koiulpoi

Wouldn't battery life concerns be the same across carriers? It's Apple that controls both the hardware and software, after all. The only thing I can see that would be different would be signal strength, which admittedly, can affect battery life quite dramatically. 

Yes, due to the DTV transition, Sprint is shifting from VHF to UHF.

 

 

AJ

 

 

Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU-designated range [1] of radio frequency electromagnetic waves from 30 MHz to 300 MHz

 

Yeah... I think Hesse et. al. would do some terrible things to gain access to spectrum between 30 and 300 MHz, just saiyan. 

The battery life on that thing is only 25 hours. I don't want to have to charge my watch every day. It's annoying enough having to "charger hunt" for my smartphone.

 

Not to mention, it's only (at launch) going to be compatible with the wretchedly single-band LTE Note III.

To be honest, I was more excited about 800mhz upgrades than I was about 4G. I thought it would be deployed faster than 4G and have a bigger impact on my phones usability (long distance from tower, indoors, etc.) The roll out has been slow for the reasons given above and my GN2 got the 2000 prl and that locked me out of using it at all.

You could always load a custom PRL!

I think most people will answer your statements by saying, I will switch over or consider Sprint when the network is built out.  Its hard to convince someone to wait especially when they are coming from ATT or Verizon which they are used to having LTE everywhere.  I think once the CDMA 800 and LTE 800 networks start getting built out  that is when it will make a more convincing argument.   I think most people coming from other carriers wouldn't care as much about LTE 2600 but LTE 800 and CDMA 800 is more of a concern.

 

Just a side point, AT&T is far from fully built out for LTE. Sprint has them beaten in many parts of West Michigan, on both coverage and speed.

 

But anyways, perhaps a moderator could spin this conversation off? It seems like most of the posts here belong in a thread called something like "When should people switch to Sprint?", etc.

West Michigan was iPCS and they "designed" it for the absolute max of PCS considering bag phones and pull out antennas.

 

 

External, extensible antennas -- yes.  Bag phones -- no.

 

To my knowledge, Sprint never offered any bag phones.  PCS 1900 MHz devices were conceived as small, handhelds from the very beginning.  That was to be one of the advantages of PCS 1900 MHz over Cellular 850 MHz.

 

AJ

 

Is the gain/sensitivity of a pull-out antenna really that much better? Especially when "pulled out", heh.

 

Also, looking (and experiencing) the tower spacing in West Michigan, I'm fairly certain iPCS didn't actually care about the majority of their rollout, even beyond what some might call the "maximus" of CDMA 1900. A ton of places feel like they just need to split every single cell and do infill just to get in-building coverage. Or coverage, period.

I did enjoy that site when it was around. I'm pretty sure I found S4GRU after Googling around after the fall of ISN.

The only way to confirm LTE 800 is to look at the engineering screens to see if you are connected to B26 and as far as I know, no one has reported or shown screenshots of engineering.  I bet these folks if they looked at their engineering screens would show B25 connected.

Just to piggyback on this, the only Smartphones that can use BC26 are the iPhone 5C and 5S. Other than that, you've got the Netgear Zing, and the MiFi 500. Nothing else. If you think you're on 800 LTE on another device, you're probably just mistaken.

I thought this was the "referral rewards program" thread, not the "complain about service in Florida" thread.

 

*cough*

 

I've helped a couple customers do this. The cards do take a while to arrive, though. About as long as Mail in Rebate cards, honestly.

Lol, actually it annoys me when I'm lumped into the Asian category. We're pretty much our own continent over there.

I completely understand. I was just pointing out something typical of Americans in particular, a lack of understanding of basic geography. These "Americans" will look at you funny if you mention "The Americas", or will tell you that Chechnya and the Czech Republic are the same thing.

You should see the Indian racism.

 

India is in Asia but don't tell the Americans that, they'll tell you "no, I'm talking real Asians!" (actual quote)

It is both hilarious and sad that almost any two year old mid range smartphone is now the equivalent of a Ford Pinto...

 

 

AJ

I would not have paid for the EVO Design when it was new. It's been a problem phone since I first saw it.

 

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So freedompop, also using sprint, is offering FREE service

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/01/freedompop-launches-free-wireless-service/

But you have to pay money for an EVO Design. I would not pay money for an EVO Design, even if it did come with free phone service. BYOD, OTOH...

I hate American politicians.

here, have this:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/30/how-congress-will-still-get-paid-in-a-government-shutdown.html

This may be true for company owned retail (also known as "corporate stores"), but it definitely is not true for most preferred retailers in the West Michigan Market.

 

That being said, installing repeaters in stores where in-building coverage is an issue is definitely something that happens. One got installed in a store that's less than 500 feet from a site and has no coverage issues, so take that as you will.

No, since USCC is deploying neither band 2 nor band 25 LTE (at the moment anyway). In theory, a tri-band or dual band (iPhone 5S/5C) should be able to roam on USCC's band 5 LTE if there is a roaming agreement in place.

I'll have to track it down, but I'm fairly certain Digiblur posted a screencap of his enginerring screens where his device was attempting (and failing to auth) to another regional carrier's PCS LTE.

Actually, there wasn't anything remotely close to racist meant by my statement, but feel free to twist it that way if you like.

 

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lol? no need to get offended, it was more a general statement than anything directed at you. My comment was a reference to the fact that "asians speak bad engrish" or "funny asian accent" are common jokes with racist undertones.

He was actually saying "lock jaw" in a Japanese-esque, Jackie Chan-voice.

Oh, I see.

 

In other news, Asian racism really bothers me, but it's seen as normal, even passe, in many English speaking countries. Such unthinking acceptance is the core of it.

Speedtests were in the last app too just not on the map.

So now there's more of a reason to do them constantly.

...I can't be the only one who cringes at the thought of more wasted bandwidth going to speed tests... am I?

 

I mean, the app looks nice, at least, and I love what Sensorly does.

I'll go first.  WHOCK-CHAW!!!

 

Robert

I feel really bad saying this, but I can't tell if you're saying you now work for the FCC, or if this is some kind of pop culture reference I don't know about.

actually no they aren't.  If you want to manage how much folks use..slow them down.  t-mobile has that option available.  If you cannot support folks using 10 mb/s all the time then give everyone 1 megabit.  Also it is the wireless carriers own fault for marketing 4g as a replacement for wired.  What they need to do is properly manage their networks..caps only drive up revenues they don't do anything for network management.  SPrint's model is the new myway plans is more correct...reserve the right to throttle heavy usage(video..etc etc) to 1 mb/s or less rather than using arbitrary caps.  Also ALL connections are shared..it is just a matter of where the sharing takes place.

I'm quoting you just to go off of your post, this is more of a generic question to anyone in the know.

 

The whole purpose of data caps is to keep a network "managed" and keep it from being brought down through overuse and abuse, leading to a worse experience for everyone on a shared resource.... right?

 

However, it seems to me this is not the only factor, unless a site is backhaul-limited. So let me go ahead and throw down a hypothetical example.

 

You have a sector on a cell site. Let's assume backhaul is more than enough. It's a 5x5 MHz FD-LTE carrier, so our maximum downlink is 37.5 Mbps.

 

1) Is it safe to say that, assuming all mobiles have excellent signal strength, that with 10 active users, each will get an (approximate) speed of 3.75 Mbps? (I understand this is far from a real-life situation due to the burst factor of data, but bear with me)

 

2) Now, let's say that each mobile is artificially limited (throttled) to 1 Mbps. Does this actually raise our total capacity to 37 devices at 1 Mbps, or is the frequency conerns and interference mean that the site actually has much less capacity?

 

Basically, my question comes down to, in either a hypothetical or real-world situation, is throttling an effective way to increase capacity on an LTE cell site? Assuming, again, backhaul is no object, merely talking the abilities of the link itself.

How do people manage 30GB a month? I barely crack 1GB most months. Maybe I spend more time on WiFi than most. I also don't see the point of watching Netflix on a phone... way to small. I'd rather watch on my 60" HDTV

Let's see... last month, which was actually quite a bit more usage than usual, I'm at 0.87 GB.

So, if you are *tired* of unlimited data, there is a Sprint fix for that.

 

 

AJ

If you tired, you could switch to tiered?

I've never heard of anyone being terminated for excessive data usage. Like Rawvega said, it's usually roaming data that gets people booted.

 

I have heard of people being terminated for violating the T&Cs, but only rarely. Lemmie quote em:

Services are not available for use in connection with server devices or host computer applications, other systems that drive continuous heavy traffic or data sessions, or as substitutes for private lines or frame relay connections. Except with Phone-as-Modem add-on, you may not use a phone (including a Bluetooth phone) as a modem in connection with a computer, PDA, or similar device. We reserve the right to deny or terminate service without notice for any misuse or any use that adversely affects network performance.

If you manage to "adversely affect network performance", you likely already know you're abusing it. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry.

 

Source: I've worked 1.5 years for Sprint retailers in areas where people really like their unlimited.