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    Is there any chance this thread could somehow divert back to discussing 800 MHz stuff? Talk about a train wreck . . .
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    I have been a commissioned salesperson for more than 30 years. I have left companies because the engineers lied about specifications. Not all salespeople are unethical.
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    OBAMA DID WHAT???!!!???!!!
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    Only 44 days until the Big USCC Chicago PCS Spectrum Turnover!!!!
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    My wife's 5c seems to connect to LTE at the same times and places as my GS3, and gets virtually identical speed tests. If I remember correctly, the GS4 has only slightly better LTE performance than the GS3, so your results are somewhat puzzling.
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    And also for 25016 > 25017 .
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    Actually, my numbers were for "technologies" (3G, 4G, 800). For total sites, you are absolutely correct.
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    Actually, last week, NV was 48% complete by upgrade count. With the many upgrades the last few days, it is now nearly 50. This doesn't count any "in progress" sites or 800 SMR sites operating but not "officially" accepted. Throwing more dollars at NV would be like hiring 9 women to try to have a baby in 1 month: You simply can't do it with just raw numbers. BTW, I am sending this comment on a Band 41 "Spark" site in far NW suburban Chicago. There is a lot of execution behind Sprint's promises.
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    Which is still almost 4 Mbps. Got it. Thanks. For a moment there, I thought that living in Dekalb with no Sprint LTE had finally fried your brain!
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    Right. 64-BQKS 2/3 modulo 19 80% franken coding. I knew that. (No disrespect intended, but "Huh?")
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    Network vision is NOT complete in Chicagoland, and the Sponsor maps show a small but significant number of sites near downtown Chicago which are not LTE. When they are complete, LTE will improve somewhat. (Realistically, though, not all that much.) A missing link is the US Cellular spectrum which Sprint has bought in the Chicago Market, and which USCC will shut down on January 31st. This is 1900 PCS spectrum, and can be re-farmed to provide at least one more Sprint LTE carrier (I think actually more than one). This will vastly improve LTE speeds and feeds in all of Chicagoland, and will work on all current Sprint LTE-capable devices. At this time, Sprint hasn't announced any details (such as dates) for this enhancement.
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    On the GS3, it's on the 6th line of the LTE Engineering Screen. Not sure if it's on HTC screens. It is, as just pointed out, always on the Signal Check screens. (Holy crap, Samsung corrected the spelling of "Engineering" in Android 4.3!!)
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    SNR: 20 is to die for. 10 is very good. 5 is OK. 0.4 (like much of downtown Chicago much of the time) is between terrible and "You've got to be kidding!". 0.0, just throw your phone in the river, it is useless for data.
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    After the 4.3 update, the default SMS app (yes, I use it: Is it laziness or senility?) shows annoying little avatars next to each message. And besides being annoying, they take up valuable screen real estate. Does anyone know how to turn the little buggers OFF? Thanks in advance!
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    You can get a close approximation by driving around a site and collecting all 3 reported locations, then triangulating them, but that is a PITA. There really isn't an easier way that I know of.
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    As has been pointed out before in this thread, legacy/pre-NV sites in the Milwaukee market show 3 offset 1X locations for each tower, due to obsolete emergency-response requirements. NV-compliant sites in the market, at least those with 1X800, appear to broadcast their true locations. So depending on where you around Milwaukee, you may or may not see the actual site location in Signal Check or one of the other mapping apps. However, LTE sites do not broadcast any location information, so you must correlate the serving cell or cell ID (depending on whether you have an HTC, a Samsung, an iPhone, or whatever). People in some markets (e.g., New Orleans and St. Louis) have built spreadsheets showing the cell IDs, serving cells, cell name, and location, but I don't think anyone in Wisconsin has done that.
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    "da Bearss!" Gotta get that hard "ss"!
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    Oh, great, and you've also doomed the Cubbies for another 66 years. THANKS A LOT!!!
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    CR says that the error is +/- 5 points (that is, a 5 point difference is meaningful). Note that their surveys are simply crowdsourcing: They ask a random selection of their subscribers to take their on-line surveys, and those who are interested enough to fill them out are the participants. The result is that they tend to poll only the very happy and the very unhappy -- in Sprint's case, it would seem mostly the very unhappy. CR surveys are in no way scientific. I participated in this year's CR cellular survey, and overall gave good grades to Sprint for customer service and voice, not so good to data, but consider that I am in a leading market for NV implementation. (I was obviously outvoted.) That having been said, I am somewhat surprised at the voice results, as I travel throughout the western 2/3 of the US, and for the past year my voice experience with Sprint has been uniformly excellent both in 1XRTT and 1X800 areas, and others in this forum seem to echo that experience. As many of us here have pointed out, next year's survey should be significantly improved. Meanwhile, Sprint should learn from this year's: Customer service agents need to be more informed and helpful, and their subs are losing their patience in many places.
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    Signal Check does not show the LTE site location (the site doesn't broadcast it), and the GS4 doesn't report the Cell ID. Are you referring to the 1X location? If so, it is completely unrelated to the LTE site, and the 1X and LTE locations may be miles apart. If you are seeing 1X800 in Signal Check, the 1X and LTE sites may be many miles apart. Your download speed suggests you are fairly close to whatever site is feeding you with LTE.
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    I am at a customer site on Minnehaha Ave in Minneapolis and am getting Band 41 LTE on my Zing hotspot. I will post the site ID on the 2500/2600 TDD-LTE thread. The speed is not spectacular, but is a start, and is fast enough that I just used it for a demo. Edit: Later, also at N 49th Ave near Brooklyn/Xerxes. Still later: It's everywhere! It's everywhere! Or at least at CR-10 & Xerxes. And fast!
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    Oops: I meant per site, not per sector. That actually makes the numbers better as far as backhaul is concerned. Also, backhaul doesn't care about crappy airlinks, attenuation, distance, radio frequency interference, etc., because all it is forwarding is the traffic that actually makes it through the various radios (which will always be fewer Mbps than the theoretical maximums).
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    Ideal, perfect-condition, optimum, everything-is-perfect combined download/upload speeds: 1900 LTE = ~37 Mbps/sector = 111 Mbps 800 LTE = ~37 Mbps/sector = 111 Mbps (although I think AJ has said it is slightly less, because of propagation characteristics) 2500/2600 LTE = ~74 Mbps/sector = 222 Mbps Total LTE = ~444 Mbps/sector under optimum conditions Corrected: Total LTE = ~444 Mbps/site under optimum conditions Voice/CDMA = ??? (but far less than LTE) So a totally loaded site with all 3 bands could need about 500 Mbps if each technology had a single carrier and each sub was virtually on top of the site. If you add carriers (as Sprint is supposed to do on 1900 in Chicago in early 2014), figure you add ~100 Mbps per 800 or 1900 carrier, about 200 Mbps per 2500/2600 carrier. In the next couple of years, no Sprint site would be likely to need more than 1Gbps, well within the capacity of a single fiber, and (mhammett please correct me) also within the capacity of a well-implemented microwave link. My numbers are fuzzy, and may not properly account for download versus upload, but they are close. They also do not account for the fact that most subs will generate far lower speeds due to distance and attenuation. Anyone who can improve them, please do so.
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    This of course brings to mind an immediate mental image (an eyeworm, if you will): Does AJ have pointy ears?
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    Robert tried, wasn't able to. Others have said the same. I think sprint won't bend on their policy. As far as b41 is concerned, my (limited) experience has been that it is VERY fast if you can get at least a mediocre RSRP, but that service is so spotty where I am that it's not worth it yet to buy one for b41 in Chicagoland. I got better coverage a couple of weeks ago in St Louis, but the speeds weren't as good. (I was in a hurry, though, and didn't really do much testing.) I bought mine because I stay in hotels a lot, and their WiFi is often crappy and insecure, so I need a hotspot (and the Zing's radio is really good). Searching for b41/b26 is just a bonus for me right now.
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