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  1. Trip
    SignalCheck attempts to look up the address for the coordinates provided by the tower. If it winds up in the middle of a field nowhere near a highway or something, it will just give the nearest location it can find. If you were to export your log, I believe it would show the transmitted coordinates. Additionally, there's no guarantee that it's broadcasting the tower location. Many of the towers transmit the coordinates of a point in the coverage area of the sector. If you circle the tower and catch all three sectors, you can find the triangle the three coverage points make and the tower would be in the center. - Trip
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    I was with you right up until this sentence. What does the FCC have to do with Sprint's build-out? Sprint's decision to build or not build new sites has nothing to do with the FCC. - Trip
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    10 MHz of B-block, if I read the database correctly. EDIT: You beat me to it! - Trip
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    I didn't get to buy anything yesterday because my parents' Internet connection went out and was out all day. It's running again this morning without explanation since we were told the wireless radio in the attic was toasted. - Trip
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    The GCI. No, I didn't have invalid records and was never prompted. My LTE is stuck at 310120, whereas I think you said that fix was for cases where it would stick on 311870. Sent my export your way. - Trip
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    Mike, Not sure if it's on your to-do list for the next release, but how about an option or ability to permanently remove those null records from my database? I have something like 2,000 of them in my database and I'd rather not have them at all. Looking forward to your new release whenever it lands! - Trip
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    Understood! I am glad you've found a possible avenue. Let me know if you need some help testing it, or the solid black background, or the below fix for the provider, or... Excellent! So I'm guessing you don't need me to send another one? I'll send one anyway just in case my S5 looks different, but it won't be until tomorrow. Related topic, I think Sprint turned down the power on the local B41 Clear facility when they lit up B41 on a tower down the road. My phone used to park on B41 Clear when I was at home, but today all I've seen is B25 from the same location. I actually haven't locked onto the B41 Clear tower here at all today; I checked my log from the trip home from work and while I usually see it on the Metro and then again walking down the hill from the Metro station, it didn't use that tower at all today. I still park on B41 Clear at work, so I can send you diagnostic data from that one still. - Trip
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    Right now it's a hair under $30 billion. - Trip
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    I tried another app that also sees 311-870 now, the name is slipping my mind at the moment. I sent you a diagnostic report right after my previous post; if you didn't get it, let me know and I will send you another. With regard to the other things, I certainly understand. I'm a person who values accuracy as well. I just wish there was some way to relate things together; to perhaps be able to manually say "TAC X overlaps with TAC Y so it's a safe assumption to use the site notes from either TAC". I suspect any such feature would be too complicated for the general public, though. I am greatly enjoying the neighbor cells feature now that I have it though! - Trip
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    Sorry for the double post... I just walked to the other end of the building where the Clear site my phone parks on in my office goes behind a building and an 8T8R site comes in. Because the TAC is different due to Clear versus 8T8R, no note shows in the neighbor cells going either way. I'm going to concur with whoever it was that asked for that to be a switchable feature. Does the neighbor site API give any information besides PCI, like who the provider is? One other thing, I just tried G-NetTrack Pro (trial) and it correctly showed the Clear site as 311870, while SignalCheck is still showing 310120. I'm guessing it's using a different method of grabbing it? - Trip
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    Confirmed! I now get PCI and neighbor cells, neither of which I had before the update. - Trip
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    I don't see the Nexus 5 on the website, so I can't do that math right now. But I did the math on my fiancee's Moto X which had been released a full year earlier and that also came out cheaper on the contract. You bolded and underlined the key word. You have much more faith in the market than I do. I'm not mad at them or anything like that. What I'm saying is the way the pricing is currently structured, as best I can tell, Sprint is asking people to take an increased price to use Easy Pay and I'm not entirely sure what the benefit is to Easy Pay for the customer. - Trip
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    I must be missing something here. The math was very clear to me. My fiancee's sister signed up for the Sprint unlimited plan in August, and the two options were basically the same, except for price: Unlimited My Way with subsidized phone: $80/mo plus $100 up front for the phone (after $100 rebate). New Unlimited plan with Easy Pay phone: $60/mo plus $27/mo for the phone with $0 up front for the phone. It's $7 more per month for the new plan, which means that over the 2-year life of the contract, you pay $2020 for the subsidized plan (when you add the $100 in) and $2088 for the new plan. Sure, the bill drops to $60/mo after the two years, but by then, it's time for a new phone anyway, and you're back on the higher rate. My fiancee and I are on one of the new Family Plans together as of August and I did similar math and also wound up on the subsidized plan and not Easy Pay because it came out to be less. I must be missing how Easy Pay is cheaper and better for me than the subsidy. - Trip
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    I work in DC and live in Alexandria and I've been very happy with Sprint since switching in August. I have B41 LTE at home and at work. The above ground parts of my commute via Metro are all LTE, about half of which is B41. Can't speak to dropped calls because I don't spend long periods of time on the phone except at home where I've been happily using Wifi Calling. - Trip
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    I would like to see Shentel expand in the direction of taking over some of the more rural Sprint areas where they have landline cable already. Think South Hill, Farmville, Clarksville, Crewe, etc. Sprint has very few towers in those areas, they could sell cheap to Shentel which would be virtually invisible to customers, and then give Verizon and US Cellular a run for their money. Buying nTelos would be icing on the cake. - Trip
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    Sent you one. - Trip
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    Darn. Just to be sure, here's a snapshot showing that it's a Clear site as far as I know. If I'm wrong, please let me know. - Trip
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    Should be in your inbox. I connect to one all day at work. And at home, too. I'm available to test in either location. - Trip
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    I know that much; I thought it was obvious. I was referring specifically to the base station equipment. Is the hardware in general deployment software upgradable or configurable such that it could be shifted by a few MHz one way or the other? Probably not very noticeable. Part of the problem is going to be that the antennas in the phones are going to start being electrically short in the smaller devices so you lose the benefit to some degree. I suspect it won't appear too terribly different from 800. - Trip
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    FTC, not FCC. - Trip
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    This map, or a previous official map? http://maps.eng.t-mobile.com/ - Trip
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    My question would be "how hard is it to actually retune the gear?" I'm assuming the 850 MHz gear will need to be replaced when 2G/3G is sunset in that band anyway, but is most of the 700 MHz gear the type that could theoretically get a software update and then be easily shifted by a few MHz? And I'm wondering if with some creative shifting in 700 MHz, you couldn't squeeze a 5x5 out of it. Recall that Verizon is sitting on 11 MHz wide channels as well, and there's D and E block each on 6 MHz. That means you've got a total of 10 MHz sitting there with nothing going on, just scattered throughout 700 MHz. - Trip
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    I never go through Pentagon City or Crystal City, at least not above ground, but I have solid B41 (and B25) on the Metro starting when I exit the tunnel at DCA all the way until I get to about Potomac Yard when it cuts over to towers further south. There are definitely a number of towers in this area that have not been upgraded, even from 3G, but there is Spark service in the area from a number of towers. I'm on it at home and at Beacon Hill, at work in DC, on the Yellow Line bridge across the Potomac, and near DCA on the Metro. The only places I'm not on LTE at all are at Rose Hill Shopping Center and in the Metro tunnels where I'm on 3G, and the only places I'm not on Spark are near King Street and Braddock Road Metro stations, which do have B25/B26 LTE. (The Braddock Road B26 holds on all the way through the tunnel north of Braddock Road, even.) - Trip
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    My problem is that all my local B41 installations are on Clearwire gear which have a different PLMN that is not reported correctly to the app, so you guys are probably on 8T8Rs or just getting lucky and one of the other ID methods just happens to flag it for you. - Trip
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    I can't believe Samsung screws up something so simple on its phones. I've got no PCI, no neighbors, and no B41 identification. But I'm very glad to have the update if only for the "strongest signal" fields in the log--that's a huge deal! I also see the "coming soon" option for a continuous log; also a huge deal. I can't wait for the next one now! Does anyone know if the Verizon 4.4.4 update fixed it for those customers? Trying to figure out if I should be looking forward to 4.4.4 as a fix or not. Otherwise, maybe 5.0 will help... And one other thing, is it possible that the next version could clean out all the null entries from the database if that bug really is fixed now? - Trip
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