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The answer why is because it's 5MHz and band 25 is also 5MHz, its used mostly for capacity and not so much for coverage. If they operated it at full power, it would perform like 1x because of the sheer number of people that would be parked on it.

I'm about to extend the contract on one of my lines tomorrow so I'd like to see Sprint try

Well it's important that the contract is only on the equipment and not the plan. I'm on contract but of course I can change plans, so Sprint should be able to add charges to my plan. Of course if they do that I'm gonna fight with them and probably leave because they're not giving me reason to move to a modern plan.

This is probably to meet the wifi deadline. They want to have wifi live in every station by the end of 2016.

One thing about Sprint is they're not doing a good job giving me a reason to change plans. I'm on Everything Data 1500 with 4 lines all on contract, one now with a lease. And we all upgrade erratically, so right now we all will be on contract until August 2018. Why would I switch to a new plan? My rates are reasonable and I get to do contract pricing still, which my parents find easier to work with. I can't switch to a newer plan without $45 access charges, sweeten the deal for me! Waive the additional $25 per access charge and I'd consider switching to a new plan. Otherwise, with how my family upgrades, I'll be on this plan until either we die or Sprint closes up shop.

This is definitely for 5G. Verizon has claimed huge success with fixed 5G performance, wants to use it to become a WISP. Part of their master plan to become everyone's cellular provider, ISP nationwide.

Thanks for responding greenbastard, yeah I can confirm what you said. I called Sprint and they were willing to do the override and let me get the upgrade, but said that Best Buy's system wouldn't recognize the override so I wouldn't be able to upgrade through them. Gotta wait 2 weeks I guess!

Would this work if I'm trying to get a contract upgrade through Best Buy?

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Why not? They have the money to just buy more towers and more telephone poles with small cells. To them money is no issue so they can beef up in a small matter of time.

While VZ is a lot slower in a lot of places, the issue of VZ vs Sprint is and always will be coverage. Where Sprint doesn't have coverage, Verizon most likely will. That's where the premium comes in, people are willing to pay for peace of mind wherever they go. However, this is beginning to change as we've seen with T-Mobile, but their will always be people who put coverage before speed and better pricing. Eventually Verizon can address LTE with the newer standards and band 66 to improve performance, but so long as they're the king of coverage, they have a stronghold on the premium they enforce.

Not true. Given their stellar LTE coverage & growing small cell buildout, they could continue to be the most reliable. They could even argue they have the most reliable HD call network that works with other carriers.

Nothing other than the newer iPhone models, Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge and LG G5 is suggested to be capable of VoLTE. Plus a VoLTE roaming agreement most likely means an LTE data roaming agreement too, which would be a fortune for Sprint.

I think Sprint is just gonna have to settle for coverage like T-Mobile at that point and just focus on proving network quality in places that actually matter (everywhere that isn't in the woods)

Verizon to shut down CDMA 1x network in 2019 http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-shut-down-2g-cdma-1x-network-end-2019/2016-07-13 damn that means they're pushing voice 100% to VoLTE, that's wild

AT&T wants to put cellular network equipment on drones, flying COWs (cell on wings) http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/13/12171974/att-cell-drones-flying-cows?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Is it possible your phone is locked to VZ because it's being financed?

I think it's very, very clear that Sprint nor SoftBank are going to be purchasing any spectrum in this auction. Sprint has made it clear multiple times, the cost of the spectrum and it's ROI makes it a ridiculous purchase. SoftBank definitely isn't gonna bother, they have to get their stock price back up. Buying spectrum that won't be useful for years won't help them, that will only help Sprint and Sprint is a small part of SoftBank's overall business. I think we all need to stop speculating Sprint having a mystery company in this auction. We all know who has the money here and who really wants this spectrum. Also, the FCC isn't gonna make $86B. VZ and AT&T made it clear that this spectrum isn't worth tens of billions of dollars to them at the start.

http://www.droid-life.com/2016/06/29/verizon-may-introduce-carryover-data-free-roaming-throttled-unlimited-data-week/ Apparently everything Sprint and T-Mobile has done has got into Big Red's head. Ridiculous that unlimited 2G data would be an extra $5 charge however.

Won't happen for YEARS my friend, don't hold your breath

You're 100% right about that AJ but that 5x5 block allows for the same if not greater amount of traffic as well as greater overall throughput. I was focusing more so on real world issues for users, such as voice quality issues when switching sectors/sites for GSM.

CDMA can have voice outages too. That's not limited to VoLTE. VoLTE only has reliability issues due to the breadth of coverage. VoLTE is far superior in every aspect and Sprint should be pushing densification to make it happen next year.

Over GSM, yes. But not over UMTS. UMTS uses WCDMA, so

I'm sorry but that's just not doable. Even if you make a high enough pole, no equipment is the same - weight differences could cause a pole to lean. And if in a case where a castrophe happens and the pole falls, all 4 carriers suffer damages and all the additional equipment can further damage whatever it lands on. Lastly, this argument of aesthetics. I rather see 4 utility poles than one utility pole that looks like a macro cell because it's covered in RRUs and antennas and fiber and microwave receivers.

I just caught up on all these forum pages... "Why does Sprint need a ugly tall 70 foot poll?? Doesn't that eliminate the point of small cells!!!" ... Have ALL of you forgotten that it's LTE UE Relay, that MOST sites will be receiving backhaul via band 41??? The height gives it the advantage of having a LoS signal so that we all get service. Sprint can't afford to run fiber to every small cell, so they're using UE Relay because it's more economical and faster to get up and running. Also, who gives a hoot about the height! No one in their right mind is starring at the sky, we have cars to drive and phones to stare at.