red_dog007

Well, how are people liking the phone? I have one on the way. How well does LG keep up with new Android versions and the monthly security patches. Haven't had a non-Nexus LG phone sense the G2.

I can't recall how long I have had mine. I got it under projectFi and made a junk account. If I can remember the name, I use a generic password for junk accounts. I have been reading if you do RMA through LG, they are just refunding you the cost of the phone if you have the receipt. They no longer make the piece of hardware that breaks. However, at the same time, I am unsure if I want to send my phone in if I am able too. Doing a full refund is an easy way to get being to send phones with lots of data on them. Sure it is by default encrypted, but still don't fully trust it.

Well shoot. Got the bootloop issue on mine.

When will we get a new RF comparison?

In terms of routers + Mesh, I think AmpliFi is the best looking so far and reviews well, has good performance. Made by Ubiquiti. The Portal is huge and if it had a bit of a yellow hue to it, it would look like a device straight from the 90s, lol.

Well, gotta wait and see where things go. Internet didn't like Wheeler heading up the FCC but everyone quickly got behind his back. Just too bad the FCC has limited amount of bit when it comes to a lot of things.

Yeah, VoLTE hasn't helped their talk scores on rootmetrics. However, ATT/VZW have had greater success with their deployment.

When Sprint does VoLTE, and markets come to a point they can be supported by a single 1x carrier, do we think they will shut down 1x/EVDO on PCS and have just a single 1x800 carrier? So EVDO will be more phased out market by market, or do we think they will do a tandom 1x/EVDO shutdown across SMR/PCS? Also, do we know/can expect if Sprint will do 4x4MIMO on EBS/BRS this year?

Yeah, broadcasters left 700MHz just fine, other than 700A which wasn't utilized but by USCC until TMobile started buying it up. All those broadcasters on 700A promptly vacated as TMobile make purchases. Don't think 600MHz will have any more issue than 700MHz did which seems to be minor. Sprint has had issue with 800MHz because it is related to public safety (gives strong excuses for holdouts) and having to deal with other countries who do whatever the f they want. Totally different animal.

So, when does 3G die!??!

If Sprint was bidding, it would just drive up cost. Rather them spend the 2, 3, 5 billion on making a really nice dense 2.5GHz network. It is possible, and the faster Sprint can drive home with 2.5GHz, the faster they become kings in the city. They will be untouchable. Rural markets will be fine with ESMR/PCS, even where it is just 5x5 + 5x5. But those will be few as time goes on and they can toss up 2.5GHz to take some load off a tower if/when needed.

Yeah, dealing with reps is very annoying. Especially when you know more then they do and on Spint are BYOD. Took me 3 tries to get my Nexus 5 on Sprint's network. Wasn't until my 8th try I go my Nexus 5X on the network. God blessed me with a rep who was amazing, knew exactly my issue. Even called me shortly after I activated my phone online to just verify on my end all was well. I'm only with Sprint cause the 2 for 100 unlimited. If it gets taken away I'm finding the best plan for me on an MVNO hands down. I was on few over 2015 testing out networks. Never had any issues, never had to talk to anyone. IMO they need to pay a higher hourly wage and reduce / eliminate commission. Create a workforce with low turn over and knowledgeable employees. Also make their environment easier to deal with. Simple plans with no gotchas and less rotating promotional plans. You know, kinda like an MVNO. Promotions imo should be more down to giving discounts on current prices. Like a sale. Like MVNOs do. And have it where if you are like on the Big XL package with 10GB, and it gets upgraded to 14GB at the same price due to competition, then everyone who already has the Big XL package should get upgraded to 14GB. ISPs do that all the time. You pay the same price but automatically get upgraded speeds. Shoot, even when I had Comcast I went from 1.5Mbps to 25Mbps. When we got to 15Mbps they sent me a new power adapter for my modem and at 25Mbps they sent out a whole new modem. All so I could get the new speeds without paying more. And local ISP they have upgraded 2 times. Had the 50Mbps plan that has been upgraded to 1000Mbps, all for the same price.

Yeah, they are waiving that bill around like a badge on how hard Sprint sucks. My wife showed me on her facebook, sister in law has made a couple memes with how upset they are at Sprint. When he showed me the bill and started talking to me about it I was like "yeah, it wasn't Sprint's fault. Everyone does leases now, you never owned those phones. That part is your fault. Then VZW screwed you over for taking phones you didn't own. One VZW your leasing your new phones and your bill will be just as high as on Sprint, just with a much smaller data bucket compared to what you could have gotten on Sprint." He did say that the unlimited plan was Sprint's only plan. I told him they do buckets as well like VZW. I'm guessing Sprint is pushing those plans and not really advertising their buckets anymore in the store? I told him to get on a bucket plan and he said he didn't know Sprint had those. Place I think Sprint messed up was on the phone trade-in to them. Im pretty sure at least the 6's could have been unlocked and ported to Sprint from VZW no? I'm pretty sure they flat out owned there VZW phones so could have gotten VZW to unlock them. Sprint rep could have messed up on telling them what was up with the leases and showing them all offers, but I wouldn't know unless I was actually there.

My brother in law got screwed well due to lack of knowledge and then Verizon! He left VZW for Sprint due to savings. Moved 4 phones over to Sprint unlimited. They traded in a iPhone 5, two iPhone 6's and a iPhone 6s. (I thought these were able to port from VZW to Sprint once unlocked?). Anyways, they got four iPhone7's. These guys aren't techy and they hated the service cause the throttling. Then for some reason they didn't understand they were leasing the phones so got a "surprise" bill when it was $100+ higher due to the leased phones. So in anger they went back to VZW. They saw they had a deal, trade in a phone and get $650. They went into the VZW store and the damn rep there took their 1 month old iPhone 7's as trade in. That rep HAD to have known they were leased. So my brother in law, his second bill from Sprint is over $3000. After a while he should get $650x4 from VZW, but he still at a net loss that hurts and out $3k until he gets his money from VZW. And he is still going to have a lease on his new VZW iPhone 7's. He got the 16GB shared bucket. I told him, why not just get Sprint's shared bucket if you didn't like the unlimited plan. He was pretty upset cause he thought he was going to save his family some money by switching. But instead they got bit really hard in the butt. This is what happens to you today when you just jump in without research. Even with what TMobile is doing, feel like it is too damn complex and too much small print out there and my brother in law paid the price. What sucks though is they totally hate Sprint now. But VZW actually was the carrier that really screwed them taking in brand new iPhone 7's on trade in. I asked him "Did you go to this store and talk to Nick?" He said "Yeah, he's a great guy!". I say "yeah, a guy who is great at ripping people off". I hate Nick. I have dealt with him a few times and he is really good at ripping people off and them not knowing it or making it sound like its company policy. Im the tech/knowledge guru in the family and for some reason my family goes at it a lone, get screwed over. lol.

Damn. Seems like TMo is going to walk away with a heathly bit of spectrum. And even local regional carriers!

They are including 4x4 MIMO and 256QAM which is very limited on time of actual use and real benefit. Plus the number of supported sites are less then actual sties apparently. Lot of people on reddit are basically saying "nope, not here"

Looks like 84MHz was the sweet spot. https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/1000?stage=4 At 10 bills, this might actually spark a decent bidding war and broadcasters get more then they are asking total. 35x35 / 7 channels. What is the reserve here? Is it still 30MHz? People going to come away with some healthy spectrum holdings me thinks. Have we found out if Softbank/Sprint is hiding behind a name to place bids?

No changes in my area. :-(

With Sprint getting additional LTE carriers on PCS, and/or widening channels, is there anything in the works to upgrade equipment to do CA on PCS and/or ESMR/PCS/2.5 as there is now more than just B25+B26 as a reason. Or should we expect Sprint to just load balance for the foreseeable future?

TMobile's AC68U is on sale all the time for $60. Keep an eye out on slickdeals.net. It takes 15 minutes to install the stock or custom firmware if you don't keep the stock TMobile firmware. AC1900 or higher ASUS and Netgear are the top brands. AC1750 it is TPLink and ASUS. I wouldn't go lower than AC1750. Will you need the airwave if you have a wifi router (for wifi calls / text?). Return the airwave and grab Sprint's router? If you have technical skills and like playing around with things I'd highly recommend pfsense (or other similar linux distro) installed on a spare computer or buy some hardware for one. If size doesn't matter you can pick up a Dell Optiplex SFF 990 for $100 and go buy an Intel 1Gb NIC for it. Then get a Ubiquiti AP.

Which modem did you get? Happen to know if it LTE Category it supports? Even the manual doesn't really state. I'd guess it just supports up to one 20MHz carrier. Does it have the ability to hook up an external antenna?

Oh, I under stand MIMO. I mentioned 4T4R max on current B41 gear because as far as I know, it is still in 2T2R mode. The top paragraph I was just taking a stab at Sprint. And from what I understand, 3 or 4 carriers can not be deployed in 8T8R mode on the current gear. From what I understand, to deploy 3 or 4 carriers on the 8T8R gear, it needs to stay in 2T2R mode. So from this limited knowledge, whether incorrect or not, I am applying to these massive MIMO antennas cause this portion is where I lack knowledge in what the technology supports.

They will get deployed, that is for sure, and pay a premium for them. 8T8R has been in the field for a long time now comparatively. Thing is, those 64T64R antenna's will never get fully utilized in terms of their feature set. Most likely 4T4R will be their max deployment, ever, if that. The current 8T8R gear, we still don't even have a whiff of a rumor when 4T4R will be a thing. Might be 2018, 2019 at the earliest. :-P I have zero clue here, but taking a stab at why the 64T64R antennas will even really exist. Im thinking the 64T64R antennas will allow them to deploy all 160MHz (if available) off a single antenna in a max of 8T8R mode for each carrier? Or if they don't have all 160MHz, it can be feasible to deploy any 5, 10 and 15MHz (usable) chunks they may have. This way they don't need to deploy 3 B41 antenna's per sector to deploy all the usable spectrum. When B41 capacity on current gear is shot, they climb up and replace the antenna with a new one that can use all their spectrum instead of adding more antenna's. I doubt it would happen, but those 8T8R antenna's could then get recycled on the network, getting deployed in more rural areas where 60MHz will do just fine for a long time to come, like my nearest tower.

10x10 is continuous spectrum. Like 1905MHz to 1915MHz on the download side. CA is when noncontinuous spectrum is used. 1900MHz to 1905MHz and 1910MHz to 1915MHz on the download side to make 10MHz out of two 5MHz channels. However, CA can also be used for continuous spectrum if a channel is greater than 20MHz. So if you have 2500 to 2540MHz, that will be 2xCA, because channels can only be 20MHz wide max, but through CA you can merge multiple channels.

Yeah, that is what I saw. Doesn't say how long the promo is. Also doesn't say if the Pixel has to be on the account for 2yrs to get the full 2yrs worth of credits. Probably has to be on the account for two years to get that monthly credit. :/