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Most somewhat recent phones support both networks. 

If there are two stores close to each other, the one that has more traffic will stay open. The other will close and those people will be searching for new jobs. 

Bed Liner

I'm quite curious as to whether or not T-Mobile will keep the network feedback feature. It's quite valuable and I'm surprised they don't have something like it already. 

13 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

Previous lawsuit related to Voip was directed at Comcast.

Ah, that's who it was! Thanks!

Sprint says three telecommunication companies stole patents, trade secrets: lawsuit

Didn't they win a lawsuit against Charter for this exact same thing a couple of months ago?

14 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

Like the next day or within a week.

That would be great. But it's not going to happen because they need to reconfigure and test to make sure everything works properly before moving people. 

15 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

Why would they wait until the end of the year?

It was a figure of speech which has gone over your head. 

Just now, dro1984 said:

Closing is currently scheduled for April 1st according to T Mobile.  Until we hear different... April 1.            ... Not the end of the year.    

That's for closing. Not when we can utilize both networks. 

12 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

Sometime soon after the merger closes.

Which still means nobody knows. Could be the end of the year before we see anything for all we know. 

3 minutes ago, jamesinclair said:

I know this has probably been discussed, but when will my phone grab onto Tmobile when I hit the dead spot on my daily commute?

Nobody knows. 

46 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

All he cared about was his ego and making $$ ... a lot of $$.      Didn't care about the company and didn't care much about the customer.    

Came back to bite him on the butt. Didn't SoftBank have a net loss of $100B the quarter before last?

2 hours ago, jakeuten said:

That's a long lines tower, unless you've seen new equipment added to it.

Drove by it Tuesday. Equipment looked the same. 

16 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

I thought Sprint pretty much had nation-wide licences for B41? 

Almost, there are still areas where they don't have it. Dakotas, central WI, Vermont and New Hampshire, New Mexico, and some smaller areas. 

So is T-Mobile going to buy the b41 licenses for the remaining areas where Sprint doesn't have them? If yes, I presume not anytime soon since they just spent a ton of money on merging with Sprint? 

Found this AT&T relay site. Thought it was quite interesting. https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8760889,-97.2574935,3a,31.7y,0.45h,98.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXZQozc6oKv1CbrsfHXo-CQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

5 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

It's the number of times you've complained about "trash" service or coverage.

Ah, I understand. I will complain less. Just wanted to keep everybody down here on earth.

16 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Your situation is pretty unique to your area. Most of the rest of the Sprint and T-Mobile coverage areas perform better and have more flexibility with spectrum. You've made it clear that service is not great in your area in many, many posts. 

So question for you. Why is most post "not constructive" when the "my service will get better" posts are even less constructive?

16 minutes ago, Dkoellerwx said:

It's not constructive to continually come here to tell us how bad service is where you are.

It's constructive in that it's managing expectations. If you don't agree then that's fine. Let's agree to disagree. 

6 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

Doesn't T-Mobile have some Band 2 spectrum of their own? Band 4?

Only 10x10 and 5x5 respectively. Only 5x5 of b2 is used for LTE. B4 is for LTE. 

6 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

They will let you roam on either network as soon as the merger closes.

That does me no good when both carriers coverage here is trash.

7 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

How is it going to get worse.

Both have very little spectrum. No b41 here. Congestion is already terrible on T-Mobile as it is. The non-contiguous 10x10 b25 they get (yep, that's all they're getting because that's all Sprint has here apart from b26) isn't going to be enough to offset bringing everyone on to one network. T-Mobile's VoLTE performance here is terrible as well. No VoLTE from Sprint yet, just ol' reliable 1x. So call performance is going to plummet. That's how it's going to get worse.

My service will only get worse. Coverage won't change. Data service will plummet as will call performance. Good thing I have VZW and AT&T to do all the heavy lifting now. 

8 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

Never had TMobile but I image it's fine here as a lot of people I know have it.

It ain’t fine for data according to Q4 2019 Ookla speed test data. Not great for calls either according to RootMetrics.

22 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

If it is true I hope the allow us to connect to TMobile like today lol.

I don't. T-Mobile is hot garbage here. Want to make calls or use data? No you don't!

1 minute ago, jakeuten said:

Which part of ND do you live in? Fargo?

GFK. Speeds are wildly inconsistent. I can test in one spot and get 4Mbps down. I can test 60 seconds later in the same spot and pull 50-60Mbps down.