ButtaKnife

Best advice would be to try again.  Inevitably you will find someone who will just give it to you with no questions asked.  I know if you do the switch phones option in your account at Sprint.com it gives you the MSL of the phone you switched to.  So you could switch to another phone, then switch back to your N5 to be given the MSL.

 

I'm not sure if the process is any different because of the new LTE sim cards (been awhile since I did it), but it should still work. 

Indeed, it was just a matter of trying two more times until I got a nice lady who was more than eager to give me whatever I wanted, which is what Sprint really needs at this point.  *cough*  In any case, my N5 just rebooted with B41 enabled, so we'll see how that goes!

When did it become nearly impossible to request your MSL?  Two reps so far have said they can't give it to me because my line is under contract, and one just said I had to talk to tech support because it's a technical code.  If they're trying to keep the MSL so people can't unlock their phones and go to another network or some technically-incorrect reason, all they're doing is pushing me to ETF and get the f- out.  All I want to do is to enable B41.

Is there some secret handshake that I need to use?

In other threads it has been discussed that NV is being deployed from the edge of a city inward. Is a pattern used for the towers at smaller towns or along the interstate as well? Not that I'm anxious for my Western Wisconsin town to get some NV upgrades...