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Bottom line is sprint isn't going to allow a garbage HTC wildfire on its network
everybody is gonna have to get new phones but sprint is the best way to go seeing ass how we already have lte for one and two vzw att or tmobile isn't offering the former us cellular customers what sprint is seeing as if they don't come to sprint they have to pay way more.Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Nexus rockin 4.2.2 using Tapatalk 2
Do not count out Verizon , ATT, and T-mobile on taking advantage of Sprint. ATT (and presumably Verizon) went extremely hard against Sprint when they begin their nextel decommissioning for iDen subs. Verizon and ATT already has LTE in the affected areas whereas sprint is still in the process of just deploying for many of the affected regions outside of Chicago and they will use it as a leverage against sprints still highly visible legacy 3g network.
They'll make a go for the customers and they'll take a healthy chunk. Sprints reputation in these areas with USCC subs aren't the best anyhow no matter what NV brings.
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None. Sprint LTE will be added on the Sprint rack, second from the top.
Or Sprint moves their rack from the second to the top.
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Couldn't edit my post on top.. this is the whole tower.
Very top rack is iDen panels. Should be decommissioned and removed within months as the June 30 iDen shutdown date is fast approaching.
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Wow, that top bare looking one is sprint legacy... Looks like the signal should be bad(as it is now)
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
Legacy Sprint panels are by no means bad. It's just that the backhaul linking to these sites are not up to par which results in the low speeds we come to expect from overburdened legacy 3g sites. Give a site like the one pictured above a new base station, 6 RRU's, and upgraded backhaul and you got yourself a LTE GMO site.
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Top - Sprint Legacy 3G.
Middle - ATT Ericsson modernized HSPA / LTE panels
Bottom - T-mobile Ercisson AIR LTE / HSPA pannels
Microwave antenna - Probably Clearwire Wimax that is behind the leaves on that tree.
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When Tmobile announces a launched market, how much of the market do they actually cover? Reading user impressions from Tmobile users, it seems they're excited when they can pick up an LTE signal, but it doesn't seem like there's solid coverage in any of the launched cities yet.
Typically about 40-50% range I'd assume. Enough to get some semblance of LTE over the a good part of an area and then filling them in over time.
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I'm seeing them starting to cap speeds at ~15 mbps and ~18-20 mbps depending on which APN you're using. DC-HSPA ofcourse. Hsupa on PCS 1900 is around 2-4 mbps from what I can tell with my cousins int'l HTC one.
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This is what I was talking about.
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
Aren't those like diplexers or something where they split the connection into whatever frequency? I vaguely recall AJ or someone talking about them on ATT panels.
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Sounds about right for Sacramento. They've been modernizing sites here since last october. Shame Sprint is last here but meh. At least I'll get service inside concrete / brick buildings....
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Nothing that we can detect although we did see a 3g site accepted a few days ago which turned out to be a replacement for an old one.
Should start relatively soon though as every OEM (alcatel-lucent in HI's case) is now beginning the rest of their markets.
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Those of you who know anything about the government will know what this image represent. A government "free of influence from lobbyists and corporate shills..."... ya... right...
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Yes, it can. However, I believe digiblur has mentioned the 800MHz priority is set up differently in the iPhone 5 PRL as compared to other Sprint phones.
Iphone 5 has PCS set as high priority while SMR 800 are lesser priority. If a person has an iphone 5 in a low signal area and drops to SMR, they will not stay there. Instead, the Iphone 5 will constantly search for a PCS signal and latch onto one no matter it's strength (this can kill a persons phone in a low PCS signal area). Whereas on Androids, PCS and SMR priority are set the same. If you are connected to SMR 800 because you dropped from PCS, the phone will stay there and won't bother scanning for a PCS signal as PCS and SMR are equals on the priority list.
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Beautiful Widgets.
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I agree 100%! The only thing that can make them better is if they were to use the lower frequencies for better building penetration. I feel like it is almost a must here, because of the terrain and the concrete buildings everywhere. Once they do that here in PR, it will be amazing. Not sure if it is possible tough :/
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Not possible. Another entity holds the SMR 800 frequency in PR + there are numerous international boundary issues to work out even if possible (2+ years minimum as they'll be dealing with foreign governments.. look at the mexican & canadian borders).
Edit: Been corrected
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So has Sprint run out of money or just stopped the upgrading and this is the extent of it. While I have a LTE signal in my town it is weak and not very consistent. It has been the same since I bought my S3 back in December and nothing as changed. I live in West Springfield and have LTE mostly all over town, Springfield has it in the downtown area but I haven't picked it up anywhere else in the city. Agawam has it over most of the town as well as the south eastern parts of Westfield. But like I said nothing has changed in coverage for the past 4 months and I am beginning to think that this is as good as it is going to get. I hope I am wrong and someone can enlighten me on if they are done or not. BTW the 3g is still horrendous to the point of unusable.
The roll out has not stop and will not stop till all cell sites are done and accepted for 3G/4G/3g 800/ & potentially 4G 800. Sprint is putting billions into their roll-out and has begun or will be beginning nearly every market in the coming months. You may not see improvement in your area but other areas may be being worked on concurrently while whatever is holding up the cell sites in your area is being fixed be it permits, backhaul, whatever. Sprint contractors will not just sit on a specific location waiting for stuff to come together. If another cell site in another part of the market is ready and a crew is available, the crew will head to that site. It's just that simple.
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Are there TD-LTE certified versions of the HTC One or Galaxy S4 available anywhere in the world yet, like in China for example?
2nd half 2013 will have dual mode GS4's.
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Am I allowed to ask how do I go about uploading a custom PRL for my Galaxy SII here?
Here's from our resident XDA guru Digiblur who is the master of all things PRL.
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Forgive me if this has already been asked...
Does anybody know if the new HD voice on 1x advanced will work when talking to people on other networks that have deployed whatever the GSM equivalent is? For that matter, if I'm using 1x advanced and HD voice and talking to somebody who is also using a new codec but on voice over LTE, will the quality still be higher than a regular cellular call?
QUESTION RETRACTED...FOUND THE THREAD!
See here.
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Yeah, AFAIK lower frequency = better building penetration, but it also requires more towers to cover the same general area (if you ignore structures), so it's always a tradeoff one way or the other.
No. Lower frequency (cellular 850, SMR 800, upper 700, lower 700) can propogate farther and penetrate further into materials thanks to its lower frequency. Thus it needs less cell sites to cover the same area that higher frequency (AWS/PCS/ etc) spectrum require.
At the same time, lower frequency spectrum can only handle so much capacity before it degrades thanks to its spectrum characteristics.
Just imagine it as a sine wave. Lower frequencies have a smaller amplitude while higher frequencies have larger amplitudes. At the same position where both lower frequency and higher frequency waves hits, the higher frequency wave will be able to transport more of whatever thanks to its larger amplitude compared to the lower frequency with the smaller amp.
Basically -- Higher frequency = more cell sites per area but can be depended upon for capacity
-- Lower frequency = less cell sites per area but provides greater coverage and penetration capabilities.
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Aahhh! I donated to become a sponsor! It hasn't updated! WTF? Oh and yesterday I mapped out some more 4g that randomly popped up in Ontario. EXCITED
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So, how spectrally efficient is DC-DSPA+, especially when compared to LTE? IIRC 10+10 MHz FDD LTE has a maximum throughput/capacity of ~75 Mbps per carrier/sector.
Pretty sure you need at least 20Mhz of continuous spectrum to get the same performance of 10 mhz of FDD setup. As correct me if I'm wrong.
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Wonder if admin are getting frustrated with the constant complaining and questions of Milwaukee users
If Robert was, and you'd be all banned for 7 days and this thread closed for eternity. =)
Don't ask me how I know this xD
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Oi just caught ur mistake. Full name is alcatel-Lucent but we call it ALU or Alcalu round these parts. : You'll learn quick enough!
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It's Alcalul or ALU =)
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everybody is gonna have to get new phones but sprint is the best way to go seeing ass how we already have lte for one and two vzw att or tmobile isn't offering the former us cellular customers what sprint is seeing as if they don't come to sprint they have to pay way more.
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