RAvirani

That sounds like battery damage to me. You should probably take your phone to the Apple Store.

Awesome! What is the EARFCN of the 10x10 carrier?

No. I have had a 6S since they first came out and I have never been able to make that field populate. The field test on the iPhone 6S just doesn't work reliably.

Are you using an iOS 10 beta? My battery life dropped a lot when I started using the iOS 10 beta...

3dbm is nothing. B26 can definitely be optimized a lot more. Verizon B13 is usually around -102 when their AWS dies (-118) and ATT is pretty much always at -102 on B17 when their B2 dies (-118). I travel a lot so I can verify that this experience is consistent pretty much everywhere across ATT & VZs' footprints. I am in Amherst, MA right now and my Sprint iPhone 6S will often drop from B25 straight to 3G skipping B26 all together. That is not good optimization. We just need to face it. Although sprint has done a good job in some markets (eg Houston or SF) there are a lot of markets where sprint could be doing a lot more with B26.

I am staying at the JW Marriott in Las Vegas right now and I have a hell of a lot of complaints about unusable Verizon LTE where I am.

If sprint could increase power on their B26 so that it was 5-6dbm better everywhere, it would work wonders for coverage and reliability in general.

54055 on my iPhone 6S.

Ok so I see where the disconnect is betweeen is - I think it's ok to have "native" service in an area and not sell service in that area and you don't feel the same way. It's totally fine that we disagree. I don't mean to start a fight - just giving my two cents.

As I said, all fixable by Sprint. Sprint controlls when your phone says roaming and when it does not. Sprint also asks you to enter your zip when opening an account. Most people aren't cross checking the result when they enter their zip with the coverage map and even if they are, there is nothing wrong with having service in an area but not selling service in that area. It is ultimately Sprint's decision but I think consolidating the map and eliminating Roaming+ would make things a lot simpler and cleaner. Also, it would just look a lot better to the average joe who wants to see where Sprint customers have access to LTE data that comes out of their plan because that is ultimately what Roaming+ is.

That is all fixable on Sprint's side - if they do want to simplify things for the end user.

Maybe sprint should just show roaming+ coverage as native. That would make things a lot simpler - they would only need 3 colors. LTE Plus, LTE and 3G. They could put slashes on roaming areas the way ATT does on their map. Things would be a lot cleaner and easier to understand then...

Not on the LTE map...

That's how I felt for a while. What I've found is that in market roaming tends to fail but out of market roaming works. I can't explain it but I've observed it many times.

Since Verizon roaming is EVDO now, it doesn't really make a difference. Everything is pretty much 3G speed. I think that 3G roaming plus should be marked though.

1dante was referring to a Sprint carrier settings update. A T-Mobile carrier settings update was never mentioned.

Do you mean while LTE roaming (Sprint does not have band 12 holdings)?

You missed my point completely ????. Ignoring CA (because everyone has it), Sprint undoubtedly has the upper hand for they are deploying many other LTE advanced technologies that other carriers are not. See my previous post for a few examples.

Incorrect. At least slightly. There is no simple LTE advanced. There are many technologies that make up LTE advanced. Yes, everyone is deploying carrier aggregation but not everyone is deploying high order MIMO, CoMP, designing an SON etc. I'm not saying Sprint is doing every one of these but a good number of these components are in Sprint's short term plans. I think Sprint brands their services the best of any carrier. In my opinion, adding LTE in another band (eg. VZ AWS) or widening a channel that always exists (Tmo Wideband) does not mandate a new name. Implementation of technologies like the ones I described, on the other hand, does warrant a new name, in my opinion.

Yes from when the purchased the 700 UC block.

I think he was referring to pdvWireless...

Calling and SMS only devices should be fine - they only require 1x (a standard that isn't going away any time soon). All devices that support data should support LTE though.

There is no such as wideband or xlte they are both purely marketing terms used to make companies LTE networks look better than others.

The [CENSORED FOR PUBLIC WELL BEING]. WHY?

Haha that's great ????????????