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I, uh, completely forgot about that. Thanks, I'll have to get a hold of her phone later and try it.
- Trip
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Mike,
I'm sure you've been busy, but when will a new update go out to non-Beta members? I tried to put an updated version of my T-Mobile/Sprint database on my wife's phone and because the versions are different, it managed to trash the database completely. I had to drop all the data in SCP to get it to work again. So she currently has no database in her phone.
- Trip
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3 hours ago, RedSpark said:
May I ask what devices you have on your account?
LG G7, LG G8, and two LG G8X.
- Trip
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What's irritating to me is that they've issued conflicting notices. I've gotten e-mails saying one of the phones on my account needs to be replaced, a paper letter saying all of them do, and then the website says any device that supports VoLTE is fine, which all of the devices do. So which is it?
I wish T-Mobile were competent.
- Trip
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On 7/30/2021 at 8:23 AM, Trip said:
I've seen precisely one that has new gear, but still only seems to have Sprint bands running on it (along with 312250). I don't know what is taking them so long.
- Trip
Just drove by this site again and it's no longer running Band 26. Just Sprint Bands 25 and 41.
- Trip
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Interesting comment in the T-Mobile Q2 Earnings Report yesterday. https://s24.q4cdn.com/400059132/files/doc_financials/2021/q2/NG_TMUS-06_30_2021-EX-99.1.pdf
Specifically, this part:
• Approximately 80% of Sprint customer traffic is now carried on the T-Mobile network
• One-third of Sprint customers have been moved to the T-Mobile networkNot terribly surprising to me that the customers who use the most data were most anxious to move to T-Mobile, while the majority of customers--who don't use much data--are perfectly happy with the Sprint network as it is. I'm definitely in that category and in no rush to give up the superior coverage of the Sprint network for the possibly-superior capacity of the T-Mobile network.
(Also, at least in my case, since LG phones are now discontinued, moving to a new T-Mobile phone means extensive phone shopping that I'm not looking forward to, rather than just picking up the latest LG device and being happy.)
After all this time, I still have yet to see any Sprint site conversions that are operating. I've seen precisely one that has new gear, but still only seems to have Sprint bands running on it (along with 312250). I don't know what is taking them so long.
- Trip
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21 hours ago, jreuschl said:
Users on reddit are saying the N41 areas are greatly exaggerated.
Unfortunately the MVNO map hasn't been updated yet that shows bands and strength per.
Wouldn't surprise me, but I will say that the map looks accurate in terms of sites actually operating B41 gear, based on what I've seen. I was able to use it to add a number of sites I haven't visited yet based on the map.
- Trip
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Drove up US-15 again yesterday, and found that additional sites have been marked as keep sites. Basically, every site along 15 between Farmville and Culpeper that wasn't co-located with T-Mobile (or nearly so) is now running 312250.
- Trip
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36 minutes ago, dkyeager said:
Using the old Sprint spectrum plus their existing B5 I assume. Any complicating factors that would require FCC approval?
They wouldn't need it. If they hold both A- and B-blocks, that's 25x25 total, and they could run Band 26 across 15x15 of that spectrum. Band 26 covers all of Band 5 plus the Sprint spectrum.
- Trip
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If you've rolled your eyes at claims that wireless facilities harm property values like I have, you might find this new study to be interesting:
https://www.aglmediagroup.com/study-small-wireless-facilities/
It actually attempts to determine whether there's such harm, and finds no solid evidence.
- Trip
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10 hours ago, RAvirani said:
This is in an ALU market right?
Verizon is also very consistent with their eNB splits. Sites with CA across all bands use a single eNB. Sites where midband is not allowed to aggregate with lowband have midband assigned to 300,000 (or sometimes 600,000) + the lowband eNB. On rare occasion, to disable CA altogether I’ve seen AWS on 300,000 + the lowband eNB and PCS on 600,000 + the lowband eNB.
No idea of the equipment vendor. I'm bad at that sort of thing.
But I've seen the 300,000 and 600,000 offsets in certain places. In most of those places, it's now been shifted back to the normal GCI.
- Trip
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Verizon, in my experience, is very consistent, but their sector IDs are decimal.
1/2/3 is 700
12/22/32 AWS
13/23/33 AWS (second carrier)
14/24/34 PCS
15/25/35 PCS (second carrier)
16/26/36 850
17/27/37 850
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AT&T has a pattern for some bands, but newer bands don't have one.
01-04 B5
08-0B B2
0F-12 B12
16-19 B66
In between are a bunch of DAS reservations, basically repeats of the above sequence for various DAS or small cell configurations.
95-98 B30
Then anything else like B2 second carrier, B66 second carrier, or B14 are just sort of randomly tossed into the A0-FF range, varying market to market.
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US Cellular had been using different GCIs for B5 and B12, offset by 0x2000, but has recently been upgrading sites to a single GCI following this pattern:
01-03 B12
0B-0D B5
15-17 B2
1F-21 B4
29-2B B66
- Trip
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17 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:
We have 01-03 for B66.
0B-0D for B2.
3D-3F for B71.
B41 is on a completely different GCI, but ends with 83-85
Some of the sector IDs are similar here in the DC/VA/MD/PA region. (All values hex.)
B41 is 83-86/8D-90.
B2 second carrier is 6F-72.
B71 is 3D-40.
The other three bands. Newer setups follow that pattern:
01-04 B66/0B-0E B2/15-18 B12
But older sites vary wildly. In some places, it's 01-03 B66/04-06 B12/07-09 B2. In others, where LTE was first deployed on B2, B66 and B2 are flipped. If B66/B2 were deployed long before B12, then B12 might be on 15-18 but B66/B2 on 01-03/07-09.
4-sector sites are more or less unpredictable. In some cases, it's 01-04 B66/05-08 B12/09-0C B2. In some areas, B66 and B2 are flipped, as above. In some places, it's the 3-sector pattern but with 0A, 0B, and 0C used for the fourth sector in no particular order.
And then, of course, the site ID part of the GCIs are a trainwreck. Some sites have as many as 7 different GCIs, though most of those are being consolidated into fewer now. Most B41 sites are now on a single, separate GCI, though at first they were split across three. B71/B12 panels have their own GCIs. Band 66 can sometimes also have a separate GCI from Band 2, but that's pretty uncommon. Some 4-sector sites have separate GCIs on the fourth sector, as well.
- Trip
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The Shentel sale closed on 7/1, so they own it now.
- Trip
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When I'm out locating 312250 sites, I lock a T-Mobile phone on Band 26. Then the only thing it can possibly connect to is Sprint. T-Mobile has their Band 2 operations running MFBI as Band 25, so that option isn't great either. I sometimes manually adjust my Band 26 lock to include Band 25 near a site that I suspect is a 312250 site but which is B25-only. I've located a few of those.
- Trip
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On 6/30/2021 at 11:01 PM, JDP121 said:
Yeah let me know last time I went through to BBQ Exchange I don’t think it was added but that was like mid may.
As seen on one of my T-Mobile phones: https://imgur.com/a/Ya7dkOL
- Trip
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The earliest data in the Open Cell ID data is from mid June, so that would be consistent.
- Trip
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9 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:
With Sprint it's based off GCI patterns that were consistent among each equipment vendor, so every region followed the same rules (for the most part). Not sure we've seen as consistent GCI rules for other carriers.
Verizon, in my experience, is pretty consistent. Not so for AT&T and T-Mobile.
- Trip
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Oh! In Gordonsville proper. Yeah, that area has no native T-Mobile service. But I believe they recently added the 312250 PLMN to the Gordonsville Shentel site, so it should work now, I would think. (I'll know for sure if they added 312250 on Friday.)
- Trip
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Today, I'm headed down to the Farmville area, and will be taking a route generally following US-522 to see which sites are 312250 (keep sites). On Friday or Saturday, I'll be headed back up a route generally following US-15, but meandering to try to cover most of the existing Shentel sites along the way.
Where in Orange County are you having your issue? I only see 7-Eleven locations in Gordonsville and Orange proper.
- Trip
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I was under the impression that TNA meant you were on T-Mobile natively, like ROAMAHOME. I had that blocked on three of my lines.
More evidence of T-Mobile's complete failure at transitioning in a clear manner is that I literally cannot figure out what their various things actually mean, and every time I think I understand it, it turns out to be wrong.
- Trip
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1 hour ago, Dkoellerwx said:
312-530 is Sprint "roaming" sites. It's native coverage, but it's not a keep site and you only connect if there's little to no T-Mobile coverage. I get this occasionally in NE and KS, I'm on a 5G phone so technically T-Mobile but still a Sprint SIM (TNA).
My wife's phone shows 312-530 frequently and it's definitely on Sprint.
- Trip
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24 minutes ago, davidtm said:
I just turned that on, and it now shows 312530
Okay, then you are probably still Sprint-native. If you were T-Mobile native, you'd be seeing 311-490 or 312-250.
- Trip
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Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)
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Just two months after the close, I already spotted some T-Mobile B41 in the Shentel region yesterday.
https://imgur.com/a/Ml2D12b
- Trip