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If anyone is going to get 4x4 MIMO to fit inside a smartphone its going to be Samsung. I will bet the farm on that.

Yes, wish they would dedicate more to download...any fix in the near future....or would i have to wait for them to aggregate.. the new pcs spectrum acquired by the swap from sprint

 

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They have 20Mhz for download, 20Mhz for upload.  It's because people mainly use download that it is drastically lower (congestion).  The only fix is for T-Mobile to add more capacity whether it be PCS (Band 2) or add more towers in the area.

Care to explain??

 

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Some Sprint PCS contiguity gains:

• Rochester/Buffalo, NY 20+20

• Jacksonville/Orlando, FL 20+20

• Harrisburg/York/Lancaster, PA 20+20

• Saratosa/Gainsville, FL 15+15

 

courtesy of /u/50atomic on reddit.

With this, Sprint can roll out 15x15 on B25 in some markets.  Not bad.

With 20mhz of bandwidth, that's 4x higher than Sprints B25 in your area. If T-Mobile site density is good in El Paso, then they should be a good choice. And according to Spectrum gateway, it looks like T-Mobile may have B12 active there once channels vacate the spectrum. I wonder what the progress is on the B26 vacancy for Sprint.

http://ae2.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700-mhz-spectrum.html

While I'd mostly rather T-Mobile save funds for the 600mhz auction, rather than buying up 700mhz, especially as many of them are just 5x5, I do acknowledge their need for low-band spectrum soon. Seeing as 600mhz spectrum will take quite some time to deploy, the 700mhz spectrum is important in some areas. I'm hoping though that they haven't spent so much money on this, that it'll affect their 600mhz auction purchasing power though.

 

However, I am supportive of T-Mobile getting the 700mhz spectrum in Chicago, and soon! They do need it here, for sure!

Looks like it may actually work on all US carriers (doesn't mean they'll activate it.)  Of course, these are rumors but if it holds true, it'll have all of the LTE bands for each carrier and CDMA compatibility.

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It's a big improvement and will be welcome to millions of customers. However, Tmo still will have no 700 in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Des Moines, Omaha, as well as everywhere US Cellular, C-Spire and Commnet hold licenses (and they are using them). Also Wyoming (Union Wireless) and 3/4 of Montana. And don't forget the millions still affected by remaining Ch. 51 exclusion zones.

 

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These will likely be markets that T-Mobile plan on covering with the 600Mhz licenses.

I'll probably pick this up once it becomes cheaper.  But from initial reports, the battery is pretty good with it.  Not sure which variant this one is between the S7 or Edge, but I believe it's a good indicator of what it is capable of doing.

Does sprint/best buy still allow you to use the upgrade of someone else on your plan?

The articles I read say that they are the same US device but firmware is different. Hardware and radios are the same. Differing numbers indicate which firmware configuration.

 

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Looks like there are numerous versions for each carrier. I guess no universal device for the US carriers. What a shame.

Any word on pricing for those on older subsidized plans?

T-Mobile appears to be having nationwide calling issues. [emoji57]

Huawei goes first. Samsung will be swapped out on a case by case scenario. The vendors would love to have their own macro sites overlaid first before completely replace the working 2.5 Samsung clear sites.

I believe Florida was a Samsung market for Wimax correct? 

Wow, no rumor thread and there's leaks coming out for this device, too.  It appears HTC is not very popular.

Anyways, I found this online, claiming it's the front of an HTC One M10.  Looks like an HTC Iphone S7.

Apparently, verizons small cell roll out is moving at a very fast pace... so, that probably helped them out a bunch.

 

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Sprint Continues to Close the Gap in Overall Network Performance

(By Dr. John Saw, CTO, Sprint)

 

Great post by Dr. Saw on the RootMetrics Report and Sprint's Network improvements. Looking at the figures Dr. Saw cited, Sprint has made incredible progress in the last 12-18 months:

I'm sure they made great strides but why does RMs claim Sprint's national rating worse this year than last year?

Looks like everyone else got worse too, except Verizon.

Qualify that. Same general external design. If you're hung up on that and looking no further, you get what you deserve.

 

The guts are very different. Just the external format is similar. That format wasn't broke so there was nothing to fix there. Electrically, HUGE difference, so your statement as written is entirely incorrect.

 

New radios, weather resistant, sd card, new computing architecture, talk of a new display technology, newest OS compatibility, newest gorilla glass, about the only thing likely missing is USB-c.

 

The lack of a user replaceable battery may not be a big deal if they have the latest battery and charging tech incorporated for durability.

 

What else did I forget?

 

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So, it looks pretty but it is the same design as the S6/Note 5.  Actually, it is the Note 5, just smaller.  I'm going to hold out and see what HTC has in store for its M10.  Although I've seen the leaks it may not be what it actually looks like and I'm open to any device that has the Snapdragon 820.

If some phones supported Svdo and SvLTE, why doesn't Sprint just include that (two radio paths for 1x and LTE)?  Seems like a better option since VoLTE w/ CDMA fallback is not one.

T-Mobile's management team really knows what they're doing.  In terms of attracting customers, retaining customers, network upgrades, and still managing to pull in a profit.  I'm still dumbfounded that Sprint burns through so much cash when not too long ago they had a high ARPU.  Where's all of that money going?!

Personally I will probably avoid this device since I have had bad experiences with LG devices (G2, G3, and G4).  The devices lose their value way too quick and I feel that they are built on cheap materials.  These leaked pictures make the device look cheap.

It's a CDMA issue.

 

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