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  1. Trip
    I'm really sorry to hear that; mine has been flawless thus far. - Trip
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    Cross-posting from T4GRU: Well, as the owner of an LG Leon LTE, I find that phone to spend most of its time on 700, which is fine if I'm looking for 700, but not fine if I'm trying to find towers with AWS and no 700. So I went ahead and ordered the $50 Amazon ad-included Blu R1 HD and a T-Mobile SIM kit. It doesn't support B12 (yet; might come in an update from what I read) which is probably a good thing for me at this point. If anyone's interested, I'll give some opinions on it once I have it. I paid for 1-day shipping so I should have it on the 13th, in time for a trip on the 14th. - Trip
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    In my experience in this area, all of the other carriers have better LTE reach than Sprint does, even on comparable bands. In some of the more rural areas here, it seems worse than it does in the city; I lose LTE completely on Sprint as soon as I lose line of sight, even though those towers may have all three bands; meanwhile, AT&T and Verizon and even T-Mobile B2 have LTE available on some band, never falling to 3G. (I'm thinking particularly of 29 south of Warrenton.) Verizon's 10x10 PCS LTE, which is only on select towers, seems to go on forever and at good strength, often preventing me from seeing AWS or 700 on towers I don't have without toggling airplane mode. It definitely seems to be a configuration or optimization issue, as I never had this problem when I visited the Shentel region. I did see 3G from time to time, but it was in the really viciously rough terrain areas, and in those areas the other carriers were no better off. - Trip
  4. Trip
    It's been running in L'enfant for a while now, and on Yellow in Virginia. No LTE in Smithsonian. I don't frequent other stations enough to know what's happening elsewhere. - Trip
  5. Trip
    That's disappointing, if true. I'm wondering why it wouldn't be something resembling SRLTE, where it's authenticated and listening to both at once while only actively connected to one. That doesn't require two modems, right? - Trip
  6. Trip
    Considering adding this phone to my collection: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F9N5QXI Particularly for catching AT&T HSPA (unactivated SIM) and possibly T-Mobile AWS/PCS LTE since my LG Leon tends to camp on 700. What does SCP do on a device with dual SIM support? Can it see both at once or is it just one at a time? - Trip
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    Saw B41 (and second carrier) in Harrisonburg on Monday. I have a question. The Shentel region is the first Sprint region (as opposed to nTelos) where I've seen B25 second carrier. For example, I saw second carrier in Luray, though the site west of town did not have it. I was under the impression that the single NV panel could handle multiple B25 carriers, but when I looked at the tower, I saw two panels, the NV panel and something else. There was no B41 present, so I assume it wasn't an 8T8R (unless it just hadn't been activated yet?). Below are pictures. Any ideas what they could be? http://imgur.com/uGSKPTt http://imgur.com/AUVLyJA The other rack is Verizon. - Trip
  8. Trip
    Interesting; I do hope sequential PCIs are coming to all markets. All other carriers have them except Sprint, in my experience. Whether the PCIs for different bands line up seems to vary: Verizon: Consistent across bands everywhere I've been. AT&T: Consistent across bands in DC market, not in other markets I've been to. T-Mobile: PCIs, like GCIs, vary wildly, including some sequential and some not, but seems sequential more often than not. Not consistent across bands in the DC market. Shentel: 169 offset, but consistent across all three bands. nTelos: Consistent across bands. US Cellular: No idea, phone doesn't record PCI. Have yet to LTE roam in a place with both B5 and B12 to get the PCI with my Sprint phone which does record PCI. - Trip
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    http://www.albemarle.org/weblink/3/doc/317036/Page1.aspx?searchid=d64b72a3-c907-4625-b34f-e4a47e816b03 - Trip
  10. Trip
    You're missing my point. Normally, my phone shows me LTE only--no 1X. However, while I was roaming, I was continually seeing both 1X and LTE. So I believe this is the way the phone determines whether or not it should be LTE roaming. - Trip
  11. Trip
    So, first off, I upgraded to the LG G5 in May which supported LTE roaming. Finally got a chance to sit in US Cellular territory recently and here's what was seen at my in-laws' house: I had been wondering how the phone would know when to LTE roam and when not to, given the presence of 3G-only areas of the Sprint network. It appears that whenever I am LTE roaming, SRLTE is enabled, which thus shows 1X and LTE at the same time. However, the moment the 1X side of things jumps to Sprint, I immediately lose LTE roaming. My guess is that this is the deciding factor on whether or not a device is allowed to LTE roam--the availability of SRLTE. Of course, this behavior made my in-laws' house very tricky, because every so often the phone would jump to a very, very weak (-105 dBm) 1X 800 from 10-15 miles away. Every time it did, I would lose LTE roaming, and all other service, until it gave up and went back to US Cellular. My parents' house, when I visit, should not have this problem, since there is no Sprint service for miles and miles. That being said, it worked very well when connected to US Cellular. Of course, EV-DO roaming STILL doesn't work, despite the fact that LTE roaming works on this device. It's very strange. - Trip.
  12. Trip
    NPRM = Notice of Proposed Rule-Making NOI = Notice of Inquiry FCC/government agency terms. - Trip
  13. Trip
    Unfortunately, you can't run a contiguous LTE carrier across PCS and 800, as that's impossible to do. So 10x10 PCS C+G and 5x5 800 is likely to be the solution in the short- to mid-term. - Trip
  14. Trip
    You've got mail. - Trip
  15. Trip
    What ironic timing! Yesterday, while I was out and about, I think I spotted the first four-sector AT&T site I've ever seen. It fit the pattern except the fourth sector was a logical continuation of the existing pattern--and was not identified accordingly. So LTE 1900 was 08/09/0A/0B, LTE 700 was 0F/10/11/12, and LTE AWS was 16/17/18/19, but the 0B, 12, and 19 sectors were not IDed. I have screenshots on my AT&T phone and will send them later. - Trip
  16. Trip
    One day, every populated neighborhood will have small cells. And then property values everywhere will be zero! - Trip
  17. Trip
    I'm pretty sure Mike is detecting based on the last two digits of the GCI. AT&T is very consistent in that way. I've seen B2 DAS before, but mostly B17. - Trip
  18. Trip
    Every time I go by there, I always hope for LTE. So far, disappointment every time. (Sad, since the Troy ShenTelos tower down 15 has LTE now.) But it really is unusable; the signal does almost nothing there, too. I'm guessing that's what the pre-NV gear was like nation wide. - Trip
  19. Trip
    Not sure if this is new, but I just noticed that Sprint's towers in Rappahannock County, Virginia are not included on the map, even though, to my knowledge, Sprint is the only carrier with coverage in large parts of that county. On top of that, no B41 is shown in the Shentel region even though we know it exists. I'm also puzzled to see that US Cellular is unavailable for LTE roaming in Halifax County, VA, even though the surrounding US Cellular counties do have it. - Trip
  20. Trip
    I'm not going to outright disagree, but this does not match my experience. My S5 never saw B25, with my phone basically putting me directly on B26 if B41 was not available, but now that I've moved to an LG G5, I now see B25 much more regularly. On the contrary, my LG Leon LTE for T-Mobile, if it happens to drop to B12, even an Airplane Mode toggle won't get it back onto B4. Sometimes a full device reboot won't get it back onto B4. The only real guaranteed way to get it back on B4 is to go to an area without B12. - Trip
  21. Trip
    That I don't know, but even if they did, it would have been 1X roaming, presumably. - Trip
  22. Trip
    Supposedly EV-DO roaming was available, but it never worked on my S5 or my wife's Moto X. I only ever got 1X; executive support was never able to track down why. My G5 supposedly supports LTE roaming; we'll find out next time I'm home. But, as noted, 100MB cap. Fi would represent a huge savings for me. I've got a 4GB plan split 3 ways right now, and have never gone over. $111 for that, not counting phone costs. Jumping to Fi would drop it to $90, and I would have no roaming cap on US Cellular. And I'm a Sprint customer because of US Cellular roaming. AT&T/Cricket has no service where I need it. - Trip
  23. Trip
    Sigh. I reupped with Sprint less than a month ago. With US Cellular included, Fi is now perfect for me. - Trip
  24. Trip
    They should really start building the 1000 permits they have now instead of waiting for more before getting started. - Trip
  25. Trip
    Is there? I thought either Sprint had it all, or it was licensed in such a way that nobody could use it. - Trip
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