mittenmitten

I'm going to go ahead and say Sprint will shoot up to number one in a lot of cities for this. Speeds were virtually the only thing holding them back in many markets. Now they'll be truly competitive in the peak speed department and hopefully the public will take notice.

 

if T-Mobile has proven anything, it's that all you need is a few 100 Mbps speed tests and suddenly your reputation is set.

i think the only thing this will do is take magentans down a peg. Sprint still desperately needs density. in my market, without the density, my phone constantly flips back and forth between 1mbps and 30+mbps, it's extremely frustrating sometimes.

wow, live everywhere in MI, so bummed I didn't lease a G4 instead of buying a G2.

I wish Sprint would do what they did with Boost; huge bucket of data to prevent abuse (20gb for $55), but you can adjust the compression used on video streaming to either maximize quality, or minimize data usage. I watch a ton of video and don't really care about quality, so compression is a huge asset for me. It's understandable why people would hate it though.

Got it. After reading up on it, seems like Qualcomm chips supporting this in the 'low-mid' end won't be out for a bit. This is likely why they're quiet about this; their device base isn't really seeded with phones supporting it yet. Gives them time to roll it out completely. 

Look for these Qualcomm 'Snapdragon' chips:

2x20 TDD LTE : 620, 618, 425 (aggregation in the uplink AND downlink)

3x20 TDD LTE : 810, 808 (aggregation in downlink ONLY)

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/comparison

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

yey, Grand Rapids was mentioned yey!