red_dog007

Im a dummy, I could have looked that up. In West North Carolina USCC does have 700 A+B in Cherokee/Ashiville area, but even further west (which Im more interested in) they only have 700B. So my Nexus 5 is golden there for the most part. Phew

Sweet :-D I'll find out here in two weeks if CA is running or not for us. My dad lives out there and really interested to see how Sprint does at their house now. The have Pocketinet 3Mbps for $70/mo. Makes me wonder if the Your Karma at $50/mo will be a better option for them if they can get 5Mbps consistanly. A new link I can give them for potential new internet service.

USCC using B5 for LTE? Im near USCC territory and go into their territory a few times a year. At least I'll have 3G now which is veryable usable which will be good, but still just wondering. East TN between Cleveland and Knoxville and then West North Carolina west of Ashville. Anyone know if these areas are using B5 and/or B12 LTE? If it is B12, just another reason to upgrade phones sooner. :-D

The updated coverage map still shows Roaming+ under "3G and More" ? Oh what!? It looks like Appalachian Wireless is no longer on 3G roaming!?

MU-MIMO requires client support.

I've been really excited about this router but dang the smallnet comparison is so mediocre. I wanted this thing to be the top on every chart but it isn't. Hopefully the range makes up for it, but all my old routers get repurposed as APs as it is. Myself I'll worry about MUMIMO once half or more of my devices support it. The dual band 5GHz is a lot more interesting to me.

My phone generally cuts out near -130dBm before switching to 3G. It can hang on to the low and mid 120s all day long. However, I have seen it go as high as -138dBm before it cut out. -118 isn't nothing. Even for B25.

Im not sure if you can on your phone, but on my N5 I have a tool that lets me disable CDMA/EVDO completely, so I can run only LTE. Would be a solid way to test USCC LTE access if there is no Sprint LTE at all.

What will become of Band 4!??!

So with the X8 and X10, when is Sprint going to enable 3x2CA??

With USCC spectrum already deployed, might as well just keep that spectrum, the AWS and 700A that is. I'd use the AWS to spectrum swap for PCS. I'd keep all the 700A.

Hmm.. How interested would Sprint be? They deploy dual band equipment?

Will ntelos even need a PRL once Shenntal takes over and takes over towers?

End devices have to support MU-MIMO, which are very few. That is a future proof technology. What a lot of routers do now is broadcast two 5GHz bands and the router will automatically assign devices to a given 5GHz band based on the devices MIMO. This really speeds up throughput as 1x1 devices can really slow down 2x2 and 3x3 MIMO devices. 1x1 devices share one band and 2x2/3x3 devices share another. This technology works now so I'd lean towards getting that. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/32451-mu-mimo-vs-xstream-the-coming-battle-for-wi-fi-airtime I'd look at smallnetbuilder. Find what you want in a router and at the price point you want. Persoanlly, I'd get at least something with three exteneral antennas at a minimum unless you live in a small studio apartment.

Looks like some of the off-network roaming evdo coverage in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas has been upgraded to Roaming+

Newer coverage takes time to get mapped. There is newish (6months) TMo 2G -> LTE coverage that still hasn't been mapped yet. A lot of area too. Ive been thinking of getting an elcheapo phone just to get it mapped.

Anyone ever actually use public wifi? I live in the land of 10Gbps and all the places I go use public wifi (for testing purposes only), I am luck to get 1Mbps and ping is always over 100ms. Yeah, not going to use that. That is on par with what I get on Sprint EVDO/eHPRD around here. Its rare to go to a business that actually has usable speeds, and just as rare have no ToS wall.

Exactly. Don't forget that TMo is skipping HSPA on 2G to LTE conversion sites too. But even 700MHz is a little different than 2G to LTE. 700MHz, you have to have a 700Mhz phone, few do. 2G to LTE sites, everyone still has service. Those with 3G only phones will still maintain the same level of service after LTE. This would be closer to Sprint skipping out on EVDO. If you have a 3G/WiMax only device before, your level of service is the same (if not better due to now native coverage). There are a lot of stragglers, but doesn't mean that they need to support their technology to the fullest. They will still have 1x for talk, text and data which is what they had already. (Unless EVDO roaming, of which data buckets are really small anyways.) You aren't negatively effecting anyone by building out native coverage and skipping out on EVDO. Just like TMo isn't negatively effecting anyone by building out 2G to LTE only. It is completely different then 700MHz only build out, shutting down HSPA on AWS, or shutting down WiMax. You are negatively effecting customers in these situations. With Sprint, you only are if you build out in a EVDO roaming area and you don't have an LTE phone. But then LTE phones again you can pick up for dollars and they will be better than whatever 3G/WiMax device you have. Guess we can agree to disagree. Not much else to really say. But I like my idea better.

You wouldn't leave anyone to hang and dry. The only people who would be effected are those who have a 3G/Wimax only device, and roam on 3G. They will now get put onto native 1x. Otherwise, the only difference if you have a 3G/Wimax only device is you'd be going from roaming 1x to native 1x. This will actually help even cause you'll use less of your roaming bucket allotment. Plus if you are on a 3G or WiMax device, you really need an upgrade anyways. There are always stragglers when it comes to phones, and those stragglers shouldn't hold back advancements for the rest of the masses. They can get a brand new LTE phone that is way better for bucks these days. Im not saying current coverage needs to nix EVDO, just new coverage. Though that day will come when EVDO gets nixed nationwide, and you bet that there will still be people without LTE smartphones.

With future buildout, I know Sprint will deploy 3G EVDO, but there really is no need is there. In the more new areas, they could just survive on 1x and LTE. Do we know if Sprint is considering not doing EVDO with new coverage area expansions? Are those sites using gear where Sprint can activate an LTE carrier?

If you can even tell the difference. I used HD Voice (Currently intergrated with GV), Hangouts, and Skype. I can't really tell the difference. Even when I was on Republic Wireless, WiFi vs HD/Non-HD voice. The difference was VoIP would be slighly louder. What I notice and bugs the tar out of me is when a smartphone doesn't have ambient noise cancellation on phone calls.

I am going to Walla Walla in Dec. I am wondering if B41 is live there. I see that their is a single Clear site there. I'd imagine B41 would be live if this is an LTE compatible site, but I don't know. Last time I was there, LTE was on only two of the towers and not very high power. But looks like all four are active and full power now.

It is something like nine towers, but their coverage map has LTE roaming listed on USCC coverage map They are in Kansas. http://www.uscellular.com/coverage-map/coverage-indicator.html

Take to Sprint's twitter and facebook!? I want to lease this device dangit!

Does Sprint provide any of their own backhaul? Being Tier 1 provider, always wondered if Sprint provides backhaul to those sites that might make sense. Or maybe if they cut some deals to ISPs they provide backhaul to that provide backhaul to their sites.