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AT&T B25 MFBI earfcn 8290 live.

Sectors 07/08/09 sound like the L1900 found in Los Angeles, so I assume this to be an Ericsson market.

 

From what little I hear, T-Mobile is getting pretty aggressive with selective resource block shutdown to accommodate an 'in-band' GSM channel within the LTE carrier.

 

Would be very interesting to see what E/U/ARFCN's you could pull out of it. Especially given the limited PCS holdings in that market.

 

That would also put T-Mobile at 60 out of 70 MHz usable spectrum devoted to LTE, which is pretty insane.

 

 

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Here we go.

 

http://imgur.com/m5fQJTw

 

http://imgur.com/CZSw4JJ

 

http://imgur.com/3SehIJ3

 

http://imgur.com/2fUGeE7

 

- Trip

Can you query the remaining UAFRCN too? And a couple GSM ARFCNs?

It's a distributed antenna system node. Looks like standard Verizon antennas.

Found another clearwire conversion with better photos this time around.

Which part in the photo is the Nokia Flexi Zone "Mini-Macro" 2x20 W BTS?

I'll be back for a cleaner shot. It's tough getting a drive by shot from the passenger seat on the freeway.

Look near the middle left for the white unit. You can see a sliver of another unit on the right side also.

Bingo. Only thing not spray painted.

Not a small cell. LA Metro colocated Clear Huawei gets cost effective boost with Nokia Flexi Zone "Mini-Macro" 2x20 W BTS

Not a small cell. Colocated Clear Huawei gets cost effective boost with Nokia Flexi Zone "Mini-Macro" 2x20 W BTS

Maybe this is completely unrelated, but I wonder if they'd use a standalone "private" channel to provide backhaul to all of those new Mobilitie small cells?

 

Does it work that way... is there a way to control what device can authenticate by carrier?

That would make sense to me. Have to do some more math to figure out all the available BRS+EBS to see where they could shove more carriers.

Looks like the B41 carriers EARFCN centers have shifted from 40978+41176 to 39874+40072 with the same 31,32,33 and 39,3a,3b endings. Still picking up Clear 40254 (01,02,03) and traces of 39874 though.

Tones more small cell photos here including the higher wattage ones!

http://celltowerphotos.com/thumbnails.php?album=49

Brand spanking new small cell 

Are these small cells in LA ? Exact location ?

Mini macros and DAS nodes. They're all over, but particularly common in more mountainous areas.

They're deploying 5x5MHz band 2 in a ton of markets right now. I see a new post about it almost every day.

10+10 if PCS spectrum available too. Enough leftover to run narrow DC-HSPA+ and a couple GSM channels still too.

Some fastback action in LA

Do you happen to know if Crown Castle owns the site, or the City of Los Angeles?  There was a vault for the site that was marked "Crown Castle".

Owned by the city and long termed lease by Crown Castle who in turn leases it out to generally Verizon at the moment.

Hmm. If they snagged all of the Cavalier, they're gonna be able to seriously compete in Charlotte and NC in general. They already have fantastic site density (they are very spectrum-constrained in Charlotte, 10Mhz FDD in PCS and 15Mhz FDD in AWS with no room to grow) and continue to add sites for capacity in areas seeing development. Downside might be permitting. All of their racks appear specifically fit to hold two AIRs and nothing else, so most sites would require entirely new racks for a new 700 antenna.

It was not a problem here across LA and surrounding areas with updated racks. Also note there are low-band compatible AIR21s for an even swap.

This looks like a small cell setup that Sprint has used. There is a VZ small cell about a block down the road so I dont think VZ would space them so close.

What does everyone think?

Looks similar to AT&T (or even Verizon) DAS gear. The Fiber to RF box is mounted below.

Does anyone not care about those RF numbers? I don't know if they're horrendous, or what? Is the plus better than last year, but worse than the 6s? I'm getting silver, and I have 2 hours to choose between the plus or regular.

 

 

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Sprint files with FCC to pick up PCS F block from Hanson Communications covering Allen, Augalize, and Hardin OH counties. This will give them non-contiguous 50 MHz total PCS B F H blocks

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=9195174

So the b41 is trash on the plus?

 

 

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Honestly I'm not sure. I would hold out for the s4gru article.

Hey AJ...  Can you divulge a hint?  Is it due to placement of the antennas internally? Using a completely different antenna from the smaller handset?

If I am reading it correctly. The following US LTE bands perform better for each model as follows

6S Plus: B4, B30

6S: B2, B5, B7, B12/13/17, B25, B26/27, B41

More interband via testing pages:

12/13/17+2

4/5+2

5+4

7+4

30+12

 

All the presumed US LTE 2xCA pairs given not all were required to be fully tested (particularly B4).

LTE Carrier Aggregation Supported

 

Interband

 

2-4

2-5

2-12

2-13

2-17

2-29

4-5

4-7

4-12

4-13

4-17

4-29

12-30  

 

intraband

 

2-2

4-4

7-7

25-25

 

7+7

41+41

More interband via testing pages:

12/13/17+2

4/5+2

5+4

7+4

30+12

edit:Looks like there is a different CDMA model too:

edit2: AT&T getting their own model?

"All models have identical PCB layout, design and functionality except A1633 has Tx and Rx filter for Band 30."

Sprint leases 700 MHz A-block spectrum from C-Spire in addition to PCS spectrum

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applAdminAttachments.jsp?applID=9191702#

FYI nTelos transaction has hit the FCC

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applAdminAttachments.jsp?applID=9170464#

 

Yup.

 

AJ

Bummer. Samsung was one of the only ones which included the LTE CA pairs in the main doc other than LG. Even Motorola started including it in some of their docs. Can we petition to have the FCC "test" and "certify" the LTE CA pairs (so we can see of course)?