techfranz

I saw an article stating that Softbank was going to be very supportive of Rural Carriers.

My question is this...will Network Vision just be for urbanites like Wimax was, or is Sprint willing to invest in some sparsely populated places (where Verizon and AT&T have been) in order to gain a larger footprint. Population Centers are good ROI but Poor Coverage will not disappear until Sprint tackles those holes in the coverage map.

If maintaining a tower in the middle of a cornfield is too expensive, perhaps Sprint could offer select Roaming in really dead areas, as in Roaming is turned on just for the low coverage area to avoid abuse of roaming privileges.

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I wish Sprint would allow more aggressive pseudo-roaming in rural areas. In the old days we could force our phone to roam.

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Hopefully some country on the planet currently using iDEN keeps using iDEN. I have used Nextel in Mexico, Brazil and Paraguay(...er in Encarnacion looking across at Argentina.)

I guess somehow I still think iDEN could have been developed into WIDEN and then further...

Even SouthernLinc is bidding Adieu to iDen in 2020.

I looked back through my Signal Check Pro logs and it appears like the time of my Speedtest correlates to an entry for Sprint B25 which would be 1900mhz LTE.

I may have had Signal Check App set to see neighboring carriers and maybe the 2100 was from Tmobile or somebody.

Is the 2500-2600 the old Clear spectrum?

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What are the rules for using 800mhz? Is it always data or always voice? Does it hand-off to 1900 or 2100? Or maybe the tower adjusts the frequencies dynamically to meet the demand?

In Leola, PA  Lancaster County I am seeing the 1x800 signal coming from what I approximate to be the Nextel antennas on the Quarry Road Municipal Water Tower. Also getting 1x800 around Wyomissing, Reading PA.  Managed to get 20MBS and 7MBS up by Route 78 but that was on 2.1ghz.

For the most part Ephrata, New Holland, Leola appears to average about 2-3MBS down. However, it gets as low as 400-500kbs if you are only pulling 3G.