red_dog007

Yeah, I was in WA, lacked 800MLTE. Where there was LTE, speeds were great. Two carriers on B25 and two carriers on B41 most places as well. The 800LTE would be good though for stronger signal between towers. I didn't see much 1x800 other than close to the OR boarder. As soon as I crossed into OR and picked up an OR tower, B26 was there waiting. :-D

I'd imagine that it is Comcast. Comcast was going to buy TWC for BIG bucks. Now Charter is wanting to get TWC and Bright House, and here Comcast is sitting quiet. Comcast showed a little interest in TMobile, so I bet it is them. Or at least a group of cable companies. IIRC sometime this year Comcast, Charter, Cox and a couple others get to access VZW AWS for free.

Yeah, just put stock firmware on it. Gotta find a proper tutorial on how to. Can't just download and update with ASUS firmware. I spent only 30 minutes on the work around and I was half a sleep. The extra features and being updated are nice. But I recommend it even just for the performance boost. I got a massive performance boost getting off the stock Sprint firmware.

No doubt VZW might be shutting down some 3G, but if EVDO was shut down I wouldn't even connect to EVDO. Just some of the towers would not authenticate, but some would. I connected to EVDO on all the towers, just some would no authenticate. Side question, does VZW 1x on CLR show up as 1xRTT or will it show up as 1x800/1x850?

I wonder what all VZW did when deploying AWS LTE. That should be CA compatible and there are some places where VZW could do B4+B4 from their holdings. Then they are actively deploying PCS LTE as well so I am sure they can do B4+B2 / B2+B4. Just wonder if and to what extent they have upgraded 700. Even if they don't CA with 700, I don't think they will be losing much other than maximum peak speeds.

Pff... comeone guys. Who wants stinky icky poo poo AWS4, PCS H, or 700E when the real low hanging fruit is Legado Networks.

What about 256/64 QAM?

Take a line to TMo and get one through them

The S7E is physically bigger and you are really only getting a 5.3ish inch screen because of the edge loss. Even with the SDK, it'll be very limited im sure with soda that actually use it, and then use it in a meaningful way. I like the S7 a lot. Just going to be hard to not make a stupid decision since I have to pay full. But with the VR and games, damn you all!

I imagine people will be interested in another year or two once equipment starts getting deployed that supports their spectrum. Only their 700E could be deployed today. Just not sure Dish will see prices for which they paid.

No, there is LTE. That is why you see LTE roaming on Sprint's coverage map. Wife's Galaxy S6 has seen 700LTE roaming in Washington and NC. It is fast too. :-D Shoot, even the 3G is fast. lol

I wish. It was my wifes S6 I used to confirm LTE.

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So you know for a fact that they shut down a couple towers 3G there, but then left others where I traveled? To me sound like your just starting a broad fact that won't apply everywhere. The biggest town I past population is 1,500 people. The second biggest is just 500. I don't see why they'd have LTE on anything but 700 still, and shut down EvDo. And it still doesn't explain why one towers EvDo gives me data, but the next towers EvDo gives me an exclamation.

Doesn't explain why some towers on EVDO I get data, some I dont. Then if a tower has 1x, I imagine it'll have EVDO still which I lack to connect too. All within just three counties, forty miles in a very remote area.

So I was in Murphy, NC area. Got a little LTE and 3G mapped in that area, not much though. It is all roaming. USCC and VZW. VZW roaming is weird. I didn't hit a lot of VZW towers across three counties, but some would be 1x talk/text only, some would connect to EVDO and have no data connection. Then some towers would give me 1Mbps on EVDO. USCC roaming was great. EVDO was 2Mbps and LTE was 5MHz on 700 and would pull 10~20Mbps.

Freaking hate dashboard sometimes. Thing is, this isn't unique to my area. I'm just using my area as an example. Want me to do this for a few more markets across the USA? If anything, it is a specific B41/EBS/BRS/Holdings question which belongs in no exact market thread. And I don't know of any strictly B41/EBS/BRS/Holding threads. Unless I am missing something, I'll get the similar results elsewhere, where multiple 20MHz carriers yet not enough continuous spectrum. The specific market is Hamilton County, TN.

Can move it if needed. Maybe a title change? Just a general holdings question. Sprint has 2x20MHz deployed in my market, yet FCC shows they only hold 1 continuous chunk greater than 20MHz, how can they have 2x20MHz? @Mr.Nuke, I noted that in the imgur pic, what Chattanooga State leases to Sprint. It appears that it is only B1-4 and D1-4. So 16.5MHz + 6MHz x 2. The county Im specifically looking at is http://reboot.fcc.gov/spectrumdashboard/resultLicenses.seam?conversationId=13135 Unless the dashboard is out of date?

So Im curious if I am missing anything. I went through FCC Dashboard looking at Sprints 2.5GHz EBS/BRS holdings in my local area. These are the blocks that Sprint/Clearwire own or lease. http://imgur.com/birxuMy If you do the math, Sprint (yellow) has 96MHz total. A second company (in green) has 22.5MHz and unlisted channels is 77.5MHz. Sprint only has one continuous block over 20MHz at BRS2 through E4. So how does Sprint have 2x20MHz carriers in my market? 45MHz of the unlisted channels are EBS, could those be owned and leased to Sprint by a local school outside the county that I am looking up licenses, be more than 35 miles away, but in the same license market area? So I may not see those licenses but Sprint holds them for my market?

From what I have been hearing, TMo is doing just single band 700. Are they not even using dual band antennas where it can be a serious benefit like in PCS only or no previous deployed markets.

Why would sprint care about 20MHz of DL only Band 66? 2200MHz isn't much better than 2500MHz. Any of the other options, there still is no band class, and any option would require brand new tower deployments. Antenneas, RRUs, etc. Billions of dollars. Even H Block would require new gear on the towers, still isn't part of a band class, and does not mean that they could automatically do 10x10MHz. Market like mine would still need to be two 5x5 carriers. That money is just better spent into deploying 2.5GHz and not yet another band that won't offer any benefits over the current spectrum. Also use that money to buy spectrum on the private market that aligns with their holdings. Now, if Dish had PCS A-F holdings or SMR/CLR holdings, then a spectrum swap makes sense. Sprint could deploy the new spectrum with software pushes.

Spectrum swap? Why? Dish's spectrum currently isn't part of any band except for 700MHz. No phones support their spectrum except for 700MHz. Then that is just extra money for additional antennas that can be used for deploying B41. Swapping 2.5GHz for AWS4/PCS H-Block would just be a bad idea and not really give Sprint anything.

I think in market roaming is fine. I like the fact that if there is a single even there, I can jump on it if it is CDMA. In my market I have only experienced this twice. Underground facility I used to work at that had a multi-carrier DAS that lacked support for Sprint's spectrum. So I roamed on Cricket. And then another building I used to work at deep in the building that only had a VZW DAS. I pay for a service, I don't care as a customer if it comes from Sprint, VZW, USCC, etc. Just if there is a single out there in the air that I could use, I want to use it. This is one of the reasons why I didn't pick TMo as my carrier when I left VZW. Lot of places, even in the city where you get zero TMo signal, so that means zero service period. Then their roaming coverage is full of holes where they could have a roaming partner *cough* AT&T *cough*. Even though I left VZW for Sprint, my talk/text nationwide coverage was virtually unchanged. :-D

This company holds what, 68MHz of spectrum? They need what, 2x10MHz guard bands just on the GPS side? So could still get 20x20 chunk out of these holdings for deployment. There is so much spectrum out there that needs to be used up between this company and Dish. :-P Doesn't Charlie Ergen still have his finger wrapped around this company right now? It could be a cheap buy or cheap stake holding for Sprint/Softbank. Could be some great build out spectrum on a dual band antenna with B26. It already has an LTE band allocated to it, Band 24.

Which it is by default, so yeah, most those people have it on...