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    I'm still fuzzy on this. Are the "General Wireless" assignees in the list going to become Sprint Shacks, or Sprint Stores, or something else entirely? I've re-read this entire thread and still can't figure it out. If someone knows, please enlighten us. Also, does anyone know what the actual branding of the Radio Shack conversions will be? With they remain Radio Shack with a Sprint department, will they be re-branded (as "Sprint Shack", as in my above intentionally silly example, or something more serious), will they become simply "Sprint", or do they await some other more mysterious fate? The suspense is killing me!
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    2nd carrier: Naaah, can't be a Samsung glitch, everyone knows Samsung is perfect. Besides, REAL hexadecimal programmers ALWAYS count from zero! Null GCI: The "Null" note is only in the log. What seems to happen when I'm watching is that an LTE site will appear on screen ID'd as "LTE", and the provider and GCI lines are simply missing, which seems to cause a new "Null" entry in the log. I presume the same thing is happening in the background when I'm not watching. Thanks for listening.
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    Hi, Mike, The new second carrier ID feature is nice, but slightly off-center in certain markets like Chicagoland. This may be generic to Samsung markets. In Chicago, on both B25 and B41, the first carrier has GCIs ending in hex 00, 01, and 02. The second carrier has GCIs ending in 03, 04, and 05, which I know that you know. The current beta does not identify 03 as 2nd carrier, which I am guessing is either a minor hiccup on your part, or a problem caused by AlcaLu and/or Ericsson markets. Also, when do you think you might have a beta test for the dreaded "Null GCI" feature. More than half of the GCIs I see are currently being reported as null. I'm about to drive to Philly and back, and would love to be able to track a bajillion sites. Just asking. EDIT: I think I misunderstood an earlier post. Re-reading, I don't see anything suggesting you are on the trail of the Null GCI gremlin. Hope I'm wrong. As always, thanks for all the work you keep putting in. Signal Check just keeps getting better and better (no thanks to Lollipop!).
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    Update beta from Google Play 1st try. Running about 2 hours. All ok so far.
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    And what does 55023 do differently?
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    But rather appropriate for a state where many of our Governors have lived in one!
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    I would, and did. Even after adding a LivePro, my bill for 5 lines and 2 (increased from 1) hot spots went down about $100.
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    Is it time to roll out the WiMAX "Countdown Clock"? This will be so-o-o exciting!
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    Got it. Thanks for the clarification. (Besides being a cellular geek, I am a railfan, and one of the most spectacular train wrecks in US history happened about ~130 years ago, 2 miles east of Chatsworth, IL, so any time I see Chatsworth mentioned anywhere, it piques my interest. In a bizarre coincidence, another spectacular train wreck occurred at Chatsworth, California, more than 120 years after the Chatsworth, IL, wreck. Both wrecks involved passenger trains, and both were completely preventable. FWIW)
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    I'm confused: I thought you were talking about Chatsworth.
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    Yes, although the OTA server(s) must have been very busy yesterday in the evening, causing the first download attempt to fail gracefully. The phone then restarted the download this morning, sped through it, and did the upgrade. No issues so far with apps, battery, overheating, or any of that stuff.
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    Have any of the upgraders gotten far enough to talk about major advantages (and disadvantages) of the upgrade, beyond the minor issues immediately following it? Thanks in advance.
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    (I know this is a bit off-topic.) Actually, I heard a complaint just this week. I was working a trade show at the South Point Exhibit Hall (far south Las Vegas Blvd) , and the woman in the booth next to me couldn't get the internet on her Verizon hot spot, so I let her log onto my Sprint Livepro, which got solid indoor B41 LTE all week. Take THAT, Verizon!
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    Family Share 5 phones, 2 hotspots, some add-on features; 40 GB shared (including hotspot on all phones, unlimited talk/text): $249/month (which includes $~19 for purchase of 2nd hotspot). I think that's a pretty good price.
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    Don't know if this is news, but I have been getting very good B41 connectivity and speeds inside the Anaheim Convention Center all week (e. g. 24 down, 4 up). I have been on my LivePro as a hotspot, and the Sprint network has worked flawlessly. (It has also been good inside the Hilton.) FWIY.
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    Aw, shucks, what can I say? Well, I guess I can say that if you let me know the amount of the donation, I will match it. So there! And Happy New Year!
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    Mike, So far the latest Beta Gamma Delta Omicron Upsilon Zeta? is working great. Thanks for all the fixes! (But my phone is getting dizzy from all the updates! )
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    "I know Band 41 is short-range, but THIS is ridiculous!"
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    Just an observation: Last week driving around L A and up to Bakersfield, Signal Check Pro spotted 6 Clear B41 antennas, 80 Sprint B25 antennas, and 65 Sprint B41 antennas (although I think that it may have misidentified some of the Sprint 41's, as their GCI's look like Clear GCI's). Apropos buzkillb, part of my drive was up the 210 right past Altadena, but I haven't had time to figure out which technologies I saw on that part of the trip. My LTE coverage in the Altadena area (and, in fact pretty much everywhere I drove) was pretty good, and fairly uninterrupted, throughout the whole trip.
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    Thank you. Sincerely, I appreciate that. I don't think that you and I are in serious disagreement on this topic. If T-Mobile and Sprint cannibalize each other, the only winners will be the Evil Big Two.
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    Okay, Neal, calm down. I did not intentionally mis-spell anyone's name -- I have a friend who spells his name LeGere, and I spelled the T-Mobile CEO's name the same way out of habit. There is little question that he (deliberately) cultivates an off-the-wall image. As to "hating" anyone's demographic, you are distorting an observation into a (non-existent) opinion. Some of my best friends (including 2 of my daughters and my son-in-law) are in that exact demographic. I am merely pointing out (entirely without bias) that Mr. Legere himself kept repeating the same mantra over and over. Nor am I in any way denigrating T-Mobile's success. There is no question that Legere and his team have brought back T-Mobile from the dead, especially since the failed merger attempts and the essential abandonment by the German parent company. (And, yes, I expect that you or someone will attack that statement also.) At no point in my post did I state, or even suggest, that Sprint has had more recent marketing success than T-Mobile. In fact, I didn't directly mention Sprint at all, except to point out that I think that Sprint would be foolish to closely follow this particular marketing path. You and I have never exchanged views before, although I have watched with interest your discussions with senior members of this forum. You will never, in my 800 posts here, find that I have gone off on emotional tangents, diatribes, or rants. My post was intended to be an objective summary of some of Mr. Legere's statements, for those who may not have had the patience of time to watch the whole stream. I find your accusations and tone in this instance to be somewhat inappropriate, and suggest that you reread my posts objectively.
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    Yeah, but you gotta admit that "stash" fits LeGere's whole off-the-wall, super cool magenta persona. He could have used "data cache" or "data bank" or some more conservative term and said the same thing, but that wouldn't show the anointed LeGions how hip Johnny-boy is.
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    A couple of thoughts after listening all the way through: 1. LeGere has his competitive sights set firmly on Verizon and AT&T, because they have the market share to steal, and they have the business model that is most vulnerable to such theft. Virtually the only times he mentioned Sprint, he credited them with good ideas (unlimited data, "giving" data). 2. LeGere has his customer sights set firmly on the young, urban demographic. He pointed out that the average T-Mo customer is 28 years old. He kept referring to "cow fields". Many cellular customers are over 28 (some of us are w-a-a-y over), and the term, John, is "cow pasture". Not "field", "pasture". So he is obviously after a non-old (or even middle-aged), non-rural, hip audience. 3. "Data Stash"? Takes me back to my younger years in Ann Arbor, where most people felt that their stash was more important that grades, sex, cars, or even rock n roll. To use some quaint terminology from that ancient time and place, he was shuckin' and jivin'. He wants to impress a rather limited group of potential customers, and obviously feels that there are enough of them to impel some significant growth. Is his business model bad? No, he has been (and will be) successful with it. Are Verizon and AT&T going to quake in their massive boots? No, they're too busy counting their money to be worried. Should Sprint slavishly follow in his drug-addled footsteps? Not really, because the market segment to which he is appealing isn't big enough. Does my 40-GB share plan need a data stash? Not yet, even though 3 of the 5 users are in his target demographic, because even as active urban data users, they don't come near the limit (and my wife and my antique self are exurban, and don't count). And if I needed a real stash, I'd move to Colorado. There you are: Sage words of wisdom from the aged.
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    Ditto on SNR.
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    Beta looks good, I like the new stuff. I will be traveling to SoCal this week, so will try to give it a workout. Great work, Mike!
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