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Anyone see how much lte plus in Jacksonville and st augustine on the new maps is really little now? Its like Ive been saying there has been no progress in north florida with sprint at all.

I just looked at the map and you're right. I counted roughly 10 locations with LTE Plus signal (meaning 10 sites total in Jacksonville.)

New teaser from HTC. I guess we can say that they definitely haven't forgotten about the Audiophiles.

 

http://www.xda-developers.com/xda-external-link/htc-posts-teaser-for-the-new-boom/

According to Reddit, it sounds like HTC may have implemented a subwoofer effect in the secondary (bottom) speaker.  If this is true, it may truly separate them from the competition.  That, and of course, if they finally fixed the camera to a point where it matches the competition.

If anything, the developers from the S7 will come here for the Snapdragon 820 goodness for root. HTC has been pretty good about opening up their locked bootloaders.

Say goodbye to options.

 

Nextbit has cancelled the CDMA variant.

Interesting that they're waiting for so long for carrier coordination.  This is probably the same reason a lot of unlocked phones do not support CDMA.  If the BYOD policy for Sprint/Verizon were the same as T-Mobile/AT&T, this likely wouldn't happen (and with CSIM, it's entirely possible to replicate the same authentication/sim setup as its GSM partners.)

By having vast amounts of spectrum, and generally more dense networks than Sprint and T-Mobile.

 

For example, its not uncommon for T-Mobile to have 10-20 MHz of deployed spectrum for UMTS, as well as 20-50 MHz deployed spectrum for LTE. ATT will typically have 30-70 MHz of deployed LTE, and likely 20-40 MHz of UMTS deployed, coupled with a denser grid of macros.

The duopoly didn't have unlimited data until recently. An unlimited data user uses far more than people on shared data plans. That is mainly how they are able to manage the capacity and also their 10x10 low band networks help tremendously as well.

See this Article: Inside the Plan to Pull Sprint Out of Its Death Spiral

 

 

I wonder if this is still going on in some respect... I hope so.

I bet they replaced this with the listening tour.  Marcelo seems to be really taking action in learning the pain points for customers.  I would say they're doing a good job so far, considering 3xCA is now active on some sites.

I dont know. I dont trust it. Sprint doesnt site sources or anything either make it more suspect.

I wish they'd show numbers at least.  They just put percentages and don't say what areas of Miami or Jacksonville was tested.  Very sketchy.

They all say that. Its like Sprint executives are not in the loop about upgrades

 

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That is reassuring, to an extent.  Even customer service representatives see tower upgrades in their upgrade checker application call Glance.  And I know some upgrades show up in Glance up to 4 months in advance.

I wonder when NGN begins? Its almost mid March and I haven't heard anything about it. Besides that one small cell in Miami.

 

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From Sprint's executive team, they have told me that Sprint does not have any major rollout plans at least around me in Eastern/Southern Jacksonville.  This of course could have changed, but I have received an update on this only about two weeks ago.

From personal experiences, I can say T-Mobile on average is a lot quicker than Sprint but Sprint tends to hold a signal in more places in Jacksonville.  The problem I believe Sprint has is the lack of B41 sites since their coverage is good but capacity needs work.  And I expect to see Jacksonville start getting faster as NGN takes place.  AT&T seems to have congestion issues too during peak hours, which I hope B29/30 help relieve that stress.  Verizon seems to be doing fine with B4/B13.

Software encryption is enabled by default on the Nexus 5x. If you do a Google search on Nexus 5 versus 5x, it will be blatantly apparent that Nexus 5x is slower than the 5 and probably one of the slowest phones around.

 

Also, the speaker grill problem can also be found via a search. It is not well known but it is definitely not a mono speaker and, if it is, the speaker is faced towards the back of the phone and not towards the grill.

Are you serious?  The Nexus 5x has the speaker facing backwards in the device?  I've already heard of the upside-down camera, but even the external speaker is backwards.  What a ridiculous design!

True, but the phone isn't doing much to help itself. I bought my wife and I this phone and it is significantly slower than our old Nexus 5x (thanks Google for unwanted software encryption). Also, the speaker isn't front facing even though it appears to be... you can hear the sound louder from the back than the front. I'm sad I went all in with this phone.

Are you in the right thread? Nexus 5x has front facing mono speaker. And how can the Nexus 5x be slower than a Nexus 5x?

Heads up. Google has the Nexus 5X on sale for $199 when bought in conjunction with Project Fi.

Man, this device is depreciating in value more than any other nexus in history.

Just picked it up!

 

The shills at best buy didn't even take it out of the box (that's my job :-) )! I need to unbox it now and activate it (they activated it in the system, just none of the first boot stuff).

Please provide us some screenshots when you can.

Anyone been to Universal Studios recently? Looks like T-Mobile is having a hard time there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/499tl2/terrible_reception_in_and_around_orlando_florida

 

Wonder how Sprint does.

No.

Actually, the S7 supports bands 2, 4, 5, and 12 whereas the S5 does not.  Of course, these are for roaming purposes so if you're in a Sprint market 100% of the time, it will not make a difference.

She needs to factory reset her phone. As long as the bootloader is locked, a factory reset should do the trick.

Is there a way to sort by markets that were recently added to 1H 2016 in RootMetrics?  The old layout had the specific date it was posted so sorting the new releases with the old ones was a lot easier.  I'm sure they are purposely omitting that information due to the outcry that their data is "out-dated." 

Yeah i dunno about the MVNO thing - I thought it was a locked vs. unlocked handset thing.

I'm going based on posts I've read on Reddit.  I actually recall someone checking their ESN eligibility on freedompop and it caused the device to be removed from Sprint's whitelist.  Not sure why, maybe it was a coincidence, but there's no way to really find out. I used a $20 sim unlock service on my Sprint iPhone 6s to test the network around on other carriers.  Works like a charm and Sprint will still reactivate it.  But iPhones may be handled differently than the S6.

I've read stories of Sprint dropping the ESN from their whitelist when the device is activated on an MVNO such as Boost or RingPlus.  This sounds like that type of scenario but usually a click-it ticket adds the esn back to their whitelist.  Not really sure why Sprint would want to make it more difficult for users to join their network after going prepaid, but it is what it is.

I am surprised no one has posted this here. Looks like sprint has quietly brought some small cells online.

 

And even more noteworthy its live!

 

https://twitter.com/RFtelecomGuy/status/704689378182963200

Interesting, I wonder how far the range is on those units.  Looks optimal for hotels/apartment buildings.

See Sprint's recent FCC filing (March 1, 2016) which discusses its 800 MHz Band Reconfiguration progress and scheduled timelines: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001493430

I understand the band reconfiguration areas pending, but I'm talking about general coverage outside the IBEZ.  Why are there holes in Sprint's LTE coverage on major highways?  The other three carriers appear to be focusing on general coverage while Sprint's taking the metro-only approach.  There should be a lot more expansion.  If T-Mobile can do it with just 700Mhz 5x5, then Sprint can do it with 5x5 on B25 and B26.  I won't bring AT&T/Verizon into discussion because they have other branches that benefit them (ISPs, backhaul providers, etc.)  I'm not ranting at all, I am just curious how T-Mobile has managed to still be profitable while growing at such a rapid pace.

Does Sprint have any sort of deadline for 800Mhz buildout?  It seems so unreasonable to have nationwide 14mhz and still be behind one of the four carriers in terms of coverage.  I know PCS G block deadline is coming up for Montana (hence why Cedar is making progress now.)  I am curious if there's any sort of geographic requirements in the SMR spectrum.

 

That being said, I am glad Sprint is making efforts to allocate more usable spectrum in the PCS range.  Some markets that are waiting for Nokia equipment should benefit greatly from the increase to 10x10 or 15x15 on B25.

Which this spectrum swap in numerous markets, I wonder how long it'll be before markets with only 5x5 on B25 become 10x10?

Looks like the site next to Lowes right off 295 and Old St Augustine Rd is about to get LTE B25/B26.  That spot could really use some additional capacity.