cortney

I will take Verizon at their word on 5G.  It means the other carriers have less than two years to get the most out of their 4G plans given Verizon's initial 4G installation wave.  It may also affect funding for additional 4G efforts. A good strategic move on their part  by a carrier with enough cash to pull it off.  But as Sprint showed with Wimax, even Verizon will need other carriers to follow to be successful.

 

source: http://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-sets-roadmap-5g-technology-us-field-trials-start-2016

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. 

"Since our testing in March, T-Mobile’s median download speed decreased from 9.8 Mbps to 6.8 Mbps"

 

Ouch!

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. 

Morning ePenis wood brought to you by Verizon 5G testing:

 

http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/08/verizon-5g-faster-than-google-fiber/

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

This map must include roaming because T-Mobile does not offer roaming in central Nevada. Sprint offers some native coverage.

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.

Yep, that settles it. Thanks to you all, I will be going with Verizon [emoji25] until Sprint finishes deployment in Westchester. I will keep checking in here for more info. I will be back for that CA B41 goodness. [emoji1]

 

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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. 

FaceTime.  The new way you can be annoying in the grocery store aisles now that Nextel Direct Connect is dead.

 

AJ

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

Pig Out

All of this new stuff TMobile is coming out with sounds like iMessage and Facetime to me.  I'm sure it will be more readily available on multiple devices instead of just one (i.e. iPhones), but I don't see Apple implementing this either so it will just be an Android on TMobile thing.

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...?

Fierce Wireless is trolling today:

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/sprint-conspicuously-absent-lte-u-debate/2015-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/hos-perspective-can-sprint-get-any-respect/2015-09-03

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.

The new WordArt in Office 2016.  Make a new corporation logo while sitting on the can!

CanArt™

I like the chicken and gnocchi soup!  Its usually pretty delicious!

Give me a salad with sliced tomatoes, whole olives, whole peperoncini, and Italian style dressing, then I am happy.

 

AJ

Good idea. Enough of that... ugly logo is yuck. 

Back to the food chat!

"We take your $130/month for 2gb and a phone...check."

 

 

Sent from my iPhone 6+

We have no taste in logos -- check!

Orange Zest 

Juice Extractor 

I really dislike voice on AT&T. Half the time it's passable, but the other half it's awful. All three other providers are far superior on voice than AT&T. I'm sure eventually I will hear HD voice on AT&T. But I haven't had one call on it yet.

 

Using Nexus 6 on Tapatalk

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). 

On topic (somewhat) AT&T has started rolling out AWS in Wilmington NC - it is speedy when you can get it. Still some stretches of Highway 17 between New Bern and Jacksonville that are HSPA, but I think my 5S just doesn't have the same reception as my Nexus 5 did.  

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.

Off to a good start!

 

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/kauffman-stadium/2015/2H

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 don't *think* that anybody is arguing in favor of the alleged data hogs at all (though I would like eventually to hear from those that get contacted just to get their side of the story); using 2 TB a month over wireless is just ridiculous. Hell using that much with a wired connection seems loony. However, I do think that a number people here and elsewhere may have called this turn of events. I mean, IIRC didn't he essentially invite them over? At some point earlier in his 'Uncarrier' thing wasn't he basically telling to everyone to come on over and use data because their network could handle it? Boasting that they have so much capacity per subscriber and their network is built 'data strong'? It shouldn't be too much of a shock that some jerks would take his braggadocio to the nth degree.

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.

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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...

It was more like Sprint was using the same threshold for both 1x and LTE which was wrong. At -100dbm, 1x is 1 bar and Sprint replicated that in LTE. That system is flawed in so many ways so it's good to see that they're finally fixing it as well as getting rid of the annoying Spark spinning symbol.

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. 

 

AT&T.  A Tanqueray & Tonic.

 

AJ

I was wondering what that stood for (as the old name is antiquated).  

So technically, one could be under the influence of AT&T? 

On top of that, they'd inflate the signal on their devices.  Something that would yield a 1 bar signal on Sprint would be full signal on 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

Hey if you want an explanation and clearly states the issues in an understandable format, length is necessary.

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.