RAvirani

Haha I saw that too!

This is also very possible.

Hmm...were those tests run at the same time of day? Maybe the OTA update enabled carrier aggregation?

They really just need to drop Qrxlevmin values on B26. When VoLTE goes live, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see Qrxlevmins as low as -130.

Yes—what are the EARFCNs on both?

I’m out of town this week, but I’ll go back and try to connect to the 6th carrier when I get back.

I was. I’ve uploded them to the same imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/SnNVc

Take a peek at Rapid City, SD .

I can verify that this is true as Verizon service in my neighborhood is abysmal. When driving in, Verizon phones will often hold a VoLTE call down to -132 to -134 dBm before dropping LTE and thus, the call.

Well, the network can instruct a device to drop from LTE to eHRPD/EVDO with an RRC release specifying the center frequency of the CDMA carrier...

Software update for radios.

Yes, I live in the Seattle area.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I think this is the fastest speed I’ve clocked to date: https://imgur.com/a/RkRqp 241 mbps down—wow!

Yup, nothing up here in Seattle either I wish they’d get VoLTE up and running but leave it disabled by default. I could see them doing what Verizon did when they initially rolled VoLTE out: requiring users to enable VoLTE on their account (through the website or something) until they’re confident enough to enable it by default.

I made a topic about this—see here:

I’ve read scattered reports of iPhones originating calls over LTE all over the country today—Maryland, Alabama, Utah and probably more states. Here’s an example: Thoughts?

Oh wow—I hadn’t checked! Looks great! Hopefully google maps makes it to the mobile coverage map soon.

B25 will be 15x15 in the next few weeks.

The 64T64R equipment that Sprint plans to start deploying this year will be software upgradable to 5G NR.

I think there are a few non-LTE dual carrier HSPA+ sites left in rural Montana and Utah...but generally speaking, you’re right. They are becoming rarer and rarer. I’d say a majority of AT&T’s non-LTE areas today are probably 7.2 mbps WCDMA, which is not great, but gets the job done in most cases.

AT&T generally only shuts down Band 2 HSPA in areas where they have LTE deployed (in an effort to increase on-air LTE spectrum). In areas without LTE, AT&T usually runs several WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+ carriers on both Bands 5 and 2.

Bands 5 and 2.

Yeah, but they usually are able to get away with that because most of their deployment is HSPA or HSPA+ which peaks at 21 or 42 mbps (depending on the configuration). That’s about the same as, if not better than, a 5x5 LTE carrier.

Sprint has virtually no service on the peninsula but there may or may not be plans to change that soon... T-Mobile has pretty great coverage on the peninsula—they cover 101 the best of all of the major providers. They are disadvantaged by the fact that their network is 5x5 L700 while Verizon’s is 10x10 L700 but their density definitely helps. Verizon beats T-Mobile hands down in Moclips, La Push and at the Olympic Corrections Center, but they’re considerably neck and neck everywhere else. AT&T is way behind. Most of their towers on the peninsula are not LTE-capable (HSPA/WCDMA only) and it seems that their 1900 MHz WCDMA beats out their 700 MHz LTE for range, causing swiss-cheese like coverage in their LTE areas. They definitely have a lot of catching up to do.

A restart of the phone fixed the problem. I was able to get enough points to start moving towers. Robert, you may notice I’ve located all of the Verizon and T-Mobile towers along 101 on the Olympic Peninsula .