red_dog007

Wasnt/isnt that similar to what Verizon did when things were still all unlimited, but it was a $30 fee for Smartphones (required) and a $15 fee for feature phones (not required). When they took away unlimited data, it went to tiered plans, and now the things like EDGE and family packs it is built into the price, now you are just paying a "fee" to add your phone to the plan instead of adding data to the plan. I think that billing for cellular can always be much better, but if you actually understand your bill.... And then compare it to what your bill would be like now... Either you save money or don't. If you don't be happy, if you do, switch plans.

I found a new TMo tower location here in my area. Used to be only Sprint. Added some coverage, but not much. The tower location is actually quiet horrible, I am surprised that TMo even put on it and not a different tower. There is some organic new coverage off of it, but it is very minimal. Kinda surprised at TMo configuration. Still 4 antenna per sector (no 700A). TMo rep told me it was HSPA AWS, PCS EDGE, PCS HSPA, LTE AWS. 12 antennas per tower. Unlike the other TMo towers in my area where each antenna is different from the other on each sector, this tower the two outer were the tall fat white antennas and the two inner are short skinny grey antenna. Hopefully they add a few more towers because I where I live it is a deadzone that is surrounded by TMo coverage.

Wow, an IX! What does one specifically look for if they wanted to work at one? IX job postings? Whenever an ISP gets their backbone, do they connect at an IX, or do they "splice" into a cable that passes somewhere nearby? My ISP (EPB, I am sure you have heard of them), uses Level 3, Century-tel and Sprint for their backbone. How does EPB connect intothose backbones? Any good sources on starting a WISP? Hardware, software, spectrum, licenses, who to talk too, etc. What is the minimal capital one should plan on having to get started? There are a lot in my area that have zero landline option (800 residential households), and I have been thinking it might be cool to start a WISP in my local area. Plus neighboring counties still have a few thousand here and there not served by landline. Care to go into some details on your WISP? I'm sure you have a website?

Doesn't seem like TMo has a lot of PCS there. At least for supporting three technologies. Though maybe TMo is already planning for 5x5 on PCS?

http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint#|coverage Depending on what routes are taken. If there is a bit of none Sprint coverage, or 3G coverage, could maybe also pick up Cricket Wireless maybe on a secondary device (they generally have free devices after MIR that are decent). 10GB for $55 is the best in terms of more complete coverage and a sizable data bucket.

I'm eyeballing the G4. Really considering getting on even if it upsets the significant other. (I go through a lot of phones). I used to have the G2, moved to the N5 and really want to go back to LG. I only wonder about RF performance. How are all three band performance on it? Everything looks good on it, but nobody for some reason benchmarks or gives any input on RF performance. I have a N5 and find the performance to be very meh. Especially on B41.

Poo. $5 down, $95 more to go. :-P Hopefully there will be another xmas sale this year. :-D

So, with Sprint possibly planning on refarming all the old towers with iDEN gear, what is the most accurate iDEN network map we have? Is there a comparison out there already of where coverage will be new coverage area with the activation of these old towers?

No phone has 8R... Everyone else is behind cause only Sprint has 8T8R antennas. Other carriers don't, and phones don't.

What isn't pseduo-native? From what I have been able to gather so far, it is treated as native. What all of those then are still roaming, and not psedo-native? Maybe just add the ones that are confirmed psedo-native so far then? Seems like in the PRL Update thread that a handful out west are. I know Bluegrass is here on the East side.

On Sprint's coverage map, if you change "Sprint Spark" to "3G and More" it will give you two shades of dark purple.

You care to add the "native" 3G roaming?

I interpret that as existing plans for sale. If you already have it, you'll keep it, just no longer be able to buy it.

SID 1518 said " Sprint" in SignslCheck, but had the roaming icon. I did pick up another, SID 22437, that said Sprint and had the 3G icon. That was 1x800 at -102dBm. http://1drv.ms/1GBgGnY

Im in Brasstown, NC. Far away from native Sprint. SignalCheck Pro said it is spotting a Sprint tower here both 1xRTT and 1x800. 1471 Mason Road, Brasstown SID: 1518, NID: 10, BID: 5249(x1481) Sry, kinda lazy on posting a screen grab. Just wondering if this might actually be a Sprint town. Not getting EVDO from my current location. Maybe that is a USCC tower? I have been roaming mostly on VZW and "Digital Roaming". I'm in USCC territory and kinda disappointing that I am not using their network

Isn't each state responsible for their own deployments if they want to be? Seems like they should of had more spectrum. LTE is nice and all, but range.... Im all for keeping around something like 1xAdvance just for the pure coverage area. That way all the nooks and crannies don't have to be covered, and if that isn't even the goal, CDMA will just help fill in. You'd also think that the feds could just put in some clause that if you are a two-way wireless operator, during time of emergency a tower needs to automatically reserve 30% of its capacity or something like that. Then pass out devices that support every US band in operation be it LTE, CDMA, GSM, iDEN, WiMax, etc depending on the market area the device is going in.

It isn't used for the public. It is city wide wifi for the city only. They only recently opened up a few locations for public wifi, which can still exist, and really isn't even needed. It would be no different than say a government agency having a contract to say install VZW antennas in their place of business because as a business they use VZW devices. As a side effect, only those employees with personal VZW devices get access to the frequency. You don't see lawsuits flying around everywhere. Sprint would do the same thing, but instead of at a building level, they do it at a city level and in turn probably save cities tons of money. Normal Macro deployment with small micro and pico deployment where it is needed. Im sure would heavily cut down on the required amount of wireless AP that WiFi requires for the same level of coverage on top of being more reliable, dependable, and much faster.

So my city has and still is deploying city wide WiFi. It isn't public. They use it most for law enforcement, fire department, and smart lights. So, in ideal conditions they mount a WiFi AP on a telephone pole every third pole. Usually they are a lot closer. Also, there are dead zones everywhere. The city has dumped a few ten million into this project and it is still ongoing. Back in 2013 they spent 5yrs on the project and the Mayor decided to throw another $20million dollars at the failing project. At the time they had almost 600 APs that were Wireless N. No 5GHz has horrible coverage, and 2.4GHz is overcrowded. You can go downtown, in a neighborhood, or an apartment complex and easily see 20~50 APs which hurts 2.4GHz performance, and dependability. With all the 2.5GHz that Sprint has, and it being cellular (higher power, greater coverage) and lots more bandwidth, if my city is willing to dump tens of millions into a WiFi project it seems like a good opportunity for Sprint to get paid to deploy dense B41. My city I am sure is not on any densification plans (Chattanooga), and if they were able to pull in deals from cities that would like to, have or are currently deploying WiFi, Sprint would do the normal macro B41 deployment but then have free money to go micro and pico. Then Sprint includes x number of B41 devices for equipment and use of some given amount of spectrum for a period of time. WiFi network costs money to maintain so Sprint would get money to maintain B41. Seems like a win-win to me. :-D

Yeah BMS was good, and the area, Leeds. Had B25/26, didn't hit any B41. At the race speeds were 10Mbps the few times I checked. I actually mapped there on Sensorly and did a little in Leeds as well. The LTE doesn't go anywhere near Springsville on I59 like their coverage map suggests. Gadsden was pretty accurate, I mapped that as well, but geez I was at over -120dmb on B26 for so so much. You can barely see it on Sensorly.

North Carolina, Murphy/Brasstown to be exact. Just about as far West as you can get in NC USCC territory.

Going to USCC NC territory this weekend. So should expect 3G roaming? I'm on $60 unlimited data. Will I get more than a 100MB roaming bucket on USCC and is Sprint pretty anal about charging after the bucket is depleted?

Will they just update the 3G map, or update the Spark map?

My understanding is that going from 2T to 4T effectively doubles the spectrum bandwidth. So 5MHz on 2T is ~38Mbps, 5MHz on 4T is ~76Mbps.

Thanks! Is 4x2 possible on PCS if 3G or 1x gets dropped? I guess Sprint has a ton of BRS, but you'd think that deploying 4x2 on their tiny 5x5MHz LTE blocks would be top priority.

With Sprint's main antennas being dual band, broadcasting 1x/LTE on 800MHz and 1x/3G/LTE on PCS, what is the MIMO configuration of LTE? I'm assuming that it is only 2x2 MIMO for both PCS and 800Mhz. Are the antenna's able to handle 4x2MIMO for both 800/PCS and still broadcast 1x/3G?