red_dog007

I keep reading a lot about the Sprint website being bad, but what is wrong with it? To me, it is just the design. But the design is very trending and in with website designs.  And that is more a personal preference vs a functioning working website.

Works solid on FireFox and Brave both desktop and mobile versions.  I recently changed my plan and didn't have a single issue.  I log in monthly as well. Pages load fine. They load fast. Etc.

The only "issue" I see is having to 2FA every time you log in, but I do this with any site that supports it.

Bought time.  I've been waiting for a cellular company to offer this directly. 

10/1Mbps for $70/mo with 160GB cap

http://about.att.com/story/first_wave_of_fixed_wireless_internet.html

https://www.att.com/internet/fixed-wireless.html

Seems like AT&T is milking it with the GB limit restrictions.  But if you look up many WISP providers around the nation, the price/speed ratio is pretty fair.  

Fixed Wireless could be great for Sprint, even on 2.5GHz.  Would give Sprint incentive to deploy B41 on more rural sites having fixed wireless service.

Snippets from article

Serve 400k locations by end of 2017

67k in just GA

Serve 1.1million locations by end of 2020

Service in 17 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin

These mini's 256QAM capable? I also see there are four ports on the bottom of the antenna's only 2 are being used.  Are the antenna's themselves 4T4R capable, or is that for another technology?

Yeah, places where just ~160MBps is needed, makes sense.  Also pump out fast B41 expansion.  Helpful in areas with skinny B25 channels.  Gotta remember it is still 40MHz worth of spectrum! Just wish they did 4T4R to help cell edge that much more. Use the big 8T8R gear for places that really need it most. 

Well, I did it.  Moved from true unlimited nonprioritized to the new Sprint Unlimited plan.  Because the initial price is $110 for two lines, I estimate my taxes will go up $1.50/mo.  But with the auto-pay discount (was already doing) and once work discount is applied, I should be saving roughly $8/mo. 

if everyone is ok with using these modems on sprints network then everyone should be ok with me burning 200+ gigs off my phone with my rooted hotspot.

The bit here is the fine print.  What you are doing is likely against ToS.  Whether you agree or disagree, you are in the wrong.  It's also a place for these guys to make a little extra money, or entice users to a newer plan.  Cause these guys aren't in the business of selling broadband only devices.  I wish they were though.  I think they could be profitable lines of business for these guys. Sell home services in areas with bandwidth to spare.  If my local tower had B41 on it, I'd totally pay for this service. 

Not that I know of. The instructions are great. I spent 15 minutes on it half a sleep when I did mine.

Like what funcationality is actually enabled with Android Messages?  I have a V20, wife has an S6.  When one is typing a message the other can't "see" they are typing.  Also don't know if messages have been read yet or not.

Also, wtf is the file transfer feature!??! Ugh....

Wonder if it will be as simple as asking for one?  It was that simple for the AirWave 2.5 and Asus Router.  Just ask and I shall receive! 

Don't really need it at all.  Would love it for the 2.5GHz.  What kind of range does it have?  I wouldn't mind being my neighborhoods little B41 microcell, lol.  I got 1Gbps backhaul and the local tower doesn't have B41 yet.  Area is growing up and needs it.

Is the 10GB tether full available speeds?  I notice for two lines on TMobile it is $100 as well but says tether is at "up to 3G speeds". 

Do existing customers not get the discount to $90?  I am online and glad to see I can change my plan to it, and before getting too deep into the process it says my cost is $110 but will minus $10/mo once I sign up for auto-pay.

I read some information online that basically made it seems that Dish owns 40mhz of AWS-3 spectrum, which I'm not sure how true that is, or not. Yet, it looks like its 20mhz in one area of spectrum, and 20mhz in another area, nationwide, though probably not figuring the spectrum Dish gave up in the controversy back during the AWS-3 auction. Although, it would be really great if it were true they can do 20x20, then have a merger with T-Mobile.

 

I'm really curious what is going to happen with that extra spectrum Dish gave back to the FCC. I'd really like for T-Mobile to buy it, even at the valued price, which I think was around $3 billion. If they got that and merged with Dish, they'd have that nationwide spectrum I read about. If indeed it is 20x20, or even 15x15, which I thought some areas were back when the AWS-3 auction was going on and being discussed here.

 

15x15 600mhz spectrum, 15x15 AWS-1 spectrum, 15x15 AWS-3 spectrum, and 15x15 PCS spectrum nationwide, or at least in moderate/major markets would be great for T-Mobile. It looks like they could have this as a minimum if they merged with Dish. I know some areas are 10x10, which personally if I were in charge of things, I'd try spectrum swapping in areas with over 20mhz downlink, in exchange for spectrum where its only 10mhz downlink. I think its very important to get that 15mhz minimum figure for stable speeds, not necessarily the fastest, yet not slow either.

 

I forget what amounts beyond that Dish has. I know I'm strongly hoping for a T-Mobile/Dish merger, while still concerned Verizon might try for Dish. Although, I'd much rather Verizon go with the big cable companies, as being rumored. If T-Mobile gets Dish, then it puts them as the carrier with the 2nd most amount of spectrum, behind Sprint, although very closely ahead of the spectrum amount AT&T has. Merging with Dish would make T-Mobile a very strong competitive force against AT&T, while putting Verizon in a difficult situation, particularly regarding spectrum. Verizon would likely either need to try getting Sprint, or else make a major push for their own high-band spectrum ib a way similar to Sprint getting Clearwire and its excellent band 41 spectrum portfolio.

Why would VZW buy anything cable?  They have been in the process of selling it.  Froniter just recently purchased $10 billion worth of customers (2.2 million) and infrastructure in 3 states.  If anything, Dish would be the most likely, if not some type of lease agreement just to get that spectrum. 

Dish's market cap is at $30 billion.  Unless DT does a direct investment to purchase a large chunk of Dish, best TMobile can do is lease.  If TMobile/DT makes a move for Dish, keep an eye out on DT.  I wouldn't be surprised for them to sell off some assets to fund a Dish purchase.

The big four I think would have a hard time with any type of acquisition of each other.  I think the only way Sprint could successfully merge with a tier one is if not much spectrum is lost in the deal, and Sprint is on its way to file for bankruptcy.

You can get deprioritization even by staying on an older Unlimited Plan.

 

Sprint's Network Management policy: https://www.sprint.com/legal/open_internet_information.html?ECID=vanity:networkmanagement

 

 

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The key sentence:

 

"Customers who choose unlimited data handset plans launched on or after October 16, 2015, or customers who choose to upgrade their handsets or activate new lines of service on or after October 16 and are on unlimited data plans, that use more than 23GB (to be adjusted periodically) of data during a single billing cycle will be de-prioritized for the remainder of that billing cycle as compared to other customers at times and places where the availability of network resources is constrained."

 

So you can be deprioritized even if you stay on an older plan and upgrade devices. However, I don't believe deprioritization takes effect on a plan if you do BYOD... at least based on how this is written.

 

Having 10 GB of Hotspot per line on Unlimited Freedom is great!

And that is exactly why I have no deprioritization.  Last new line added was 7/30/15.  All new phones after that have been BYOD.  Though it has been over a year since I have gone over 23GB... Hmm...

Dang.  Im on 2 for 100 unlimited no deprioritization.

Wonder if I should get on the new unlimited.  10GB of data worth the deprioritization?

Just noticed, Appalachian Wireless is now listed as Extended LTE/3G.  They serve east Kentucky.  That is awesome!  My brother lives in that region, pretty easy to go through 300MB before the weekend is up. 

Normally I'd say that's fine, but Google maps doesn't even work at that speed (which is pretty much all I use my phone data for overseas). Most of the time things just time out instead at 64kbps.

 

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If you only like to use GMaps, cache the maps.  Or something something like HERE (which is very good) so you can download an entire country's map.  Don't have to worry about speed and save some data. 

This explains all the work Comcast has been doing in my neighborhood this entire month. Since the end of last year, they've been adding Xfinity hotspots in utility poles all over the city. There are places I can drive for over a mile and not lose the xfinitywifi connection. It's quite annoying as handoffs aren't smooth from one AP to the next so I end up with timed out streams.

You sure those APs aren't like the cities? My city deployed APs all over the place. Usually 4 utility poles a part.

Don't really see the point in Comcast doing that, even with this MVNO business. If you in Comcast market, and they have a majority of the subscribers, you could not lose wifi cause all the Comcast customers have a Comcast cable modem that has WiFi built in.

What's that old saying? Walk a mile in their shoes...

 

I'd wager that 99.9% of the people on this thread have never worked in wireless retail and really have no idea what it takes to do so.

Neither do those sales people. Learn about what you sell. Know about the different phones, the difference between TouchWiz and Sense. The advantages of have a second screen, a wide angle lens, etc. Sell the company you work for without leaning on the standard script.

It's like a Best Buy rep trying to sell you a TV, computer, washing machine. They really don't know the product or what they sell. Don't know the difference between OLED or LED.

Go walk into a store where people are salesmen and actually know there product, the differences in features and options for each piece, how the stuff is made, on and on. Professionals at what they do.

The difference is this. One group it is there career, the other it is a job.

You don't need to walk in anyone's shoes if you can see one has no clue what they are doing. Sadly, this is all too common in wireless and I think it is just how they are trained. A friend of mine worked at a TMobile call center and she thought she knew it all. Actually it was the standard bs scripts she learned from and felt like she was an expert.

I hope AT&T can get this up and running as soon as possible to help first responders and alleviate traffic on commercial carriers when a disaster occurs.

They have to do 60% POP coverage in 2years.  I think like 80% in 3years.

Going to be a huge boom for AT&T and we should see their network rocking some socks.  Great opportunity to do B30 and B66 deployments at the same time.  As well as cleanup any tower configurations / upgrade equipment.

600, Lower 700, Upper 700, 850, PCS, AWS, WCS oh my!

Wonder how easy it would be to get one, and if it is something Sprint would want as many possible to have.

What is it exactly? and will regular consumers get to take advantage of this or is it for something else? ive seen this news all over but no where do they explain what it is what what its for.

IoT and M2M

Consumers might be able to get on it.  Just depends what the base requirements are for.  TMobile doesn't have LTE M, but they have plans for IoT / M2M devices where it is like $2/mo for a few Kbps data speeds, but you need a sizable purchase order.

The specs of/for LTE-M are different too. It's main focus is really battery life.

Is this at Disneyland or Disney World? I'm at Disneyland and I've only seen 8109, 8140 and 8665…

Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Hey I'm in Disneyland right now too! Here's what I've found:

 

Sprint has three B25 carriers on air (8109, 8140, 8665) as well as three B41 carriers (39874, 40072, 40270).

 

Speeds on Sprint and VZW are been slow but usable. AT&T and T-Mobile are pretty much useless.

 

I wish Sprint would load balance between B25 and B41 better and that they'd run 6 B41 carriers here instead of three - I think those two things would really help with the data here.

I remembered my wife has the S6 so pulled up engineering screen. PCS 15x15 on 8615. I tested the WiFi and it's really solid coverage here. Got 60/60 the few times I checked it. Would be interesting to see their load graphs from customer traffic in the park.

Disney (Magic Kingdom) is well. Slowest has been 15Mbps and fastest 75Mbps and on B25 at that. B25 is constantly faster than B41 and the upload is great for getting my pictures uploaded. :-)

So let me follow up on my earlier post complaining about my Sprint service in Walterboro, SC with a post about my service in Naples, FL.

 

Here in Naples, this is what cell phone service is supposed to look like.  I spend most of my time on Band 41, and I've only dropped to 1X when I'm in the Everglades where all the carriers suffer, or when the phone is in my pocket--pulling it out and toggling Airplane Mode brings back LTE no sweat (and if I let it linger on 1X/eHRPD, it's perfectly usable).  Service has been just fine for doing the things I typically do with my phone.  In my hotel room, I'm usually on Band 25; where it's sitting right now, next to my computer which probably makes reception harder, I'm getting -108 dBm on Band 26.  I've tried my phone in every eatery, store, and other destination I've been to here and service has been ubiquitous.

 

So Sprint is obviously capable of building a good network.  They've done so here.  My guess is that optimization has been done here and in full, and it really shows.  It also helps that most or all sites have B41 and there aren't lingering 3G-only sites here.  (Except, again, in the Everglades, where I came across a single site where Sprint is still non-NV, AT&T is still HSPA-only, and Verizon has B13 only, probably at great expense.)

 

- Trip

Im currently in St. Petersburg.  Network here is solid other than data.  I've been coming a couple times a year for a few years and doesn't seem like much has changed for coverage.  The B41 gear is no longer Clearwire, unless they just changed the name in SCP reporting to Sprint now.  But the load is pretty bad.  I camp on B26 and it's slow.  B41 isn't as often as the coverage map would make you believe.

Though the Tampa Zoo for some reason is just 3G/1x.  Other then that, I really haven't had a bad time in Florida.  Even Disney was a dream, and I'll get to reset it this weekend. 

If you own the router already. I highly suggest asuswrt merlin firmware

I was thinking of trying some of the open source stuff, not just Merlin.  However, I only use these as APs.  Im trying to figure out what goodies these things get with the open source.  Does Merlin have anything extra when in AP mode only, even if it is just repoting/logs?

They are going to bother keeping 700E?  I'd try to just do a short sale to AT&T. 

I don't see Dish selling to anyone and still wanting a lot of say in a partnership.  I think any partnership would just be a glorified lease agreement.  IMO Dish should just start building out in some major markets.  Get to a point and sell unlimited for like $40/mo.