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    SignalCheck Beta Crew Forum

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Mike,

    I've been having an issue where sometimes, when connected to Clear B41, I just get "LTE" without the band indicator.  I've tried to send diagnostics, but I keep getting the Temporary Redirect message.  And the Send Saved Reports button doesn't seem to work at all. 

    Not sure how else to get it to you.

    - Trip

    Wild speculation about Dish

    in General Topics

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    10 hours ago, WiWavelength said:

    Dish has no low band spectrum.  And before anyone says Lower 700 MHz E block or band 29, that is not low band.

    AJ

    If 700 isn't low-band, then other than 600 (which they also hold), what is?  FM?  Shortwave?  Except for 600, there's nothing lower than 700 even licensed to cell companies.

    The problem with the E-block isn't that it's not low-band, but that it has no matching uplink spectrum.

    - Trip

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    FCC Revokes Net Neutrality [WAS: FCC Approves Net Neutrality]

    in General Topics

    Posted

    1 hour ago, utiz4321 said:

    That sounds like you chose to live in an area with limited access to broadband. Fortunately the majority of Americans did not inflict that probelm on themselves.

    Ah yes, the "I got mine, screw you" argument.  When your house in the country is worth $50,000, how do you afford to move into the city, exactly?  And if everyone were to move to the city, the value would plummet to approximately $0.

    Besides, everyone should move into the cities!  Who needs food, lumber, or minerals anyway?

    - Trip

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    FCC Revokes Net Neutrality [WAS: FCC Approves Net Neutrality]

    in General Topics

    Posted

    8 hours ago, utiz4321 said:

    You are missing the point. They are a symbiotic industry. One cant exist with out the other. ISPs have no inceitive to destroy innovation on the internet. Small companies wont be effected until they become large consumers of bandwidth, I.e. large content providers. The innovation of the internet is good for the ISP s. 


    What?  They have every incentive.  If they can make video streaming from providers other than themselves so expensive that nobody uses it, that benefits them.  Innovation on the Internet threatens their profits.  And since in most places, there is no competition in the home Internet access space from anyone except another provider with its own video service (think Verizon FiOS TV versus Comcast), the market won't be able to correct this behavior.  Even if you count wireless, AT&T and Verizon now own their own streaming services and would benefit from pushing you to those as well. 

    - Trip

    (This comment is my own and does not necessarily reflect the view of my employer, the FCC.)

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Posted

    When on US Cellular roaming, my G5 was always on SRLTE.  I think that's how it determined whether to roam on LTE or not; if it had 1X on US Cellular, then LTE roaming was permitted.  The moment it picked up Sprint CDMA though, it dropped US Cellular LTE. 

    Actually, as far as I can tell, US Cellular is SRLTE across the board.  My US Cellular phone, and my father-in-law's, both always have SRLTE running.

    - Trip

    LG G6 to be Sprint's first HPUE-capable device

    in LG

    Posted

    I'm really liking this phone so far.  Normally I'd be unhappy about the non-removable battery, but considering the $120 price at Best Buy, I can just replace the whole phone instead when the time comes.  (And I never replaced the battery in my G5 despite spending much more on it.)

    One question though.  Ever since I got SCP installed, it's been in SRLTE.  My G5 would only do SRLTE in very weak signal areas, but it seems like the G6 has been in constant SRLTE.  Does this match the experience of others?  (I'm not complaining, just curious.)  I'm also seeing B41 more frequently at home than I used to.  I'll have to see how it is out and about at some point.  I'm assuming that's HPUE allowing it to maintain a B41 connection lower before the lack of uplink forces it to Band 25 or 26.

    - Trip

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Posted

    18 hours ago, sleet said:

    The deal is live at best buy right now if you go in person.

     

    If you're considering it I'd try to get into a Best Buy today and see if you can get it before they're out of stock. The store said I could order but based on things people in the slickdeals.net thread are saying the online ordering could be hit or miss.

    -J

    Just to follow up, I had no problem getting it at the store yesterday.  I was pleasantly surprised with how easily the process went, though it did take a while.

    - Trip

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    1 hour ago, RedSpark said:

    It says "Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals from Sprint" at the top of the Promotions Page: https://www.sprint.com/landings/promotions/index.html

    I think those offers are what they're running with this year.

    Thanks.  That's too bad.

    On a related note, despite having paid full price for my phone back in 2016 and Sprint's website telling me I'm upgrade eligible, Sprint "declined [my] upgrade" when I tried to check my eligibility for the LG G6 deal on the Best Buy website.  Tried to ask Sprint's chat, who blamed Best Buy.

    I guess I'll have to go to Best Buy in person and see what they say.

    - Trip

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    4 hours ago, WiWavelength said:

    Someone at The Motley Fool is trying to make a point by comparing T-Mobile theoretical peak speeds to Sprint empirical average speeds.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-mobile-apos-latest-announcement-170700579.html

    This just further goes to show that questionably qualified investment advisors should refrain from proffering obviously incompetent technical analysis.

    AJ

    You beat me to it.  I saw that article and came here to say the same thing.  For the non-initiated, my analogy was going to be:

    "Newest Ferraris have been shown to do up to 200MPH on a racetrack. But average speeds of the latest Honda cars in the real world are only 40MPH!  Honda is doomed!"

    - Trip

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I'm trying to puzzle something out about the Extended LTE thing Sprint is doing with US Cellular these days.  Maybe someone here has a better idea.

    My mom wants a smart phone for Christmas.  My parents, many of you may recall, live in US Cellular territory, which is the primary reason I am a Sprint customer, since service in that area is important.  Both are retired.  Now that Sprint has this Extended LTE thing going, I'm trying to figure out if I could put my mom on my Sprint unlimited family plan or if that would be a problem.  It's similar to the problem that I have going there; everything is theoretically fine if she's out and about in Farmville/Appomattox/Lynchburg/South Boston where Shentel or Sprint would have native service, and at home, the wifi works more often than not these days (it's improved in the past year).  The real issue will be those times when the home Internet is out, or if she is in the county (library, post office, traveling to and from aforementioned cities, etc.) where service would be coming from US Cellular. 

    Does anyone have a sense of whether or not that would cause a problem?  I can't find a policy for Sprint indicating what limits, if any, there are on the Extended LTE.  Thanks.

    - Trip

    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Interesting note, when I left to visit my parents in US Cellular roaming territory on Thursday, my US Cellular phone was roaming on Sprint and Shentel LTE.  On the way home yesterday, it instead roamed on T-Mobile LTE, and still is, but is also doing SRLTE with Sprint 1X.  I tried to disable the T-Mobile bands and force it onto Band 25 and it would not connect.

    Very odd, especially considering that I still haven't seen my T-Mobile phone roam onto US Cellular.

    - Trip

    Coverage Map Update 10/15/17

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    I went by a 3G-only site over the weekend that has a permit filed.  Still 3G.  (Checked this morning and the permit isn't granted yet for some reason.)  Got my fingers crossed; it's one of the very last ones in the area.

    I'm incredibly pleased about US Cellular no longer counting as roaming, assuming that's true.  That makes me significantly less likely to want to jump to T-Mobile if they ever get US Cellular roaming working.

    - Trip

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