Sent out three groups of 40 texts each just before midnight and received several replies just after midnight. Sending and receiving texts continued for the next two hours. No delays or hiccups on my side.

 

Voice and Data.  Mine rarely goes onto 1x800 (CDMA 800) and would rather drop the call than silently move over to that band.

 

Iphone 5S Sprint version specifications from http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/specs/

 

• Model A1453*: CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz); LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26)

 

Thanks!

iphone avoids 1x800 like its the plague. I believe the only way to make a call on it is if you are on b26 and the call comes in, or you place a call while on b26. Every other time it will revert to pcs, even if it's unusable.

 

Edit: I'm sorry. Read your post a little too fast there. If b26 is available and your son can't get it, can you verify that you're getting 26 on your or another device? It could be the iPhone.

 

 

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Wait, does the 5S do just voice on 800 or voice and data?

iphone avoids 1x800 like its the plague. I believe the only way to make a call on it is if you are on b26 and the call comes in, or you place a call while on b26. Every other time it will revert to pcs, even if it's unusable.

 

Edit: I'm sorry. Read your post a little too fast there. If b26 is available and your son can't get it, can you verify that you're getting 26 on your or another device? It could be the iPhone.

 

 

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I have to check the next time I am in Virginia. 

Does this market cover the Dumfries/Quantico area?

WOW! Got 23 down and 7 up on Band 26 in Holly Springs!

There are three possibilities for bad battery life:

1. File system fragmented and/or apps and is not upgrading cleanly.

2. Battery going bad.

3. Flash memory going bad and using more CPU and battery for each read and write.

 

I'm hoping it's just #1 that's the problem.

 

No easy way to tell if it's #2. An app might be able to test #3.

My battery is good. It was the performance that went south. I rebooted, deleted the last couple of downloaded apps and doing a virus check as we speak. So far so good. The performance slow down even affected my notifications. They came in like gang busters once I rebooted.

The 5s operates on band 25 and 26 yes? My son is not receiving 800 mhz in an area where 800 should be active. It is also not an issue of the network choosing band 25 over 26 because band 25 will drop out and he has no service. Any suggestions?

It's also possible I have really low standards. Sprint was extremely bad here before (to the point where there was no point not having the phone on Wi-Fi the majority of the time), so LTE speed tests dropping from 15mbps to like 3-4 probably wouldn't be a big deal for me as long as latency was still okay.

That's the thing. Perception can skew, well, perception. My wife has an M7 and she is totally happy with her data speeds. She is also not a wireless geek so there is that. 

My phone has LTE only on B25 and I've seen a massive improvement in service though.

Thats why I said anecdotal. Not only have we had some people that have shown up here and complained but I also know people in the Raleigh area that have stated that there service has gotten slower and in every case they do not have a tri band device while I can tell you without a doubt that the Raleigh area has seen a significant improvement. I just wonder if Sprint screwed the pooch on this one.

I plan on re-imaging and doing a factory reset on my M8 one Lollipop comes out.

That is probably a good idea.

Just thinking out loud here but I think Sprint made a mistake. Lets look at the ingredients first:

1. Anecdotal evidence suggests that single or even dual band phones have not seen a significant improvement in service(the barometer being speed).
2. Sprint has rolled out tri-band capability to its Pre-paid brands(Virgin yes, not sure about Boost)
3. Sprint is still selling non-triband phones on its website.

Sprint should have re-branded and dumped its non tri-band phones on to prepaid as quickly as possible. By not doing do they have put themselves into the position of selling a phone that in all probability wil not deliver a good expereince for the user. Now Sprint either has to tell them to pound salt or eat the cost of a new phone. Additionally, they have undercut the value of post paid by allowing triband on pre-paid especially with deals like this http://www.virginmobileusa.com/why-choose-us/

4 hours on battery today, less than 2 with screen on, battery is at 48 percent already. Wtf did these guys do? I live next to my tower, so it's not due to a weak signal. But fore this update 13 hours was easy to achieve with normal use.

No power issues but my phone did become unbelieveably slow and had issues with the screen not coming on due to a delay between input and action(probably 2-3 minutes).

By that logic, nothing is comparable.

I've run G3 software on my G2 and had great battery life, similar to my G2 running stock.  Now, I can run the tests to compare that G2 does in fact run longer than the G3 on the same software, but there will still be differences in kernel coding and other hacks involved.  Overall, there's a 100% consistency rate of battery life being better on 1080p displays than 1440p displays of all tests done.  There will always be variables that aren't accountable but the consistency of data is enough to conclude that the 1440p display draws more power, whether it be a result from lighting, processing, or size.

What variables are you talking about?  IIRC, the tests are usually done in the same place and are tested the same way every time.  There's more pixels for GPU/CPU processing which is a larger strain on battery.  Given it's essentially the same processor/GPU combo (although a slightly higher clock rate), the results can be comparable.

Those two are substantially different phones. While I think you are probably right on your conclusion that graphic proved nothing accept that somebody somewhere knows who to put together graphics and a few numbers. If you want to prove through empirical data that the screen is causing the increase in drain then you have to rule out or account for the change in software, cpu, gpu etc etc. 

I know they are, but my point is NV 1.0 is "substantially complete" according to Sprint with 2.0 (Spark) making inroads right? So there's been minimal improvement in my area with 1.0 upgrades in place (per the maps) and my handsets aren't compatible with 2.0 triband/spark....if I hadn't found this site, I'd be long gone from Sprint, believing it'd never get any better.

California has been the home of some substantial challenges for NV. Realize that Sprint can say substantially complete and be correct while your area has not seen many improvements. Orange county probably accounts for way less than 1% of Sprints subscriber base. It sucks and I feel for you but reality is reality.

The G2/G3 battery stats show the difference in battery life compared to screen resolution. (Also the Z3/Z3c.)

 

 

 

Battery sizes are the same, yet, the G3 gets roughly half of the screen time as the G3.

 

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You have to account for all of the variables before you can make a conclusion.

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Me to.

The Moody's rationale is more like drowning kittens in the bath tub:

 

 

I can see a scenario where SoftBank ponies up and buys a lot of shares at this perceived discount.

 

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I often ignore the guidance of Moody's, et al and focus on their reasoning. Most of these investment ad-visors are experts at the numbers but seldom take the time to learn the business.

Funny you should mention a fusion with a broken transmission and crappy sync, we had one of those. What model year was yours? Ours was a 2010. Never was more excited for a lease to be up then with that car, by the end it was leaking oil, the transmission was failing again after its 2nd rebuild and the A/C had gone out. Only had 46,000 miles.

 

Will probably never buy an American sedan again, and especially not a Ford after the customer service hell I've been put through. Despite it all I do like to keep an open mind and am very intrigued by the 2015 Mustang and F150 (though nothing with an Ecoboost engine, that's another can of worms in its own!)

Everybody has there issues. Even some of the Japanese makes have suffered some epic reliability fails in recent years. My advice, do not buy a first year model and use a service more reliable than consumer reports to check on reliability rankings. Almost as important is buying your car from a good dealer. Most car manufacturers have some type of five star rating. I would seek out those dealers.