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    FCC Auctions

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    What's particularly interesting is that I spot-checked one of the Hawaiian islands where T-Mobile will have to divest and it looks like if they were to sell two PCS blocks to AT&T, they could swap such that AT&T ends up with 20x20 contiguous and T-Mobile ends up with 25x25 contiguous in PCS.

    - Trip

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    I'm waiting for that to happen here.  In most of the rest of Virginia (outside the DC market), B41 LTE is long gone. 

    Of course, relatively nearby here is a Sprint power line site flagged 312250 serving a shopping center that is still running B2/26/41 LTE, so maybe it's not the only one and they're leaving it running on purpose for sites like that one.

    - Trip

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    Dish Network/Boost Mobile cell/5G buildout thread

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    So, not sure if it's just me or what.  My Boost Mobile phone with Rainbow SIM suddenly won't connect to the Dish 5G-NR.  I checked and I can force it onto T-Mobile or AT&T LTE (which are flagged as roaming), but it just sits on No Connection if I disable LTE. 

    I went out today and passed at least half a dozen Dish sites, so it's not site-specific.  I can't figure out if it's the network is down in this area, or if there's something wrong with my account.

    - Trip

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    Galaxy S24 Info & Discussion

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    5 hours ago, iansltx said:

    Of note, I go caseless, so mechanical breakdown is more likely than someone using a case. But it's also been...15 years or more since I've cracked a phone screen?

    I didn't use a case for my day-to-day phone for a really long time because I was very careful with my phones, until I was in Lowes one day, putting my S5 back in my pocket and somehow missed my pocket.  Phone went straight to the concrete floor, landed on its corner, and ended up with a crack in the screen.  Still perfectly usable, but had a crack.

    When I eventually got my G5, it got a basic clear rubber case to at least prevent that much.  Been using those ever since.

    My "data collection" phones don't have cases, but they also go straight from the phone charging stand to the car and back.  (Although last year one of those managed to fall out of the car a distance of less than 2 feet and ended up with a completely shattered screen.  Naturally, it wasn't one of the ones I wanted to replace in the near future.)

    - Trip

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    T-Mobile still has a lot of work to do in the rural areas.  I've been told some of the specific places I've asked about are supposed to get sites later this year, but even those will be islands of service surrounded by "no service."

    There are definitely rural areas where they can do well (see the Shentel region, where they inherited the best network in the area), but a number of their more organic rural builds aren't as impressive as the other carriers as of yet.

    - Trip

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    2 hours ago, dkyeager said:

    T-Mobile was quite gracious to the FCC by not mentioning the delay in getting its additional 2.5GHz licenses from Auction 108, which will really allow them to dramatically exceed many of these metrics (no additional licenses granted since Dec 13 bill signing yet).

    I imagine the required metrics were set based on the spectrum holdings at the time of the merger, and not what was then a speculative future auction.

    - Trip

    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

    in General Topics

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    Given that the objection from AT&T is still hanging out there so far as I know, and that there may be other problems with other applicants, I'm not sure they'd want to put "shall" which could result in legal problems if various i's are not dotted and t's not crossed.

    I would be very surprised if the licenses are not moved along as promptly as is feasible.

    - Trip

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    SignalCheck Beta Crew Forum

    in General Topics

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    6 minutes ago, mikejeep said:

    Thanks! There have been some recent changes to Android permissions requirements that were not documented very well and caused a tremendous amount of problems, especially for users who recently updated to Android 14. Thankfully I have some decent monitoring and diagnostics in place so I was eventually able to figure out what was going on.

    I'm basically looking for testers to mess around with revoking/denying/granting permissions to make sure the app doesn't crash and the workflow/warnings are reasonably clear. I do know that if you revoke/grant permissions while the app is in use, the app sometimes requires a restart (or at least as swipe out and back in) to get the proper prompting, but it's difficult to control 100% of the scenarios with the amount of background work SCP does with methods that require special permission.

    Okay.  I just pulled the Location permission with the app running, and I think it may have closed and immediately reopened.  But I got a notification telling me that "Permission required" while the app itself just said "Waiting for update.." with a spinning circle.  Once I tapped on the "Permission required" notification, it popped up asking for location permission which I then granted.

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    SignalCheck Beta Crew Forum

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    So I revoked the permissions before doing the update on my S21FE (Android 12) and when I reopened, it asked me for the permissions, which I granted.  No crashes, all went smoothly.  Is that what you wanted?  If so, I can repeat on a few of my other post-10 devices.  If not, let me know what to do differently.

    - Trip

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    SignalCheck Beta Crew Forum

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    On 9/29/2023 at 6:27 PM, mikejeep said:

    I changed the behavior for the next app update, which is going to roll out shortly.. it will revert to displaying the -44 cells, but now it will skip logging them.

    Mike,

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the Edge 2022 phone also needs this fix on the 5G-NR side.  It's a lot less common, but see this screenshot from this morning.  Wasn't able to get diagnostics as I was rolling down the road at the time.  Happened twice, both times were inconvenient.  First time I've seen it happen on 5G-NR.

    https://imgur.com/a/on4d34o

    All the other values are valid, so the "skip logging" option seems like the right one for the 5G-NR side as well.

    - Trip

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    Dish Network/Boost Mobile cell/5G buildout thread

    in General Topics

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    2 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

    I can't speak to the quality of Dish's network because I haven't tested it for myself but here in NYC they have a relatively mature buildout. I've seen their sites in every borough and it seems like they didn't cheap out and only collocate on sites that other carriers are already on, they are increasingly doing new builds in areas where even the Big 3 have weaker service.

    Glad to hear they're doing it somewhere.  Because it's not in the DC area.  Very, very cheap build-out from what I can tell.  Around here it looks like they went with whatever dedicated antenna structures (monopoles, lattice towers, etc.) they could find that were covered by their master agreements with American/SBA/Crown Castle, and then filled in with a handful of building mounts where no such structures were available.  Service is very uneven.

    - Trip

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