red_dog007

TMobile is very lucky to be alive. TMobile got a lot in AWS1 auction. But then MetroPCS gave them a lot of spectrum which got TMobile to go after the 700A acquisitions. Then they also go some decent spectrum from the failed AT&T merger. If Sprint had purchased MetroPCS, we don't know what would have happened, but TMo would be a lot more lacking and wouldn't not have gone after 700A spectrum. Shoot, AT&T might have been able to acquire TMo. We'd have three big players instead of four. It really isn't the FCC fault. Spectrum is limited, and each auction someone else is giving up their spectrum. 700 and 600 MHz TV broadcasters are giving up spectrum. AWS3, government is giving up spectrum. Sprints 800MHz, local and state governments had to relocate. Then Dish is sitting on a lot of spectrum, Ligado has a good bit of spectrum. That Ligado and Dish both have a lot of repurposed satellite spectrum for LTE terrestrial use. The government imo is doing a decent job in repurposing spectrum for a hugely growing market. Then TMobile only spent half what they allocated for AWS3, and they should have allocated more. Then look at Sprint with the BRS/EBS. BRS auction went for nothing. Clearwire went around scooping up EBS licenses for nothing which too is reallocated spectrum. Everyone thought it was junk spectrum, because at that time data was not a huge issue and could easily argue it was junk. But now everyone would kill to get their hands on 20 or 40MHz of the stuff. Sprint bought the remaining 50% stake in Clearwire for just $3.3 billion! Would have been cheaper if it wasn't for Dish! And now you have some major carriers testing the use of unlicensed 3.5GHz and 5GHz which the Feds have opened up a lot spectrum there. Dish and Ligado alone are sitting on some +/-100MHz depending on the market. This issue is time, planning, trends, risk taking, and money and you can't really blame the FCC too much for that. Especially when some of the spectrum was acquired cheaply or been repurposed. If anything I'd say we are lucky to have the amount of spectrum for LTE/cellular that we do, that we have four nationwide carriers and still lots of regional carriers. And still lots of unused total spectrum across all spectrum holders in any given market.

Plus more places seem like they are getting VZW 3G. Some of the areas around that I go too have it. Unless you are trying to stream YT or Netflix, sometimes works well, but everything else it works great. I just don't like that roaming kills the battery life. It would be nice if at least in CCA partner areas (including USCC), the phones don't continuously scan for Sprint nor hold onto faint 1x800 singles when well within a partners coverage area. I don't think the drain put on consumer devices should be worth it to Sprint. Especially when you are on a roaming partner where the buckets are used, they are already pretty small.

Not really sure if Sprint would care if there is backhaul or not. I have used 3G towers that could barely post higher than 1x speeds in the middle of nowhere close to the towers. Plus there are a lot of sites that are islands of coverage. Decent amount in Colorado, a few out in Kentucky. But then it takes a lot of time for some places to get updated. Walla Walla has had 2xCA on B41 since at least December and it wasn't until 3/29 map update that the coverage map reflected that. I think it would be good to eventually show the coverage in the next few months on the coverage maps.

Uses to root to do what I wanted. Now with Android M and L I don't need root.

You can flash it back if needed. But in my testing, Sprint really goofed up the firmware big time unless mine just had a bad image. Performance everywhere was seriously beyond poor. Iay not have flashed it if that wasn't the case and it was actually updated instep with ASUS updates. However I respect that. To each their own. Though when that time passes, I highly encourage it get flashed just from my experience. :-D

Your router stock? I found it to be a giant POS until I installed stock Asus firmware. No problems with S6 WiFi calling.

Its a figure of speech. Just poor oversight Marcelo shouldn't get any blame for really. He didn't say it, Im pretty sure he didn't edit or post that video, shoot maybe didn't even review the video before it was posted. Heck, maybe he was the one to ask to take it down. In a position like that, doing this tour, it isn't a good idea to lecture someone over a comment. Would be a great way to upset everyone at the table and make them not feel like they can say whatever they want. Just a good idea to listen, continue with the process (unless someone is getting really into their feels), and just edit stuff out. John compared high bills to rape a little while back during an uncarrier. Though what is said is a figure of speech that is often used. IMO with that or this YT video, there really is nothing wrong. Just when you are representing a company and are high in the organization tree, you do have to be careful because someone will complain and it'll be LOUD. Marketing too has to be careful. You wouldn't want to put an ad like "Pick Sprint cause TMo is ghetto" just like you wouldn't want to use "Pick TMo cause ATT/VZW rape you". At the end of the day John said he was sorry, Sprint took the video down, and if it mattered to you that is all that should matter now, its done. If you are were and are still offended even after you get what you wanted, then give your money to someone else.

So I was in ATL a couple weeks ago. I totally forgot to pay attention to B25. I unfortunately wasn't logging. Looking at FCC, Sprint has some healthy PCS spectrum holdings there. Sprint deploy more than just the G-Block for LTE?

Anyone notice new LTE / Plus coverage? I was in Walla Walla over Xmas which had B41 2xCA live already That is finally added to the map. Then a lot of the area that was 3G only was getting work for LTE deployment which shows now.

Yep

Looking at the map, updated 3/29, looks like there is Extended LTE now from Si Wireless and Bluegrass Wireless. Looks like Appalachian Wireless is now an LTE roaming partner as well.

I'll be in BHam for the Indy race in a couple weeks. I'll keep an eye on the phone. Last year I went to the race, speeds there and in Leeds was go. Didn't go into the city. But I will be this time. What is bad is the drive there. Most of I59 is really bad 3G.

If your plan was purchased after 7/30/15, all the lines on the plan are deprioritzed after 23GB. If the plan wasn't but a device was upgraded or added after that date that wasn't paid in full it gets deprioritzed after 23GB. So if you have lines that use more than 23GB, it might feel the effects of deprioritization. It is an FYI in terms of a potential drawback to switching plans.

If you got the plan and or devices before 7/31/2015, you aren't prioritized after 23GB.

St. Louis, Charlotte, Chicago, North Indian for 700A. That would be a serious penny from that $1 billion. Oh, can't forget Memphis. Sprint isn't going to do anything with that license. I'd imagine that some spectrum swapping might happen as well as part of deals, especially with King Street and Sprint. Then they might use that to get some 700B+C where they can from the likes of King Street in Indiana, Illinois, and Wichita, KS area, CSpire in AL and TN, Bresnan and any LLC that is still holding out with money that is left after those big three (maybe four) markets are purchased for 700A.

​ ​This is the kind of stuff that these big players get away with all the time with the help of government. We can't even totally trust the government because they are so buddy buddy with the big ISPs. ​ ​https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Wants-100-Million-From-California-Taxpayers-For-Aging-DSL-136565 ​ ​https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/4caqg5/effective_52316_att_will_start_enforcing_data_caps/ ​ ​http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/union-slams-verizon-not-delivering-high-speed-internet-article-1.2394927 ​ ​http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/comcast-att-thwart-municipal-broadband-expansion-effort-tennessee/2016-03-16

Well, if you are going to talk about merging, then at least lock the thread so it can be merged, lol. ​ ​As far as auto bill pay, I do this already. I auto bill all my bills on a single credit card, get that free money, and only have a single bill at the end of the month. If Sprint does this, it would be nice to at least get like $5 discount or something.

I did enter in good faith as I fulfilled the contract and assumptions within that contract. No where did I break bad faith. I fulfilled my obligation/agreement and I did not mislead Google as they requested no input of my intentions. Just because I went in knowing I was going to cancel the service does not mean that I exercised bad faith nor poor ethics as this possibility based on assumption is built into the contract and I fulfilled all my obligations.

Government CAN do things right. Look at EPB. A city owned utility company beat Google to 1Gbps and charge the same price for it! And it is across the ENTIRE city. Not just places that are deemed profitable because enough residence sign up for service. EPB makes lots of money off of it, they have used the earnings to subsidize the electrical rates for four years through fees. EPB Fiber is a separate company from EPB, and Fiber pays EPB fees. Then look at TVA. It has ups and downs like all companies and if you look at its numbers there really isn't anything different than a public company. Shoot, they even got rid of pensions in 2014 because the idea wasn't working. But companies like TVA and EPB run like private companies, whose owners happen to be government. Similar to like how government 401k and pension plans invest in public sector, so those companies are technically government owned to X percent. Just TVA and EPB have unique challenges and duties vs a private company or a publicly traded company. If you look at all the big fiber expansion, it is small municipal governments, states and small business that are paving the way. Not AT&T, not Comcast, not Verizon, etc. Those guys are too big to care. Those guys stopped my local government ISP from expanding to an area that doesn't have ANY internet service. But I don't think they are the answer. I think they are the counteraction to the big corporations. Like Fraydog said, things need to be balanced out. Right now, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Charter, TWC, etc have too much power that needs to be counteracted. This is one of the many reasons why government exists. It isn't here to take over the duty, but they are here to prevent Comcast from being Comcast and they are doing a horrible job at it. But on this political note, which this thread will self implode if it doesn't end, lol, I myself think 600MHz auction is going to fail horribly. And if anyone actually wins anything, the transition period isn't going to be worth the cost to these cellular providers. I think the government is moving a bit too hastily here. ATSC 3.0 repacking should be happening first starting nowish for the next 4~6 years. Then whatever free spectrum is left afterwards gets auctioned off. Then those winnings go towards repaying the broadcasters for the ATSC 3.0 transition, a tuner rebate program, and paying those stations that decided to go off air completely.

There is no penalty cancelling Fi. The potential penalty would being charged the $150 difference from the phone sale price vs its regular price but that penalty comes from NOT activating ProjectFi, and that is it. A requirement which I fulfilled.

Sympathy for what? Making it slightly more difficult to get a phone on the network? TMo is pretty big MVNO provider and doesn't really have this issue as far as I am aware. And not fraud. Google's only requirement was to activate service. I fulfilled that requirement. If they don't want people to take the device off Fi a day, or a week later, then they should put a clause in there that says "keep Fi service active for a month", "for a year", "for life of the device", or something. The big thing is they need to move N5X, so to move some N5X they did the sale to get people onto Fi to at least try it for a day. Google knows with the N5X being unlocked, that people are going to take the device to their carrier of choice. If they didn't want people to do this they would have added some extra clauses. The N5X is NOT selling. The one I got was manufactured in October. And it isn't that much of a sale. I saw it for $300 recently new. This deal through Project Fi is really ~$260 w/tax and Fi service after all said and done.

Im sure it depends on a lot of factors. There is 700 vs 800 differnences yea. But then on my N5 with B26 my phone will hold onto B26 forever. I have seen as high as -140 but sensorly couldn't send packets past -135.

Thanks! Were you able to activate online from within your account once the phone got into the system?

I want to be able to identify Nextel iDen Equipment at least in my SouthEast market region. I can't find a thread related to this. Can I be directed please?

Ordered it from Google. Went online and found that it needed a special sim, couldn't just cut my N5 sim to fit. Called the store, told me to call Sprint cause it needed to be ordered, so I did Chat which gave me some special number to call. Then went to the online portal of which my phone does not appear in the system. Chat confirmed of which they put in a ticket for me. I did take advantage of the ProjectFi deal, so the phone did have to activate on ProjectFi. But that is cancelled. Does Google send Sprint a list of phones that get activated on ProjectFi so Sprint to remove them from the Whitelist?