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The primary benefit is for us Sprint folks who live in nTelos-land. We will FINALLY get 4G service, which we've NEVER had before (unless we traveled elsewhere). It will take time - I read in one of those links that this deal doesn't close till early 2016 - and there's backhaul to get. However, Shentel was fast and thorough in upgrading their network, so it will be a quality product at the end. I'm hoping that maybe this project is on a slightly faster track, coming on the heels of the recent visit to Japan. :-D

 

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Part of the advantage for Shentel is they can leverage their fiber network which is very complimentary to the nTelos acquisition.

Shentel stands at something like 98% PCS 4G (G Block) with 95% 800 LTE which will very soon be augmented by 2.5 LTE in the major metro (if you can really call them that) areas. Expect the same level of deplyment in the newly aquired territory.

The deal is set to close in early 2016 due in large part to the spectrum that needs to transition from nTelos to Sprint and the regulatory approval this requires. I really don't think this will be a problem, however. A lot of the spectrum is already used in Sprint markets.

I should've taken a pic but someone was with me in the car and I didn't want to seem too completely weird. I'll try to get one soon and post it.

 

Edit: By the way, look at my profile pic. That is of a small omni-directional CDMA antenna I found in Toms Brook, VA. They have since added small cell B25 antennas (one facing north and one facing south down Route 11). I haven't gotten a new pic of that either, but the B25 antennas are the same as the one I just found in Woodstock at CHS. They are very small antennas mounted to a telephone pole in both instances.

Those small B25 only "antennas" are actually ALU MCO (metro cell outdoor) small cells.

well b26 seems like it's coming on in lancaster (near park city mall) I guess sprint wasn't joking about being finished by the end of this year, hooray for sprint/softbank. And also here's a picture of what keeps popping up as far as 3g now

 

As was posted above, Lancaster is not Shentel, but I can tell you almost all Shentel sites now have an 800 MHz LTE and voice carrier.

Has anyone noticing the lack of eHRPD in the Shentel market noticed slower data performance? This would only be noticeable during the transition from EV-DO to LTE. Read the following for more information:

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1819-what-is-ehrpd/&do=findComment&comment=52976

In Shentel's market, the GCI endings are:

B25 (primary carrier): 01,02,03

B25 (second carrier): 09,0A,0B

B26: 19,1A,1B

 

No B41 here yet so I don't know what they will use.

 

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This is correct, but I would like to expand on it a little.

The last two digits of the GCI will tell you the sector and the band in Shentel's market.

01, 02, and 03 indicate sectors alpha, beta and gamma respectively for PCS G band LTE.

09, 0A and 0B also indicate sectors alpha, beta and gamma respectively. The represent PCS band A or B depending on if you are in the Philadelphia (B band) or Washington/Baltimore (A band) markets.

19, 1A and 1B again indicate the three sectors respectively and show you are currently connected to 800 MHz LTE (Band 26)

I have also heard that Shentel was holding out to see how the Sprint/T-Mobile deal was going to work out before deploying any B41. I suspect now that it has fallen through, Shentel will be doing some evaluation with the 2.5GHz spectrum because they know Sprint will be holding onto this spectrum. Had the deal worked out, the resulting company may have had to sell that portion of the spectrum to satisfy the FCC.

I checked out your report.. there are no errors, and everything appears to be fine except for the missing information you mentioned. Check your system Location settings for your device (not the app).. make sure you have "Mobile Networks" enabled at a minimum

Interesting. I had the location setting set to use GPS only. When I changed it to use GPS and the network, everything works as it should.

Thanks for your input.

Mike,

Sent you a report from my LG G3. I noticed I get no SID, NID, BID, BSL when I force the phone into CDMA mode. Come to think of it this may be related to another problem I have where I get a 0 byte CDMA log file. I don't even get column headers. I can see the LTE GCI/PCI fine and those logs appear normal. 

I reliaze this may be a limitiation of my device, and I have tried turning location services on. Let me know how the report looks when you get time.

Thanks,

Tony

FYI: App works perfectly with the G3.

 

Mav.

 

Sent from my Sprint Tri-Band LG G3.

I have a G3 as well and I am having trouble accessing the engineering screen using SCP. The app tells me "Debug/Engineering screens may not be availible on this device" but I can enter ##33284# in my dailer and it enters the engineering screen just fine.

Recording the RSRP and the PCI for LTE or the Ec/Io for 1X and EVDO independantly along with the PN (understand this might be impossible?) with the Lat and Long from the GPS reciever to do simple drive testing would be invaluable. CSV files would be alright, but KML files with color codes for the signal strengths would be even better. Setting a distance interval in feet for each data point would be most excellent, but a polling interval in seconds would work.

I love the app. Keep up the good work, mikejeep