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    Its fully optimized, coverage is phenomenal, the network isn't afraid to park you on B26 if need be and the pings were consistently under 40 Ms as low as 18. No random dropoffs to 3G. On I70 I drove for about 60 miles without ever dropping back to 3G, and after that continued on further with uninterrupted LTE until I hit the end of native coverage. It was the best network experience I've ever had on any network. T-Mobile was no slouch either, but it fell to Edge very soon outside of the city.
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    KC's network blew Chicago out of the water when I visited back in May. Watching the network perform after optimization was just absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to see how it is here when we're fully optimized.
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    I wonder what kind of impact this will have in the long run, considering how long they've spent re-building their reputation and people just now starting to catch on I'm betting they have awhile to ride on that. I seriously wonder what they expect to happen and plan to do from this move though... I have an uncle that works for one of the companies that does cell tower upgrades and he did say those RRU's are putting a huge strain on the racks.
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    I took a day trip out to Bass Lake in Knox, IN (great place to test sprints rural Indiana coverage). Taking 231 to S.R. 8 to route 35 and south to Knox band 26 was available everywhere. Had LTE much of the time except in fringe areas where it was just weak EVDO and 1x. When I got to the cottage at Bass Lake it was the usual mix between 1 bar of 1x and EVDO (-103dbs or so) AND the occasional -119 db connection to band 26 LTE (it was useless though) Took route 30 home, didn't get to check how consistent the LTE coverage was as I was on the phone the entire hour drive home, but I'm guessing I would have held onto it most of the time. I never dropped below 3 bars while in the call, and the person on the other end said I never cut out at all.
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    Another update: speeds picked up alot during the show as expected. One issue I had was that my phone was still favoring B25 while idle and when open apps it wouldn't switch over to B26 so to get it to go I had to open a web page in the browser. They still need to optimize this as I feel I should've been parked on B26 the entire time. My mothers iP5 was kicked to EVDO/1x most of the time except during the show. TMO eventually crashed completely on HSPA and LTE for a moment but not for long.
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    Sitting in Munster, IN waiting for fireworks at Centennial Park and this year Sprint is doing fantastic on my 5S because of band 26! Band 25 is just about dead, my mothers iP5 has been forced down to 3G and EVDO has been gone for almost an hour at least. Band 26 is getting about 3 Mbps right now. T-Mobile HSPA and LTE are just about done for but still working slowly. No idea about the big two. Last year band 25 crashed pretty early on at this thing.
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    I would say I've had this issue in Chicago. I have gotten many random drops to 3G from B25 where it should've went to B26 instead. No problem at home cuz we don't have the second PCS carrier enabled here yet.
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    A picture of the water tower site? I may be able to do that during rush hour when traffic jams up on 41 past the bridge, then i get a great view of it. The new panels look like the pictures I've seen on here of 8t8r and I didn't think it could be another carrier as everyone already has their places in this area.
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    I did speed tests in the city all around where I usually am on the south side and south loop and found that since I was last here in April speeds have pretty much doubled for me. Where I was seeing 3 Mbps I'm seeing about 6 or so now. The second carrier appears to be helping, band 26 was nowhere to be found for awhile today in the city though, then it finally appeared later on towards the evening. EVDO is even working better now, I've noticed this where B26 is live. In Highland, IN, one of the water towers where Sprint is located I noticed a second set of panels up there now, shorter then the original ones up there, is this 8t8r?
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    While waiting in traffic on 35th street in front of Sox park on a game day I picked up the second carrier and got 3.5/1.2 Mbps, and then my phone switched over to the G block carrier and I got the same speeds again. Looks like the second carrier is doing it's job! Without it LTE would've crashed I'm sure. T-Mobile LTE appears to be loaded up around here as well as I've only been able to pull down 3-8 Mbps and 3-10 up. This was heading northbound on the Dan Ryan and getting of at 35th st toward Halsted. (I'd upload pictures but uploads seem to be blocked)
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    Your talking about panels right? Around here the sites I've seen only use two panels per sector. When they were upgrading the site down the street from me they were up there, IDK if they were changing a panel too or just adding a RRH but it didn't appear to be a new panel to me. When they come back to do the water tower I'll know more as I pay far more attention to that site.
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    It really depends on where you are geographically. In Southwest CO particularly Durango, where I stayed for a month I had my N5 on att and the voice quality way outdid my 5S on Sprint, which sounded robotic and garbled a lot. When I traveled down to TX Sprint sounded MUCH better and att sounded the same, they became about equal. Now I'm back home and Sprint, TMO, and att sound about equally as good. A year ago I would've said att sounded awful as they still hadn't enabled AMR-FR here yet. If you know someone with an att Galaxy device you can verify what your using easily. *#0011# I believe.
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    Hmmm maybe Sprint is particularly good in NWI/South Chicago area with voice reliability. My mother talks on the phone a lot and I have her trained to report when something goes wrong and I haven't heard a peep in awhile. I have driven up from about Remington, IN to Griffith and held the same call the entire time before. I notice mainly just the latest phones on AT&T are sounding good, older iPhones etc still sound like crap like back when I had an iPhone 4 on them. Same thing with Verizon. Sprint is sounding better to me since I got the 5S with HD voice.
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    I'm test driving TMO on my N5 this month and it's true, but I'm noticing that they have northern lake county in NWI filled out better with LTE on AWS then Sprint does with it's newly deployed B26 that hasn't been optimized yet. I can drive around just about everywhere and not lose LTE while so far I still fallback to 3G a lot on Sprint. They've got one site that's not been upgraded to LTE yet (and of course it's the one by my house), but I still often pick up AWS from 1.5-2 miles away through trees and houses. And I got 35 Mbps from that distant LTE signal while sitting on my front porch. It should've. I can't remember the last time I've dropped a call! Or not been able to make a call. (Except Saturday when the damn site by my house went out all day hahaha) I'm very very happy with Sprints voice service in Chicagoland.
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    AT&T is using AMR 12.2 just about everywhere now. CO, NM and TX I experienced it and Chicagoland has it active now too.
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    My iPhone 5, 5S, and my GS3 all had data roaming off by default and voice roaming on by default. So I don't think that's anything new?
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    I still had EVDO roaming on NexTech after I crossed into Colorado on I70 back in May. It didn't fade until I got off I70 and onto route 24 to Colorado Springs that it went from that, to weak 1x800. There was about 30 miles after I lost Sprint in central Kansas that I was roaming on Verizon before I picked up NexTech though.
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    Yes that is the point I was trying to make. Even without full HD compatibility call quality has improved a lot just by using the HD codecs anyway during non HD to HD calls. Now we have at worst case is landline quality calls (assuming the other end is an HD capable phone on another carrier or an actual landline.)
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    Band 26 seems to be live everywhere here, I've picked it up in many not so strong band 25 areas! Now the next thing is for them to optimize it as I'm not picking it up more then a mile away from any one cell site.
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    Posted in Premier, posting here too. Service is out completely by my house, and apparently around Chesterton, IN has no service too. So apparently an outage for Northwest Indiana? T-Mobile is out by my house too, but working everywhere else. Update: of all the departments I spoke to retentions was the first one to be able to confirm there was a "voice outage" and expect restoration around 1 PM tomorrow. I got a service credit out of them too.
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    I know it's technically not possible at this time but I had a very good sounding call to a T-Mobile phone that is HD voice capable from my 5S, it didn't sound like HD but it was still far clearer then normal, as though both airlinks were running in HD and then crossing to the other network in G.711. It for surely sounded better then a landline, sounded like G.711 over IP phones instead.
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    So I took my N5 in a basement where it should have had plenty of signal and it kept dropping to no service and sitting at -113 db on HSPA while a GS3 on the same network hovered around -109 and never dropped service. Are the claims of this thing being an RF beast only valid on Sprint? Cuz I've never had a phone that would drop service so easily. Overall I'm seeing a 4 db difference between my N5 and a GS3, on LTE and HSPA.
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    Hah and even in "Chiraq" your as safe as anywhere in most neighborhoods and suburbs... Anyone can paint a bad picture about anywhere/anything... (And most of its gang related which we don't really count but the media does) I was in Mexico 5 years ago at the height of all those kidnapping scares and I was nowhere near any of that action that people paint such an awful picture with. Also to keep it on topic, when we were there as a whole family my mother did have to make a phone call from Mexico once, it cost 75 cents. att's roaming per minute charge for Mexico was 75 cents at the time. I didn't remember to bring my phone with on that trip... (And I never missed it) I couldn't imagine doing that now.
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    I understand, by network default you mean. It surely is possible based on load conditions though, to camp out for long periods of time on B26.
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    Yeah I was going to say that, but it was already caught. Only their postpaid plans include the international roaming. I specifically put my dad on a postpaid instead of prepaid plan for this reason.
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