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  1. Trip
    Before I download it: 1) How is it? Does it work well? Any issues I/we should know about? 2) It doesn't screw up SignalCheck Pro in any way, does it? - Trip
  2. Trip
    If those people have cell phones at all, they have no room to complain. The inverse square law says all. - Trip
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    I watched the first hour and then gave up. The irritating rudeness and general lack of knowledge of the people in the room was staggering, but also not surprising. I actually thought the Mobilitie guy and the others on the panel (particularly the government officials) were doing a good job, at least until I stopped watching. - Trip
  4. Trip
    Sprint and US Cellular both use Verizon roaming, so it may be related to that. I wonder if Verizon roaming is turned on for one carrier and not the other, which could explain why you're seeing it inconsistently. - Trip
  5. Trip
    My experience is that the sites with serious or backhaul problems are pretty obvious because the other carriers have the same problems. For example, at Mount Vernon (yes, that one) is a cell site where AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile are all lacking LTE. Verizon has just the 10x10 on 700 MHz. 3G service levels are usually attainable through copper. To get enough for LTE, one would typically need a fiber upgrade. - Trip
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    https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1213A1.pdf Appendix A: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1213A2.pdf In short: Auction starts again at 108 MHz on November 1. - Trip
  7. Trip
    Unless there are huge areas where T-Mobile has service and Verizon does not that I'm not aware of, I don't buy it. Most of the state of West Virginia (outside of the panhandle) has zero T-Mobile service, for example. Where is the area of T-Mobile service without Verizon service that counter-balances that? That's about a million by itself and doesn't include the other rural areas where Verizon has service and T-Mobile does not. - Trip
  8. Trip
    Ah, you edited your post. Well, the TV stations aren't owned by the government, like most public housing would be, so that analogy falls apart. Furthermore, I'm not sure which part of forcing the TV stations off the air is anything like "new public housing [will be built] in another spot". - Trip
  9. Trip
    And the land the houses were built on was taken from the Native Americans for free, too. Since then, market transactions have, in almost every case, included the value of the underlying land/spectrum. - Trip
  10. Trip
    "Land in cities is a limited resource and should be used in the most economically efficient manner. I believe that to be apartment buildings. Why the hell are do private apartment building developers have to pay people to vacate their single family homes when they should be able to just bulldoze them and build apartments?" Not the perfect analogy, but pretty close. Unless you're one of those people who believes eminent domain should be used to kick people out of properties to hand over to private developers, does that not strike you as unfair? Usually, private developers pay people a premium to move out of their homes in prime locations to build there because it's more valuable as apartments. How is this any different? - Trip
  11. Trip
    US Cellular doesn't support VoLTE to my knowledge and is a CDMA carrier, so it would be quite unusual. - Trip
  12. Trip
    In the initial stage, a number of markets had no competitive bidding (see any area with market variation as examples). With the addition of two more channels, most (not all) markets have now had at least some competitive bidding. - Trip
  13. Trip
    For 126 MHz, it was $86.4 billion, IIRC. - Trip
  14. Trip
    114 MHz price: $54,586,032,836 Be sure to add about $2 billion to account for the relocation fund and expenses. - Trip
  15. Trip
    This morning my G5 is asking me to do a system update. I'll give it a shot later in the day and try to see what's what. EDIT: Other than the patch level going up, I'm not sure I see any major changes off-hand. - Trip
  16. Trip
    Not sure why the headline used the word "rural" then because unless I've missed something, none of the services discussed in the article seem to actually improve rural broadband availability. Of course, that would be NYT's fault and not Sprint's, but still. - Trip
  17. Trip
    This is right. I switched from US Cellular to Sprint in 2013 and I had been getting an auto-pay discount for at least a year at that point. - Trip
  18. Trip
    Unfortunately, I don't know what areas the geographies even refer to. I just know which one I'm in from the familiar SID values. - Trip
  19. Trip
    Ho hum. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/98154/fcc-unveils-postauction-repack-plans http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0002/fcc-proposes-phased-repack/279539 http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/fcc-unveils-phased-post-spectrum-auction-repack-plan/160032 https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1095A1.doc (The PDF has rendering issues; I've already notified the right people.) - Trip
  20. Trip
    As someone who doesn't follow sportball, I'm very bored with this conversation, as well. If this is accurate, then it speaks to just how much of the population of the country lives in major cities these days. Because there are very large geographic areas without B41. - Trip
  21. Trip
    I would love your code if you're willing to share it. Right at the moment I'm just dumping the PRLs and comparing spreadsheets by hand. - Trip
  22. Trip
    Okay, minor tweaks in this one, most of which seems to be adjustments to Verizon EV-DO roaming, whether there's more of it or just a reorganization isn't entirely clear to me off-hand. Geography 3: 25510/25511 added with EV-DO. (Don't know who that is.) More Verizon EV-DO. Geography 4: More Verizon EV-DO. Geography 10: More Verizon EV-DO. Geography 11: More Verizon EV-DO. Geography 13: More Verizon EV-DO. Geography 14: Removed 10789 (On-Waves ehf?)/4177 (AT&T?)/22300 (MCP?) and associated EV-DO. Geography 18: Removed negative entries for 8091 (?) and associated EV-DO. Comparison file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4qtSrW2KKDCUVpQNDNHUW92Q1k/view?usp=sharing - Trip
  23. Trip
    I haven't had any issues. Whatever burn-in I thought I was seeing must have been temporary and has since faded. - Trip
  24. Trip
    Saw this in an article this morning that I can't repost: Claure also said Sprint plans to make larger investments in its network. “Yes, we’re going to increase” capital expenditures but “never to the tune of what’s been done in the past,” he said. “We’re in the business of getting better month after month and quarter after quarter.” That sounds very discouraging, to me at least. Unless he's just ruling out a second rip and replace. - Trip
  25. Trip
    For GSM, here's what I saw this morning: 687 688 689 709 711 712 713 714 734 735 - Trip
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