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jamar0303

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  1. Coming back to this topic, and I know this is a two and a half month old comment I'm quoting: T-Mobile is now selling service in one town, planning on more. All stores in Missoula so far are third-party stores, but it means they're committed, on some level. Wouldn't be surprised to see MetroPCS show up soon-ish either. The fact that they now have licences covering most of the state means they're definitely committed to expanding to the rest of the state. Could've been Sprint making the push, but guess they've been well past beaten to the punch now. In Missoula, they've still got just the one protection site. Still running pretty slow compared to elsewhere, but I can use data. Fun fact: download speeds are roughly equivalent to AT&T LTE here now. I set up a data-only AT&T GoPhone SIM for someone who will be visiting and needs internet around the whole state and did some testing with it, and got 2-3Mbps download speeds. This is on a plan with limited data, so it shouldn't have the throttle like the unlimited GoPhone plan does. But that aside, that's how Sprint is looking. (I know, it's been ages since I posted anything. I thought of this again when I had a Japanese exchange student ask me to help set up his phone with local service. When I saw he was using SoftBank as his home provider and he was using an iPhone I told him he could just use his plan from home here at no extra cost and set up a TextNow or Google Voice number for people who need a US number to reach him at. I am now having second thoughts about that).
  2. The thing is, I already have second-hand experience from some of my friends who switched to T-Mo and have been yelling at me to join them. The only one seeing problems is using an iPhone 6+, which doesn't have B12. He roams on AT&T while indoors, so they haven't turned that off here yet. Everyone else is seeing solid LTE. The reason I don't want to switch is, well, when am I ever going to see a 25GB for $65 ($50 data + $15 line fee) plan again? That and Sprint support has actually been pretty good to me except for this. With the purchase of Cellular One sites, they should have a couple more sites than that, that I'd rather they get a move on with (in part to prevent rumors such as "Project Cedar on hold") rather than kick customers off the one site they've got online now.
  3. Although they definitely aren't moving as quickly as T-Mobile. It's been two months now since the site covering Missoula was first turned on. 2 months after the first two T-Mobile B12 sites showed up in Missoula they put it on their coverage map. When I tweeted to Sprint Care last week asking why my LTE/3G speeds were starting to slow down (I'm now seeing ~300k down on 3G and 1-2M down on LTE) and why people can no longer hear me when I make phone calls from my dorm building, their response was that since I was roaming, they couldn't guarantee my experience. After asking them why a Glance report on the area shows one site online covering the area, they then revealed that they've only got that one site online, that it's 5 miles away from my dorm building, and that 5 miles is about as far as they expect the signal to reach so of course I would be roaming. Except my only two options are "home only" and "automatic" and 1X signal reaches into my building (about -113dBm), just isn't very useful. Quite a change from the first time I tweeted to Sprint Care asking whether they were going to work on this area some more and they said they were working on it. I'm most likely going to have to switch away if I can't find a "roaming only" mode on my 6P. In my area: Sprint: 1 site located ???, B25 LTE, eHRPD, and 1X T-Mobile: 2 sites located on buildings around town, 1 on a tower, B4/B12 LTE and AWS HSPA
  4. Might be just the building penetration issue that comes with 1900 signal- as soon as I stepped out to the jetbridge and then the plane, I get solid LTE again. It's still not fully working though (speedtests won't complete, websites take a while to load).
  5. If anyone's wondering, I'm out at the airport and signal is bad. I see a little bit of 1x signal (LTE Discovery says -118dBm) but calls don't go through and data doesn't work. It's so bad the phone prefers Verizon when it's set to "automatic".
  6. Granted, most of my LA experience is confined to LAX airport and that was last summer. I wouldn't be surprised if LA proper is better, but that was the first time I saw sub-1M LTE speeds before they went online here in Missoula. I map coverage by walking around town with Sensorly running on my Nexus 6P, and sometimes while on the bus. I'll only be able to map what's accessible on foot or by transit. I can't map everywhere and I hope someone with a car can cover the spots I can't. Also, I would hope coverage improves, but a lot of the problem now feels like they're still fiddling with the cell sites. For example, I got my first call dropped mid-conversation today, which was very confusing because the phone said "no signal" while half the triangle was filled. And data doesn't work in parts of town. North part of town, for instance, I see solid 3G signal but data just doesn't work, so I'm effectively disconnected while I'm shopping at Costco or Target (or I would be if I didn't have a T-Mobile hotspot and a Canadian Wind SIM). On another note, I tried to join a friend with his own iPhone 6 to my 25GB plan, that turned out a disaster, but that's not the topic of this thread.
  7. All right, I made an account here. I'm the one who's been mapping Missoula, MT and no, it's not fake. On the other hand, it's not very functional either. I get 2-4M down when I'm in the downtown area and around the mall. On campus it barely works, depending. Data works better if I force my phone to 3G. Tweets to Sprint Care only get me the reply that they're aware of the issue and working on it. Some of my friends now think I'm a masochist for wanting to stick it out instead of switching, but I'm only expecting to be here for another year before I move, and it's been pretty good in most of the big cities I've been to (except LA). That and I'm only paying $65 for one phone and 25GB of data.
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