red_dog007

Oh I know it does. I have the S6 and N5. The big thing is the N5 won't get on it all the time. I drive the same road every day and some days it connects and holds onto it forever, while other days I might get right up on a tower, even pass it before it switches over to 41. Then there are some areas I go through that have B41 that the N5 just won't connet at all some days and other days it will. It gets the signle, and when it has it is good. It'll hold onto it forever. Just that it doesn't proactiavely hunt for and connect too it.

My N5 will hold onto B41 just fine up to about -120dBm if it has a B41 signal. Just that if it is on B26/25, it won't jump off a decent signal onto a weaker B41 signal.

I've noticed it is hard to really tell. The coverage for my area is fairly accurate considering B41 isn't on every tower yet. What I have noticed is because not every tower has it yet, I will connect to B26/25 because it might be -70 to -80dBm. I might get a B41 single in the -110 ~ -115dBm range at that same spot but I won't stay on it long. Plus then the phone makes a big difference I guess. My wife's S6 will hold onto a B41 signal much better and much longer. She gets B41 where I won't on my Nexus 5. Before I'd figure the map is wrong because my N5 doesn't get B41 there, but then I go through there with my wifes phone and B41. So then I go "yep, coverage map was right..."

Would be pretty cool if we end up getting islands of LTE on B41. But I think I'd rather see LTE roaming agreements to go live already!

Well, even Sprint has free Airave and WiFi router. Got the WiFi router. Not that I needed it for calling, but it is a solid router and I needed an newer/better AP.

Does Si even have LTE turned on? Looks like SouthernLinc is getting LTE online on there network. Had been spotted out in the wild. Hope they can do a fast deployment. That is the problem with these carries. Slow LTE deployments.

Man I hope Sprint gets it. I'll goes lease it. Was looking forward for the Nexus launch. Nothing interesting there. I think I'm getting bored with smartphone launches. Yet this phone is unique, and unique phones are way more interesting to me now. Come on Sprint!

Ex post facto laws are illegal and frowned upon in the states. I would think that Dish could win because they are facing punishment in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yeah, it has been kickin hasn't it! I noticed some new B41 last Friday between Exit 7 and 9. Doesn't seem to be the tower near McKays though.

Cost of roaming is limited because Sprint is limiting to talk/text over 1x. If Sprint had a data roaming partner, any Sprint user would use up their entire roaming bucket in that 2hr stretch of freeway.

Yeah, 6MHz uplink 700. 40MHz on AWS4 which can be all used for downlink. Then the recent AWS3. The unpaired is 15MHz uplink which I think is nationwide. Then the 10MHz of PCS. Plus Dish has been trying to get the L-band from Lightsquard (LTE Band 24) which they have all 34MHz of. it has GPS interference concerns, but even with the proposed guard bands that still is another 20MHz that can be used there. As is with the Dish spectrum they could do 40x15 with the AWS4 and unpaired AWS3. I think this is the most intersting and what VZW would want to utilize first possibly. Wasn't Charter interested in buying TWC for $50+ billion? Maybe they'd be interested in buying Verizon FIOS, then Verizon could turn around and use that cash to buy Dish or lease the spectrum. But if they lease the spectrum they are going to do long term lease. I think if this happens, AT&T and TMobile will have to merge. Long term they won't be able to compete unless they dip heavily into highband unlicensed. VZW would be much better off going after all that highband. I think 20x20+ over 700 and 800MHz is plenty for rural markets. Hopefully though, if VZW makes a deal with Dish the FCC makes VZW offer an unlimited data plan of some sorts. Maybe even make their spectrum protection sites offer wireless broadband or something.

So sprint has some roaming coverage in West West Virgina and some in East Ohio. Who is this Provider? Is that Shentel's market? Looking at USCC map, they do East Weste Virginia so it isn't USCC. Having looked at USCC map, looks like they are about done with the LTE upgrades.

Why wouldn't Cricket been good? ATT grabbed them up for $1.2 billion. Maybe that is expensive? But Sprint would have been able to add a second PCS LTE carrier in many markets. What, I count at least 40 major markets. Maybe a fourth they could have done two carriers. The H-Block went for 1.56 billion and is nationwide, but incompatible with everything. So Cricket spectrum would be a bit of a premium + the customers, and I'm sure a lot of the tower locations would help with cell density. Seems like that would have been a pretty fast conversion for Sprint to make getting that spectrum shifted around and merging ~5 million customers into Sprint.

Is it a Sprint only tower? Two towers, one I park next and one I drive past I have seen work done on lately. One tower they just installed new mounts to support additional future B41 antenna. That was a big let down when they didn't put up the new antennas. The other tower turned out they were working on the rack below Sprints. It is tight spaced tower, so the rack they were standing on they could comfortably access Sprints rack. Was hard to tell what they were doing, now they are go, no changes. :/ Spent three days there too. I don't see new equipment so maybe something was broken.

I see that blob as Roaming+ as well. Defiantly medium purple and not light pink.

Looks like Sprint updated their 3G coverage map. Guess work here Dark Red = Sprint 3G Light Red = Off-network 3G Roaming (uses limited roaming bucket) Dark Purple == Dark Red Roaming+ = Off-network "Native" 3G (doesn't use limited roaming bucket) Light purple Off-network roaming = Off-network 1x (uses limited roaming bucket) What is interesting is it looks like USCC is a mixture of Light Red and Roaming+.

I wonder if Si Wireless is one of the changes. I noticed on the coverage map they went from native coverage to roaming coverage on 3G. Maybe went from Pesudo native to roaming?

Hmm... Need more new 1.9 markets.

Yeah, I'd like to get educated as well. As I see it, it is TDD, so that same 20MHz is used for both UL/DL and the ratio can be changed for more DL or more UL. Making that carrier 100% DL I don't see how that can cause an issue with what is already TDD. If required, and is easily doable, pad it with a guard or place that DL only carrier away from the ther carriers.

Looks like a check you'd make on a todo checklist

They still could deploy another carrier and load balance on it no?. Don't have to wait for a 3xCA phone to use it. Sprint could make things interesting too by having a dl only carrier, as the ul carriers are one less than the dl.

Yeah, better then the 1x data for sure! Though not sure we can expect LTE. They are a rural roaming ppartner with VZW. I haven't verified, but I think the only LTE they are deploying is VZW B13.

Say hello to $100 plans with just a couple gigs of internet. :-P

Thx! That stinks though. :-(

The partner in East Kentuky, I believe Appalachian Wireless, are they psudeo-native or does that go against the roaming data allowance?