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All sprint store systems are spotty today going in and out. Im trying to use boost website to activate a phone and its activation portal is down

 

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not good timing...    But silver lining it might be down due the crushing volume of people porting to sprint! 

Right about now... I really wish I had gone to a store instead of online ordered... still waiting for UPS.... USPS came like hours ago and I saw them drive off like half an hour after what seemed like the end of their route... 

if your the guy who needs the phone in the AM and just cant wait for a PM delivery then the store is the way to go, in fact you could probably still get one in a carrier store, if you are not super picky about color or storage.

https://bgr.com/2015/09/25/sprint-iphone-6s-launch-no-lines/

hmmm

I always feel a little bad for the employees who set these up and have no one show up, not a large enough study to say anything, especially when your consider how popular online ordering is. 

getting much better battery life on 9.0.1.  Only a 1% drop overnight.

 

now, 4 hours of usage and over 20 hours of standby with 56% of the battery left.

second that, amazing battery life on 9.0.1 

Well, I got another response about the network here in Chicago. I've emailed about 5 people over the last year, and each email gets a little better. What do you think?

 

 

 

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mine was better, i also emailed Tracy see the same twiter feed as you (i think that was you)  i got an email from her cheif of staff holly, to set up a phone call with me and Hammad shaikh. he is the network manager for my region (not Chicago though) we talk for an hour and a half last night.  long story short they are going to make tower adjustments based on my recommendations, then send in a drive team to  the changes.  in 2-3 weeks they will upgrade the final tower in my town, they will send a drive team to get a better assessment after the new tower is activated.  I also learned they have just begun to select macro and micro sites for NGN they are planning one for janesville near the intersection i recommended in my email lol.  They are still finalizing NGN equipment vendors for small cells, he claims they will be band 41 only(primarily to help with capacity and coverage), and deployment will begin in early 2016 (jan-feb) the roll out will be swift they expect to have is nearly complete by the end of 2016.  I am so happy to have a contact on the network side, he said he has been with the company for years and this is only the second time he has been asked to contact a customer.  I asked if i could ride along during the next test, he laughed... he probably thought i was kidding 

So what does B26 optimization supposed to do?

optimize B26, from what i under stand they configure band 26 for capacity so they make it match band 25 coverage.  until band 41 is properly deployed then they optimize band 26 for coverage, both radius and building penetration because its no longer needed for capacity.  many areas have band 26 that performs nearly identical to band 25, since band 26 is 800 and band 25 is 1900 its set up that way to begin with.  This seems to be a slow process why no one is for sure, some have speculated it has to due with old iden/nextel equipment interfering, some think its man power shortage, others poor network management (they don't know how to optimize it).  I think its man power shortage...  

Obama is messing with my live stream? How can I fix that? Do we have to call Sprint?

 

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it was a joke, no one is hacking your phone or your PRL or anything else on your phone, its just a network issue. does your phone work normaly in other areas? if yes then its your area report it on the sprint zone app. if no then something is phone with your phone and you should ask sprint to take a look at it.  do other sprint users have this problem in your area?

I've updated my profile till I was blue in the face. Sprint advanced tech support reset my ooma and lte settings. Let me ask you guys this, if someone, whoever fbi police were to send my device a fake prl to connect to their towers, would this cause issues? Also how could I get rid of their prl and overwrite it with sprints? Man I'm getting paranoid here I better put on my tin foil hat. I am stuck with crappy upload. I was on Band 41 getting 40 to 50 megabit down and my upload was .200. Another area with 16 down I was getting 0 upload! How's that even possible? 0 upload happens a lot! They must really be hacking my phone. I have no other explanation please help! Sitting here getting 71 megabit download and I can't crack 3 to 4 meg upload. Is sprint spark upload supposed to be this slow on Band 41.

 

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it's Obama he is making your phone upload a live camera stream 24/7, because your life is very interesting to him..... or since band 41 has trouble penetrating buildings among other things, and your phone's radio is significantly weaker than a cell tower its possible the tower is getting to your phone but your phone is having trouble transmitting back to the tower.  Its possible the tower your connected to is turned up so "strong" that phones have trouble with upload at the fringes of coverage... what is your signal  strength?    

Is there a chance Google buys 600 spectrum for both Sprint and T-Mobile to use and build out along with FI?

 

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they would need to buy enough to split it between t mobile and sprint, I can't see sprint and t mobile doing a shared deployment.  the LTE would also have to be available to sprint and t mobile customers, not just FI customers otherwise it wouldn't be worth the build out cost for sprint or t mobile, unless google wants to provide the equipment as well, i doubt that would be worth it for google, and would just help drive the cost up.   

Huh. That's an awfully odd time for the update to download. Seems very odd to me.

 

-Anthony

the phone doesn't what wifi your on only that your hooked to wifi, so downloads like app updates or iOS updates would download the same as if you hooked up to your home wifi. But yes iOS updates seems a little strange, app updates I can total see happening, especially with the release of iOS 9. I get 5-10 app updates per day. Some of them large 1 gig+. And some of them happen over public wifi, and cellular data.

 

 

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Anyone want to guess what the biggest data consumer is at sporting events on WiFi is? In a whole bunch of cases, it's iOS updates. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

it sure wouldn't be android updates, as they are very rare.     I bet snap chats of food is among the top... got to show every one those nachos that is very very important, or people steaming replays of the game they are at because they missed it while taking snap chats of their food.    either way people need to spend less time on the phone while at these events, pay good money to sit on your phone at a sporting event? why bother going..... 

I've contacted Tracy Nolan on Twitter about this recently, and was instructed by her to send a detailed email, so I did. We'll see what comes of it.

 

 

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I hope that you get some answers, the total lack of band 26 optimization is out of control... I understand they need to use it for capacity over coverage but enough is enough, they need to adjust Irma for maximum coverage already. The 3G holes (where band 26 should cover) are getting old.

 

 

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I'm such a nerd. The first thing i looked at after installing IOS9 was the field test screen. Appears to be different:

 

 

Liking that the keyboard isn't uppercase all the time.

 

 

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t feel bad I did the same thing

 

 

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Ill be honest, its going to be a 10x10 (5x5 in all likelyhood) sliver at best, plus extremely overpriced. Not to mention the fact that it would take at least 4 years before you can really deploy it properly.

 

I just don't see it as a viable option for Sprint. If they have found a easy way to leverage wireless backhaul plus C-RAN, I can see them densifying in lower population areas faster and more cost effective, plus leveraging 2.5 and hordes of spectrum that can scale.

I agree this will be a huge bidding war, sprint is better off sinking every cent they can into densification, both small cells and macro. I hope they do a good job with placement of these new sites, does anyone know what bands the new small cells will support, and will then have CA?

 

 

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Because repeaters are the worse thing to attach to a macro network. They add load to a macro site, and are heavily dependent on the site for capacity, speeds, throughput. Putting in a pico cell would be the smarter approach.

unless done like this....

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/analysts-sprints-network-densification-project-will-likely-include-70k-smal/2015-07-23

 

"Because acquiring fiber for backhaul is prohibitively expensive, Sprint is likely going to use wireless backhaul to save money, analysts said. Both BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk and New Street Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin said that Sprint will likely use in-band wireless backhaul solutions using the lower 2.5 GHz spectrum band that would not require line of sight. Piecyk also wrote in a blog post last week that Sprint could "allocate a chunk of the 2.5 GHz spectrum for backhaul alone, known as out-band.""

 

perhaps take this approach to quickly add small cells with wireless back haul and wire them at a later date, to free up the spectrum for additional band 41 carriers. 

You are aware that Sprint has entire teams of people dedicated to just driving around testing the network, right? I've been on a few of those rides myself.

i would love to do a ride along in my home town, i know exactly where all the trouble spots are.... would be very cool to watch the processes, ill even go under cover! lol    

One my friends on T-Mobile just had one of his friends post on Facebook an average of 136GB a month on T-Mo...that's insane.

that would be difficult to consume that much data on the phone Alone, not impossible mind you.... Just difficult. That's like 60 some Netflix movies, almost two per day.... I my opinion doing that every month is excessive and will contribute to the end of unlimited... Imagine if everyone consumed that much early month. But hey it's he pays for unlimited, so long as he is staying within his terms of service I say have at it, last month i used 35 gigs on my phone only.

 

 

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Excellent ideas which Sprint really ought to consider. No offense towards Sprint in particular, as I know many companies could improve, but when I've visited the more intelligent websites discussing businesses, such as S4GRU, many of their members have really good ideas as to how to improve issues in these companies where it is really weird they don't have staff in positions of power doing what needs to be done to really make these ideas happen.

 

Instead, you have people getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions quite often, just to create a new logo and even more stupid marketing campaigns. All while leaving their social media sources, one of their greatest marketing assets, completely open to attack from the public. In a way, its another form of corporate hacking, a legal yet still very damaging one.

Yeah kinda like the "all in plan" with all video limited to 3G speeds at all times. I'm sure that guy or consultant or who ever he was got paid huge money for his "excellent" idea! I can see it now, include this clause it will help manage traffic... Great idea I don't see how that could possibly back fire... No one is worth tens of millions of dollars a year, I mean no one! It's really out of control, heck I have been harping sprint about a local tower that is grossly miss configured for months, no one has the power to do anything about it... Even though they them selves admit it's mid configured and not operation as it should. Tickets get opened and immediately closed with no change.

 

 

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Well I am disappointed. It seems to me Sprint could be falling into it's old pattern of delay which is never good.

don't count them out yet, they have made seemingly impossible improvements over the past couple of years, who would have thought sprint would start taking  #1 network awards 2 years ago?  I would rather they get this build out right than rush it out, get half way and realize they could have deployed it in a more efficient manor.... kind of like when they make a tower in the middle of a corn field a full build, when the resources would have been better spent say downtown Chicago, or any where else with a better return on investment.     

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/att-now-throttles-unlimited-data-after-22gb-instead-of-5gb/

 

 

I guess they wanted to match T-Mobile?

the problem is anyone who would want to use that much data probably already left the unlimited plan(or att), after that old 5 gig throttle the phone was next to useless data wise....  I know a few people left on the unlimited plan from att, they barely use the phone probably use less than 1 gig, they are just afraid/resistant to change.  verizon grandfathered unlimited plans however, i know a few people on those that use over 50 gigs in a month. 

I have mostly been on 3G and 1X in San Diego ever since carrier 20.1 came out for the iPhone. It is hard for me to know what is network related and what is phone software related since that update. It has been a sub-par experience either way but things still work on 3G. On 1X I usually get a no network connection error. With iOS 9 coming I am hoping there is an improvement with an updated carrier bundle.

you and me both, i should be upgrading ios sometime today ( : hope it improves things in my home town 

I can see how having less social media presence likely a bad thing for many companies. Yet, maybe not for Sprint. I'm envisioning a concept advertisement Sprint could make as a commercial on television and an online video, where Sprint makes a point of wanting to use its resources to focus on direct interactions with customers, rather than be monitoring Facebook and other social media sites. They could work the network into it, maybe even something comical where an engineer is sitting at a desk responding to Facebook comments, with a Sprint announcer saying something like...

 

" Would you rather he or she sit there responding to online comments on our Facebook? NO! Of course you wouldn't! Our engineers do best while they are at one of our ever expanding network sites, building you, our respected Sprint customers, a better network, everyday. So, instead of having our great customer service staff responding to online comments, we have them right where you can contact them, by phone or email. Same with technical support. Sprint, getting better and less scripted everyday"... Okay, without that last part, though some sarcastic joke against the unfair, bias criticizers would be nice.

i doubt the social media team is more than a few dozen people, that is why they have scripted responses... copy and paste basically if i had to guess most of them have less technical knowledge of the network than the average s4gru user.  They most likely have access to glances and the ability to "report a problem" similar to the sprint zone app, to imply that it somehow detracts from the network engineering teams in any significant way is incorrect IMHO. what it does do however is create a poor public image, people think "wow look at all those unhappy sprint users" even if its 2K un happy people that is an incredibly small percentage.  What they should do is either cut the comments our completely, or expand social media, removing scripted responses, creating trouble tickets, following up with real detailed information such as.  

 

we apologize for your slow data experience, we are adding a second high speed carrier to your tower, this work is scheduled to be complete by 9-25-15 of course we do everything in our power to hold to this time table however at times a situation outside out control could hinder us.  I will keep you updated as the date gets closer and let you know of any changes, we appreciate your patience and under standing.

 

then of course they would need access to an accurate upgrade time table, updates about delays, and to actually follow up with these people as they promise, of course most of this could be automated (reminders tower delay alerts) but that level of care would require a significantly larger team, with more authority and access to additional information.  

While it says iPhone 6, it also says "latest model." Maybe people thought you had a 6s somehow? Either way, it's 98% sure to be a scam, and the winner will probably try to retract.

 

I'm so done with eBay, and the bullsh*t that accompanies selling something expensive online. The iPhone forever plan has saved me from the inevitable late-summer headache of trying to sell a phone to some foreigner who doesn't comprehend online bidding. I've had people jack up the price last second, only to cancel their winning bid TWICE.

 

Just today, I got an email from the winner of my iPhone 6 that they received 6 days ago stating the iPhone is iCloud locked, and how they're going to report me for selling a stolen phone. I listed it with 7 pictures, and two of them were the receipt, and a screenshot of the logged out iCloud screen. I called apple just to double check, and they told me the phone was recently logged into with a SIM card from Hong Kong, and re-locked with iCloud. This person is trying to scam me I to giving a refund after they probably just needed it for a quick trip overseas. So done with eBay.

 

 

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not uncommon to have someone claim its i cloud locked and stolen, ebay does nothing to protect the seller these days.  The company i work for is almost done with ebay, it just isn't worth it.  people will order stuff, ups will say they delivered it, then they will file a dispute with ebay demanding money back "because they didn't get it" ebay then demands proof witch we provide as the tracking number and when it says left at door ebay rejects that as proof and refunds the money....

Another way to go is to purchase most CCA carriers.

that would be a possibility, however then you get assets that don't mesh well with the  national network, regulatory hurdles. not to mention if the wireless carrier being acquired is not in bad financial shape then sprint would most likely pay a premium, then the premium may be paid for overlapping coverage forcing sprint to effectively double pay for foot print expansion.  perhaps buying one or two could be beneficial (rip and replace their network equipment for sprints) but for the most part i think sprint would be better off building their own network, crushing the little guy and buying the assets at fire sale prices and or bankruptcy(if they even wanted them).  wireless will become an even more cut throat business as time goes on, these small regional carriers will struggle more and more every year.

From the last time I looked at the statistics for out west, something like 20% of the population live in rural areas, meaning that 80% should be contained in the cities and medium sized towns.

 

Focusing on those will cover the majority of the population, but the question is how many people will leave their carrier for a network that doesn't have the rural coverage... and will it be economical if they only get a small percentage of the population.

its a problem for sure, if you have no network you will have no subscribers, but if you build a network will it attract subscribers....

 

Right now i don't think sprint has the money to gamble and expand coverage in this way, they are better off building a rock solid network in cites and areas they already cover.  They have a TON of work left to complete, from towers that are still 3g only, to the clear wire conversions, the one thousand plus new macro sites they plan to build, and the 70K small cells.... plus all the DAS to install at venues all across the country.... sprint money is better spent improving service to their existing customers rather than making a gamble to try and gain new ones in cities they don't cover. IMHO   

 

Once they have achieved the goal of #1 network in the country and completed a substantial amount of the current work load, then and only then should they aggressively expand the network foot print, think small to mid sized towns, complete interstate native lte coverage, alot of "small/mid" sized towns are located along major interstates and highways.  This coupled with a massive marketing push in those small to mid sized towns could be huge.  imagine if sprint built towers to cover a mid size town and them mailed everyone in that town an offer for free service for a year... i would have to think a decent percentage of people would take them up on that.  I think that would be a great long term play!