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  1. Trip
    It's strange how I keep hearing that AT&T's LTE rollout is "complete" but that's complete nonsense. Many rural cell sites do not yet have LTE with AT&T. In fact, the only carrier that seems to have universal LTE is Verizon. On the flip side, in this area at least, AT&T seems to be the densest of the four, followed by T-Mobile, and then Sprint/Verizon are very close to each other, but Verizon has a TON of open permits for densifying which I assume we'll see this year. Despite that, Verizon and T-Mobile are basically tied for first while AT&T is last, according to RootMetrics. I really don't know what AT&T is doing wrong around here, because their spectrum holdings are pretty comparable to the other carriers. - Trip
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    The app does have an "exit" function in its menu... - Trip
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    http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160311005110/en/Sprint%E2%80%99s-Network-1-Denver - Trip
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    I don't really know enough about how King Street Wireless is set up to be able to say, but my guess is that it's similar. - Trip
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    Don't forget that chamb is in Shentel territory. In Shentel territory, things tend to be better managed than in native Sprint territory. I have to think that Shentel will be densifying as needed, independent of the larger Sprint effort. - Trip
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    I would have registered even if I wasn't planning to bid just in case I changed my mind closer to the auction. I would think Sprint, or whatever related company they set up for the purpose, would do the same. But yes, the application window has closed. - Trip
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    That reminds me, I have also had an issue on this phone before where a PLMN is shown on the screen but attempting to set a note says there is no PLMN available. The two don't seem to be related, though, as I've been able to set notes while it is not logging otherwise (as noted above). - Trip
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    Mike, the on-screen information keeps updating, which is why it's so hard to detect. But nothing at all in the log updates, not even the timestamp for "last seen" and no new rows at all. Usually, the way I notice it (if I do at all) is when I move out of range of a sector I've never seen before of a site I have in my log for a different sector, and the neighbor cell doesn't show the note because it didn't log that sector. But that's really specific case that I don't usually encounter, and requires a lot of attention that I can't really spare while driving. - Trip
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    Mike, I only ever keep SignalCheck in the foreground on my non-Sprint phones. Nothing logged. I don't disable location service, though I could try it if that would help. - Trip
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    Mike, I've been having a logging issue with my Verizon phone (Moto E on 5.1). While I occasionally get the 1X/LTE bug, it seems to be unrelated to that. Basically, what happens, is the phone just randomly stops logging. It gives no indication that I've noticed other than that I get home from a trip to find that the log hasn't recorded anything, unless I made a note on a new site and the note has all the GPS/timestamp fields blank. The only way I've found to get it back is to disable logging, close SCP, then reopen SCP and reenable logging. Rebooting the phone, without those steps, does not bring back logging, or at least, it didn't the one time I tried it. Not sure how to reproduce the issue, unfortunately. Wish I knew. - Trip
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    I wound up not doing the nTelos research I was supposed to be doing this weekend because, instead, I was digging through a new set of Fairfax County records I discovered by accident on Friday. I found at least four different installations that appear to be small cells, one of which was filed for way back in 2005. All four are designed for AT&T it seems, but at least one of them was shared with Nextel (no clue if it's been converted for Sprint). My question is that in the filings, the four are all referred to as "DAS", but when I looked at them on Google Street View, they looked like what I've seen described with pictures as small cells. I know what a DAS is, but in my head, imagined it as something used indoors as opposed to outdoors. What is the difference between the two; is it strictly logical, is there a physical difference, or are they the same thing by two different names? (I'm also impressed with the size of the deployments. One of them has at least 27 antennas.) - Trip
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    http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160304005430/en/Sprint-Beats-T-Mobile-Network-Reliability-Chattanooga-Knoxville Not sure if this is new. I think it is. - Trip
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    I don't see why you would make a phone today that supports Band 26 and not Band 5. That doesn't even make sense. Band 5 is a subset of Band 26. - Trip
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    1xRTT in SignalCheck, as far as I know. - Trip
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    I'm ready to test a beta release whenever you are! - Trip
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    What about BYOD? - Trip
  17. Trip
    Excellent! If I was sitting, I would be on the edge of my seat. - Trip
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    Sounds great! Just to clarify for myself, it will continue making its educated guess if the EARFCN is unavailable, right? I can't root my Verizon phone it would appear, my AT&T phone doesn't seem to support the EARFCN retrieval, and I haven't opted to root my Sprint phone (though I probably will try). I wouldn't want to lose band ID on those. Or have you figured out how to make it run without root? - Trip
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    Very cool! I'm looking forward to trying it out. So would I be correct that, among the changes that will go into this, that it will trust the EARFCN for choosing the band display (e.g. "LTE 1900") as opposed to the sector ID? My T-Mobile phone and I will love you if so. And one other thing, a feature request if you will; to save space on the screen, I would love an option in the preferences to show only the DL channel and not display the UL channel. - Trip
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    It doesn't really make clear whether they mean 3G voice, 3G data, or both. Could just be 3G data. - Trip
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    Saw you edited to add this. To which I say, it is if you're trying to make a phone call. - Trip
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    That information never becomes outdated, though. A geostationary satellite is in orbit 35,800 km (roughly) above the earth. Light travels 300,000 km per second (roughly). If you do the math, considering that your request results in a need to: 1) Travel to the satellite 2) Travel from the satellite 3) Be processed 4) Return to the satellite 5) Return from the satellite (That's four satellite trips.) Each trip between a geostationary satellite and the Earth is 119 ms, giving you a latency between the time you send your request from your phone to the time the first packet is received as 477 ms, assuming 0 ms latency in step 3, between your phone and the tower, or within the satellite itself between steps 1/2 and 4/5. You can get around it by using lower-orbit satellites, though I'm not sure how much you can really use those for this sort of thing, given they will be constantly moving across the sky and in and out of reception range. - Trip
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    The speed of light hasn't changed lately as far as I'm aware. - Trip
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    I tried it outside on the ground first, and got nothing. I think it was probably oscillating due to lack of obstructions blocking the two antennas from each other. Unfortunately, the roof is very steep and is one of those older metal roofs, a combination which makes finding anyone willing to go up on it very expensive. That makes any additional height very difficult to attain. If someone goes up there, we're probably going to go as big as possible up front. I'm well aware of the difference between 75 and 50 ohms, and actually used some of my own 75-ohm coax to do the installation I left him with. - Trip
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    I just rooted my LG Leon LTE (T-Mobile) to test it and it does work. He already has airplane mode toggle, a root-only function, in the software. And for T-Mobile with its complete lack of consistency on the sector ID with respect to Band, this would be a huge help. I'm another vote in favor. Now to see if I can root the Moto E I have for Verizon... - Trip
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