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On 1/10/2018 at 6:48 PM, Terrell352 said:

I would have loved to see VoLTE talk and the future of mini macros since 4x4 mimo cant be done on them and whole cities are starting to see only this equipment.

I think they are fine. Go back and replace them once B41 gets congested. 160Mbps is a great starting point and with Config 2 that goes up to +200Mbps and if it can do Q256 we are almost at 300Mbps.

If the price was right it could totally happen. But doubt Sprint cares enough. The just roam LTE on someone else.

2 hours ago, rocketr said:

256QAM made a huge difference in speed for T-Mobile when they activated it. I believe the same will occur for Sprint if they can implement. We have a commitment of early next year. I hope Sprint meets this... It will be awesome. I know it doesn't make much of a difference with Band41 (it will for Band 26 and 25). It will make some (more) difference even on 41 with a HPUE device. 

How much gear is capable of even doing that for B25/26?

I think Sprint has been moving a long great with B41, but not giving any love to their other bands.  Being able able to utilize additional LTE technology and have increased power output would go pretty far for B25/26 when one isn't on B41.  Especially spectrum starved B25 areas and high capacity sites.

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YoutubeTV.  Youtube TV is still in beta mode for us.  Not sure if it is worth $40/mo after taxes, but the local channels are great.  I live behind a ridge so no local channels. Still < $50/mo for these services.  Was paying like $150 for DirecTV before.

I think come 2018, there will be another big wave / continuation of cord cutting.  Prices are going up again on TV across the board for everyone landline based.  The TV providers need to put their foot down.  The broadcasters don't care what they charge cause they get money from the customers whether they pay for "cable" or pay for a streaming service. The companies that provide just the service can have a lot smaller revenue because they don't have the infrastructure they don't have to invest in.  So cable companies that provide their own services don't have the advantage of not having infrastructure.

Got another B41 tower running!  This one is using 8T8R gear.  Kinda odd for what it is.  The other tower got MM gear.  The gear should ideally be swapped.  But the gear the MM is on, could be tower load limitations, has all the carriers on it.  

It's exciting to see them come online right around me. 2 towers down, 4 to go.

As far as SouthernLinc, I don't expect them to really go full on LTE coverage for Sprint if at all.  As we know, it's just 3MHz.  I think we'd not only get slapped with the lowest of the low priority, but might even get throttled hard on their network where it may not be much better than VZW 3G.

Any word if Sprint might be getting say the newer AC66U_B1?

They are late...

They have been doing pretty good on monthly updates recently.  Hope it continues.

What can we expect in terms of LTE carrier handoff?  With Sprint's current and future implementation, will LTE handoff's between networks be possible?

I can see CDMA staying on for a long time.  Until the last drop so to speak.  Would shutting down 1x800 result in any gain for Sprint?

That site isn't accurate for PCS licenses.  Like in Henniepin County, NAT, LCC does not own any PCS spectrum.  They just own some of that license within that area.

14 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

I know but that doesn't do any good until 2019-2021. What I meant is get more for 20x20 where everyone else has it. They need it

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It would be cool for Sprint to go after PCS licenses from the small providers or just license holders.  But there really isn't anything left in big markets, much less the top 100 even. 

On 11/21/2017 at 9:25 AM, Tengen31 said:

I would like to see them buy more FDD Spectrum so that when you lose B41 its not 5x5.

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A lot of markets don't have this issue, and as 3G continues to get refarmed, every market will have at least 20MHz PCS deployed in the future.

TMobile lists the max number of concurrent users for their Cellspot and Signal booster. I think the cell spot only supports 8 users on LTE. Does the Airave have the same thing?

I got Sling when it first came out, it was pretty nice for a brand new product.

But I have a mix of OTA, Youtube Red, Netflix, Amazon Prime and now Hulu. I pay for Youtube Red Family ($15/mo), Amazon Prime if I just used video would be $8.33/mo. OTA, Netflix, Hulu is free.

$23.33/mo + tax is way better than the $160 was paying for DirecTV. Never watched it cause either nothing was ever on, or I'd sit down to eat+watch TV and I would finish my food by the time the commercials finished. :P. Noticed towards the end of shows commercials would be ~5 minutes in length.

On 11/16/2017 at 11:19 AM, Grabber5.0 said:

I've been thinking of trying out youtube TV since I heard about it a while back. My worry is Google's reputation of killing off products at the drop of a hat. I'm a Google Fiber TV customer (which frankly I had reservations about for that exact reason), and while I love the package and DVR, they just raised the price, and the restrictions on playing back DVR content are maddening. It's ridiculous that they will allow YouTube TV DVR content to be streamed to your mobile devices but not your fiber TV DVR content. Their answer is "install an app for each network you want to stream" is a complete BS answer. That is NOT acceptable.

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Beings that it is Youtube, and it is a separate subdivision, I doubt it'll go away unless the current areas it is in it just fails.

As far as cable prices, Google can't help that.  Prices constantly and will continuously be raised on cable TV no matter who sells it.  It isn't very profitable and I am happy to here that their new market (San Antonio?) will not have cable service's deployed.  This needs to be a trend.

As far as DVR restrictions, even on DirecTV it was annoying. Streaming was unreliable, couldn't do it not from home, wouldn't record entire shows/movies.  They let that bug go for almost a year.

3 hours ago, Kevster1321 said:

Also had to set Hulu up over the sprint network doesn't let you use Wi-Fi and wouldn't let me use the airave either had to go outside to get LTE lol

I was on B41 off my Airave 3 when I setup my Hulu.  No issues here.

9 hours ago, SprintNYC said:

Charlie Ergen will die first before handing over Tmobile their spectrum holdings. If Verizon 28ghz and 37ghz bands become a disaster which I think it will because that won't penetrate a paper bag then they will go to the table and talk with Dish.

Man, I remember when Sprint's 2.5GHz was said it couldn't penetrate a plastic bag.  You going to give 28GHz a thicker paper bag!? How dare you!!! lol

28GHz wavelength is ~0.4in and 37GHz is ~0.3in.  This spectrum isn't practical for consumers direct usage.  It's meant for the back-end, should make for cheaper and quicker site deployments however. 

In this Sprint/TMobile merger rumor mill, it seems there is a breakup benefit...

For Sprint.  They would get favorable roaming rates.  So Sprint would basically get TMobile's added coverage / use of B71.  Hopefully if this ball does start rolling and regulators do not approve it, this roaming agreement would be pseudo-native.

Is the Extended LTE on USCC actually confirmed? 

The handful of towers in East Kentucky, Im assuming PCS protection sites, now have LTE!

Dang.  WiFi is only 50mW. With the the location it is in, it provides good coverage still for the guest WiFi.

rocketr, I actually run two APs. I use 5GHz only and have both on separate channels. One for myself and one for guests. Gives me a bit more flexibility in being able to make rules so things like printers can still be accessed from the guest network. Going to use the Airwave as the new guest AP.

Between the two femto cells, is there a difference in 2.5GHz coverage?  Is there any WiFi support differences?  Like the Airave 3 does not support the upper most 5GHz channels, but support the DFS channels.  Is there a MIMO difference? 

I found the spec sheet for the S1000 but it doesn't detail what WiFi specs it supports other than it only does 50mW on WiFi.  LTE is 100mW but says x2.  Does the S1000 support 2 carriers?

7 hours ago, brockeb1 said:

Love my LG V30 with one exception, the second screen. I really miss it and I don't like the floating toolbar thing. Other than that, it's a GREAT phone and I highly recommend it. Will also be using for signal tracking as 600mhz spreads out in Wyoming/Southeastern Montana as well as Western North and South Dakota. I am located in Rapid City, SD, so I am right at the front door.

I enjoyed the second screen until it started getting serious burn in.  So it now turns off with the main display.  I'm really looking forward to the V30, and beings as I don't really use the second display anymore, I won't miss it.  Will like the smaller footprint though.

I got my Airave.  Works good.  My neighbor might be able to get a little B41, but not much.  

I haven't turned in my broken MB yet.  Wonder how these two devices would play with each other in the same house.

I was hoping to be a bit more of a B41 carrier for some of the neighbors though if it were to improve speeds.  B25/26 speeds are ~1Mbps here due to the rapid growth of the area.

It is cool that the Airave supports the DFS 5GHz channels, but not upper 5GHz channels.  Oh well.  Think I will use this to replace the guest WiFI (I have had to reflash that router twice this year).

What is the B41 rated wattage wise on the Airaves vs the MagicBox?

3 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

It usually takes 180 days or less for the feds to make a decision. As soon as the merger is approved then the first and easiest thing is to let each other's customers roam on each other's network if the appropriate bands are available on the phones. Voice integration based on VOLTE with WCDMA will take a while longer. I expect that 600MHz expansion in rural areas not subject to repacking will proceed uninterrupted. I also expect small cell deployment to proceed uninterrupted. However macro expansion will probably be postponed. I expect massive mimo to proceed as scheduled.

I'd just wonder how long it would take to get the networks to mesh.  How integrated would they need to be to have seemless handoffs, especially with voice.  Then how long will this integration take to get to that point. That's if they even integrate networks. Maybe they could say just point Sprint's equipment to TMobile's servers, push some updates and be integrated.  Not knowing a thing about how their networks work, this is the grey area and the area I'd be concerned with.

 For data, I can see just open up bands to each others customers, retransmit requests/packets if hopping networks.  But not sure that will go well for VoLTE.  Plus there could be a lot of lost packets which wouldn't be good for a lot of services.  I'd imagine at first say as a Sprint customer I would be able to use the TMobile network, but when the phone scans it would scan for Sprint channels first then scan for TMobile if it can't find Sprint.

Apparently the MiniMacros was an actual order placement.  But I don't know how long of a period a time this order is for.