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  1. Trip
    https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/cowen-sees-court-blocking-t-mobile-sprint-deal Key quote: "The court set post-trial arguments for January 15, with each side having two hours to make their closing arguments. New Street expects the court will rule sometime between mid-February and mid-March." - Trip
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    LG G8X Thin Q

    Trip replied to centermedic's topic in LG

    The G8X with the second screen definitely looks intriguing, but I feel like it'd be a gimmick that I would try out once or twice, then remove from my phone and never use again. I'm still on my G6 because there wasn't a Black Friday deal that looked sufficiently good to make me want to buy something new. - Trip
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    If the case runs 10 business days, that takes us to 12/20. Then the judge has to write a decision--during the holidays. I'd be shocked to see anything at all before January. Then, as Flompholph says, they could appeal. - Trip
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    There is no more than 18 MHz available in any given individual market in T-Band, much of which is non-contiguous and some of which is impaired. It's only reserved in a handful of markets, and in many of those, is only 6 MHz. New York: 18 MHz Los Angeles: 6+6+6 MHz Chicago: 12 MHz Philadelphia: 12 MHz Dallas: 6 MHz Houston: 6 MHz Miami: 6 MHz San Francisco: 12 MHz Washington, DC: 12 MHz Pittsburgh: 6+6 MHz Boston: 6+6 MHz I'm not really sure what Congress was hoping to be able to sell in the first place. - Trip
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    https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/5g-coverage-map - Trip
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    Just for kicks, I looked at a log copy from a few days ago. Filtering on the 311490 PLMN, I have 193 rows total. I have no rows for T-Mobile B71, but my LG G6 does not support Band 71. I have 10 rows for T-Mobile B12, eight of which were in western Maryland near Frostburg. The other two were momentary connections at the hospital near here and in New Jersey. - Trip
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    The roaming restriction is based on first-hand experience. I have roamed on T-Mobile 600 and 700 before in select locations, but in many areas, I have never connected to T-Mobile 600 or 700, even when the alternative has been no service, and sometimes even while my T-Mobile phone is connected to 600 or 700. My impression is that in places where 600 and 700 are not loaded, they allow such roaming. In the places where it's under considerable demand, either due to high number of users or low density of sites, Sprint roaming appears restricted to AWS and PCS. - Trip
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    LTE works. CDMA does not. Got it specifically for CDMA. - Trip
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    I have never had a GPS lock on my parents' Airave. I've not had a chance to call Sprint to try to diagnose it, but the antenna is actually sitting on the outside of the window glass (inside the screen) and it still doesn't work. - Trip
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    Yeah, Massive MIMO's been lighting up all over the place around here. - Trip
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    Wait, they're launching it with "5G for Good" branding to build support for the merger, but won't launch it if the merger isn't closed by then? What? Those things seem like they're at odds with each other. - Trip
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    Yeah, I thought I could get away with that, but it expired after a year. - Trip
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    The problem with this example is that the Google Maps API is also heavily limited now. I had to switch my website over to Leaflet. So even what you've written so far would probably have to be rewritten. I've written code that does what we're discussing here in other projects, but the editing ability spread across multiple users in a friendly manner is where I run into problems. I've only ever written code that has one editor--myself. - Trip
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    I've never used MapBox, but I'm probably more of a developer than you are, even if I also wouldn't call myself one. What kind of problems is it giving you? (We can take this to a PM if you want.) - Trip
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    https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1104335023634/800 MHz Monthly Report for NOV 2019.pdf Five licensees left to reband. - Trip
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    Yeah, I've seen a huge expansion of Massive MIMO. The original DC 5G area shown earlier in the year was basically from SW DC to Tysons. But I went to Baltimore over the weekend, and there's now Massive MIMO around much of the beltway, and then I spotted two Massive MIMO sites in the Baltimore market. There was also two more sites south of Woodbridge on I-95 the weekend before, one of which was in the Richmond market. - Trip
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    I wonder how this would play into the DOJ settlement. https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/apollo-pitching-att If this comes to pass, does all the Dish spectrum--and the associated new fourth wireless company--end up with AT&T? Oops? - Trip
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    Every 311-490 entry I have in my SCP log is T-Mobile roaming. - Trip
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    When was this? - Trip
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    The database is local to the device. - Trip
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    I don't usually see HSPA either, but when I do, it always bugs me that I see neighbor cell PSCs but they don't display notes. The PSC almost always appears in SCP when I'm HSPA, so clearly something is working from that perspective. But there's no field for it in the log database and it is, therefore, not being written. - Trip
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    CDMA's ability to pull usable data from below the noise floor is pretty impressive. I remember in one of my college classes, we did the math to derive it, and sure enough, the math says it should be theoretically possible to retrieve the signal from below the noise floor, and the real world bears it out. (We also retrieved messages out of an example CDMA signal by hand. Very neat stuff.) I wish I had a good example to share; Wikipedia is very opaque and I'm not finding anything else helpful with a fast search. - Trip
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    Something looks wrong with the map to me. If you look at Beacon Hill, for instance, there is 5G to the northeast and southeast of the site, but not immediately surrounding it or west of it. It almost looks like there's a smaller 4G site overlaid on top of it or something. The site at Kingstowne looks the same, as do several others I'm spot-checking. - Trip
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    To expand a bit, according to the MLS data, the highest patterned GCI currently in use is FE8B0, which would translate to FFD00 for Band 41. If they followed the pattern that Sprint is using for Massive MIMO in DC, their first Massive MIMO would be at FFA90, which is already in use. It actually seems like Shentel is going to run out of pattern-capable GCIs relatively soon. It looks like FE96A is being used for a DAS, so that implies that FE969/FFDB9 is as high as it can go unless they shift those GCIs up some more or skip ahead to unused values in between. (The Mini Macro in Farmville is at FE9F4, for any interested.) I note the MLS data also shows FE985/FE986/FE987 being used near Harrisonburg with the PCIs matching the Mount Crawford site, so it looks like Massive MIMO is up there too. - Trip
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    I drove up to it and saw the Massive MIMO panels. But although it fits the MM pattern, Shentel has filled up the GCIs that would typically be reserved for Massive MIMO and thus had to find a GCI to use elsewhere in the FExxx-FFxxx range. They also have small cells and other things in the FE9xx range, as Shentel seems to use it as their all-purpose overflow. - Trip
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