Brad The Beast

1 hour ago, tyroned3222 said:

Well, idk how , but I spotted this



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5x5 band 26? What's so surprising about that?

4 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

How is signal propagation compared to before and other bands now?

Curious about this as well. 

So what does this mean then? Sprint doesn't own any band 41 licenses here but I'm seeing band 41 E-UTRA neighbors.

9 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

It's likely Field Test just being buggy as usual. 

So what is a EUTRA neighbor?

Can someone translate this for me. I see FDD band 41 neighbors in my EUTRA neighbors but I thought band 41 was TDD. Can anyone explain what this means?

20 hours ago, lilotimz said:

Factoid of the Day: Drones are great for photographing cell sites. 

Thanks @nowerlater!

They are! As a pilot though, I do respectfully request that you don't do that anywhere near an airport. 

Found this on r/tmobile. 

30 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

The pending Airave 4 would supposedly be mostly pushed to residential folks who likely have decent home ISP while MBs will be more for business and commercial entities.

Any time frame for the release of the Airave 4?

4 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

Tim has the inside scoop, and he knows his stuff. Looks like they will both co-exist, don't know why, since we know Sprint has had issues getting those Airaves built in the past and the new MB will have CDMA option. But looks like new ones are eventually coming down the pipe.

Ok, I was wondering about that CDMA module. If you had that you wouldn't be able to use Ethernet backhaul since the MB only has one Ethernet port correct? Thanks nexgencpu and lilotimz!

1 hour ago, nexgencpu said:

Airave's have been canceled. As far as I know Gen 3 MB is the planned replacement once they enable ethernet backhaul and some type of CDMA module to go along with it.

Wow ok. Interesting.

Anyone got any news on the Airave 4? Reason I'm asking is someone on Reddit said they tried to get one but support said they were out of them and they were having trouble manufacturing new ones. Does anyone have any info on this? Here is the link to the comment: 

Got 57.4Mbps down on 10x5 band 25 yesterday. Got downvoted on Reddit for some reason by someone who is jelly lol

2 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Cspire isn't really roaming. When I was in Mississippi I got native signal and I had boost at the time

Oh yeah it does count as native doesn't it? Yeah I don't know what will happen then. The only way it doesn't happen is if the FCC says no which I highly doubt they will. 

3 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Sprint should fight for it. Doesn't this wipe out the coverage cspire does for Sprint? TMobile should fight for the 700 mhz. Att can have the AWS

They should fight for it but I think it's a done deal. I don't know what will happen with the roaming agreement. 

No, they gave it all to ATT like morons. 

3 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Any device with an ISIM can be updated with an IMS profile for VoLTE. 

So devices with integrated SIM can do VoLTE but devices with regular SIM cards can't yet?

3 hours ago, ingenium said:

There's really no reason. One member here just figured out how to hack the Pixel to force VoLTE to be enabled (root required), and it works perfectly. It was literally just forcing the toggle to appear... The VoLTE implemention is standard and the software and config is already there, it just needs forced on. Sprint is just limiting the rollout, either because they feel the network isn't ready, or for other reasons.

I remember seeing something on Reddit that said it's the way Sprint's system deals with SIM cards or something like that. That's why it's not available on older devices yet. 

1 hour ago, Tengen31 said:

That article also says uscc has 5G plans what spectrum will they be using?

Looks like mmWave according to this article...

VoLTE was enabled in my area for two days and has been off ever since. 

1 hour ago, belusnecropolis said:

Find signal
drive until -75
Take pics
????
Profit

I know where all the macros in town are. I have no idea where these new ones would be. It's a town of 50,000 so there's no high capacity sites. 

11 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Not a small cell. That's likely a new macro. 8109 is a typical 5x5 L1900 A block carrier and 8775 is the 3x3 L800 carrier by the canadian border. 

Quite curious as to where they could be. I know where one of them is but not the other three.

earfcns I got are: 8109, 8109, 8775 and, 8109.  

Saw a Crown Castle truck at the tower across from 3101S 42nd Street today.

I'm detecting new PCIs on my phone and I can't tell what they are or where they are exactly. Is there any information in Field Test mode that would indicate if a particular PCI is a small cell or mini macro?

7 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

Two new PCIs detected today on the northwest side of Grand Forks. PCIs 171 and 119 are new. Not sure where these new cells are. I get -85 on RSRP indoors at the intersection of 42nd and University. Anyone aware of any new installs? I'll be on the hunt for the next few days to see if I can figure out what changed.

Just picked up another one, PCI 65. It must be further east.