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I was wondering why there was 47 entries rather than 49 last night... Will Correct in a bit. Corrected*

Cough Cough. http://s4gru.com/entry/432-sprint-to-begin-volte-soft-launch-in-september/

Here you guys go.

Tim YuSprint 4G Rollout UpdatesThursday, August 2, 2018 - 12:01 PM PDT It's been a long time coming for Sprint through many trials and tribulations. Now it's finally here! S4GRU was able to obtain confirmations that Sprint is finally ready and prepared to enable Voice over LTE (VoLTE) for subscribers to manually opt into in select markets across the country this coming September. See list at the bottom. As a refresher here are some of the essential points about VoLTE applicable to Sprint: Calls placed over VoLTE will have the QOS tag unlike the current Calling Plus configuration on numerous Sprint devices Like Calling Plus, VoLTE will have no fallback to the legacy 1x voice network. Calls will drop if the LTE signal drops. The voice codec is AMR-WB which one can experience with Calling Plus calls and matches the other carriers VoLTE setups. At this point and time S4GRU does not have a list of compatible VoLTE devices though we do speculate that any device currently running Calling Plus should be able to tap into that very same IMS core Calling Plus utilizes via true VoLTE. In addition, recent Apple iPhone's seems like a sure bet as some users have already experienced VoLTE in live field tests conducted by Sprint. For the non Sprint branded BYOD devices like Google Pixels or unlocked Moto devices the future is quite murky indeed. Sprint VoLTE Soft Launch Market Map See this for map of all Sprint market boundaries Sprint VoLTE Soft Launch Markets .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;border-color:black;} .tg th{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;border-color:black;} .tg .tg-wk8r{background-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;text-align:center;vertical-align:top} Atlanta / Athens Austin Baltimore Boston Central Jersey Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Columbus DFW East Kentucky East Michigan Ft. Wayne / South Bend Houston Idaho Indianapolis Kansas LA Metro Las Vegas Long Island Miami / West Palm Milwaukee Minnesota Missouri Nashville New York City Norfolk North Wisconsin Northern Jersey Oklahoma Oregon / SW Washington Orlando Philadelphia Metro Phoenix Pittsburgh Richmond San Antonio SF Bay South Bay South Texas Southern Jersey Tampa Toledo Upper Central Valley Utah Washington DC West Iowa / Nebraska West Virginia

Yay for Nokia / Ericsson finally getting that working! So it looks like you're on 64 QAM UL (~14 mbps per 2x stream) in 2 UL CA to get that speed. Maybe even 4x4 MIMO is live!

Yep.

Yes it's that site. Nexgen & I geolocated it earlier today with a little help of the drydock crane, marina, roof architecture, and S4GRU sponsor maps. If anyone want to visit that site with a rooted device running NSG it'd be very appreciated.

+33% on DL theoretically.

It was confirmed via NSG screens which gets its information directly from the QC modem.

256 / 64 QAM is live in NYC market ALU 8T8R equipment.

Yes. They're beginning to receive them.

The thing many of you all seem to be missing is that previously any Sprint signal would immediately override any roaming partner signal. I'm pretty sure many of you that experienced this also experienced in the past where a crappy Sprint CDMA 1x signal that's basically unusable would constantly kick you off a usable partner network. Sprint changing over to a setup where partner LTE networks would still be in use where Sprint still has a 1x/EVDO signal is in general a good thing for LTE on network time and for sanity checks as devices would not constantly hop between good roaming and terrible native connections .

1.4 MHz LTE + 1.25 MHz CDMA 1x voice will work within a 3x3 block. Don't think any Sprint equipment are tested for a 1.4 MHz bandwidth though...

16 port tribands are being used in many site deployments as Sprint has overstocked on them (kinda) as 2.5 deployments transitions from LTE 8T8R 2.5 radios to M-MIMO units. In many Samsung Clear conversions they're using 16 port tribands as is with 1.9 RRH P4 and 800 C4s paired with a 2.5 M-MIMO antenna. The 2.5 portions of the triband antennas will be unused. Eventually they'll use the 8 port dual band antennas as they get through the inventory of 16 ports.

Nokia 2.5 AAHC Massive MIMO Antenna Credit: Sprint Credit: nexgencpu

You folks should probably take the discussion of how MB fits into the T-mobile network into that appropriate thread instead of this one.

VoLTE will be a market specific opt in option. It's already live on the network for closed testing and in some areas production network testing.

http://s4gru.com/forums/topic/7711-official-magic-box-discussion-thread/?do=findComment&comment=529863 I have a good lead on what the Relay module will be but will not state anything until further confirmations. No. Airspan is strictly a LTE RAN and future NR RAN provider. Voice will be supported when opt in VoLTE becomes available this coming fall.

Samsung 2.5 MMU MT02P (source: nowerlater) (source: nowerlater) (source: Samsung) (source: FCC OET)

Any and all 31/32/33 39/3A/3B endings are Nokia Mini Macros on Macros typically found on former Clearwire sites. Each mini macro is a stand alone BTS so will have unique GCI identifiers. For old Samsung GCI endings... B25 #1 = 00/01/02 B25 #2 = 03/04/05 B25 #2 10x10 = 06/07/08 B26 = 10/11/0F B41 #1 = 00/01/002 B41 #2 = 03/04/05 B41 #3 = 06/07/08 B41 #4 = 0C/0D/0E B41 Triband Antenna #2 = 09/0A/0B B41 Triband Antenna #3 = 03/04/05 Airspan Airunity MBGCI endings are all over the place but it's easy to pick out once you know the standard GCI heading. Airspan airharmony mini macros GCI ends 01.

http://s4gru.com/entry/431-psa-4th-iteration-gen-3-magic-box-incoming/

Tim YuSprint 4G Rollout UpdatesFriday, June 8, 2018 - 3:00 PM PDT It has been a little over a year since the first Magic Box publicly available was announced. In the time since then since the Airunity 545 "GEN 1" was announced, minor revisions were done as "GEN 2" with the Airunity 544 sporting a LCD display and subsequently the Airunity 546 having an more aesthetically pleasing exterior. All LCD display models are known as "GEN 2" respectively. Come next week starting on June 11th, 2018, the GEN 2 Magic Box's (AU544/546) will be considered out of stock and a GEN 3 Magic Box will take over the reigns in the beginning of July 2018. Though information on this new unit is scarce, information attained by S4GRU does suggest the new revision may potentially contain user accessible USB Type A ports and have a slightly lower transmit power. More to come as S4GRU discovers additional information about this GEN 3 Magic Box.

That appears to be similar to Samsung and I assume Nokia and ALU regions when 3CA was beginning to roll out. It turned out there was still backend upgrades that needed to be done.