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I think AJ is saying after a certain point (I want to say all 2014 Sprint LTE phones and beyond) all contained FCC testing of 10 MHz bandwidths.  It wasn't a matter of the chipsets not capable of supporting 10 MHz bandwidths. 

 

However those older 2012 and 2013 Sprint LTE phones (especially Samsung phones) will never get 10 MHz BW support.  Sprint is not going to pay money to recertify those older 2012/2013 LTE phones to support 10 MHz bandwidths.

 

Either way hopefully those 2012/2013 LTE phones are phasing out so now anyone who upgrades will have a Spark enabled phone that supports 10 MHz bandwidths.

No.

Sprint / Phone Manufacturers filed C2PCs for every single LTE device dating back to the Galaxy Nexus to enable wider LTE channel bandwidths. 

Tim, got a question for you. I understand the concept of having a relay but if the relay doesn't have a very strong signal to the donor site, would it still have sufficient speeds?

 

By the way, great article.

That is one of the ? With relay setups. Speeds will vary depending on signal quality and the load on the donor lte signal.

But in almost all cases really, relays aren't meant for speed. They're meant for coverage. Areas wheree b41 are OK to half decent outdoors but get zero b41 and congested 25/26 indoors.

The thing to remember is relay sites are not considered their own unique cell sites. They broadcast the same exact lte carrier information as the donor site giving the relay site the bandwidth.

If massive data speed increase is required then traditional backhaul and configuration of the eNB as a unique site with its own identifiable information is needed instead of a relay.

Not any

 

Not anymore 

Stand corrected.

They throttle after 400 MBs. Still off network roaming and counts against high speed data caps. 

It's interesting that Us Cellular treats Sprints network as native for roaming but not the other way around for Sprint customers on USCC. If I could get native USCC roaming I could do Sprint.

USCC allots its subscribers 400 MB of data for all roaming purposes be it on partner networks 1x / EVDO or now on LTE.

They do not have ''like native'' roaming treatment like Sprint has on specific partner networks. 

Great work. I was curious why the carrier aggregation bands were listed both as, for example, 4+2 and 2+4. Is one primary or uplink?

Primary Component Carrier (PCC) and Secondary Component Carrier (SCC).

So the new Nexus is coming to Verizon as well eh?

Very Likely.

Band 13 and CDMA BC 0 1 support is there and they've accepted the 2014 Nexus 6 and they haven't openly spited Google recently. 

Edit: 

ALSO NON REMOVABLE BATTERY.

What about band 29?

Downlink aggregated band... Meh.. .. edits

I don't see ATT bands..? they're listed in the CA section but not in the supported airlink technologies?

Woopsies. Corrected! 

Is that what T-Mobile and AT&T have done with their LTE networks to enable carrier aggregation? I was hoping all that "everything can be done with software upgrades" of Network Vision would enable easier upgrades for this sort of thing.

Band 2 + Band# CA is part of Rel 9 / 10.

If there doing this then I wouldn't be at all surprised if we say more CDMA carriers being refarmed to LTE, with future devices supporting Band 25 carrier aggregation the same way T-Mobile does with band 4 carrier aggregation. 

Band 25 carrier aggregation is not coming anytime soon. Sprint will have to rip out the entire PCS infrastructure (LTE Rel 8/9) and put in LTE Rel 11/12 equipment. 

Will the Galaxy S5 get CA capability?

No. 

I wonder what hot spot they are referring to, the live pro ?

 

Also, is there any particular forum thread/discussion that relates to this article?

Here?

Victory!

No uplink CA.

No provider in the US has any uplink CA devices available . All CA done right now treats the SCC as downlink only. 

Uplink CA for Sprint will not come until 3xCA devices that will appear either late this fall ala GNE vs GN4 and will likely be enabled alongside 3xCA downlink in a 2xCA MU-MIMO uplink CA configuration which is sometime well into 2016.  

Sprint did not cripple anything.

It was Samsungs decision to stay with an older Qualcaumn modem setup that was Cat 4 which only supported 20 mhz max of total aggregated spectrum. 

See:

(Typo on it which says Cat 3- All the other Note 4s are Cat 4 in their FCC filings)

Galaxy Note Edge was able to use the Cat 6 modem setup which enabled it to utilize up to 40 mhz of aggregated LTE spectrum. 

See: 

It was more of an issue with supply and demand with Note Edges being low demand experimental and the Cat 6 UE modem setups being high demand low supply. 

 

 

AJ

Ask him?

No. 

Can we get a quick list of the devices that we can enable CA on?

Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Note Edge, LG G 4, LG G Flex 2, and HTC One M9.

What exactly is needed for CA of B41? As far as new phones coming out, what should we be looking for? Cat 4? What?

CAT 6 UE minimum.

Also saw this on G plus, at first I was doubtful because of the simple fact that CA would have been disabled on the G4, but maybe this isn't as far fetched as it first seemed...

 

Taken in Portland, OR

Nope. Upload is way too high. 

To further explain what the PCC (primary component carrier) and SCC (secondary component carrier) is here is a basic summary of it:

Each aggregated carrier is called a component carrier. The primary carrier is called the PCC (primary component carrier) and is the one where other carriers are aggregated with. Each component carrier aggregated with the PCC is called the secondary component carrier (SCC). 

In todays LTE releases the PCC provides both the downlink and uplink bandwith while the SCC adds additional downlink bandwith. So in sprints existing B41 configuration, each carrier have a theoretical max of ~80/17 so 2xB41 CA will have a theoretical max of about ~160/17 since only the downlink on the SCC are utilized and the uplink on the SCC is left untouched. 

-- Current devices that support 2xB41 CA are Samsung Galaxy S6 / 6 edge, Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, LG G Flex 2, LG G4, and HTC One M9. 

Sweet. I doubt they will (they advertise current Spark max speeds as 60mbps when we know it's more like 90) but they could theoretically advertise being the first carrier to get 200+mbps speeds.

Will be hard to do that even with three carrier aggregation of 20+20+20. 

Probably won't see 200+ unless you have 3 unloaded sectors (almost impossible outside a test setting) and a future 3 CA capable device. 

202/14.7

Whoops...your right about B12.  I wonder why the AT&T/Tmobile/Verizon version of the iPhone 6 doesn't have B12 support either. 

Same reason USCC had to deploy Band 5 to get the iphone.

 

@CrossedSignals = Nice confirmation that the iPhone 6/6 Plus contains all the CCA and RRPP roaming partners LTE bands as well.

No they don't. They're missing Band 12.

I don't think the Crystal, or even Crystal X, is a flagship class device in Japan.  The 302SH is a better device, even though it's several months older.  I think it's more like the GS4 Mini compared to the GS4, though perhaps not quite so badly decontented.

The Crystal X should be the successor to the 302. It's releasing in December which is right at about the 6 month mark. 

Japans market is quite different from ours so what we may think of being a flagship class device may be wildly different.