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

    in General Topics

    Posted

    2 hours ago, nexgencpu said:

    Most of the presentation is the stuff we already know about. But a couple of cool details

    Over 1000 M-MIMO sites are live now!

    Just waiting on final 5G NR software to be pushed

    ENDC Bonded LTE/NR will allow the full 120Mhz to be used on 5G devices and still keep legacy devices up to 60Mhz of LTE

    LG V50 will have a GLOWING 5G logo on the back LOL! (RGB everything life!)

    **WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!**

    They also have live QnA and I posted one question,. he actually ANSWERED LIVE! Intraband CA is coming in weeks guys!!!!!!

    Exciting! However, I'm most excited for the interband CA. Won't do me much good here but it will other places. They still haven't refarmed PCS here yet. 

    Apple and Qualcomm Strike a Deal

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    Apple and Qualcomm have settled their legal cases and have signed a multiyear contract. Shortly after this, Intel declared that it was exiting the mobile 5G modem business. This means we should be seeing all Qualcomm modems in future iPhones. We should be seeing unthrottled Qualcomm modems with performance that's on par with other Android flagships. I doubt we'll see a 5G iPhone this year but we should see some new iPhones with much better LTE performance. What are your thoughts?

    iPhone XS Thread

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Manny789 said:

    Both my and my sister’s iPhone XS have experienced this since we got them at launch. Poof! LTE indicator disappears, leaving just bars. Then bars disappear, leaving no indicator. After a few seconds the reverse of this sequence.

    It happens often enough to be annoying, but not so annoying that we’ve called support.

     

    Mine will completely disconnect and drop to "Searching..." for a couple of seconds and then come back. It's annoying but my nearest Apple store is five hours away. 

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    20 hours ago, RedSpark said:

    I respectfully disagree with you on this. The FCC Filing isn’t propaganda in my opinion. Rather, it’s the most realistic and honest assessment of Sprint’s situation given the underlying empirical data on which the claims are based. It reveals a number of truths, including the “Monopole or bust” strategy that Sprint attempted.

    As far as anything being propaganda, I’ll attach that term to the investor statements, including the ones that Marcelo made over the years.... especially the time when he said this in May 2015: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-s-claure-18-24-months-we-ll-be-no-1-or-2-network-performance

    I don’t believe Sprint will go out of business quickly. However, based on the sobering business fundamentals outlined in the FCC Filing, I believe it will continue to go out of business slowly... and then enter Chapter 11 if SoftBank doesn’t pitch in additional funds or if the credit markets tighten.

    “Churn-bomb” and “Liquidity wall” as used and supported in the report aren’t overstatements in my opinion. Sprint may be in better shape now than it was in certain respects in prior years, but it’s analogous to repainting a house when the foundation is cracking.

    I’m perfectly fine with Masa looking for a buyer. What I’m not fine with is that Sprint has been brought to the brink of a steep downward slope by SoftBank’s mis-management and devalued by its failure to adequately support its asset.

    Yeah, I think Sprint/T-Mobile will litigate this if the merger isn’t approved.

    I think the investor reports would be more accurate since they can't lie to investors unless they want to end up like AT&T with a lawsuit. 

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

    Speed isn't really the issue. It's coverage. If Sprint had VZW or att coverage they will do just fine. If they did not sure how they currently holding's would hold up with 130+ million Customer's.

    Sent from my SM-G965U1 using Tapatalk
     

    Yeah I suppose. What I was getting at was we're seeing a lot of places where average speeds have doubled or even tripled over the past couple months. If they put in the effort into improving coverage like they have been with the speeds then coverage should start improving fairly quickly. 

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    Sprint is improving. Data from RootMetrics shows that from 2H 2019 to 1H 2019:

    Median download speeds in Ann Arbor, MI increased from 17.6Mbps to 33.2Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Bakersfield, CA increased from 16.7Mbps 30.7Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Baton Rouge, LA increased from 9.7Mbps to 17.6Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Boston, MA increased from 21.1Mbps to 30.2Mbps. Sprint had the fastest median download speed at 49.9Mbps during the outdoor walk tests in the "dense urban core of Boston". 

    Median download speeds in Buffalo, NY increased from 10.9Mbps to 29.3Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Detroit, MI increased from 18.1Mbps to 30.3Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in El Paso, TX increased from 17.9Mbps to 28.5Mbps. Sprint had the fastest median download speed at 28.5Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Flint, MI increased from 9.4Mbps to 33.4Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Fresno, CA increased from 5.6Mbps to 15.8Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Las Vegas, NV increased from 32.4Mbps to 45.7Mbps. Sprint had the fastest median download speed at 45.7Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Milwaukee, WI increased from 14.7Mbps to 21.8Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Ogden, UT increased from 18.3Mbps to 36.5Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Philadelphia, PA from 19.5Mbps to 28.2Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Provo, UT increased from 19Mbps to 37.8Mbps. Sprint had the fastest median download speed at 37.8Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Rockford, IL increased from 19.8Mbps to 30.2Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Sacramento, CA increased from 19.5Mbps to 35.5Mbps. Sprint had the fastest median download speed at 35.5Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Salt Lake City, UT increased from 20Mbps to 30.8Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in San Jose, CA increased from 28.6Mbps to 37.4Mbps. Sprint had the fastest median download speed at 37.4Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Spokane, WA increased from 21.2Mbps to 29.6Mbps.

    Median download speeds in Syracuse, NY increased from 28.3Mbps to 38.9Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Tucson, AZ increased from 12.9Mbps to 28.4Mbps. 

    Median download speeds in Youngstown, OH increased from 19.1Mbps to 36.2Mbps. 

     

    Not all cities have had 1H 2019 data gathered yet.

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    15 hours ago, dkyeager said:

    Sprint tells one story to the regulators another for the quarterly reports.

    I'm pretty sure they're making it sound doom and gloom to get the merger approved. We're seeing the opposite in the investor reports in which it would be illegal to lie to investors (AT&T is finding this out the hard way). I mean we've got 5G deploying in the 4 of the first 9 cities next month with the rest to follow in June. We're also already seeing them deploying these new Massive MIMO units elsewhere. If they're able to do that then they must be doing well enough. 

    • Like 1

    Network Vision/LTE - Northern Jersey Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    1 hour ago, RedSpark said:

    You can manually report the problem locations in the My Sprint App at a later time by entering the address where it happened.

    I've been bugging people I know at Sprint to enable a "pin drop" function on the Map so that you wouldn't have to have an exact address to make a report. Hopefully they do this.

    That would be so useful holy crap. 

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    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    1 hour ago, greenbastard said:

    Their coverage is so exaggerated that it's almost criminal.

    Having said that, T-Mobile has done a lot of rural work since 2012. It's gotten to the point where they have much superior rural network than Sprint does in Texas. Sprint's only saving grace is Verizon CDMA roaming. But once that goes away, Sprint will be stuck with a skinny voice network (unless they find a way to bring VoLTE to older handsets or allow WCDMA roaming).

    That's what the new roaming agreements are supposed to cover to my understanding. @dkyeager said it will be VoLTE roaming in areas where LTE roaming is available. 

    Official Tmobile-Sprint merger discussion thread

    in T-Mobile Merger/5G NR Deployment

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, anthony.spina97 said:

    Am I wrong when I look at that map and it looks like the T-Mobile map is their LTE coverage (in light pink) and their "potential 5G coverage" (in dark pink) whereas the Sprint map is just "potential 5G coverage"? Because that's what it looks like to me. If that's the case, no wonder the maps look so drastically different.

     

    -Anthony

    I think it's supposed to be coverage and spectrum depth. Spectrum depth is based on the color.

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