cortney

The one thing I can give any carrier that pushes any new technology, overlaying, or densification is that is forces others to follow. This does help keep the already embarrassing "nationwide" coverage in check.

There is indeed zero excuse for AT&T's results at all, but they did do fine in calling, and they relatively maintained their median speeds, meaning they are not declining at the rapid rate of T-Mobile.

Verizon and T-Mobile, the e-penis gods.

Also nowhere does the map state it is using "native" coverage as the source, which is the argument the degenerates who keep throwing that link around whine about. So after you account that Mosaik didn't retrieve the info personally, but from the carriers, this map used as evidence is baseless until proven otherwise. And common sense and various real-world anecdotal accounts quickly start doing just the opposite. A great argument derailing tool. Meanwhile, people still routinely note T-Mobile's extensive 2G (where 3G/LTE should be). They also have numerous W-CDMA holes (LTE or 2G), not good for a GSM or any network. Every network needs a 3G fallback. For those of you not parked in cities, you'll know what I mean.

Verizon in Westchester? And I know it's a cobbled mess in certain areas, but I don't know of AT&T remedying any density or capacity problems in the near-term outside of NYC with B29 (in particular)/B30 (someone correct me if I'm wrong). So any B2/B4/B17 phone should be fine for the next several months or year at the very least... I hope you're primarily in NYC, then that could be fine.

For Video over LTE, they should blast the jingle before and after conversations begin for added effect by default.

Pig Out

I tend to believe they release it just to release it first. It's also another treat for their urban customers to scream about. And a distraction. How's their 2G to 3G overlay going? Oh yeah. 2G to LTE...?

I'm sure the experts in the trolling field will come, unsolicited, for free damage and thought control. They also put out free kool-aid. So generous.

CanArt™

Good idea. Enough of that... ugly logo is yuck. Back to the food chat!

We have no taste in logos -- check!

Orange Zest

Juice Extractor

All 3? Try T-Mobile's 2G or WiFi calling on a weak signal. I also can't agree with Verizon that much; it's usually awful. I've only noticed it being okay on certain smartphones and accessories. Likewise to that AT&T point, I've also yet to hear of anyone personally who's made a HD call on Verizon. I guess that's a treat for certain city-folk for now. AT&T sounds slightly muffled on certain phones, but okay on others, so it's been more phone-dependent in my experience. It isn't that good though. I don't have constant trouble understanding people like I did on Verizon. Sprint, and even T-Mobile have that superior voice quality that should simply be standard. It's obviously not a concern of the big two until practically next year at this point (although there are rumors about AT&T doing things by late fall).

Thanks for the response! Yes. AT&T does have that H+ guilt around due to occasional sparsity or non-converted towers from what I've seen, but I've also seen some LTE overlays recently. Same with PCS / AWS-1, that's also been quickly rolling out all over and I've seen both. Works for the time being. I'm disappointed to continue to hear of Samsung's poor RF performance. And also that's one point I think some forget. Sometimes, it isn't even the network. A phone with crappy performance can leave a poor taste and give a bad impression for a carrier.

Stir Fry

Thank you for this post! I like to see accounts from people. Can I ask if you were closer to Northern or Southern NJ? Even so, I'm also not a fan of AT&T as a company, but I still have to go places Sprint won't always cover and they still have too much 3G and occasional holes. AT&T's service is fantastic for me. I share the same hope in wanting Sprint to make their way into these suburban, exurban and semirural areas so I can use them as my primary with confidence. I know it's coming but it's not here quite yet. Verizon does have the coverage some need, but in general it is blind loyalty at this point. They really masterminded their marketing, though. In some areas they're selling absolute crap, in others mediocre. Most are just plain scared to leave.

I'm very excited about this semester. I think we're going to see much more of what Sprint is getting done now that they are on course and have their eyes on the prize. Last semester was the beginning and 2H 2014 was more like the result of certain NV upgrade completions.

I agree completely. That's where I find the irony and I think this is another histrionic move. I don't disagree with any of the scope of his or what AJ agrees with of his point, in general. What I find ironic is that he invited the abusive behavior because he set out T-Mobile's network out to be vastly superior and practically invincible to heavy load (as magentans continually do). Now, he's going to be the hero against the abusers he basically invited? It's this constant cycle of narcissism and victim. We have the fastest best network, beat that Verizon Oh FCC, we need low band, we're the poor little guys. No Sprint, RootMetrics was wrong, we're really number 4 and they can't keep up with our super fast-growing network! Our network is getting rundown by unlimited abusers, we know your pain! Now I'm gonna hunt them down! Etc., etc. The arrogance is spelled out in the FAQ: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-23577#question2 How do AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint treat these sorts of users? You should ask them… What we do know is that the other carriers use data limits and charged their customers $1.5B in overages last year alone. -- I can see right now how T-Mobile is going to be the superhero in the media. Coming out of the woodwork to get rid of all the abusers to make the network all perfect again!!!! Now that the problems are going to get fixed, the network will get all back to normal, so we have all the ammo we need to troll the Sprint cult with nonsense about other carrier's overages, even if they don't apply. Ookla data, cherry-picked and outdated maps and articles, etc. No...

Ah well thanks for that correction. And indeed I was glad to hear the start of progress on that as well. It gives a bad image to the consumer and his social crowd (if applicable), to have a moderate signal shown as "0-2" bars.

I was wondering what that stood for (as the old name is antiquated). So technically, one could be under the influence of AT&T?

Not that 1 Sprint bar is 5 AT&T bars, no. The reasoning behind the low bars on Sprint is due to the stupid signal threshold for B41. They need to have a more lenient and realistic dB threshold for B41 instead of using the same one across the board. It should even vary slightly between B12/13/17/26, B2/25/4? and B41/30 if you ask me, but I don't know if it can be done.

Office Building

Yeah but as per that comment, the person in question was just trolling. And to point out the humorous hypocrisy, said person writes paragraphs and paragraphs of odious ad hominem crap to people they do not like or who write factual arguments in an attempt to instigate them and deflect the topic.