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Known outage. They've been attempting to fix it. Fix TBD.

4 hours ago, dragon said:

While Sprint is in the area we will not be leasing out our frequency. There are a number of reasons including those leases are usually for 30 years, the FCC is about to make changes to EBS, and our neighboring school district and university do not lease theirs. 

I have heard 2.5ghz is only good to 15km.

Only part of my plan involves LTE enabled devices as a majority of my devices including another 10,000 or so macs and PCs do not have LTE capabilities. A majority of my plans involve CPEs on buses or community centers relaying to cloud controlled APs.

You'll need to reach out and negotiate an agreement with a LTE eNodeB provider (aforementioned -- Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia, Airspan, etc) in order to create a LTE EPC, acquire licensed radio transmitters, and a deployment plan. 

Coverage is far superior to 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz due to significantly higher TX power, antennas, modulation, and just difference in elevation on the transmitters. Still you'll likely need a wide deployment using multiple backhauled eNodeB sectors at least for capacity and coverage reasons. 

https://www.airspan.com/education/

https://networks.nokia.com/solutions/private-lte

TBH reaching out to Sprint may be still your best option since they have the expertise and they're pretty much the biggest entity a lot of these vendors have agreements with. 

57 minutes ago, jamesinclair said:

Yes, short poles are one issue. Possibly a limitation placed by the city.

However, Fresno has also grown very rapidly in the last decade, and the Sprint tower network has not budged since the push-to-talk days.

I agree with you. Need more density!

Iirc aren't like most of Fresno towers 15-20' wooden poles with all ground mounted radios? 

I'd think that would be the bigger issue plus any restrictions on much needed small cell infill coverage deployments. 

19 hours ago, Trip said:

It could be.  I'm not really sure how to interpret what I'm seeing on that tower.  I see three spheres and then two panels.  I also suspect Sprint is on it somehow (or extremely close by; 030493/0318E3), and plan to run by this afternoon with my T-Mobile and Verizon phones. 

- Trip

It's the ball antenna ATT / VZW ball uses for their COWs. @belusnecropolis linked it. 

3 hours ago, RAvirani said:

Interesting. Large portions of Sprint's network in Kent/Covington/Auburn were completely out today despite the fact power couldn't have been out for more than 12 hours. Maybe they had originally planned to only power a single 1900 MHz RRU?

It's 4-8 batteries in the BBU.

4 if OG NV config with 1.9 + 800 and +4 with 2.5 deployed. 

IIRC it's mostly rated for 8 hours when I was looking at NV documents a while back. 

21 hours ago, dedeary said:

We have the spectrum but I only have one phone. great service outside not so good inside an old farm house with aluminum siding and plaster walls 

I would pop a nice email to magicbox[at]sprint[dot]com to inquire about your area. 

17 hours ago, bookertdub said:

Any word if Band 26 has arrived in the San Diego market yet? I noticed on the Los Angeles market thread there are reports of B26 being live there. Or are we still being held back due to I.B.E Z?


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Usually it goes from the outermost  points of the former IBEZ to the innermost areas nearest to the border. So you'll see it pop up all around LA / Irvine / OC and then spread towards SD as time goes on. 

46 minutes ago, stealth said:

Found a 15x15 carrier in chambersburg today. 

 

Yep! 

Enjoy that 15+10 B25 network

On 12/15/2018 at 9:55 PM, RAvirani said:

Yeah—I’m surprised they even tested Calling Plus publicly. 

I’m not sure what the S9/S9+ will get VoLTE, but I *think* I heard somewhere that the next Android update brings VoLTE to all ISIM devices. Definitely don’t quote me on that though.

December / January time frame for many devices is what was going around last I heard. 

On another note, does anyone have engineering or app proof of the 15x15 B25 carrier?

3 hours ago, comintel said:

Erratum in chart:

	Galaxy Note 9 SE	SIMOLW416Q

is an error, I think (as you clarified earlier I believe)

 

Thanks for the great chart!

Nice catch! I'll fix that now. 

28 minutes ago, xdfgf said:

So I was sent a gen 2 on "accident" and they sent me a return kit for it. I opened the gen 2 box to snag a picture of the id codes and such from the MB for a little safety when I return it. In the box was a free 4000mah backup battery. Are these included with the gen 3s as well?

No. 

Found 3 more Sprint Airspan small cells (Florin/Freeport, downtown, & loaves and fishes area) and the first noted Clearwire 2.5 conversion to Sprint triband 800/1.9/2.5 in Elk Grove!

5 minutes ago, Jeff1234 said:

I got the update on my v30+ this morning.  VoLTE is turned off by default.  Enabled it, but doesn't look like its active yet in my area (Sacramento, CA).  Quick test call and no indication of VoLTE, and noted the cell signal dropped the LTE tag when on the call, just as it did previously.  I'll play around with it later to see if there's any change.

It's been live since the 2nd week of October.

Turn it on and leave it be for about a hour and it will provision automatically. 

You can pop on chat or call mb tech support to ask them to activate it back on your account.

Takes approximately half a hour. My gen 3 and Gen 2 had some shenanigans where both was somehow not provisioned. Both are back activated now.

So I get to work this morning and found that my Gen2 MagicBox was deactivated when Sprint shipped out my Gen3 unit.  Apparently it will take until Weds to get a MB3 from Louisville, KY to Hickory, NC (Charlotte area).  If they were going to deactivate my old unit, it would have been nice if they would have overnighted the Gen3 to me.

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Just now, Terrell352 said:

Amazing! Mine will be here on Monday!

 

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Also the donor 2.5 connection is a 2x2 MIMO 2T2R mini mac 2.5. 

Presumably I'd experience much more drastic improvements if say connected to an 8T8R or M-MIMO unit running 4x4 mimo / 256qam and 3 B41 carriers. 

1 hour ago, Terrell352 said:

We want to see the speed differences!!


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It was pretty much the difference of 1 mbps vs ~2 mbps. 

Hence I have it plugged into the router which is fed by a FTTH connection that is ready to go when Sprint / Airspan sends that OTA firmware. 😉

Terrible photos incoming.

Did a 1-1 remove and replace of a AU545 gen 1(2?). 

545 was ordered and installed when publicly released on a 2nd floor bedroom window facing the nearest Sprint site.

Crappy Pic.

Installed Gen 3 AU587 in the center of the house on the 2nd floor loft next to the router nowhere near a window. Ethernet is plugged in but LTE backhaul preferred until Sprint / Airspan sends out a OTA firmware that enables working ethernet or wifi backhaul. 

Very impressive. 

Yes it's added as a line.

I called Magic Box Support back this afternoon and the gentleman promptly placed an order for an "AIRSPAN MAGIC BOX GEN 3."  The order confirmation page shows it as a "Sprint Magic Box Gold."
Does Sprint still attach these as a line to our customer accounts?  I'm approved for 15 lines, but they are all currently in use.

31 minutes ago, alphaalphagamma said:

 

thanks for the info! one other thing, the press release says 3CA, is that only from the tower or does it broadcast 3CA to the UE as well?

Relay.

30 minutes ago, alphaalphagamma said:

Is the wifi or Ethernet backhaul working for anyone?

It is broken. Known issue. 

Fix TBD. 

Holy moly. The new 4T8R relay is legit.

😉

Yeah... Depends on the individual it seems.