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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    11 hours ago, greenbastard said:

    My service is back up and running as of 10:16 PM Central. VoLTE is up and SMS all poured in at the same time. 

    According to Cloudfare's CEO, the issue started when T-Mobile was doing network configurations.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1272678168638500864

    Given how long and widespread the outage was, perhaps the configuration change propagated throughout the network which required a major rollback.

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

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    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/softbank-to-sell-up-to-two-thirds-of-t-mobile-stake.html

    Hopefully they have to sell the rest one day. What an embarrassment.

    Frankly, I'm glad that SoftBank will have less of a stake/interest in New T-Mobile. It's clear that Son had no idea what he was doing with Sprint and he'd probably bring that incompetence to the New T-Mobile as well.

    Seriously, what does Son bring to the table? Nothing... absolutely nothing at this point.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    34 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

    I will keep repeating myself, I hope they prioritize the integration of the LTE network over the deployment of 5G. There are not a lot of S20 customers right now and probably close to 120M of LTE customers. Give your current customers a reason to stay by optimizing access to both networks for customers.

    True. However, the number of 5G customers is going to ramp up substantially once the iPhone 5G is released this fall so they need to be ready for that when it drops.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    5 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

    Sprint had the most spectrum too. Look how that turned out. Its about if you can execute on a wide scale. Right now Neville is talking to much and not working enough.

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    T-Mobile has the ability to devote substantial capex to a buildout. Sprint never could get ahead of its debt load to do that, and it certainly didn't get any help from SoftBank to do that either.

    Also, T-Mobile can take advantage of greater economies of scale for its build out than either Sprint or it could do alone.

    Also, T-Mobile had to have an orderly shutdown of Sprint's nine 5G markets (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.). Now that that has seemingly occurred, I would expect T-Mobile's 2.5 GHz rollout to kick into gear in these major markets.

    Finally, we are (were) in the midst of a COVID-19 shutdown/delay of many regulatory processes. Hopefully T-Mobile was able to work through this as best it could. Hopefully things reopen soon and T-Mobile can fully execute on its network plans.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    Sprint has updated its VoLTE Page as a result of the merger: https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/services/volte.html

    Support for additional devices has been listed.

    A couple of things I noticed:

    “By enabling VoLTE, you will get access to expanded coverage on the T-Mobile network with capable devices.”

    and this change to Wi-Fi Calling:

    Wi-Fi Calls will transfer to VoLTE when Wi-Fi coverage becomes poor and VoLTE is available. For this automated transfer to take place, VoLTE must be turned “ON”.

    Starting in April 2020, Sprint is updating most VoLTE-capable devices to prefer Cellular networks over Wi-Fi Networks. This means that if your device has Wi-Fi Calling enabled, it will only be used if the cellular coverage in your area is poor. If you are on an active call using VoLTE and the coverage does decline, the call will attempt to transfer from VoLTE to Wi-Fi when the device is connected to a strong Wi-Fi signal.

     

     

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    23 minutes ago, clbowens said:

    According to this article, that also used B46 to achieve that high speed (along with N41 and B66).

     

    https://www.lightreading.com/5g/t-mobiles-5g-reaches-1gbit-s-and-thats-just-the-beginning/d/d-id/759803?

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    Thus, the operator's 1Gbit/s 5G connection didn't even make use of T-Mobile's lowband or highband, mmWave spectrum holdings. Moreover, T-Mobile officials have said the operator is initially deploying only 60MHz of the roughly 150MHz it now owns in the 2.5GHz spectrum band. The inclusion of transmissions in those additional bands would undoubtedly increase users' download speeds.

    Holy cow. T-Mobile is a force to be reckoned with.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

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    Here's what Verizon's been up to for 5G: 

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    The company will use 100MHz of millimeter-wave 5G spectrum for uploads, Hemmer confirmed. Currently, the company generally uses no more than 20MHz of LTE for uploads.

    Some T-Mobile 5G devices use a combination of 4G and 5G for uploads, but as T-Mobile is using relatively narrow channels in its long-range low-band 5G network, I've seen speeds more like 33Mbps up in my tests with the OnePlus 8 Pro.

     

    Of course, that only benefits people who can access mmWave... which has an 800 foot radius off of the cell site and poor building penetration.

    In fact:

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    Another announcement today aims to deal with that. Verizon said it is partnering with Movandi, Pivotal Commware, and Wistron to provide mmWave extenders that can improve signal strength and range.

    Verizon is having to go with the "Magic Box" approach for mmWave here. How about that...

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