cortney

major malfunction

People like Fox News TV Personalities:

 

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Oh god.

And I'm also very inclined to take the argument of a person who can't even reboot, or purchase a new router seriously. 

whole milk

Vacation Resort

Mario Brothers

scooper of poop

As a New Yorker, I don't get this.

My guess: The city so nice, they "named it twice". 

And for those wondering, the image posted as in the page source redirects to this:

http://postimg.org/image/84e44ctkb/full/

So it's "sorta" there. 

Maybe try a different file hosting site, grndslm   ?

Back on (recent) topic is anyone actually for Sprint missing out on both the 600 and 700 mhz auctions?

You mean literally sitting out?

I would personally think it's very important they do actually participate in the 600MHz auction whenever that comes around, for the sake of helping to grow their nationwide footprint. 

I had an absent minded professor moment and turned my HTC One m9 off before closing the maptrip.  My report to server setting was Wake to report to server and Only when charging which I was in the car much of the time.

I thought somebody said Sensorly sends data to the server while active rather than waiting for the trip to end.  IF true, then some of my trip data may have been sent to the server.

Can anybody enlighten me ??

I too have made the mistake of either turning off the phone or letting the battery die. I've never seen any portion of such points plotted. Of course, I don't know what it really does / is supposed to do. 

Corn Flakes

I just fear the day when John pulls unlimited. People will have a fit and call him a bunch of liars and every name in the book.

I don't fear that day, in fact, I'm looking forward to it. It's inevitable for both companies.

He can't lie to them forever...

I believe I've seen fanboys asking if T-Mobile will go to Canada or Mexico to spread their "movement". They really don't live in reality, nor do they come up for air.  

The T-Army is going to be in for a reality check, no matter how much nor how long they continue to tap-dance, attack and cry.

T-Mobile isn't taking over the world (or the US), sorry.

When I wrote the post about the conservative speeds Verizon gives as average speeds, it was regarding their LTE network. Robert responded to that with his average speeds as a way of showing a reversal to that, which indeed it is. I think if he meant 3g, he would have mentioned it. Although likely he wouldn't have responded, as I'm sure he knew I was talking about LTE, not 3G.

You'd never see anything greater than ~2 megabits on EV-DO as an average.

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And to others doubting, those are very real averages that apply to other markets like mine, and others I've visited, too. Regardless of the scope, it does exist. Some are fine, some suck. 

Jeep Compass 

I'm looking at at&t for better mountain coverage... How is their service in Loveland / ft Collins area? I try to stay away from Denver as much as possible. Also I assume the mvno (go phone) route is not a good idea since they use a lot of 3rd party coverage out here.

 

I have been pretty happy with sprint since moving back to Co but I am in the mountains a lot and any improvement there would be nice.

If you can't get personal accounts, take a look at crowd-source maps like RootMetrics and Sensorly. I've also found people don't plot very much AT&T in most areas, so if you see plots within a mile of where you frequent, you can choose to take a gamble or not. 

Also, it seems there's no 3rd-party in that immediate area, so check AT&T's coverage map to see where they say partner coverage is and if that applies to you or if travel a lot outside that area. 

I don't know how AT&T is out west or in CO, so don't take my word for it. 

That spectrum won't be deployed soon though so his statement of " if you think you will see some relief anytime soon you will be disappointed" is still true.

Well also, I'm not even sure of any phones that have B30 besides the Galaxy S6 and variants. So, even if it were launched tomorrow, virtually no one can use it yet.

they are a Constant disappointment

Very broad. Maybe in certain big cities, sure. Elsewhere, I'd say inconsistent. They are beyond stupid for letting their network go in many cities -- that's how I'd put it.

What is the non-HD Voice like on VZW? I've heard from some reports its bad, but it has been several years since I last used Verizon back in the early 2000s.

I used VZW from flip phones to smartphones and still talk to mostly VZW users. 

The call quality used to be mediocre to horrible. It still is if a VZW user is using a feature phone with no/poor noise cancelling and there's any background noise involved. Now, I'd say below-average to average depending on the smartphone and how it handles noise cancellation. Still the residual robo garble and tinniness. Usable, but still Verizon. 

None of them differentiate between 800, 1900 and 2500, correct?

Correct for RootMetrics, Sensorly and OpenSignal. 

Edit: The rest I don't know

We already have 2 carriers with nationwide networks; what else do you want?

Can you tell me the price of rice in China?

So my city has and still is deploying city wide WiFi.  It isn't public.  They use it most for law enforcement, fire department, and smart lights. 

Yuck, this is why I sometimes like wires. 

Office Max

Operators absolutely can rollout VoLTE without Release 10, Verizon being a prime example.

I really screwed that point up being I didn't proofread it, including putting just "no carrier".

Anyways, I failed to mention "reliably" in the last part, which is the point I was making there, as there is no fallback now making it incredibly unreliable in a wide array of areas and situations, and limiting it for people within the area of usable LTE coverage.

This might not be as big of a problem in cities where the density is far greater, but for other people not so much. There are still many buildings where VZW's LTE either drops or comes in and out, and many areas whilst traveling where the LTE is not dense enough to handoff. 

1) I thought vzw volte coverage sucks?

2) will all vzw phones, starting with the above mentioned, lack CDMA? Will this affect spribt's phone costs?

VZW cannot reliably deploy VoLTE nationwide without having an LTE network as dense as their CDMA network, which they do not have, especially in non-urban areas. They don't have a nationwide LTE network, they have a majority-of-their-nationwide-CDMA-network overlayed LTE network. 

No carrier without fallback and or release 10 upgrades can deploy VoLTE, regardless.  

They also cannot remove CDMA from their phones yet, as that would disadvantage many VZW users in areas where there is limited/no LTE yet, or where the CDMA is already barely dense enough.

http://newsroom.sprint.com/blogs/sprint-perspectives/the-sprint-network-is-getting-better-every-day.htm

It was good first quarter for Sprint.   

It's good so far and there's many markets to be released (namely 90% of the ones I've wanted to see xD)

I have a feeling a lot more will improve in the 2H tests of this year, too. I'm still quite curious at how well Sprint will do on the state reports this quarter. They should come closer to the big two in several states and win more awards in that category.

I read most of it, interesting at least. I am glad you agree with me that VZW seems to get their way. I just found out about VZW getting on the tower close to me the other day through a friend who goes to meetings for ordinances. The tower is already over crowded!! hell Cricket CDMA had to put their antennas on the side of the tower instead of on the top back a couple of years ago but now AT&T is taking them down soon. However the town wont let AT&T build a tower near the college for better coverage where the college already suffers coverage from all the carriers as it is (basically no coverage at all inside, I know this I went to college there lol).

I also have to chime in and agree with you that VZW gets preferential treatment the majority of the time, and people gladly allow it. 

Signal bars don't discriminate by frequency band.

Uhhh okay, the threshold is the same for all bands (maybe I'm crazy for thinking there'd possibly be a difference in the threshold for low vs high band, I don't know).

I'm sorry for presuming discrimination.