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I can't even...

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnChen/status/719666928218939392

 

 

What a comcastrophe, the failure of these guys to get this handset out to us, and in a timely fashion.

 

 

Sorely disappointed...

I think TOL on SERO accounts has been blocked as of late. 

 

Its still possible, but you would need to be usually persistent, or have a legitimate reason to do it.

 

 

 

 I have successfully converted my account from Employee Referral Unlimited, My Way ($70) to Sero Unlimited ($60).

 

Mazeltov.

To say I am pumped for the first qwerty phone with a relevant spec sheet in two years on this network is a tremendous understatement. I cannot wait to see how she performs!

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/blackberry/status/684818351709917184

After that brief reprieve in the early AM, I'm no longer being allowed to resolve any sites, although the WiMax connection is still fine. End of the road for Clear users?

WiMAX still alive in Columbus as expected (9.91Mbps down, 1.25 up), however Freedompop VOIP app not connecting.  I will try again.

 

edit Freedompop now appears to be OK.

 

Perhaps Mr Orange was on to something above. 

 

We have sputtered back to life here as well!

 

I have a Clearwire serviced Clear account and I am currious if they leave us on air without charging or will kill off the accounts. Usually they ran billing at 3am in the morning (PST)

 

 

I guess I can check again tomorrow if someone doesn't get to it first. I'm also curious about sprint's WiMax users.

I powered on right after Zero hour to check. At first I was slightly surprised to see it acquire signal!

 

But since it has been furtively suggested in other places that the network would remain open to all, not just the non-profit accounts; I must dash those rumblings. It seems regular clearwire accounts are deauthorized. 

 

The greatest advances in both hardware and software were from the HTC EVO 4G to the similarly named HTC EVO 4G LTE.  Since then, hardware and software improvements have been incremental.

 

It was such an advance that you jumped entirely over the EVO 3D, the first dual core HTC in the US!

Okay with lte active in some spots I decided to try my sure call dual band mobile amp CM2000-WL 40db. It seemed to improve the signal for 1st but made it slower on lte. Does anyone know why the difference?

 

If I understand you, you are asking why 1x was improved but not LTE?

 

According to the specs of your equipment, 1x (CDMA) is called out as a specifically supported technology, on a specifically supported frequency. LTE is not mentioned (because of the age of the equipment), Although whether that alone would be definitive in the case of a simple repeater I couldn't say. I can tell you however, that the actual frequencies used by the most widely deployed Sprint LTE (PCS G-Block), are not compatible to your equipment.

Doesn't look like Sprint equipment to me.

Seconded.

I will drive along sr16 and go from 6 bars to zero bars and 1x to a small blip of Primeco roaming

 

 

Somebody call Temporal Investigations?

AppleJack,

 

I think he's saying, on the legacy setup, with multiple carriers spread over multiple (PCS only) antennas, there existed a possibility to have a layered coverage setup by having differing downtilts between the antennas within each sector.

 

With the equipment consolidation (did I see that there were 4 PCS and 2 SMR antennas per Beamwave?) on big sites, the coverage is apparently different to what he had before. I'm wondering if with all the attention now being given to the low/medium/high (SMR/PCS/BRS) solution to the coverage/capacity balance, maybe the objectives are not the same when they are mechanically adjusting the PCS elements since at the very least they are expecting SMR to be along shortly augment range (in addition to the little bit they gained with the RUUs)?

 

 

EEERRRRRRRGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!

The next time it happens, check your LTE signal strength when you reconnect on your LTE Engineering screen. I'm curious ton see if your experiencing cell breathing.

 

 

I thought OFDMA techs didn't do this?

I see this slide, and I begin to wonder...

 

1. Is SoftBank going to add CDMA to Japanese handsets? Or

2. Is Masayoshi Son crazy enough to cause the mother of all S4GRU meltdowns?

 

 

While there is some precedent for phones that might work/have worked on both networks (Galaxy Note II, iPhone 5/4s, Photon Q, Photon 4G, etc...) for them to exercise their combined buying power on the level of any particular handset, I look at mentions of "economies of scale" to mean that together they will have the critical mass to sustain the adoption, improvement, and integration of TD-LTE modem chips and equipment, regardless of the existing voice network, as it is of prime interest to their future machinations. "Economies of scale" is an advantage WiMax fleetingly possessed since it was finished before LTE, but quickly flipped the other way-round

Is your "biggest issue" conceived under the assumption that customers are too inept on smartphone technology to understand or expect there to be a difference between a free device thats advertised as the "Galaxy S II" (not Epic 4G touch) and a device that costs $100-$249 and says "4G LTE? When you view this phone on sprint's site, it includes "4G WIMAX" under its "key features" and further down, tells you "4G WIMAX is not available in your area". Perhaps retailers aren't advertising or informing customers of this as well as the website, but c'mon....

 

If we apply this logic to other carriers, ATT and Tmobile are wrongly selling HSPA+ only phones.

Actually I've had to correct people on sales side who are still advancing the "WiMax will be in your area soon, so buy this today" pitch. Not amazon or 3rd party resellers either, just people who do not pay attention. I don't think this is the same scenario with HSPA however, as people are not openly mooting when that is going to be shuttered. I'm not even sure if blue and magenta are done with their 3G overlays.

 

 

 

I do not understand why Sprint continues to sell the GS2, preowned samsung epic, evo shift Wimax phones. sprint should only be promoting its 4G LTE network and leave Wimax in the dust.

This, though, is a bit too far. Sprint has paid for WiMax access into 2014, and if that covers the area people use, there is no problem with them selling and using it, millions have gone into that infastructure. The thing that might cause trouble is their intent with Clearwire going forward. If they intend to milk the existing network, fine and dandy; but if they ARE going to scrap all the Clear sites, then selling WiMax phones past a certain date smacks of the startSTOPstart that they have done with Nextel over the years. It doesn't hurt for anyone to be using WiMax phones, but it would be less than ideal if WiMax was killed while people on an active contract were using it, and then had to be offered targeted handset deals like the Nextel lot because their service was "adversely affected".

 

 

Who cares if Sprint, Virgin or Boost are still selling the GS2? it is still a perfectly viable device that works (and will work) well for many people, despite the loud chatter by some. The few areas that have access to the WiMax network will continue to do so for another year or two, by which time people buying those devices today will be ready for the next upgrade cycle. For most users, even that is a non-issue since WiMax isn't widely available and all they will ever see is 3G. So again, why not sell the devices?

Ah, a middle of the road response! I like it!

 

 

That being said, I could list off just as many or more issues for just about every single other smartphone on the market.

Fun fact working as a retail store tech, 80% of issues we see are either user issues, or issues arising from a bad update or application and a hard reset fixes them. Yes, all hardware issues fall within that remaining 20% of devices we see. I work at a top 100 store, so we aren't slow either.

 

OT- Ok you guys, what should I look out for on the Photon Q? /OT

Please no? If Charlie's antics and near senile OCD behaviour were confined to the realm of superfluous and expensive tv delivery I would feel much better...

I just made this one. They could use it.

 

 

Needs more undulating neon stripes to be on the Now Network

 

My friends used to joke when they revamped the F1 opening sequence a few years ago that it "must have been sponsored by sprint" because there was neon flying everywhere.

I don't believe any devices as of now support the 900Mhz spectrum. As for the future of network vision towers, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that sprint will be replacing the 700Mhz spectrum used for the aged iDEN network to deploy LTE on within time

 

You mean SMR, not 700, right?

Not sure if I should start a new thread about this, but the Voyager is part of my inquiry, we'll try here first. As some others have commented, Clear sales people have been pushing the current generation device (Voyager included) out the door with a promise that they will be "LTE ready" when Clear's network is upgraded. Most of us here on the forums would immediately dismiss this chit-chat as people not knowing what they are talking about, much like promises of LTE by a certain date from Sprint sales people. However upon interviewing sales associates and a "manager", who readily admit they don't have any idea what TD-LTE is, or by what nature the devices they are selling would be "upgraded", it was revealed to me that the "LTE ready" line was actually put in their sales literature. This indicates to me that someone several levels removed from facing consumers made this decision..

 

So how about it? I was and still am of the opinion that handset sized TD-LTE chipsets are not on these fine shores, mostly because i haven't seen any FCC docs about them. Is it possible that the hardware is there but inactive? Or is Clear about to have another class action on their hands?

You can probably get a 64gb class 10 card for the same price you would pay just to get the extra built in 16gb of memory.

 

This is an extremely legit point, I paid $28 on amazon for my 32gb class 10, and it follows me from phone to phone so my crap is always there...

True, I do remember him mentioning that. But I think that Clear needs to continue to operate as a separate company for a period of time after New Sprint has been formed. It will be healthier for competition.

Plus Clear still seems to be of the opinion that they are going to lease out bandwidth to other players on their non-existant network

AJ did mention that not all of Clearwire's spectrum would count against Sprint's spectrum screen. He mentioned that only 55.5Mhz would actually count against sprint. Probably because a lot of the spectrum is leased from universities.

Well I'm sure that they would want to keep that off their total if this is the motivation, 55mhz is still a lot even if the spectrum cap is supposed to be different now.

Dan Hesse just stated in the Q&A that they are not acquiring Clearwire right now. It is not part of this agreement with Softbank.

opps, you're much faster than my touchpad's keyboard with the feed running in the background!