red_dog007

Sweet. I got a shipping confirmation. Plan to use mine at work. See how well it does. We are having issues at work with our repeaters. We have both 850 and a 1900 receiver. The big boss decided to unplug the 1900 repeater for now. So that kicked me onto VZW. The 1900MHz signal was still pretty crappy coming off the repeaters inside the build for some reason.

Will be nice to get mine soon. At work we are having issues with the high-band repeater, so we are only running on 850MHz right now. Sprint not having 850MHz, I am roaming on VZW.

G.Fast still seems like it is as fast as VDSL at the further distances. I know G.Fast has been making movement in Europe but it seems like it's making progress in the States as well. http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/at-t-to-extend-g-fast-to-more-markets-year

Wish they'd finally get off ADSL here. It's an old Quest market. Not sure if they have fiber to any node here. Unless they run it under ground, I haven't seen any on the poles. They provide fiber backbone to a local ISP (at least 10G, maybe 20G by now) but won't even offer a business down the street from their local HQ fiber when we need 3Gbps. If they are just now getting to vector, they need to skip it and go straight to G.Fast.

Depends on the total load really. 3xCA apparenrly isn't enough with just one sector, that's ~240Mbps. Having that many sectors reduces the chances of a sector getting loaded and more fully utilizing the towers backhaul.

Every time I try to use OpenSignals website it always seems to be wrong or not have heck of a lot of data. When you look at root metrics coverage map, for the number of customers ATT and VZW have, it seems like they have a lot less who care and are interested in this stuff. Lot less participation/data.

They aren't huge in terms of line ran, but they are a tier 1 player. http://drpeering.net/FAQ/Who-are-the-Tier-1-ISPs.php

Centurylink has a very small footprint. Won't really benefit Sprint in terms of reduced tower backhaul costs. I'd be surprised if Centurylink has fiber to any node in my market. But I would love for them to buy Centurylink. Increased tier 1 backhaul. Could help a lot with making their wireless core infrastructure better, faster. I think tier 1 is also a solid business to be in. I'd love for them to deploy FTTH in existing CenturyLink residential markets. I'd have three 1Gbps options.

Sprint already is a tier 1 backbone. They have a lot of fiber. They would actually have to buy CenturyLink as CenturyLink recently purchased Level 3. So that is a LOT of fiber. They'd get CenturyLinks small last mile business that I hope Sprint wouldn't be forced to upgrade. Most of it is old DSL they have never bothered to upgrade. For last mile, a company like Charter would be a lot better as they have a large last mile footprint. The towers would more than likely still have fiber, but this will not largely push FTTH. Coax still has a lot of life in it. If Sprint bought CenturyLink and got all this tier 1 fiber, they wouldn't be deploying this directly to towers. They'd have to run hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber just to serve their towers, and that would be costly.

Pffft 10Mbps. Thats to prevent 4K streaming.

I think really that Softbank should just create a fund that will provide Sprint a guaranteed fund for CAPEX. Or do like a dollar for dollar match. Put fourth a plan to get Sprint CAPEX higher towards some goal. Put forth CAPEX, an improved network will attract customers. Both together a long with improved financials will increase those stock prices! That is where the return is!

So carriers use different codecs over different technologies, and codecs may change when a call is going between carriers or to landline. Is there a way to actually compare test, a long with some popular VoIP applications (Hangouts, Skype)? Is there an audio program that has samples or where a sample can be created and then ran through the various codecs and bit rates? Also, is there a list somewhere that already lists the different codecs and bitrates that each of the carriers use over their varying technologies?

Wow, what a periscope. Like 6 minutes looking at the same cloths. A cheap 30 free emoji plug, lol. Getting harder and less excited at saying "we are cheaper still". He knows that is changing, lol.

uBlock does a fantastic job blocking that junk.

Updated. LG V20

Well, that was cool. Took call on WiFi, turned off WiFi, call continued on LTE. Surfed and talked at the same time.

Problably resellers.

They might not ever even hit the throttling thresholds. They might use over 22GB in a billing period, but if the tower has plenty of spare capacity, their speeds won't decrease. Because these areas are actually roaming areas, and not clarified at all by VZW, VZW just rather kick these users then pay the roaming rates. They might also have agreements in place where these kind of users, VZW isn't meant to "steal" them. But then why is this an issue now? Im sure those on the grandfathered UDP still exist in these markets.

How so? If Im on a tower that gets 30Mbps 24/7/365 how would I degrade anyone's experience if I use 10GB or 10TB a month? If I have used say 40GB, am on a tower, getting deprioritized and crappy speeds, how am I degrading the experience of others? Tower just has too many users and not enough bandwidth. Me getting kicked off with < 1Mbps speeds isn't going to help anyone. What degrades experience for everyone is when a tower doesn't have the bandwidth for the volume of customers on there. All the carriers are adding spectrum and new technologies not because a few thousand customers are using an ungodly amount of bandwidth (because they are getting deprioritized), but because they continue to add more customers, users with smartphones and users in general are consuming more data and are projected to continue with increased data usage.

What bill for data hogs? If these users aren't being deprioritized then that means there is plenty of bandwidth to spare on the towers they are on. Good for you having WiFi and all that. Can easily use over 22GB not at home. Could easily not have fast landline option or any landline option for internet. Plus on a tower that is already congested, booting a deprioritized user for "excessive" data usage isn't going to fix a congested tower. There are bigger issues at hand that need to be fixed (if possible).

VZW doesn't distinguish between native and roaming networks on their coverage map. Only if you do prepaid. They are also signing up with an address in these LTEiRA areas, so don't offer this plan to those users? These LTEiRA companies are using 700C from VZW and even AWS. These rural companies have plenty of bandwidth.

Yeah, as these licensees come up to expire, they could always just fall back into federal hands and get reauctioned. Dish is going to have to offer a hell of a deal and figure out how to fend off the FCC as deadlines near.

That sucks. I did go two, three weeks ago now, right after the coverage map went "official", You should not be using your roaming bucket on them. Especially now that the LTE is listed as Extended. I'd call Sprint and find out what is up.

And Georgia! http://www.commnetwireless.com/wireless-wholesale.html https://rf.jwmaloney.name/sprint-coverage.html https://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp? Their website coverage wise just says UMTS. So is that HSPA, not LTE? Also, is there a map out there with Comnet's spectrum holdings? Seem to have holdings in a lot of places, but I'm sure they are thin.

You mean Hazard the city? There is no Hazard County. You will be serviced by Appalachian Wireless LTE as if you were on the Sprint network. It will show up as an Extended partner. So long as you have a phone that supports Band 12 (700MHz). Once you enter their territory reboot the phone. I always do entering roaming areas. If you are coming in off I75 going down Hal Rodges Parkway towards Hazard, you'll lose Sprint, jump on Verizon for ~5 miles and a few miles outside Manchester hit Appalachian Wireless LTE. Now if you don't have a B12 phone, you are going to have a bad time. For some reason Appalachian Wireless 3G isn't seen as extended, so you will be fully roaming, capped at ~150Kbps and use your roaming bucket up in no time. Your LTE coverage will be the same as if you were on VZW. VZW uses Appalachian Wireless to provide their LTE coverage. I was in Manchester, KY a couple weekends ago and used up ~8GB of data while there. It was great