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    iPhone 6S/6S Plus User Thread

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    We had 1 6s+ in stock earlier this morning. Sold out right away.

    I got mine delivered to me at work and got it activated right away. So far I love it. Camera is awesome. Peek and pop are going to change the way I email for sure.

    I'm kind of on the fence about the 6s+ though. The extra heft and size are certainly noticeable compared to my old 6. Going to give it a few days to see how I like it and go from there. Besides that I'm impressed.

     

    Edit. I sound contradictory. Lol. I love it but hate it in short.

     

    Any B41 CA in your area?  Would love to see Field Test Mode on one.

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    Sprint "Open World" plan (replaces International Value Roaming)

    in General Topics

    Posted

    So VZW is offering international roaming in Cuba: http://www.verizonwireless.com/news/article/2015/09/verizon-is-first-national-us-wireless-carrier-to-offer-roaming-in-cuba.html

     

    Being VZW, it's prohibitively expensive.

     

    It would be a definite positive if Marcelo and Sprint gave Cuba the Open World treatment. It could only improve Sprint's popularity in south Florida.

     

    Pardon my ignorance, but how is Cuba a big market for American wireless customers?

     

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Which terminal, B or C?  Unfortunately, none of the Kansas City BBQ legends has a location at the airport.  It is a curious omission.  If I did not have a class to teach this evening, I would even bring you BBQ at the airport from Bryant's, Gates, or Joe's.

     

    AJ

     

    Thanks for the offer and the bad news!  I'm flying Southwest which I believe is in terminal "B".  

    Everything 800mhz (1xA, LTE, coverage, timeline, etc)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    We were recently talking about this in one of the market threads. It basically will allow Sprint to use 800 in the Washington State portion of the Oregon/SW Washington Market, along the Columbia River. Which is great news to people in Vancouver and Longview/Kelso who could not access 800, even though so far away from interfering with Canada and other upstate rebanders. Since these people are practically Oregonians, let them use their 800. ;)

     

    Using Nexus 6 on Tapatalk

     

    Approved yesterday:

     

    Re: Sprint Corporation Request for Waiver to Permit 800 MHz Wideband Operations in Portions of Washington State (Region 43) Prior to Completion of 800 MHz Band Reconfiguration in the Entire NPSPAC Region, WT Docket No. 15-156; FCC File Nos. 0006854547 and 0006854553

     

    In this letter, we grant a waiver request by Sprint Corporation (Sprint) that will allow Sprint to deploy its 800 MHz wideband operations in certain portions of the Washington State National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) Region before 800 MHz Band reconfiguration has been completed in that Region. 1 Granting the Waiver Request will permit LTE deployment in the greater Portland metropolitan area, providing Sprint’s subscribers access to these valuable broadband wireless services while protecting the remaining public safety entities from harmful interference. We therefore find that granting the Waiver Request is in the public interest.

     

     

    http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0824/DA-15-954A1.pdf

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    Everything 800mhz (1xA, LTE, coverage, timeline, etc)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    REQUEST TO PERMIT WIDEBAND OPERATIONS IN PORTIONS OF WASHINGTON

     

    On June 25, 2015, Sprint Corporation (“Sprint”) filed a request for waiver of Section 
    90.209((7) of the Commission’s rules1 to permit 800 MHz wideband operations in portions of the 
    Washington National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (“NPSPAC”) region (“Region 43”) 
    prior to completion of the 800 MHz Band reconfiguration in that region (“Sprint Waiver Request”).

     

    2 Section 90.209((7) permits Economic Area-based 800 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio licensees to exceed Section 90.209’s channel spacing and bandwidth limitation in the 817–824/862–869 MHz (813.5–824/858.5–869 MHz band segments in the counties listed in § 90.614©) band segments in NPSPAC regions where all 800 MHz public safety licensees in the region have completed band reconfiguration.

     
    3. In the Sprint Waiver Request, Sprint seeks to use the 866-869 MHz portion of the band for wideband operations in four out of the thirty-four counties comprising NPSPAC Region 43 where Sprint claims the public safety licensees have successfully completed their retunes.

     

    4 The four counties are Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, and Skamania.

     

    5 Sprint states there currently are eleven licensees6 in the Seattle, Washington and 
    Eastern Washington areas that have yet to complete reconfiguration.

     

    6 According to Sprint, the eleven licensees that have not yet retuned are as follows: State of Washington, Department of Transportation; State of Washington, Department of Corrections; Eastside Public Safety Communications Agency; City of Seattle; City of Tacoma; City of Puyallup; King County; Skagit County; Valley Communications Center; Spokane Regional Communications Systems (STA only); and Island County Public Transportation Benefit Area.

     

    7 Sprint also states there are two licensees, Kitsap County and Snohomish County Emergency Radio System, that recently completed their retunes but have yet to remove their “old NPSPAC” frequencies. Id. at 1-2 n.2.

     

     

    http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0701/DA-15-775A1.pdf

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Received this email today from Sprint:

     

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    As you know, Indianapolis is a special place. That’s why Sprint has invested millions of dollars in our infrastructure and millions of hours to serve your hometown. With that, we have some very exciting news to share.

    RootMetrics, an independent mobile analytics firm, recently put us to the test along with our top competitors. We are proud to announce that Sprint, in a tie, is now your best choice for Overall Network Performance in Indianapolis. 

    Thank you for being a loyal Sprint customer and rooting for us. We’re thrilled to give you the best and to continue striving to deliver nothing less than the very best.

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    CellularInfo for iOS: Beta Released (was Coming soon)

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    After some further investigation.. I have some bad news. iOS now checks if the app is running as root before returning the information from CoreTelephony. 

    The error is:

    "Caller not allowed to perform action: TelephonyApiTest.240, action = sandboxed lookup, code = 1: Operation not permitted, uid = 501, euid = 501, gid = 501, egid = 501, asid = 0"

    and it returns no info. This kills all hope of a non-jailbreak CellularInfo. If an 8.3 jailbreak is released I'll be sure to release an un-sandboxed version for jailbroken users. 

     

    I noticed whenever I have my phone connected via bluetooth in my car, the dash shows the "signal bars" from my phone.  Is it worth a shot checking the Core Bluetooth Framework to see if you could pull any signal strength data from there for your app?

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